May 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.
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Friday Morning
Full Moon Tara Puja
7:00 am - 9:00 am
Green Tara is known as the 'Swift One' or the 'Swift Liberator' due to her immediate response to those who request her aid. Green Tara's compassion for the welfare of all living beings is said to be even stronger than a mother's love for her children. She is the one who helps us cross over the ocean of suffering and guides us upon the path of enlightenment.
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Friday Evening
Refuge Talk & Ceremony
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Taking refuge is the first formal step on the Buddhist path. The genuine sources of spiritual refuge, which are called the Three Jewels: the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. Khenpo Tenkyong will explain the importance of receiving refuge from an authentic and unbroken lineage of transmission, the role of faith and trust, and how to relate to the refuge ceremony itself.
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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
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.