Chanted Group Meditations = Pujas

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. These chanted meditations are free and everyone is welcome. Please visit our calendar for details.

Heart Jewel with Lamrim Meditation
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This practice is the heart essence 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 Shugdän. 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 & 15 minutes)

Wishfulfilling Jewel Puja
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This is a more extensive version of Heart Jewel in which we make prayers and requests to Je Tsongkhapa and our Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugdän. 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)

Tara Puja
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Tara is a female Buddha, a manifestation of the ultimate wisdom of all the Buddhas. ‘Tara’ means ‘Rescuer’. She is so called because she rescues us from the eight outer fears (the fears of lions, elephants, fire, snakes, thieves, water, bondage, and evil spirits), and from the eight corresponding inner fears (the fears of pride, ignorance, anger, jealousy, wrong views, attachment, miserliness, and deluded doubts)

Offering to the Spiritual Guide Puja
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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)

Quick Path to Great Bliss
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Highest Yoga Tantra practices of Vajrayogini open only to those who have received the appropriate empowerment.

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