2025 is the year of the Wood Snake and this year’s calendar features images and quotes inspired by Exemplary Women in Buddhism. Now available!In addition to supporting our meditation practice and daily activities, the aspiration for the calendar, as originally set into motion by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, is cultural and lineage preservation.
On Wednesday, Oct. 23, we will celebrate Lhabab Düchen, the fourth major Buddhist holiday in the Wood Dragon Year. Please join Nalandabodhi Vancouver and Mitra Mark Power, who will kindly offer an opening talk on this auspicious occasion.Wherever we are, and whoever we are with, this celebration is a beautiful opportunity to open our hearts with gratitude and engage in generosity and kindness.
Our friends at Karmapa Center 16 commemorate His Holiness the 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje’s parinirvāṇa every year on November 5th. This year, a Guru Yoga Teaching Retreat will precede their anniversary practices. This retreat, hosted in Taiwan and online, includes teachings by His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, and Dilyak Drupon Rinpoche.This is a precious opportunity to receive a traditional lung (oral transmission), special teachings, and practice His Holiness the 16th Karmapa’s Guru Yoga Sadhana.
Engaging in self-reflection this way helps us to see things as they are, not as they seem. We invite ourselves to go deeper, to investigate our habitual patterns of judgment and values that we often take for granted. As we do so, we find that there is space there, a gap where we can decide how we want to proceed. We don’t have to be prisoners in our own mental cage.
How to keep our hearts open when things seem to fall apart?Please join an Open Talk and Workshop with Susan Chapman, hosted by Nalandabodhi Seattle, to explore how to move from fear to love.
Please join Nalandabodhi Seattle in practicing The Aspiration of Samantabhadra on the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Susan Chapman will give a short opening talk before our liturgical practice.
