How do we find a quiet heart and steady joy amid the shifting tides of the world?Please join Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen in exploring the nature of reality and ways to cultivate peace from within.
Inspired by the Kagyü lineage and the lives and teachings of the Karmapas, as well as Ngulchu Tokmé’s classical text, our friends at Karmapa Center 16 offer Sunday Meditation for All with weekly Dharma talks and practice.
“When I can relax and let go, when I can cease clinging to myself as being independent and separate from the environment, I see that everything is alive with interconnection,” writes Nick Vail. “There is no ‘me,’ and there is no ‘out there.’ There is only vibrant, spacious interdependence.”
Please join Nalandabodhi Seattle in observing the Summer Solstice on Friday, 20 June 2025. There will be a brief teaching by our new Mitra Dean, Mark Power, before our practice of The Aspiration Prayer of Samantabhadra.
What prevents compassion from arising and what enhances it once we have an experience of compassion? Further exploring bodhciitta, Nalandabodhi Seattle offers another Sunday meditation and teaching series with a special guest teacher, Lama Karma Chötso. We will practice giving and taking (Tib. tong len), and questions are encouraged.
“When something disturbs me bodily, mentally, or emotionally, my first movement, a deep-rooted habit, is to look outward,” Adela Iglesias writes. “I too often forget that the main source of my suffering (and of my liberation) is within me, in my own mind.”
