Buddhist Monk Bhante Sujatha Returns to Queen Creek in 2025

Internationally renowned Buddhist monk and meditation teacher Bhante Sujatha brings his transformative teachings to Queen Creek this January.

Join us at Zen Life Center for two powerful events – a New Year’s Blessing Ceremony and a mindfulness workshop exploring life’s gains and losses.

Known worldwide as the “Loving-Kindness monk,” Bhante Sujatha combines over 40 years of Buddhist wisdom with practical guidance that makes ancient teachings accessible and relevant for modern life. These rare opportunities to study with a master teacher in Queen Creek offer profound insights for both beginners and experienced practitioners.

Healing Meditation and New Year Blessings with Bhante Sujatha

Wednesday, January 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM

The new year is a time for healing, setting intentions, letting go of what is no longer serving us, and clearing the way for unconditional love from ourselves and others.

A blessing ceremony is a mindful intention to contact and share that which is good, particularly in a divine sense. Our practice will include connecting with the force of goodness inside each of us and then inviting this ‘energy’ into a particular situation to help the whole world.

The program includes:

• A brief, inspiring talk on establishing a sturdy meditation practice
• Guided meditation
• Chanting of the Ratana Sutra, a 2,600-year-old Buddhist chant describing a wish for world-wide good health, healing, and blessings
• A symbolic Buddha bathing ceremony, pouring scented, blessed water over a Buddha statue while making intentions for our lives and the world

You are encouraged to bring your malas, or any other items that you wish to be blessed in this ceremony.

Cost: $40 per person – Click here to Register

Proceeds go to Bhante’s pregnant mothers and Incubator Project in Sri Lanka

Book signing and “Choose Loving Kindness” items will be available for purchase

Your Loss is Your Gain: A Workshop & Guided Meditation

Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM

“When you are able to experience gain and loss with an equal mind, you realize a rare freedom found in this world.”

We have all experienced success and failure, praise and blame, gain and loss. How do we feel after these experiences? How do we remember them? Our emotional connection to these extremes is undeniable, but we don’t always examine their long term effects, nor the middle ground between them.

Activities include:

• Lecture: “Your Loss is Your Gain”
• Instruction in the practice of meditation
• Guided mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation
• Time for Questions & Answers

Benefits of this beautiful workshop can include:

• Reduced stress, anxiety, worry, and depression
• Healing and enhancing relationships with others
• Gaining a sense of empowerment over challenging issues in life
• Insights into life’s purpose
• Awakening to the blessings of the present moment
• Confidence in attaining unshakable inner peace

Cost: $40 – Click here to Register

About Bhante:

Bhante Sujatha, a 40+ year Buddhist Monk, is singularly focused on adding more love in the world. Bhante teaches loving-kindness meditation to people around the globe for all those seeking the art of happiness and contentment. His approach to meditation is deep and simple, bringing core Buddhist teachings to everyone in a way that is practical and easy to understand. A joyful, radiant, funny, and wildly energetic monk, Bhante will help you obtain peace that can only be found in deep silence. Bhante believes his purpose is not only to teach meditation, but also, “teaching people how to be happy.”

For more information visit Bhante’s website: www.bhantesujatha.org