Weekly Chanted Prayers (Ongoing)
CHANTED PRAYERS ARE OFFERED IN-PERSON
Take advantage of another fabulous opportunity to support our center and collect heaps of merit by sponsoring tsog offerings for our Chanted Prayers or monthly offerings. If you would like to find out more about being a “sponsor”, please call/text Rochelle Sokoll at 508-496-4661.
SMC invites all of its members, friends, and benefactors to join us for chanted prayers on the following days and times.
All Prayers are Free.
HEART JEWEL PRAYERS
Tuesdays | 5:30 – 6:30pm | Free
Heart Jewel is the heart essence of Kadampa Buddhism and many Kadampas do these prayers as part of their daily practice. Buddhas or enlightened beings can appear or emanate as anything, and especially as teachers and as protectors; and in this practice we pray to and rely upon the Wisdom Buddha Manjushri in both these ways.
You can download a copy of the Heart Jewel Prayers here.
Specific-date Chanted Prayers
• If desired, prayer booklets in paper and ebook form are available through Tharpa.com
• Take advantage of another fabulous opportunity to support our center and collect heaps of merit by sponsoring tsog offerings for our Chanted Prayers or monthly offerings. If you would like to find out more about being a “sponsor”, please call/text Rochelle Sokoll at 508-496-4661.
POWA Ceremony
Prayers for the Recently Deceased
First Monday of every month | 6:00 – 7:00pm | Free
November 2
December 7
Through practicing the Powa Ceremony with faith, compassion and concentration we can transfer the consciousness of those recently deceased to a higher rebirth or to the Pure Land of a Buddha. We can practice alone or with a group, on behalf of one or more deceased persons, or countless deceased beings. By engaging in this practice we also create a great collection of virtue, which will also lead us into the pathway to a Buddha’s Pure Land.
Please bring an offering if you wish.
Green Tara Chanted Prayers
Sunday | November 8 | 12:00-12:45pm | Free
Tuesday | December 8 | 4:00-4:45pm | Free
Tara is a female Buddha, a manifestation of the ultimate wisdom of all Buddhas. Each of the Twenty-One Taras in Liberation from Sorrow is a manifestation of the principal Green Tara, known as the “Mother of the Conquerors”. She is our common mother, our Holy Mother. When we’re young, we turn to our worldly mother to protect us from immediate dangers, to provide us with all temporal needs, to guide and encourage us in our learning and personal development. In the same way, for spiritual growth, we turn for refuge to our Holy Mother Tara to protect us from all internal and external dangers, provide us with all the necessary conditions for our spiritual training, and guide us and inspire us with her blessings as we progress along the spiritual path.
Free and open to the entire community. Everyone is WELCOME, No previous experience necessary.
Offering to the Spiritual Guide
with Tsog offerings (vegetarian food, fruit, candy)
Tuesday | November 10 | 4:00-6:00 pm
Wednesday | November 25 | 9:45-11:30am
Thursday | December 10| 3:00-5:00pm
Friday | December 25 | TBD
Offering to the Spiritual Guide is a special Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa in conjunction with Highest Yoga Tantra. It was compiled as a preliminary practice for Tantric Mahamudra that is perfectly suited to our modern day lifestyle. These prayers present all the diverse spiritual practices of the path to enlightenment in a manner that is easily understood and in the order in which they are to be practiced. The theme is meditation on reliance upon our Spiritual Guide. Within this we focus on all the essential practices of the stages of the path (Lamrim) and training the mind (Lojong), and both the generation and completion stages of Highest Yoga Tantra. By relying on our Spiritual Guide as one with Je Tsongkhapa, our compassion, spiritual power, and especially our wisdom will naturally increase. A complete commentary to this practice can be found in Great Treasury of Merit by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
Please feel free to bring an offering if you wish.
Wishfulfilling Jewel
Sundays | 5:00 – 6:00pm
This is a special practice for developing compassion, wisdom, and spiritual strength by relying on the Wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa, and for overcoming obstacles and difficulties on the spiritual path by relying on his Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden. It is explained in the book Heart Jewel by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Regular practice of this meditation practice helps us develop and maintain an invaluable spiritual anchor enabling us to gain heartfelt experience of the teachings when practicing them in a very distracted world.
Melodious Drum: Long Protector Puja (with Tsog)
Thursday | October 29 | 1:00-4:30pm
Not being held in November or December
This practice is the very essence of Kadampa Buddhism. In the first part of the prayers we practice the Guru Yoga of Je Tsongkhapa, in which we purify negativity, accumulate merit, receive blessings, and cultivate compassion, wisdom, and spiritual strength. In the second part we make requests to the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden to overcome obstacles and create favorable conditions for spiritual practice.
These two practices are the very essence of the New Kadampa Tradition of Mahayana Buddhism. If we practice them regularly and sincerely, we will reap a rich harvest of pure Dharma realizations, and eventually, come to experience the supreme joy of full enlightenment.
This practice includes a tsog offering. For tsog pujas, we gather together to pray and make special offerings. You are welcome to bring a vegetarian food offering if you wish.
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