2018-01-31 Full Moon Tara Prayer 7 p.m.

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We will have a Full Moon Tara prayer Wednesday Jan. 31 starting at 7 p.m. It’s not only the first of two Blue Moons in 2018, but also a super moon and total Lunar eclipse. All three special moons in one day. So this will be a very powerful day for practice. The last Blue Moon total eclipse was 150 years ago.

For the Full Tara prayer, please

  • bring your vajra and bell if you have them
  • bring offerings for the altar: flowers, fruits or cookies made without eggs or animal fats.
  • avoid eating meat, eggs, onions or garlic during the day.

Another special event coming up is Yamantaka Purification, Saturday Feb 10 at 11 a.m. A separate reminder will be sent for the event next week.

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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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