Join us for teachings and prayers Wednesday and Sunday

Everyone is welcome for Tara prayer on Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. 15 minute meditation followed by Tara prayers.

August 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th

Sunday Dharma teachings continues on Guru puja, 11:00 am

August 11th, 18th

Continuation of verses on 6 Paramitas,

• Generosity (Tib. སྦྱིན་པ་; jinpa)
• Ethical Discipline (Tib. ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་; tsultrim)
• Patience (Tib. བཟོད་པ་; zöpa)
• Diligence (Tib. བརྩོན་འགྲུས་; tsöndrü)
• Meditation/concentration (Tib. བསམ་གཏན་; samten)
• Wisdom (Tib. ཤེས་རབ་; sherab)

August 25th, Monthly Dharma Question and Answer

Everyone welcome to any or all events. All classes are offered without cost, donations gratefully accepted.

༄། ཨལ་བྷར་ཊ་ས་གནས་གནས་བཞུགས་དད་ལྡན་མི་མང་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་སྙན་ལམ་དུ་ཆེད་ཞུ།
བྱམས་བརྩེ་ཆོས་གླིང་ཆོས་ཚོགས་སུ་ས་ག་ཟླ་བའི་དུས་ཆེན་ཁྱད་པར་ཅན་ལ་གཤམ་གསལ་དུས་ཚོད་རེའུ་མིག་ལྟར་དགེ་སྦྱོང་ལ་ཕེབས་འདོོད་ཡོད་པ་རྣམས་ལ་དགའ་བསུ་ཞུ།།

Hello Dharma Friends,
These are the special Saka Dawa (Vesak) events details for May to June:

A quick summary of the special events is below:

11 MAY, SAT
11:30am – 3:30pm
Medicine Buddha retreat

This is very powerful in purifying negative karma, healing the sick and helping the beings in the lower realms.

Program:
10:00-11:00am: Sadhana & mantra recitation part 1

11:00-11:15am Break

11:15-12:30pm Medicine Buddha part 2

12:30-2:00pm Lunch – potluck

2:00-3:00pm Medicine Buddha Jangwa

12 MAY, SUN
1 – 3pm
Children’s festival

Children’s fest Pizza party

A live retelling of Buddha’s early life in “Three Moons in May” commemorating the birth, enlightening, and passing of Lord Buddha.

Washing of the Buddha statue ceremony

Vegetarian pizza lunch

18 MAY, SAT
1:30 – 4pm
Tsog Offering

Lama Chopa Prayer and Guru Yoga practice. The prayer consists of making offerings and requesting the blessing of Buddhas to all sentient beings and the inspiration from the Spiritual Teacher (Guru). This practice unites our minds and the mind of the Guru in order to receive blessings and generate realizations on the path to enlightenment. A Tsog offering helps to restore degenerated spiritual vows and commitment.

19 MAY, SUN
11:30am – 3:30pm
Confession and Vajrasattva practice

These days epidemics and wars seem to continuously torment many parts of our world. This is the collective karmic result of the past non-virtuous action accumulated by sentient beings. In order to quickly purify that, we all need to increase the two accumulations of Merit and Wisdom of all sentient beings. The supreme method for accomplishing this is the practice of Vajrasattva and confession to 35 Buddhas. 

No meat, eggs, garlic for the whole day.

23 MAY, THU
6:30 – 8pm
Full Tara Prayer

Remove all obstacles and to pray for accomplishment of all our aspirations.

No meat, eggs, garlic for the whole day.

26 MAY, SUN
11:30am – 3:30pm
Heart Sutra

6 JUN, THU
6:30 – 8pm
Full Tara Prayer


Scheduling is subject to change, please refer to the website calendar for the latest schedule: https://jtclcalgary.ca/calendar/

We’ll also send out reminders as events approach with additional details.
Thanks, JTCL Calgary

Hello Dharma Friends,

Ama la is unavailable for translating dharma teaching on Sundays for the next two weeks. This is the updated upcoming schedule.

7 APR, SUN

CANCELLED Introduction to Buddhism

10 APR, WED 6:30 – 8pm

Meditation and Tara Prayer

14 APR, SUN

CANCELLED Regular Dharma teaching

Scheduling is subject to change, please refer to the website calendar for the latest schedule: https://jtclcalgary.ca/calendar/

You can also attend virtually on Zoom:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4102590148?pwd=RkphclNKK21LUEQySmk1UVdSWnlMUT09

Regular Dharma Teaching

The Jam Tse Cho Ling Calgary Dharma teaching occurs every Sunday at 11am MT. Temple doors are open earlier for those who’d like to meditate before the teaching (10:00am-10:45am).

Topic: Guru puja

Lama chopa prayer book:

Prayer books

Meditation and Prayer

We do group meditation sessions at 6:30pm Wednesday evenings, followed by reciting Tara Prayer.

Recordings

2024-03-31 summary:

Example of real practitioner is Ama la, in the ten years I have been in Calgary I have never seen her complain about her family responsibilities, or anytime when we are called to attend a person in the community for illness or death, she is always ready to go. This is the real benefit for you all of practice is a higher tolerance and a more spacious mind with a kinder heart. 

With the Guru Yoga verses we must learn to have an intense longing for freedom from samsara, to learn to be free of afflictions. 

What it means to think well is to understand that when things go well it is due to our past merit and the Buddha Dharma, now while we have this precious human life we need to double our efforts, work even harder and always remember impermanence. We also must remember that as long as we are in samsara there will be suffering.  Due to karma, there will be good things and bad things and with more practice we can remain in equanimity.  

Things we shouldn’t fear or be angry about we are – weather, small things, and what we really should be frightened of are the 3 poisons – desire, anger, ignorance – this is what can destroy us completely.  We can’t worry about others, we need to point to ourselves we have to check ourselves, not only for this life, but for countless lives in the future.  We have to remember as Buddha Shakyamuni said that our enemies are the 3 poisons within sentient beings, and that there is no sentient being that is our enemy.

Audio Recording link