We hope everyone had a nice August.

Wed Sept. 6 – Full Moon Tara Prayer
The first day after our break will be a Full Moon Tara practice on Wed. Sept. 6 @ 7:00 PM

Sun Sept. 10 – Current Teaching
Our regular teaching will begin from Sunday, September 10, 2017 @ 10AM. On this day Geshe la wants to give a comprehension test on karmic cause and effect. Geshe la will ask questions and students will write down the answers on pieces of sheets and submit them without signing their names. We will know the result on Sunday, September 17. Once Geshe la is satisfied that we have a good grasp of this teaching, he will go on to the next set of teachings as follows:

The Three Principle Aspects of the Path
By Je Tsong Kha Pa

Contains the essence of the entire teaching of Lord Buddha. They are:
1) Renunciation, the wish to be free from Samsara
2) Bodhicitta, the mind of enlightenment
3) Perfect View (Empty nature of all dharma).

Meditation/Prayer on Tuesdays resume Sept. 12 @ 7:00 PM

Meditation Instruction Sat Sept. 23 @ 10:00 AM
We are trying to schedule meditation instruction every so often to teach newcomers and review techniques for those already familiar. Our next session is open for signup on this page.

We will send reminder emails as events approach.

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  • Tibetan word of the day: གཞི་གྲུབ་

    གཞི་གྲུབ་

    Established basis

    Spelling (jorlok; Tib. སྦྱོར་ཀློག་) and pronunciation:
    གཞི་ – ga-o zha gigu zhi
    གྲུབ་ – ga ra-tak dra zhabkyu dru ba drub
    zhi drub

    From class notes:

    “First, what must be understood is this: the established basis (Tib. གཞི་གྲུབ་ gzhi grub), object of knowledge (Tib. ཤེས་བྱ་ shes bya), existence (Tib. ཡོད་པ་ yod pa), and phenomena (Tib. ཆོས་ chos) are all of one meaning.

    The meaning of an established basis is that which is established by valid cognition (Skt. pramāṇa).”


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