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SUMMARY:Sunday Meditation Class
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Chandrakirti this term for Sunday Meditation Classes with Monk Geshe Tharchin! \n\n Every Sunday (August 16th – November 22nd) 10am – 11.30am\, followed by a free community lunch Nalanda Hall (Gompa) at Chandrakirti Centre Dana/Koha welcome\n  Facebook Event \nSunday classes are open to all\, no prior experience with Buddhism required! \nChildren aged 6 and over are welcome to attend class or supervised childcare is available at the Main House while parents are in class. Children can be dropped off there\, where a member of the Chandrakirti community will be present to care for them. \n⋆ You don’t need to bring anything with you\, although you’re welcome to bring a pen and notebook if you’d like to take notes. \n⋆ We recommend arriving 10 minutes early to settle in before the class begins. \n⋆ If you’re unable to attend in person\, Sunday classes are also livestreamed on YouTube\, so you can join from home \n If you would like to make a donation to support this class\, you are welcome to contribute to the donation box in the Gompa or make a donation through our Givealittlepage \nWith great kindness Geshe Jampa Tharchin will teach on the Eight Verses of Mind Training during Sunday Meditation classes. \nEight Verses of Mind Training\nBy Geshe Langri Tangpa \n\nDetermined to obtain the greatest possible benefit\nFrom all sentient beings\,\nWho are more precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel\,\nI hold them most dear at all times. \n2. Wherever I am and whoever I am with\,\nI always consider myself the lowest of all\nAnd from the depths of my heart\nHold others dear and supreme. \n3. In all actions\, I examine my mental continuum\nAnd the minute a delusion arises\,\nSince it endangers myself and others\,\nI forcefully confront and avert it. \n4. Whenever I see sentient beings who are wicked in nature\nAnd overwhelmed by negative actions and heavy suffering\,\nI hold such rare ones dear\,\nAs if I had found a precious treasure. \n5. When\, out of envy\, others mistreat me\nWith abuse\, insults\, or the like\,\nI accept defeat\nAnd offer the victory to them. \n6. When someone whom I have benefited\nAnd in whom I have great hopes\nGives me terrible harm\,\nI regard them as my virtuous friend. \n7. In short\, both directly and indirectly\,\nI offer every happiness and benefit to all my mothers.\nI secretly take upon myself\nAll their harms and sufferings. \n8. Also\, I do not defile all these practices\nWith the stains of the superstitions of the eight worldly concerns\nAnd by knowing all phenomena to be illusory\,\nWithout trusting in them\, I am freed from bondage.\n\nThis rendition of Kadampa Geshe Langri Thangpa’s Eight Verses of Thought Transformation was translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Everflowing Nectar of Bodhicitta\, Portland: FPMT Inc.\, \nEmail meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz with any queries
URL:https://www.chandrakirti.co.nz/event/sunday-meditation-class-2/2026-09-06/
LOCATION:Chandrakirti Meditation Centre\, 289 Sunrise Valley Road\, Upper Moutere\, 7173\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Teaching,Weekly Events
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SUMMARY:Guru Puja Tsog
DESCRIPTION:Containing the whole path to enlightenment\, this Guru Puja Tsog is the foundation of all spiritual progress\, and is a profound and joyous event! Nurture the powerful potential for spiritual growth with a ceremony rich in symbolism. Reliance on our spiritual teacher is the foundation of all spiritual progress\, and this ceremony helps us create mountains of merit and purify broken samaya. \nTsok is more than just its literal meaning of “gathering.” It’s a sacred space created in the mind where practitioners unite with profound spiritual energies\, inviting the dakas and dakinis. When we create this special space through offerings and coming together—whether physically or virtually—it opens the door for spiritual insights to naturally arise. \nThe physical offerings we make are symbols that guide our minds toward deeper\, internal offerings. In Vajrayana Buddhism\, tsok is a specific feast offering practice done on the 10th (day of the herukas) and 25th (day of the dakinis) of each lunar month. Practitioners perform these offerings in connection with their personal sadhana. \nTo complete the path to enlightenment we need to maintain a strong and pure relationship with the guru. We do this by relating to the different aspects of the guru\, and to ultimately bring forth the inner guru\, the purity of our own mind. \nPlease bring a food offering – preferably something baked / fruit / something avoiding plastic. Thank you! \nAll welcome to join us \nIf you have any questions about this puja or would like to dedicate this puja to a person in need\, please email meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz \nSponsorship for this puja is most welcome – see here.
URL:https://www.chandrakirti.co.nz/event/guru-puja-tsog-2/2026-09-06/
LOCATION:Chandrakirti Meditation Centre\, 289 Sunrise Valley Road\, Upper Moutere\, 7173\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Monthly Events,Pujas
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