Universal Door Meditation Center

“If parents have many profound changes after practicing toward Awake, their children will have huge benefits.

They know how to spend quality time with their kids or when to speak or remain silent. 

Their decisions are very clear and precise in response to the requests from their children. 

For children being raised and guided in this clear direction, their habit energies, 

or karma, will transform tremendously as they grow up.”  

– Awakened Zen Master Thich Dieu Thien

The Youth & Teens program is an incredibly special opportunity for young ones to begin cultivating the Awake seed and transform karma at a young age. Stepping in to choose Clear Water and end all Dirty Water, the young students realize their true selves through a variety of activities each Sunday. The benefits of better listening, improved communication, decreased fear and social anxiety, ability to stay present in challenging situation, more focus, increased clarity, better decision making, and capacity to step in to do new things appear all along the way. In addition to weekly Sunday programs, there are several 5-day overnight retreats that are powerful opportunities to realize and experience Awake Mind within themselves in order to bring it into whatever they do at home, school, and everywhere, developing the goal along the way, to merge with Awakened Mind.

Nourishing Awake Seeds

  • Children realize the Awake within themselves, that they have the capacity to Wake Up to live truly happy, clear, fresh, focused and stable, free from fear, stress, worry, anger, anxiety, and depression, regardless of what is happening around them.
  • Open the wisdom mind of children, showing them who they truly are, how to truly love and be happy through understanding, listening, and open communication.
  • Help blossom the Awake seed within the children to develop gratitude, wisdom, compassion, and respect for parents, siblings, and friends, transforming all conflicts inside and out through sitting, walking, eating, movement, listening, talking, and other forms of Awake meditation.
  • Children live and experience in a serene Awake environment connected to nature, unplugged from technology, realizing meaningful lessons, building leadership and presentation skills.

Aug 2022 Youth and Teen 5 Day Awake Camp

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Youth & Teen Aug 2022 Retreat, Tea Ceremony, Aalameen’s Gratitude to Awakened One Thich Dieu Thien