Vajrapani Empowerment | 10:00am - 4:15pm
Discover how to awaken our Buddha nature by relying upon the Buddha of spiritual power, Buddha Vajrapani. Learn how to overcome fear, anger, jealousy, and even our attachment by not seeing people or situations as our enemies but rather recognizing that our real enemies are our negative states of mind.
Although Buddha taught many different methodsto purify negative or nonvirtuous actions and other obstacles from our mind, the supreme method is the practice of meditation and recitation of Vajrasattva, the Buddha of purification.
Venerable Geshe-la says, “This practice is the scientific method to purify our mind and to transform our mind from an impure mind into a pure mind using Tantric technology.” This retreat provides an opportunity to learn and gain deep experience of this important spiritual practice. Kadam Trina will give an introductory talk to this retreat on Sunday, Nov 29, 4 - 5:30 pm. Although thisis a Teacher Training Program retreat everyone is welcome.
However, the sessions are self-guided, using the practice Offering to the Spiritual Guide with the sadhana Meditation and Recitation of Solitary Vajrasattva.
Cost Intro $12, $45/entire retreat, $3/session
Supporter Level 2 Intro $6, $22.50/entire retreat, $3/session
Supporter Level 3 and Benefactor Free
Retreat is free for those enrolled in KMC WA Teacher Training Program
This is an in-person event
Going for refuge is the first of the four great preliminary guides. Through training in sincerely going for refuge we enter the gateway to Buddhism, and through training in the compassionate mind of bodhichitta we enter the gateway to the Mahayana, the main path to enlightenment.
If we do not have a practice of refuge in the Three Jewels we will not enter Buddhism and have no opportunity to attain permanent liberation from suffering or the supreme happiness of enlightenment. Then we will have lost the meaning of human life.
Kadam Trina will give an introductory talk to this retreat on Sunday, Nov 1, 7-9 pm. Although this is a Teacher Training Program retreat everyone is welcome. However, the sessions are self-guided, using the practice Essence of Good Fortune.
Kadampa Meditation Center Washington is a 501(c)3 non-profit. Member of the New Kadampa Tradition - International Kadampa Buddhist Union.
