Wednesday Evening Meditation Class via Zoom
2020-07-01 18:30 - 19:30, 2020-07-08 18:30 - 19:30, 2020-07-15 18:30 - 19:30, 2020-07-22 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Waking Up to the Clarity of the Mind

Our world seems more chaotic than ever, and our own body, speech, and mind are constantly in motion. In our Wednesday classes we will acknowledge the difficult and sometimes crazy appearances all around us, then practice settling our mind and observing its clear, pure nature. Simply observing the contrast between the tumultuous world and the lucid, quiet mind that perceives it answers the question, “Why meditate?” And dedicating our meditation for everyone’s happiness and freedom creates positive results.

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Each class begins with a guided breathing meditation and culminates with a second meditation based upon the evening’s topic. Drop in to any or all classes in this course. Perfect for beginners or those with meditation experience. Open to everyone.

Thursday Evening Meditation Class via Zoom
2020-07-02 18:30 - 19:30, 2020-07-09 18:30 - 19:30, 2020-07-16 18:30 - 19:30, 2020-07-23 18:30 - 19:30
Please send us your email through our Contact form if you would like to receive and invitation to join this class online.

This meditation class series explores ways of thinking about other people that will uplift our mind. By carrying these ideas into our daily life, we can maintain a light, joyful attitude towards others, whatever life throws our way.
Guided by Buddha’s Lojong teachings, we will learn how to identify obstacles in our mind that lead us away from peace — and how to oppose these inner obstacles by improving our capacity to love others.

Each class begins with a guided breathing meditation and culminates with a second meditation based upon the evening’s topic. Drop in to any or all classes in this course. Perfect for beginners or those with meditation experience. Open to everyone.

Happy Interdependence Day!
2020-07-04

Quick Path to Great Bliss
2020-07-07 07:30 - 09:00, 2020-07-14 07:30 - 09:00
(Hosted online by Dharmachakra Kadampa Buddhist Center)
* Highest Yoga Tantra practitioners only, please.

24-Hr Tara Prayers
2020-07-07 18:00 - 19:30
https://kadampa.org/liberation-from-sorrow

24-Hr Tara Prayers (final session)
2020-07-08 14:00 - 15:30

Meditation for World Peace via Zoom
2020-07-19 10:30 - 11:45
Please send us your email through our Contact form if you would like to receive and invitation to join this class online.

“Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.” ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Prayer and meditation are neither small nor passive actions. Rather, they are a force for change in our shared world. Join us to bring peace to our world through the action of meditation, and dedicating our prayers for world peace. Everyone is welcome – you do not need to be a Buddhist to attend. Just leave your email on our Contact page and we will send an invitation to you to join the zoom meeting. Class is $10, payable through our Donate page. (Paypal)
Each class consists of a guided breathing meditation, a short teaching on the practice of wisdom and compassion, and prayers (in English) to the Buddha of Compassion. Prayer booklets and downloaded e-prayer booklets can be purchased HERE.

Quick Path to Great Bliss
2020-07-21 07:30 - 09:00, 2020-08-11 07:30 - 09:00, 2020-08-18 07:30 - 09:00, 2020-08-25 07:30 - 09:00, 2020-09-01 07:30 - 09:00
* Highest Yoga Tantra practitioners only, please.

Powa Prayers
2020-07-21 18:00 - 18:45
Through practicing transference of consciousness — known as ‘powa’ — with faith, compassion, and concentration we can transfer the consciousness of those recently deceased to a higher rebirth or to the Pure Land of a Buddha. The Powa Ceremony can be done either by a group of practitioners or individually on behalf of one or more deceased persons, or countless deceased beings. By engaging in this practice we also create a great collection of virtue, which will also lead us into the pathway to a Buddha’s Pure Land.
All chanted prayers are free – please email us for a zoom invite.

2020 Summer Festival Online
2020-07-24 - 2020-08-08
Summer Festival 2026

SUMMER BREAK
2020-07-24 - 2020-08-09

Wednesday Evening Meditation Class via Zoom
2020-08-12 18:30 - 19:30, 2020-08-19 18:30 - 19:30, 2020-08-26 18:30 - 19:30, 2020-09-02 18:30 - 19:30
Practicing Peace & Equality in Daily Life

We have been looking to others to solve the conflict we see in our world, but the solution is something we create inside our own mind. Although many countries and cultures have enshrined the ideas of peace and equality within their constitutions, it is up to each individual person to PRACTICE peace and equality. Mahayana Buddhism presents the methods and instruction for developing these essential views, in particular, the practice of Kadam Lojong, or Training the Mind.
Please join us for an ongoing practical examination of these special ways of viewing ourself and others. Through listening to, contemplating, and meditating on the meanings of these instructions, we can transform our own mind into the love and respect that views all living beings as equally precious. Then in our own life, we live the example of peace and equal kindness towards everyone.

Sign up here to receive an invitation to attend our online Zoom meditation classes

Each class begins with a guided breathing meditation and culminates with a second meditation based upon the evening’s topic. Drop in to any or all classes in this course. Perfect for beginners or those with meditation experience. Open to everyone.

Meditation for World Peace via Zoom
2020-08-23 10:30 - 11:45, 2020-08-30 10:30 - 11:45
Please send us your email through our Contact form if you would like to receive and invitation to join this class online.

“Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.” ~
Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche

Prayer and meditation are neither small nor passive actions. Rather, they are a force for change in our shared world. Join us to bring peace to our world through the action of meditation, and dedicating our prayers for world peace. Everyone is welcome – you do not need to be a Buddhist to attend. Just leave your email on our Contact page and we will send an invitation to you to join the zoom meeting. Class is $10, payable through our Donate page.

Each class consists of a guided breathing meditation, a short teaching on the practice of wisdom and compassion, and prayers (in English) to the Buddha of Compassion. Prayer booklets and downloaded e-prayer booklets can be purchased HERE.

Guru Yoga Mandala Offering Retreat Online
2020-09-05 08:00 - 17:30, 2020-09-06 08:00 - 17:30
Retreat sessions will be on Saturday, September 5 and Sunday, September 6. The second session of the retreat on Saturday will be an introduction to the practices of Guru Yoga and Mandala Offering by our Resident Teacher, Kadam Keli Vaughan. The retreat is open to everyone. Each retreat session is 90 minutes long including prayers.
The practice of Mandala Offering creates vast good fortune and is a method to attain the Pure Land of a Buddha.
Giving with a mind of bodhichitta unmixed with attachment is the first of the Six Perfections. Buddha taught giving as the first of the Six Perfections so that living beings can generate good fortune, or merit, to sustain all necessary conditions for our spiritual practice. While meditation plants the seeds of realizations within our mind, if our mind is devoid of merit, or 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 blessings arising from the practice of Guru Yoga are 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.
Session 1 8:00-9:30am
Session 2 10:30am-12:00pm (Introduction to the practice on Saturday / Meditation for World Peace on Sunday)
Session 3 2:00-3:30pm
Session 4 4:00-5:30pm
Each session is $5 or $20 for whole day.
Free for Foundation Program students.
