February

Sangha Annual Meeting Saturday, February 11 at 10:00 am

This is a good time to bring your suggestions on how we can make our Dharma Center a better place to meditate and practice our teachings. New officers will be chosen. All Dharma brothers and sisters are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served after the meeting.

Fire Puja Sunday, February 12. 12:30 pm after Chenrezig Puja.

Fire Puja is being offered each first Sunday of the month at KTL. In this engaging ceremony, many special ingredients are burned in the flames of an actual fire. The smoke is then offered to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, local deities, hungry ghosts, and to those whom we owe karmic debt. This offering of smoke, prayers and mantras are made for all Beings who wander in Samsara. Through this practice of generosity, our mindstreams are purified, our debts are repaid, and our broken or damaged samaya vows (agreements) are repaired. Through the Grace of the Buddhas, inner and outer obstacles are removed.

For those who are interested, sponsorship of monthly fire pujas is possible. One can sponsor a fire puja for oneself, on behalf of another person in need of assistance or healing, for someone who has died, or for any other appropriate intention. The merit of engaging in such beneficial activity can be dedicated as one wishes. If you would like to sponsor a Fire Puja, or would like more information, please call the Center, 595-8989. Spaces fill quickly, so be sure to register soon if you are interested.

Protector Mahakala Retreat, February 17th - 21st (Friday – following Tuesday)

1st session: 6 am to 8:50 am
2nd session: 10 am to 1pm
3rd session: 3 pm to 6:30 pm (Please bring a tsok offering)
It will be the same schedule each day

 

Please join us for morning prayers to celebrate the Tibetan New Year 2139, Water Dragon Year. We will be saying the Lamp Prayer, the Auspiciousness Prayers, and the Dedications.
Losar Tashi Delek Breakfast will follow the prayers.

Chenrezig Retreat with Lama Rinchen Saturday, February 25:
9 am-12 noon and 2-5 pm;
Sunday, February 26: 2-5 pm
$50 for the weekend for KTL members/$60 for non members.

Lama Rinchen will give a special Chenrezig Retreat on this weekend. He will be emphasizing the correct way to visualize the creation and completion stages of the Chenrezig meditation practice. In Tibetan Buddhism, Chenrezig is renowned as the embodiment of the compassion of all the Buddhas, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. According to legend, Chenrezig made a vow that he would not rest until he had liberated all the beings in all the realms of suffering. Chenrezig may be the most popular of all Buddhist deities, except for Buddha himself -- he is beloved throughout the Buddhist world. He is known by different names in different lands: as Avalokiteshvara in the ancient Sanskrit language of India, as Kuan-yin in China, as Kannon in Japan. As Chenrezig, he is considered the patron Bodhisattva of Tibet, and his meditation is practiced in all the great lineages of Tibetan Buddhism.

Sangha Monlam Prayers
February 27th to March 7th – 7pm to 8:30 pm

March

Lunch will be provided for participants.
Please RSVP via email or on the sign-up sheet at the Dharma Center.

All are welcome!
Please join us for one or all of these events or sessions.

Saturday, March 17: 9 am-12 noon and 2-5 pm; Sunday, March 18: 2-5 pm $50 for the weekend for KTL members/$60 for non members.

Lama Rinchen will be giving a Medicine Buddha Retreat this weekend with a similar format to the Chenrezig Retreat weekend in February. Practice the correct way to visualize Medicine Buddha in the creation and completion stages.

When one learns to visualize Medicine Buddha, and meditate upon him correctly, one will find that one’s healing powers increase, both for oneself, and also for healing others. Meditating upon Medicine Buddha will also help one to overcome attachments to samsara. Medicine Buddha has compassion for all beings.

May auspiciousness prevail in the 10 directions

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