Nick Vail leads this series of informal, virtual Thursday discussion group sessions, which will include meditation, optional chanting and singing, and open conversation around refuge and what it means to be a Buddhist. Participants will read and discuss Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche’s short and profound teachings on outer and inner refuge, Entering the Path.
The seventh annual Tara Drupchen, hosted online Sept. 23-25 by Nalandabodhi International, includes ritual practice and teachings from Nalandabodhi teachers. A lung for this practice is required for participation; Lama Rabten will offer the lung and a teaching on Sept. 22. Aspirations and prayer requests are an integral part of this practice; they will be displayed at Nalanda West as well as on a slide show during the Drupchen.
In his clear and insightful book, Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness, Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche teaches the main schools of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and their progressively more subtle and refined views of reality. In this series of eight Sunday classes, Lama Tenpa Gyaltsena will discuss the different philosophical views and present a means to realize these views through a series of meditation practices.
Taught by Acharya Lhakpa Tshering, a Buddhist monk, scholar, and meditation master, this course gives you a practical introduction to the skills needed to confidently practice meditation in your own life and on your own time. Topics include how to sit for a meditation session, overcome common obstacles like forgetfulness, dullness, and so on, and different techniques for calming the mind.
During times of great disruption it is easy to slip into destructive habits – fear, denial, confusion, negativity, short temper or a sense of righteousness. Mitra Dean Karl will be teaching based on his recently published book “A Lullaby to Awaken the Heart”.
Join us on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7:30 p.m. We can make friends with our minds and become present to our lives through working with our breath. In meditation we discover how our conditioned minds work, and thus begin to free ourselves from painful habits of struggle and confusion.
