Dharma Teachings by Drupa Rinpoche Lobsang Yeshi, Khacholing Minnesota Resident Teacher. Also see: Drupa Rinpoche’s Posts
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Tashi Delek and greetings to all! Welcome to the 2nd semester of Kacholing Center’s Dharma program 2024. I hope this rather warm summer has been a happy and meaningful one for you.
In the English language Dharma classes last semester, we covered the technique of training in samathaor meditative concentration. Meditative concentration is an indispensable tool for us to navigate daily life and deepen our spiritual practice. It is not merely keeping one’s mind blank. Its goal is to sharpen one’s mind to enable us to penetrate the full meaning of Dharma teachings, to understand ourselves better and manage our existence in the most fruitful way, which is to develop the 2 bodhicittas, namely conventional bodhicitta and ultimate bodhicitta. This chapter focuses on the methods to cultivate conventional bodhicitta.
For the Tibetan language Dharma classes, we will continue to conclusion the 37 Practices of the Bodhisattvas and thereafter, begin the First Panchen Lama’s text titled Wishes for Release from the Perilous Straits of the Intermediate State, Hero Releasing from Fright that offers advice on preparing for death and be liberated from the illusory appearances at the time of death and during the intermediate state (bardo).
This semester will also feature a Vajrasattva Retreat at the end of the semester. This is a potent purification practice that depending on the practitioner’s motivation and strength of practice, is able to eliminate one’s accumulated negativities and remove obstacles to progress on the Path.
Classes will be online on Sundays from 10am-11.15am and as before, classes will be conducted in English and Tibetan on alternate Sundays as per the Schedule below.
Class Schedule for July – Nov 2024
| 7th Jul 202410am – 11:15am | Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English) – Online only |
| 14th Jul 2024 10am – 11:15am | རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ། (in Tibetan) – Online only |
| 21st Jul 202410am – 11:15am | How to Train in Shamatha – Meditative Stabilization (in English) – Online only |
| 28th Jul 2024 10am – 11:15am | རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ། (in Tibetan) – Online only |
| 4st Aug 202410am – 11:15am | Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English) – Online only |
| 11th Aug 202410am – 11:15am | རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ། (in Tibetan) – Online only |
| 18th Aug 202410am – 11:15am | Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English) – Online only |
| 25th Aug 202410am – 11:15am | རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ། (in Tibetan) – Online only |
| 1st Sept 202410am – 11:15am | Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English) – Online only |
| 8th Sept 202410am – 11:15am | No class |
| 15th Sept 202410am – 11:15am | བར་དོ་འཕྲང་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་གསོལ་འདེབས་འཇིགས་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་དཔའ་བོ། (in Tibetan) – Online only |
| 22nd Sept 202410am – 11:15am | Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English) – Online only |
| 29th Sept 202410am – 11:15am | བར་དོ་འཕྲང་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་གསོལ་འདེབས་འཇིགས་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་དཔའ་བོ། (in Tibetan) – Online only |
| 6th Oct 202410am – 11:15am | Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English) – Online only |
| 13th Oct 202410am – 11:15am | བར་དོ་འཕྲང་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་གསོལ་འདེབས་འཇིགས་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་དཔའ་བོ།(in Tibetan) – Online only |
| 20th Oct 202410am – 11:15am | Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English) – Online only |
| 27th Oct 202410am – 11:15am | བར་དོ་འཕྲང་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་གསོལ་འདེབས་འཇིགས་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་དཔའ་བོ། (in Tibetan) – Online only |
| 3rd Nov 202410am – 11:15am | Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English) – Online only |
| 10th Nov 202410am – 11:15am | བར་དོ་འཕྲང་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་གསོལ་འདེབས་འཇིགས་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་དཔའ་བོ། (in Tibetan) – Online only |
| 17th Nov 202410am – 11:15am | Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English) – Online only |
| 23rd & 24th Nov 202410am – 5pm | Vajrasattva Retreat – TBC |
| Month of December | Winter Break |
To gather a great store (of merit & wisdom) with little effort, Is rejoicing in virtue is praised as best.
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