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SUMMARY:Creating a Pure World - GYMO Day Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Every year\, Kadampa centers around the world arrange preliminary retreats in which people engage in practices that help prepare the mind for deeper meditation. Generally these retreats are four sessions a day over seven days. This year we are offering a mini 1-day Guru Yoga Mandala Offering Retreat. This retreat unites the two practices of Guru Yoga and Mandala Offering. \n\n  \nThe blessings arising from the practice of Guru Yoga are like rain that nurtures and sustains the seeds of our meditation. Guru Yoga is a special and powerful method that enables us to receive the blessings of all Buddhas\, Bodhisattvas\, and holy beings. Receiving this inspiration into our mind bestows inner peace and gives rise to realizations of renunciation\, universal compassion\, and wisdom realizing emptiness. \nMeditation plants the seeds of realizations within our mind but if our mind is devoid of good karma we will be planting seeds in barren ground. Accumulating merit creates a rich and fertile mental environment within which our meditations will swiftly ripen and transform into realizations. The practice of Mandala Offering creates vast good fortune and is a method to attain the Pure Land of a Buddha. Mandala means universe. We create a completely pure universe with our imagination and offer it to the Enlightened Buddhas. \n\nSaturday’s retreat schedule:\nEach retreat session is 90 minutes long including prayers. \nSession 1 9:00-10:30am\nSession 2 11:00am-12:30pm\nSession 3 2:00-3:30pm\nSession 4 4:00-5:30pm \n  \nCost of retreat: $20. (Member benefits apply.)
URL:https://meditationinsantabarbara.org/event/creating-a-pure-world-gymo-day-retreat/
LOCATION:Mahakankala Kadampa Buddhist Center\, 1825 State Street Suite 202\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93101\, United States
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