Guru Yoga Mandala Offering Retreat Intro

Tonight our Resident Teacher, Keli Vaughan, will give an introduction to Guru Yoga Mandala Offering Retreat. This retreat unites the two practices of Guru Yoga and Mandala Offering.

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.

Meditation 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.

Keli and other Mahakankala students will remain after the introductory talk to show new practitioners how to make 7-point mandala offerings using the small mandala kits available during the retreat.

Saturday, Sunday & Monday retreat schedule:

Each retreat session is 90 minutes long including prayers.

Session 1 9:00-10:30am
Session 2 11:00am-12:30pm
Session 3 2:00-3:30pm
Session 4 4:00-5:30pm

Each session is $5 or $15 for whole day.