Upcoming Special Events | December

So, if we don’t like something that is happening to us or how we feel about it or indeed how we are reacting, this is a perfect reminder to us to purify this karma. Taking responsibility for our karma or actions can turn our lives around.

When we are doing Vajrasattva purification we can experience the purity flooding into us and we don’t hold back. Our negativity doesn’t exist from its own side – like everything else, it is a mere aspect of our mind. Purify the mind by mixing it with the extraordinary bliss and wisdom of enlightened beings and that negativity simply disappears because it is only appearance to mind.

In this half-day retreat we will learn how to skillfully engage in this practice, and how to use Vajrasattva’s mantra as an instrument of purification through which we can heal our mind of all negativities, painful and hurtful tendencies. This practice purifies our mind of our inner sources of unhappiness, it also removes obstacles to our making great progress on our spiritual path and liberates us to experience a joyful future.

Buddha Vajrasattva is a manifestation of the purified consciousness of all the Buddhas, appearing in a special form in order to help us purify our negativity.  The practice of meditation and mantra recitation of Vajrasattva is a very powerful method for purifying our body, speech, and mind.

Registration details

Cost: $20 (members are free and livestream available)

Celebrate with Teaching, Prayer, & Treats

What better way to start to your new year than to engage in these powerful prayers to Tara, while enjoying the company of friends and community. Everyone welcome! 

Join us in this special method of Tara chanting to wrap the entire world in requests to Buddha Tara. We gather together to ask her to please take away our obstacles and help everyone find the happy, meaningful life they long for. Feel free to engage in all six sessions or just one… whatever you do will bring great benefit to you and others. 

This puja is recited six times in the 24-hour period.  We introduce the first session with a lovely teaching by our resident teacher, Gen Dorje, after which we will enjoy light treats and refreshments to celebrate New Year’s Eve.    

“In general, prayers made by an assembly of many practitioners are very powerful and cannot be compared to the prayers of one or two people. The scriptures give the analogy of a broom. If we try to clean a floor with a few bristles we shall make little progress, but if we gather many bristles to make a broom we shall be successful.”
– Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Registration details

Cost: Free; this event is in person only (will not be livestreamed)

** Can’t attend but want to enjoy Tara Prayer sessions at home? We will use the Liberation from Sorrow sadhana found on Tharpa on demand as an MP3 audio, E-booklet.  Find it at this link