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If you enjoy meditating with others, chanted meditations are a great opportunity for you to engage in group meditation. These chanted meditations are also known in Sanskrit as "pujas", meaning "offering", or as "sadhanas", which means "method for receiving attainments".
Using ancient prayers translated into English, we receive the blessings, protection and guidance of the holy beings. We can make requests for ourselves or for others who need help or protection. These spiritual practices create a strong connection with the Buddhas, and help us purify our negativity and fill our mind with positive, healing energy. These meditations are open to everyone. People sit on chairs or on cushions on the floor.
Please check the calendar for dates and times.
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Compassion Buddha Puja
A swift & powerful method for increasing your love and compassion by relying upon Compassion Buddha Avalokiteshvara. |
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Tara Puja
By offering praises and requests to Mother Tara, the female Buddha of wisdom, we increase our fearlessness and swift wisdom and come under Tara's loving care and protection. Every September we engage in a 24 hour Tara retreat.
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Amitayus Puja
In this practice of the Buddha of long life, merit, and wisdom, we engage in guided visualizations, meditations, and mantra recitations to increase our own and others' long life, wisdom, and happiness. |
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Medicine Buddha
Medicine Buddha Puja is a powerful healing practice both for oneself and for others. Through this special practice we can cure ourself of both physical and mental diseases.
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Treasury of Wisdom
Manjushri is the Wisdom Buddha. By relying upon Manjushri, we will naturally increase our wisdom. Wisdom is like an inner Teacher that we carry in our hearts, and like a Protector that protects us from engaging in wrong actions and having to experience their unpleasant results. With wisdom, our mind is always balanced and comfortable.
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Offering to the Spiritual Guide Puja
This practice is the nectar that dissolves a stone heart. By engaging in this puja, we have the opportunity to mix our mind with our Spiritual Guide's enlightened blessings and inspiration, and gain experience of all the stages of the spiritual path of Sutra and Tantra.
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Protector Pujas
A Dharma Protector is an emanation of a Buddha or a Bodhisattva whose main functions are to avert the inner and outer obstacles that prevent practitioners from gaining spiritual realizations, and to arrange all the necessary conditions for their practice. Wisdom Buddha Dorje Shugdan always helps, guides, and protects Buddhist practitioners by granting blessings, increasing their wisdom, fulfilling their wishes, and bestowing success on all their virtuous activities. There are brief, middling-length, and long sadhanas of Dorje Shugdan, called Heart Jewel, Wishfulfilling Jewel, and Melodious Drum.
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(1) Heart Jewel Puja
In this puja we practice the special Guru Yoga of Je Tsongkhapa , and make prayers to our Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugdän, to remove obstacles and gather favourable conditions for our spiritual practice. These two practices are the very essence of the New Kadampa Tradition of Mahayana Buddhism. |
(2) Wishfulfilling Jewel Puja
A slightly more extensive version of Heart Jewel Puja, usually combined with a tsog (lit. "assembly of practitioners") offering. Please feel free to bring a vegetarian food offering. |
(3) Melodious Drum (Long Protector Puja)
During this puja we make extensive offerings and perform other practices to fulfil our heart commitment to rely upon the Protector sincerely, regarding him as inseparable from the Guru and Yidam (personal Tantric Deity), and to practice the pure Dharma of Lamrim, Lojong, and Mahamudra. |
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