April Events
Distinguished visiting teacher Khenpo Tenkyong of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra monastery, NY will be visiting the Maui Dharma Center and offering teachings, meditations and a Refuge ceremony. Online registration is required. Suggested donation is $25 per event.
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Friday Evening
Introduction to Buddhist Meditation
Public Talk
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Teachings on foundational Buddhist principles along with basic meditation instructions. Appropriate for beginners and for anyone who would like to refresh their understanding of meditation or just meditate with a group.
Saturday Morning
Shamatha & Walking Meditation
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Shamata meditation cultivates calm brought through concentration. Appropriate for beginners and for anyone who would like to refresh their understanding of shamatha meditation or just meditate with a group.
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Sunday Morning
Guru Rinpoche Day
7:00 am - 9:00 am
OM AH HUNG BENZA GURU PEMA SIDDHI HUNG
Devotional supplication to clear obstacles and awaken innate qualities of compassion and wisdom to benefit oneself and All Beings.
Shower of Blessings & Riwo Sancho
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Sunday Morning
Chenrezig Puja & Dharma Talk
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
OM MANI PEME HUNG
The practice of Chenrezig is one that develops within our being the qualities of love, compassion, and altruism. Closing the gap between the practitioner and the practice, so there is no difference between the person meditating and the love and compassion they are cultivating.
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Thursday Morning
Medicine Buddha Puja & Teaching
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
ཏདྱ་ཐཱ། ཨོཾ་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་མ་ཧཱ་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་རཱ་ཛ་ས་མུངྒ་ཏེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
TAYATHA OM BEKADZE BEKADZE MAHA BEKADZE RADZA SAMUNGATE SOHA
The practice of Healing Buddha, the Supreme Healer (Tib. Sangye Menla) is a very powerful method for healing and increasing healing capacity for oneself and others. Followed by meditation and teaching.
KHENPO KARMA TENKYONG
Khenpo Karma Tenkyong is a senior teacher in the Karma Kagyu lineage, and a representative of that lineage in the West. He is known for a dynamic and engaging style of teaching and is well acclimated to working with Western practitioners.
He is known for attuning personally to the individuals in the room, and to adjust his presentation according to their needs. Khenpo Tenkyong’s students report that he makes heart connections with the students so that they leave the retreat feeling that not only have they learned something invaluable, but that they have made an authentic connection to the lineage.
Khenpo Tenkyong emphasizes the importance of post-retreat practice, and so he will offer his insights on how to approach practice when we return home, as well as how to bring what we’ve experienced in retreat into our daily lives.