Events calendar

Week of Nov 4th

  • - Meditation (Zoom)- 59 Ways to Cultivate a Peaceful Mind and Warm Heart with Ven. Samten Chodron
    Meditation (Zoom)- 59 Ways to Cultivate a Peaceful Mind and Warm Heart with Ven. Samten Chodron

    Meditation (Zoom)- 59 Ways to Cultivate a Peaceful Mind and Warm Heart with Ven. Samten Chodron

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    November 1, 2023

    Thubten Samten Chodron (Nyingje Norgang, PhD)In this time when our lives can feel speedy and stressful, our hearts breaking with every news cycle, and our minds out of control, we may feel the need an Operator’s Manual for the Human Heart/Mind. Fortunately, such a manual has been around since the 13th century and it still works for the problems of the 21st Century!  It’s called, Lojong, and it is organized around 59 pithy sayings.  Each one is a support for realizing the vast potential of the human heart/mind. Please join us weekly (or occasionally) on Wednesday for a period of guided meditation and contemplation and an introduction to one of the sayings.  Before concluding, we always have time for comments and questions. 

    • Wednesdays - 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. on Zoom
    • Zoom link HERE - Meeting ID: 825 9775 6382 - Passcode - Meditation
  • - 'Mahayana Ground, Path & Fruition' - Teachings on ZOOM by Lopon Rigzin Losal, SPECIAL PRACTICE INHOUSE-LHA BAB DUCHEN
    'Mahayana Ground, Path & Fruition' - Teachings on ZOOM by Lopon Rigzin Losal

    'Mahayana Ground, Path & Fruition' - Teachings on ZOOM by Lopon Rigzin Losal

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    November 4, 2023

    Oct 14th - Dec 9th - Saturday mornings from 9:30 -11:00 am (except Nov 25th)

    The Ottawa Palyul Centre is delighted to once again host a teaching by Lopon Rigzin Losal, one of Namdroling’s advanced English-speaking monastic teachers. He will take us through a text that explains the Ground of Reality by showing how the two Truths (Relative and Ultimate) are established. Then the Path to Liberation which covers the two accumulations of Merit and Wisdom, the five stages on the journey beginning with the path of accumulation, and the ten levels of spiritual development (Bhumis). Finally he will explain the result, the Fruition of practice in the five ‘bodies’ (manifestations of Buddhahood), the five kinds of wisdom and other qualities of enlightenment. Lopon will teach from a draft text prepared by Khenpo Sonam Tsewang specifically for teachings on ‘Mahayana Ground, Path & Fruition’.

    • Zoom link: HERE - Meeting ID: 897 2380 1864 -  Passcode: Namdroling

     

    SPECIAL PRACTICE INHOUSE-LHA BAB DUCHEN

    SPECIAL PRACTICE INHOUSE-LHA BAB DUCHEN


    November 4, 2023

    Happy Lha Bab Duchen!

    Please join us at the Centre to celebrate the prayer festival of Lha Bab Duchen.  Lha Bab Duchen is one of the four holy days in the year when we celebrate and remember important events in the life of Buddha Shakyamuni.  The Buddha is said to have returned from the heaven worlds where he had spent three months teaching the Dharma to his mother Mayadevi and the gods.  Traditionally, Buddhists engage in many virtuous activities through this whole month (9th month of the lunar calendar).  This is a very auspicious time to practice as much as possible, especially from the 16th to the 30th. If you are not able to practice every day, then on the 22nd day of the lunar calendar, it is extremely important to practice because it is said that the positive or negative effects of our actions on this day are multiplied by 10,000,000.