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UNLOCK YOUR POTENTIAL FOR LASTING INNER PEACE
Unlock Your Potential for Lasting Inner Peace
Unlock Your Potential for Lasting Inner Peace
Unlock Your Potential for Lasting Inner Peace
MENLHA
KADAMPA MEDITATION CENTER
Prayers
JOIN US FOR AN IN-PERSON PUJA
"In general, prayers made by an assembly of many practitioners are very powerful and cannot be compared to the prayers of one or two people. The scriptures give the analogy of a broom. If we try to clean a floor with a few bristles we shall make little progress, but if we gather many bristles to make a broom we shall be successful.”
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–Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, from the book Living Meaningfully, Dying Joyfully
All group prayers are offered free of charge and are in-person. * EXCEPT WHERE NOTED.
Heart Jewel
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How to overcome obstacles and difficulties on the spiritual path by developing compassion, wisdom, and spiritual strength.
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Sundays 9 – 10 am
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Offering to the Spiritual Guide
The special Guru yoga practice of Je Tsongkhapa in conjunction with Highest Yoga Tantra, which also includes all the essential practices of the stages of the path to enlightenment.
The 10th & 25th of the month
Please check our calendar for time.
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You are welcome to bring an offering.
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Medicine Buddha Sadhana
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A practice for receiving a special power of body, speech, and mind through which we can help both ourself and others through healing actions.
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Thursdays 10 – 11 am ​
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Dakini Yoga
The self-generation practice of Vajrayogini—the female Buddha who embodies the wisdom of all Buddhas—in conjunction with six-session yoga, an essential daily practice for those who have received a Highest Yoga Tantra empowerment.
2nd Friday of the month
10:30 – 11:30 am
​Please check our calendar for date.
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Available Here
Avalokiteshvara Sadhana
A special method for meditating on Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion, through which we can develop our compassion and awaken our Buddha nature.​
4th Friday of the month
10:30 – 11:30 am
​Please check our calendar for date.
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Available Here
Tara Puja: Liberation From Sorrow
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Prayers for developing a deep feeling of closeness with Buddha Tara, through which we can receive her blessings and protection. On the 8th of every month we recite sincere 'Prayers and Requests to the Assembly of 21 Taras' and deeply request Buddha Tara to bestow her blessings on all living beings so that all sickness and other obstacles are quickly removed.
The 8th of the month.
Please check our calendar for time.
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Wishfulfilling Jewel
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A powerful practice for developing compassion, wisdom, and spiritual strength and for overcoming obstacles and difficulties on the spiritual path.
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Thursday 5:30 – 6:30 pm
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Melodious Drum Victorious in All Directions
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The extensive sadhana, or "method of attainment," for fulfilling our commitment to rely on the Dharma Protector and to practice Lamrim, Lojong, and Mahamudra, and for restoring any degenerate or broken commitments.
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Melodious Drum puja is recommended for experienced practitioners only.
Offered on or close to the 29th of the month ​
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You are welcome to bring an offering.
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Bodhisattva’s Confession of Moral Downfalls
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The purification practice of the Mahayana Sutra of the Three Superior Heaps. Beginners welcome!
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1st Friday of the month
10:30 – 11 am
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Meditations & Recitations of Solitary Vajrasattva
The practice of cleansing our mind of all delusions and negativity by relying on Vajrasattva, the Buddha of Purification.​
3rd Friday of the month
10:30 – 11:30 am
​Please check our calendar for date.
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Available Here
Powa: Prayers for the Recently Deceased
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Powa is a beautiful and powerful ritual practice drawn from the Buddhist tantras and enables us to benefit the deceased by coming together as a group and making prayers and offerings on their behalf.
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Once a month on Saturday
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Add names to the dedication prayer list here
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Mahayana Precepts: A Pure Life *
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The practice of taking and keeping the eight Mahayana precepts is a special practice of moral discipline that is performed with bodhichitta, the compassionate wish to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. The essence of this practice is taking eight precepts and keeping them purely for 24 hours. We first need to receive these precepts from a qualified Preceptor and then we can take them on our own as often as we wish.
This practice is motivated by bodhichitta and is thus especially powerful for purifying negativities, accumulating merit (positive energy) and creating the cause for us to attain the unsurpassed happiness of enlightenment.
The 15th of the month (via Zoom). *
6:30 – 7 am
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Available to all Menlha KMC monthly members.
Please contact us here for the link to join via Zoom.
Interested in the prayer booklet for the Mahayana Precepts: A Pure Life?