Distractions fill our everyday lives. Our mobile phones and social media applications are engineered to make us crave their company; we fear missing out on important happenings, news and messages and find ourselves pulled in more directions than ever before. How do we disengage distraction and take hold of what is genuinely important? We discuss […]
8:30 a.m. - Green Tara10:00 a.m. - Quiet Sitting Meditation 10:00 a.m. - Medicine Buddha 10:00 a.m. – Meditation Instruction — Kevin Dwinnell 11:30 a.m. – Intro Class #7: Taking Refuge — Kevin Dwinnell 11:30 a.m. – Dharma Talk — Meditation, Advice to Beginners, Talk Nine: What Are Thoughts, Really? — Lama Kathy
8:30 a.m. - Green Tara10:00 a.m. - Quiet Sitting Meditation 10:00 a.m. - Medicine Buddha 10:00 a.m. – Meditation Instruction — Kevin Dwinnell 11:30 a.m. – Intro Class #7: Taking Refuge — Kevin Dwinnell 11:30 a.m. – Dharma Talk — Meditation, Advice to Beginners, Talk Nine: What Are Thoughts, Really? — Lama Kathy
8:30 a.m. - Green Tara10:00 a.m. - Quiet Sitting Meditation 10:00 a.m. - Medicine Buddha 10:00 a.m. – Meditation Instruction — Kevin Dwinnell 11:30 a.m. – Intro Class #7: Taking Refuge — Kevin Dwinnell 11:30 a.m. – Dharma Talk — Meditation, Advice to Beginners, Talk Nine: What Are Thoughts, Really? — Lama Kathy
Offering practices help us to cultivate awakened mind and engage the obstacles to our spiritual life in a constructive way. Protector chants, such as the Offerings to Mahakala, are recited in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries daily to help dharma students remember the importance of maintaining pure ethical conduct and compassion and subduing their mental afflictions. At […]