“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.”
Our friends at the Contemplative Resource Center (CRC) are hosting a Khadiravaṇitārā weekend retreat with Mitra Tyler Dewar.This is a wonderful opportunity to engage in the practice of meditation and mantra recitation of one of the renowned forms of Ārya Tārā, Khadiravaṇitārā, through the Khadiravaṇitārā Sādhana authored and compiled by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche.
Kindly hosted by our friends at Karmê Chöling, Karunika Nick Vail will guide an onsite meditation retreat to rediscover clarity, presence, and connection in the natural setting of beautiful, rural Vermont.
