Sunday Open Meditation with teachings by Mitra Tyler Dewar

Sundays: November 5, 12, 19, 26

Pacific Standard Time starts November 5th
10:00 am  Open Meditation onsite at Nalanda West

11:00 am    Teaching by Mitra Tyler on the Seven Points of Training the Mind both onsite and on Zoom

12 noon        Soup & salad in the community room

Onsite at Nalanda West & on Zoom
Please join us for a series of Sunday teachings offered by Mitra Dean Tyler Dewar in November.

We begin the morning with shamatha (calm abiding) meditation from 10:00 to 11:00 am PT onsite in the Mahabodhi Shrine Room.  Meditation will not be on Zoom. Those students not able to attend meditation at Nalanda West are encouraged to set aside time for mediation prior to the teaching by Mitra Dean Tyler.
Meditation is followed at 11:00 am PT by a teaching on the Seven Points of Training the Mind, a much-loved and much-relied-on text from the tradition of the great Indian master Atisha Dipamkara.
The text belongs to the group of teachings known as Lojong or “Mind Training” teachings. The mind training teachings are very practical and comprehensive and give us tools to work with difficult aspects of our experience by welcoming them and seeing them as opportunities to connect with loving-kindness, compassion, and wisdom.

The teaching will be followed with a light brunch at noon at Nalanda West.
All are welcome!

All registered will receive the Zoom link and have the option to attend on-site at Nalanda West in Seattle or on Zoom. Recordings of the teaching will be posted to a Resource page available to all who register.

Mitra Tyler Dewar was born in Nova Scotia, Canada. He has been engaged in the study and practice of Buddhism since 1996, becoming a student of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche two years later. He began studying the Tibetan language in 1997, and became an oral interpreter and textual translator for Nitartha Institute and Nalandabodhi in 2000.

Tyler joined the faculty of Nitartha Institute in 2003 and was appointed as a senior teacher in Nalandabodhi in 2005. He has served as an oral interpreter for lineage-holding masters of the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Tyler enjoys teaching on such topics as the four immeasurables, and exploring how the great Buddhist forebears inspire and inform life in the 21st century.

A musician and singer, he has participated in the creation of several ‘melodized’ liturgies and ‘dharma songs.’ Tyler is the father of an amazing daughter and lives in Seattle, Washington.

The “Mitra” title: In 2005, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche empowered a group of his long-time students to be senior teachers of Nalandabodhi. He gave each of them the title Mitra, which is drawn from the Sanskrit term Kalyanamitra, “spiritual friend.” The Mitras guide Nalandabodhi’s three paths of Study, Meditation, and Mindful Activity and teach throughout the world.