Buddhist prayers have a powerful and
uplifting effect on the mind that can be carried throughout the day.
The function of these prayers is to prepare the mind for meditation by
purifying negativity, accumulating positive energy and receiving
blessings from holy beings. Everyone is welcome. Please visit our calendar for details.
All group meditations are held at the
Center: 3344 Fourth Ave. (between Upas and Thorn) in Banker's Hill.
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Every morning at 7:00 am, except Tuesdays
The practice of Heart Jewel with Lamrim Meditation is the heart practice of Kadampa
Buddhism. In the first part we visualize our Spiritual Guide as Je
Tsongkhapa and make prayers and requests to purify negativity,
accumulate merit and receive blessings. This prepares our mind for a twenty-minute meditation on the Lamrim or Stages of the Path to
Enlightenment. After the meditation we make prayers to our Dharma
Protector, Dorje Shugden. Through this we can overcome obstacles to our
practice and create favorable conditions so that we can nurture and
increase our pure Dharma realizations.
(1 hour)
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Fridays at 8:30pm
This
is a more extensive version of Heart Jewel in which we make prayers and
requests to Je Tsongkhapa and our Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden. We
make a special food offering known as a tsog offering to create a vast
amount of positive energy for ourselves and others. We invite all the
Buddhas and holy beings to come and enjoy a feast of great bliss and
then we enjoy the food offering together. Please bring a food offering.
(1 hour)
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(10th and 25th - check monthly calendar for times)
This
is a special Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa in conjunction with Highest
Yoga Tantra that is a preliminary practice for Vajrayana Mahamudra. The
main practice is relying upon our Spiritual Guide as a Buddha and
making praises and requests, but it also includes all the essential
practices of the stages of the path, and training the mind, as well as
both the generation stage and completion stage of Highest Yoga Tantra.
By relying upon Je Tsongkhapa our compassion, wisdom and spiritual
power naturally increase. This practice includes a tsog offering so
please bring a food offering with you.
(2 hours)
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(check monthly calendar for dates and times)
This
monthly practice consists principally of prayers to our Dharma
Protector, Dorje Shugden. A Dharma Protector is an emanation of a
Buddha or Bodhisattva whose main functions are to avert the inner and
outer obstacles that prevent practitioners from attaining spiritual
realizations, and to arrange all the necessary conditions for their
practice. Dorje Shugden always helps, guides, and protects pure and
faithful practitioners by granting blessings, increasing their wisdom,
fulfilling their wishes, and bestowing success on all their virtuous
activities. This practice includes a tsog offering so please bring a
food offering with you.
(4 hours)
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(check monthly calendar for dates and times)
Tara is our holy, spiritual mother who helps and protects us in all our
activities. In particular she helps us to deepen our understanding of
Lamrim (the stages of the path to enlightenment). By offering praises
and requests to Tara we increase our wisdom and compassion and come
under the loving care and protection of an enlightened mother.
Occasionally for special reasons we do 24 hour Tara practice, in which
we recite these prayers every four hours for a twenty-four hour period.
(1 hour)
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