Fulfillment of All Wishes: Guru Yoga and Mandala Offering Retreat
Teachings and meditations for everyone with our Resident Teacher, modern Buddhist monk Gen Kelsang Tabkay
June 19 – 20 in Columbia
(This is a more in-depth or advanced retreat)
Guru Yoga and Mandala offering retreat combines two of the four great preliminary guides that we need to practice if we want to gain Mahamudra realisations – the quick path to enlightenment.
We all wish for spiritual realizations, but these depend upon creating certain inner conditions such as purifying negativity, accumulating merit, and receiving blessings.
In this in-depth retreat we focus on the preliminary practices of accumulating merit and receiving blessings. Making mandala offerings is the gateway to accumulating the collection of merit and attaining an enlightened pure land and Guru yoga is the gateway to receiving powerful blessings of all the Buddhas of the ten directions through our Spiritual Guide.
Each session will include some short teaching, chanted prayers, and time to make mandala offerings and Guru Yoga prayers.
Everyone welcome; no prior experience necessary.
Schedule:
Friday
6:30pm – 8pm – Introduction and mandala demonstration
Saturday
9:30am – 11:00am – Session 1
11:45am – 1:15pm – Session 2
2:45pm – 4:15pm – Session 3
