Public Talk • Finding Peace in the Digital Age
Public Talk - Finding Peace in the Digital Age
with international Buddhist Monk & Teacher
Gen Kelsang Chodor, guest teacher
Wednesday November 12, 2025 | 7:30pm-9pm
In this talk, Gen Chodor will share a Buddhist perspective on how to find genuine peace and contentment while living in this ever-evolving digital age. Discover how to create an inner space of calm, and how to live with technology without being ruled by it.
Everybody welcome !
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Is it possible to find genuine peace in this digital age?
The fast-paced development of modern technology and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) are increasing stress and anxiety for most people, but would we say the quality of human life is improving? Is there an actual increase in human happiness? Does living in the digital age mean we’re destined to feel stressed and restless?
Despite all the amazing development we have witnessed in recent years, for many of us, technology has had the opposite effect, leaving us more agitated, distracted, addicted, and even fearful. As AI becomes more accessible, we could eventually lose our ability to think for ourselves, weakening our capacity to find happiness within through the power of our own thoughts and feelings.
In this talk, Gen Chodor will share a Buddhist perspective on how to develop our capacity to find genuine peace and contentment while living in this ever-evolving digital age. Discover how to create an inner space of calm through the power of your own thoughts, and how to live with technology without being ruled by it.
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With Gen Kelsang Chodor
International Buddhist Monk & TeacherGEN KELSANG CHODOR is the Resident Teacher at Kadampa Meditation Centre Canada. He has been ordained and has studied under the guidance of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche for more than twenty-two years.
He has taught extensively in both the UK and the US. He is admired by students for his practical knowledge, warm presentations and authentic teachings, as well as his natural joy and sense of humor. He is skilled at putting everyone at ease and helping them solve their problems and anxieties with practical Dharma advice.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Doors open 6:30pm
Public Talk 7:30pm-9pm
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General admission
$25 early birds • until November 5th
$35 regular • after November 5th
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Public Talk will be held at
Centre de méditation kadampa Montréal
835 avenue Laurier Est
Montréal -
3 minute walk from Laurier metro
5 minute walk from STM bus stop
Some parking on street may be available.
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Centre de méditation kadampa Montréal
835 Laurier Avenue East, Montreal, QC, H2J 1G2
Email : [email protected]
Phone : 514-521-2529
Quebec Dharma Celebration 2025
Quebec Dharma Celebration 2025
5 Forces for Positive Change
Blessing Empowerment of
1000 armed Avalokiteshvara
Buddha of compassion
with Gen Kelsang Chodor
Resident Teacher of Kadampa Meditation Centre Canada
novembre 14-16, 2025
The Quebec Dharma Celebration is a special annual event held at Kadampa Meditation Centre Montreal and is open to everyone.
It’s a wonderful opportunity for hundreds of people from all backgrounds to come together to receive heartfelt advice, practical teachings, and meditation practices on how to live with greater meaning and joy by applying Buddha’s wisdom (Dharma) in daily life..
This year’s Celebration focuses on the practice of compassion, the very heart of the Buddhist way of life. Compassion is an extraordinary mind that shatters the illusion that we are alone in our suffering, opening our hearts to empathy, understanding, and deeper connection with others. It heals our mind and our relationships and, when paired with wisdom, has immense power to benefit and protect others.
During this weekend event, Gen Chodor will grant the blessing empowerment of 1000-armed Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion. The empowerment is a guided meditation and blessing ceremony that connects us directly with Avalokiteshvara’s enlightened compassion, strengthening this quality within our own mind.
During his teachings, Gen Chodor will explain how to apply five special forces to our compassion so that it can grow and expand until it becomes universal compassion—the heartfelt wish to protect all living beings from suffering.
Everyone is welcome !
The Teacher
Gen Kelsang Chodor is the Resident Teacher of Kadampa Meditation Centre Canada. He has been ordained and has studied under the guidance of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche for more than twenty-two years.
He has taught extensively in both the UK and the US. He is admired by students for his practical knowledge, warm presentations and authentic teachings, as well as his natural joy and sense of humor. He is skilled at putting everyone at ease and helping them solve their problems and anxieties with practical Dharma advice.
Special weekend course with Guest Teacher Gen Samten Kelsang • Taking and Giving: a Meditation Practice for our Times
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During this special weekend course, Gen Samten will teach us an incredible method for elevating the simple act of breathing into a powerful action of transformation and healing. Through the practice of taking and giving mounted on the breath, we'll experience an uncommon mental peace and happiness, naturally enhancing our love, compassion, concentration and wisdom. In this way, our every breath can give profound meaning to our lives.
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With Gen Samten Kelsang
Resident Teacher at KMC New York, Gen Samten Kelsang also teaches elsewhere in the U.S. and around the world. Having completed a three-year meditation retreat, he is renowned for the clarity of his teachings and his ability to guide and inspire students in their practice to develop a profound meditative experience.
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Saturday March 22
Session 1: 10 - 11:15 a.m.
Session 2: 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Session 3: 3 - 4:15 p.m.Sunday March 23
Session 4 : 10 - 11:15 a.m.
Session 5 : 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m. -
This conference is in English.
It is possible to book a simultaneous French translation via headphones at your seat.
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Saturday's meal is on a donation basis, which you can give at reception if you wish, in the amount of your choice (the cost is estimated at $10 per person). Please reserve your meal in advance as part of your registration.
There is no need to register for Sunday's meal.
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Another meditation room will be available for children and people with special needs, with a video link to listen to the event.
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Regular - Full weekend: $95
Regular - Saturday: $60
Regular - Sunday: $40
Member - Full weekend: $47,50
Member - Saturday: $30
Member - Sunday: $20 -
Gen Samten will give the public talk The Healing Power of Meditation on Friday March 21, before the special weekend course.
Everyone is welcome!
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Centre de méditation kadampa Montréal
835, Laurier east Avenue, Montreal, QC, H2J 1G2 (Laurier metro)
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 514-521-2529
Wishing the Very Best for Everyone • Tuesday November 26 • Class in NDG
English meditation classes in NDG
Tuesdays nights at the Unitarian Church of Montreal
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LEARNING TO LOVE TRULY
Simple yet profound teachings and meditations that help us develop greater peace of mind and happiness, and improve our relationships through learning to authentically cherish others. We’ll spend time mixing our mind with some of Buddha’s most precious teachings on how to train in, deepen, and expand our love and compassion, both in and out of meditation.
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Nov 5: Love Hurts… Really??
Nov 12: Discover how Equanimity Appeals to our Sense of Fairness
Nov 19: The Healing Power of Cherishing Others
Nov 26: Wishing the Very Best for Everyone -
$15 for one class
$45 for the 4 classes series -
Kadampa Meditation Centre Montreal
835 Laurier Avenue East, Montréal, QC, H2J 1G2
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 514-521-2529
Quebec Dharma Celebration
Registration opening on Monday October 7 at 10am
Visit of the Internationally Renowned Buddhist Teacher
Gen-la Kelsang Jampa
The Healing Power of Cherishing Others • Tuesday November 19 • Class in NDG
English meditation classes in NDG
Tuesdays nights at the Unitarian Church of Montreal
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LEARNING TO LOVE TRULY
Simple yet profound teachings and meditations that help us develop greater peace of mind and happiness, and improve our relationships through learning to authentically cherish others. We’ll spend time mixing our mind with some of Buddha’s most precious teachings on how to train in, deepen, and expand our love and compassion, both in and out of meditation.
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Nov 5: Love Hurts… Really??
Nov 12: Discover how Equanimity Appeals to our Sense of Fairness
Nov 19: The Healing Power of Cherishing Others
Nov 26: Wishing the Very Best for Everyone -
$15 for one class
$45 for the 4 classes series -
Kadampa Meditation Centre Montreal
835 Laurier Avenue East, Montréal, QC, H2J 1G2
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 514-521-2529
Developing Equanimity • Tuesday November 12 • Class in NDG
English meditation classes in NDG
Tuesdays nights at the Unitarian Church of Montreal
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LEARNING TO LOVE TRULY
Simple yet profound teachings and meditations that help us develop greater peace of mind and happiness, and improve our relationships through learning to authentically cherish others. We’ll spend time mixing our mind with some of Buddha’s most precious teachings on how to train in, deepen, and expand our love and compassion, both in and out of meditation.
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Nov 5: Love Hurts… Really??
Nov 12: Discover how Equanimity Appeals to our Sense of Fairness
Nov 19: The Healing Power of Cherishing Others
Nov 26: Wishing the Very Best for Everyone -
$15 for one class
$45 for the 4 classes series -
Kadampa Meditation Centre Montreal
835 Laurier Avenue East, Montréal, QC, H2J 1G2
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 514-521-2529
Love Hurts… Really?? • Tuesday November 5 • Class in NDG
English meditation classes in NDG
Tuesdays nights at the Unitarian Church of Montreal
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LEARNING TO LOVE TRULY
Simple yet profound teachings and meditations that help us develop greater peace of mind and happiness, and improve our relationships through learning to authentically cherish others. We’ll spend time mixing our mind with some of Buddha’s most precious teachings on how to train in, deepen, and expand our love and compassion, both in and out of meditation. -
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Nov 5: Love Hurts… Really??
Nov 12: Discover how Equanimity Appeals to our Sense of Fairness
Nov 19: The Healing Power of Cherishing Others
Nov 26: Wishing the Very Best for Everyone -
$15 for one class
$45 for the 4 classes series -
Kadampa Meditation Centre Montreal
835 Laurier Avenue East, Montréal, QC, H2J 1G2
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 514-521-2529
Finding Stillness Within • Tuesday October 15 • Class in NDG
English meditation classes in NDG
Tuesdays nights at the Unitarian Church of Montreal
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WHAT DO WE REALLY WANT?
Everyone whether religious or non-religious is looking for happiness all the time and wants to be free from suffering and problems. We usually depend upon external things to make us happy – our relationships, our health, our reputation, our career, to name just a few. By practicing meditation we can come to understand and experience that it is our mind, not other people nor circumstances, that determines how happy we are.
These classes are suitable for everyone and are an ideal introduction to meditation and modern Buddhist teachings.
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What do we really want?
Sept 24: Peaceful Mind, Happy Mind
Oct 1: Healing Ourself with Meditation
Oct 8: Quieting the Mind
Oct 15: Finding Stillness Within -
$15 for one class
$45 for the 4 classes series -
Kadampa Meditation Centre Montreal
835 Laurier Avenue East, Montréal, QC, H2J 1G2
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 514-521-2529
Quieting the Mind • Tuesday October 8 • Class in NDG
English meditation classes in NDG
Tuesdays nights at the Unitarian Church of Montreal
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WHAT DO WE REALLY WANT?
Everyone whether religious or non-religious is looking for happiness all the time and wants to be free from suffering and problems. We usually depend upon external things to make us happy – our relationships, our health, our reputation, our career, to name just a few. By practicing meditation we can come to understand and experience that it is our mind, not other people nor circumstances, that determines how happy we are.
These classes are suitable for everyone and are an ideal introduction to meditation and modern Buddhist teachings.
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Sept 24: Peaceful Mind, Happy Mind
Oct 1: Healing Ourself with Meditation
Oct 8: Quieting the Mind
Oct 15: Finding Stillness Within -
$15 for one class
$45 for the 4 classes series -
Kadampa Meditation Centre Montreal
835 Laurier Avenue East, Montréal, QC, H2J 1G2
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 514-521-2529
Healing Ourself with Meditation • Tuesday October 1 • Class in NDG
English meditation classes in NDG
Tuesdays nights at the Unitarian Church of Montreal
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WHAT DO WE REALLY WANT?
Everyone whether religious or non-religious is looking for happiness all the time and wants to be free from suffering and problems. We usually depend upon external things to make us happy – our relationships, our health, our reputation, our career, to name just a few. By practicing meditation we can come to understand and experience that it is our mind, not other people nor circumstances, that determines how happy we are.
These classes are suitable for everyone and are an ideal introduction to meditation and modern Buddhist teachings.
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Sept 24: Peaceful Mind, Happy Mind
Oct 1: Healing Ourself with Meditation
Oct 8: Quieting the Mind
Oct 15: Finding Stillness Within -
$15 for one class
$45 for the 4 classes series -
Kadampa Meditation Centre Montreal
835 Laurier Avenue East, Montréal, QC, H2J 1G2
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 514-521-2529
Peaceful Mind, Happy Mind • Tuesday September 24 • Class in NDG
English meditation classes in NDG
Tuesdays nights at the Unitarian Church of Montreal
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WHAT DO WE REALLY WANT?
Everyone whether religious or non-religious is looking for happiness all the time and wants to be free from suffering and problems. We usually depend upon external things to make us happy – our relationships, our health, our reputation, our career, to name just a few. By practicing meditation we can come to understand and experience that it is our mind, not other people nor circumstances, that determines how happy we are.
These classes are suitable for everyone and are an ideal introduction to meditation and modern Buddhist teachings.
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Sept 24: Peaceful Mind, Happy Mind
Oct 1: Healing Ourself with Meditation
Oct 8: Quieting the Mind
Oct 15: Finding Stillness Within -
$15 for one class
$45 for the 4 classes series -
Kadampa Meditation Centre Montreal
835 Laurier Avenue East, Montréal, QC, H2J 1G2
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 514-521-2529