Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Drop in anytime. Donations are always optional.
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3 events, Online Event –  Online Event Dates: Mondays, Aug 24 - Oct 5 The Bodhisattva path asks practitioners to cultivate boundless compassion while maintaining ethical discipline—but what happens when these seem to conflict? This course explores how Mahayana Buddhism approaches ethical complexity: situations where multiple values compete, where compassion appears to challenge precepts, or where there is no obviously correct answer. By the end of the course participants will: - Understand how Mahayana ethical reasoning differs from purely rule-based systems - Develop frameworks for approaching ethical complexity rather than seeking simple answers - Explore the relationship between motivation, consequences, wisdom, and precepts - Become more comfortable holding uncertainty while maintaining ethical commitment - Learn practical tools for applying Buddhist ethics in contemporary life The bodhisattva path does not ask us to wait for simpler circumstances, it asks us to learn how to practice within the complexity of the world as it is. No prior study of Buddhist ethics required.  Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 4 events, Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional.  Join us in contributing to FPMT's 2026 Global Mani Retreat, a worldwide accumulation of Chenrezig mantra running from Saka Dawa through Lhabab Duchen — two of the most merit-multiplying periods in the Tibetan Buddhist calendar. Each session follows a Chenrezig sadhana with mantra accumulation. No prior experience with the practice is required. This is one thread in a larger weaving: thousands of practitioners across the FPMT network are reciting together through 2026, working toward Lama Zopa Rinpoche's vast vision of 100 million mani recitations and dedicating the merit toward his swift return, the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and the benefit of all beings. Since the total number of mantras recited in the Global Mani Retreat sessions will be offered to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, please report your mantra count here: GLOBAL MANI RETREAT : MANTRA RECITATION COUNT / 線上觀音心咒閉關：持誦咒數統計. As is indicated at that page, you can either:submit that form ONCE, at the conclusion of the etreat on November 1, 2026 – OR – submit your count in progressive stages, provided you do not repeat your previously reported numbers. Besides attending this or any other online sessions conducted during the retreat, you are also welcome […] Online Event –  Online Event This course is designed to introduce you to the definition, practices and techniques of mindfulness. Learn to quiet the mental chatter and physical tension that often cloud your day, replacing stress and scattered thoughts with clarity and calm. Through simple yet powerful techniques, you'll develop the ability to recognize and reshape your thinking patterns, while cultivating inner qualities that enhance your well-being. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed by life's demands or simply curious about mindfulness, this course offers practical tools you can weave into your daily routine – no prior experience needed. Join us to begin your journey toward a more centered, aware, and peaceful way of living. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 2 events,Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 5 events, Online Event –  Online Event Every weekday. Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional.  Dates: Weekly on Thursdays, ongoing This is a precious opportunity for FPMT students, staff, and volunteers across North America to gather in unity, generating collective merit and deepening our regional community bonds. These practices are led by rotating facilitators from centers and projects throughout the region. Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include a rotating schedule of: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer –  If you're looking to enhance your meditation practice or are having discomfort/pain while meditating, the Feldenkrais Method is an immensely useful tool in getting you there. Every Thursday from 5-6pm, we gather for an Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lesson in the gompa. Lessons provide a time for students to find ways of moving that feel good and are efficient to each person's unique nervous system. The structure of a lesson (a series of gentle, attention-filled movement; generally done lying on the floor) and the verbal guidance of the instructor deepens the awareness of your body and the habits you have. We all have habits, and they are necessary in our lives. Sometimes our habits are helpful to us, and sometimes not so much. But becoming aware of our habits and creating other options enables us to feel better in our bodies, improves our movement and even develops us into greater maturity (enhancing meditation). Serina sends out a description of the classes at the beginning of every month. To be on her email list and for any questions, reach out to her at serina.a.carrasco@gmail.com. No experience necessary or pre-registration needed. Please bring your own mat to lie on. Supplies are limited. […] Online Event – Online Event Dates: Thursdays, Sep 3rd- October 8, No class Sep 24 In Mahayana Buddhism, the five paths and ten grounds (bhumis) form the classic roadmap tracing the mind’s progression from ordinary confusion to full awakening. While often treated as distant, theoretical doctrine, this framework actually describes the underlying structure of genuine spiritual transformation. Rather than treating these stages as abstract milestones, this course uses the traditional map to illuminate how practice works from the inside out. In this course, participants will: - Trace how understanding deepens—from intellectual study and conceptual insight to direct, unmediated experience. - Investigate emotional liberation—distinguishing between temporarily suppressing disturbing habits and uprooting their underlying cause. - Clarify the purpose of practice—using the traditional map to orient daily meditation, recognize subtle pitfalls, and understand where the path leads. Join the course to transform your understanding of the path. Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 2 events,Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 3 events, Online Event –  Online Event Registration Required. Please register here. Dates: Term 1 Sep 5 - Feb 28, 13 classes In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the very ground of awakening. As always, the year will start with generating the mind of awakening, using evocative instructions ranging from Langri Thangpa to Nāgārjuna and Lord Buddha in the famous Bodhisattvapiṭaka. This mind generation we’ll cultivate through the four immeasurable thoughts and the support of calm abiding. Illuminated by the life stories of the masters of the Gelug Mahāmudrā lineage and beyond, we’ll explore its roots in the history of the early Indian Mahāsiddhas, such as Saraha and Tilopa, through the Kagyü master Gampopa’s and Je Tsongkhapa’s Mañjuśrī lineage up to Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Conquerors and its perspective on this practice. In Sūtra Mahāmudrā we will practice resting attention in the empty nature of awareness, recognizing its clarity and openness as inseparable. Kriyā Tantra offers a complementary method. Rather than suppress the ordinary, narrow self-narrative that we impose on ourselves and our […]  Dates: 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month A powerful Vajrasattva purification practice that acts to eliminate negative karma and the obscurations to progress along the path to happiness and joy in this and future lifetimes and, ultimately, to enlightenment. Materials Link Open door, open heart - drop in anytime in person or via Zoom. Donations are always optional.  This course offers a practical exploration of how the mind works and how we can work with it more skillfully. Drawing on insights from contemplative traditions, neuroscience, and psychology, participants learn to recognize unhelpful patterns while cultivating emotional resilience, self-awareness, and genuine connection with others. The course moves through guided reflections and meditations that examine our pursuit of happiness, the nature of change and interconnection, and how perception shapes our reality. Rather than simply learning about these ideas, participants engage with them directly through contemplative practice, noticing how insights arise and integrate into daily life. At the center of this journey is the development of a "discipline of observation". Participants learn to identify the habitual mental patterns—the "background music" of thought and emotion—that often drive reactive behaviors without conscious consent. A primary experiential objective is to dismantle these unhelpful cycles by examining how the mind actively constructs its own version of the world. By exploring the logical and scientific perspectives of perception, individuals gain the tools to move through life with greater clarity, recognizing that while external conditions are constantly in flux, their internal response remains a place of potential freedom. Each session will explore the forces that drive our […] | 5 events, Dates: Every Sunday Please join us for our weekly meditation practice as we explore the relationship between mindful presence and the heart. These sessions will provide a consistent opportunity to stabilize the mind and nurture an expansive sense of compassion. Each week features a new talk inspired by Buddhist principles, followed by a guided meditation. Students of every background and experience level are welcome to sit, practice, and grow together. Open door, open heart. Drop in anytime. Donations are always optional.  Dates: Sundays, June 28 - August 23, Sep 6, 13, 20, Oct 4, 11 The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas was composed in the fourteenth century by the great sage Togme Sangpo and is one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most treasured texts. Recognizing their true potential and letting go of everything that could hinder them on their spiritual journey, bodhisattvas entrust themselves to the Mahayana path taught by the Buddha. The simple verses in this brief text summarize that path to perfection, providing a wonderful and lucid explanation of how each of us can engage in the practices of bodhisattvas, coming to cherish living beings as the source of all happiness and ultimately being able to work solely for the welfare of all. Prayers Materials –  Join us for a potluck every first Sunday of the month. The festivities will start around 11:30 am right after the Sunday teaching. Bring your favorite vegetarian dish to share and help make this a joyous occasion for our community. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional.  This short practice, composed by the co-founder of the FPMT, Lama Thubten Yeshe, consists of a series of requesting verses combined with the recitation of the hundred-syllable mantra of Vajrasattva. Materials Online Event –  Online Event These open-ended 60-minute discussions are an easy-going introduction to the Buddhist approach to the mind. Participants learn how to pay attention to, identify and then unpack the thoughts that inform our emotions in day-to-day life and learn how to reconfigure them, rather than focusing on the event or person that triggered them. This is the key to success in Buddhist practice. As Lama Zopa Rinpoche says, “We can mold our mind into any shape we like.” Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. |
3 events,Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Drop in anytime. Donations are always optional. Online Event – Online Event Dates: Mondays, Aug 24 - Oct 5 The Bodhisattva path asks practitioners to cultivate boundless compassion while maintaining ethical discipline—but what happens when these seem to conflict? This course explores how Mahayana Buddhism approaches ethical complexity: situations where multiple values compete, where compassion appears to challenge precepts, or where there is no obviously correct answer. By the end of the course participants will: - Understand how Mahayana ethical reasoning differs from purely rule-based systems - Develop frameworks for approaching ethical complexity rather than seeking simple answers - Explore the relationship between motivation, consequences, wisdom, and precepts - Become more comfortable holding uncertainty while maintaining ethical commitment - Learn practical tools for applying Buddhist ethics in contemporary life The bodhisattva path does not ask us to wait for simpler circumstances, it asks us to learn how to practice within the complexity of the world as it is. No prior study of Buddhist ethics required. Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 4 events,Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional.  Tuesdays, every 3 weeks Medicine Buddha is the manifestation of the healing energy of all enlightened beings. Prayers to Medicine Buddha are especially powerful because of the extensive prayers they took to benefit sentient beings. They strongly prayed for the temporal and ultimate happiness of all sentient beings; they vowed that their prayers would be actualized during these times. Materials Link Open door, open heart. Drop in anytime. Donations are always optional. Online Event – Online Event This course is designed to introduce you to the definition, practices and techniques of mindfulness. Learn to quiet the mental chatter and physical tension that often cloud your day, replacing stress and scattered thoughts with clarity and calm. Through simple yet powerful techniques, you'll develop the ability to recognize and reshape your thinking patterns, while cultivating inner qualities that enhance your well-being. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed by life's demands or simply curious about mindfulness, this course offers practical tools you can weave into your daily routine – no prior experience needed. Join us to begin your journey toward a more centered, aware, and peaceful way of living. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 3 events,Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Online Event – Online Event Dates For Part Three: Wednesdays, September 9 - Dec 2, No class November 4 and 11 Only for those who have not already registered: In order to have access to the course materials it is necessary to register as a listener. We ask that these materials not be shared with anyone. Please register here. General course information, including the personal conduct guidelines, is available here. Class recordings are available here. Part Three: Striving for Enlightenment (The Great Level, First Section) To enter the third and final level of the Stages of the Path, that of the person of great capacity who has the highest goal of complete enlightenment, it is essential to generate bodhichitta, the mind that aspires to that aim through the development of boundless compassion and love for all beings along with an altruistic intention to benefit them. With bodhichitta, the focus is then placed on engaging in the bodhisattva’s deeds – primarily the| six perfections of generosity, ethical discipline, patience, joyous effort, concentration, and wisdom – that support progress towards the result of buddhahood. Part Four: Realizing Supreme Wisdom (The Great Level, Second Section) For the attainment of complete enlightenment, it is crucial that the last two […] Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 5 events, Online Event – Online Event Every weekday. Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Dates: Weekly on Thursdays, ongoing This is a precious opportunity for FPMT students, staff, and volunteers across North America to gather in unity, generating collective merit and deepening our regional community bonds. These practices are led by rotating facilitators from centers and projects throughout the region. Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include a rotating schedule of: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer – If you're looking to enhance your meditation practice or are having discomfort/pain while meditating, the Feldenkrais Method is an immensely useful tool in getting you there. Every Thursday from 5-6pm, we gather for an Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lesson in the gompa. Lessons provide a time for students to find ways of moving that feel good and are efficient to each person's unique nervous system. The structure of a lesson (a series of gentle, attention-filled movement; generally done lying on the floor) and the verbal guidance of the instructor deepens the awareness of your body and the habits you have. We all have habits, and they are necessary in our lives. Sometimes our habits are helpful to us, and sometimes not so much. But becoming aware of our habits and creating other options enables us to feel better in our bodies, improves our movement and even develops us into greater maturity (enhancing meditation). Serina sends out a description of the classes at the beginning of every month. To be on her email list and for any questions, reach out to her at serina.a.carrasco@gmail.com. No experience necessary or pre-registration needed. Please bring your own mat to lie on. Supplies are limited. […] Online Event – Online Event Dates: Thursdays, Sep 3rd- October 8, No class Sep 24 In Mahayana Buddhism, the five paths and ten grounds (bhumis) form the classic roadmap tracing the mind’s progression from ordinary confusion to full awakening. While often treated as distant, theoretical doctrine, this framework actually describes the underlying structure of genuine spiritual transformation. Rather than treating these stages as abstract milestones, this course uses the traditional map to illuminate how practice works from the inside out. In this course, participants will: - Trace how understanding deepens—from intellectual study and conceptual insight to direct, unmediated experience. - Investigate emotional liberation—distinguishing between temporarily suppressing disturbing habits and uprooting their underlying cause. - Clarify the purpose of practice—using the traditional map to orient daily meditation, recognize subtle pitfalls, and understand where the path leads. Join the course to transform your understanding of the path. Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 2 events,Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 2 events, Online Event – Online Event Registration Required. Please register here. Dates: Term 1 Sep 5 - Feb 28, 13 classes In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the very ground of awakening. As always, the year will start with generating the mind of awakening, using evocative instructions ranging from Langri Thangpa to Nāgārjuna and Lord Buddha in the famous Bodhisattvapiṭaka. This mind generation we’ll cultivate through the four immeasurable thoughts and the support of calm abiding. Illuminated by the life stories of the masters of the Gelug Mahāmudrā lineage and beyond, we’ll explore its roots in the history of the early Indian Mahāsiddhas, such as Saraha and Tilopa, through the Kagyü master Gampopa’s and Je Tsongkhapa’s Mañjuśrī lineage up to Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Conquerors and its perspective on this practice. In Sūtra Mahāmudrā we will practice resting attention in the empty nature of awareness, recognizing its clarity and openness as inseparable. Kriyā Tantra offers a complementary method. Rather than suppress the ordinary, narrow self-narrative that we impose on ourselves and our […] Online Event – Online Event This course offers a practical exploration of how the mind works and how we can work with it more skillfully. Drawing on insights from contemplative traditions, neuroscience, and psychology, participants learn to recognize unhelpful patterns while cultivating emotional resilience, self-awareness, and genuine connection with others. The course moves through guided reflections and meditations that examine our pursuit of happiness, the nature of change and interconnection, and how perception shapes our reality. Rather than simply learning about these ideas, participants engage with them directly through contemplative practice, noticing how insights arise and integrate into daily life. At the center of this journey is the development of a "discipline of observation". Participants learn to identify the habitual mental patterns—the "background music" of thought and emotion—that often drive reactive behaviors without conscious consent. A primary experiential objective is to dismantle these unhelpful cycles by examining how the mind actively constructs its own version of the world. By exploring the logical and scientific perspectives of perception, individuals gain the tools to move through life with greater clarity, recognizing that while external conditions are constantly in flux, their internal response remains a place of potential freedom. Each session will explore the forces that drive our […] | 4 events,Dates: Every Sunday Please join us for our weekly meditation practice as we explore the relationship between mindful presence and the heart. These sessions will provide a consistent opportunity to stabilize the mind and nurture an expansive sense of compassion. Each week features a new talk inspired by Buddhist principles, followed by a guided meditation. Students of every background and experience level are welcome to sit, practice, and grow together. Open door, open heart. Drop in anytime. Donations are always optional. Dates: Sundays, June 28 - August 23, Sep 6, 13, 20, Oct 4, 11 The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas was composed in the fourteenth century by the great sage Togme Sangpo and is one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most treasured texts. Recognizing their true potential and letting go of everything that could hinder them on their spiritual journey, bodhisattvas entrust themselves to the Mahayana path taught by the Buddha. The simple verses in this brief text summarize that path to perfection, providing a wonderful and lucid explanation of how each of us can engage in the practices of bodhisattvas, coming to cherish living beings as the source of all happiness and ultimately being able to work solely for the welfare of all. Prayers Materials – Join us for an informal meet and greet with Alxe Noden, our new Executive Director. Come share tea and cake, ask questions, and put a face to the name as Alxe settles into the role and gets to know our sangha. All are warmly invited to attend.  Join us for group practice of the concise Yamantaka sadhana. The practice is open to those who have received the Yamantaka empowerment. Please bring your sadhana and, if you have them, vajra and bell. Practice will offered monthly —possibly twice a month based on interest. These sessions won't be recorded so please join us live! |
3 events,Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Drop in anytime. Donations are always optional. Online Event – Online Event Dates: Mondays, Aug 24 - Oct 5 The Bodhisattva path asks practitioners to cultivate boundless compassion while maintaining ethical discipline—but what happens when these seem to conflict? This course explores how Mahayana Buddhism approaches ethical complexity: situations where multiple values compete, where compassion appears to challenge precepts, or where there is no obviously correct answer. By the end of the course participants will: - Understand how Mahayana ethical reasoning differs from purely rule-based systems - Develop frameworks for approaching ethical complexity rather than seeking simple answers - Explore the relationship between motivation, consequences, wisdom, and precepts - Become more comfortable holding uncertainty while maintaining ethical commitment - Learn practical tools for applying Buddhist ethics in contemporary life The bodhisattva path does not ask us to wait for simpler circumstances, it asks us to learn how to practice within the complexity of the world as it is. No prior study of Buddhist ethics required. Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 4 events,Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional.  Dates: Tuesdays, every 3 weeks A meditation practice of the female deity, Green Tara. Tara is the embodiment of the holy actions of the Buddhas. By practicing Tara meditation you can eliminate inner and outer obstacles to the development of your mind, create much merit, and achieve quick success in attaining enlightenment. Materials Link Open door, open heart. Drop in anytime. Donations are always optional. Online Event – Online Event This course is designed to introduce you to the definition, practices and techniques of mindfulness. Learn to quiet the mental chatter and physical tension that often cloud your day, replacing stress and scattered thoughts with clarity and calm. Through simple yet powerful techniques, you'll develop the ability to recognize and reshape your thinking patterns, while cultivating inner qualities that enhance your well-being. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed by life's demands or simply curious about mindfulness, this course offers practical tools you can weave into your daily routine – no prior experience needed. Join us to begin your journey toward a more centered, aware, and peaceful way of living. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 3 events,Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Online Event – Online Event Dates For Part Three: Wednesdays, September 9 - Dec 2, No class November 4 and 11 Only for those who have not already registered: In order to have access to the course materials it is necessary to register as a listener. We ask that these materials not be shared with anyone. Please register here. General course information, including the personal conduct guidelines, is available here. Class recordings are available here. Part Three: Striving for Enlightenment (The Great Level, First Section) To enter the third and final level of the Stages of the Path, that of the person of great capacity who has the highest goal of complete enlightenment, it is essential to generate bodhichitta, the mind that aspires to that aim through the development of boundless compassion and love for all beings along with an altruistic intention to benefit them. With bodhichitta, the focus is then placed on engaging in the bodhisattva’s deeds – primarily the| six perfections of generosity, ethical discipline, patience, joyous effort, concentration, and wisdom – that support progress towards the result of buddhahood. Part Four: Realizing Supreme Wisdom (The Great Level, Second Section) For the attainment of complete enlightenment, it is crucial that the last two […] Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 5 events, Online Event –  Online Event Every weekday. Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Dates: Weekly on Thursdays, ongoing This is a precious opportunity for FPMT students, staff, and volunteers across North America to gather in unity, generating collective merit and deepening our regional community bonds. These practices are led by rotating facilitators from centers and projects throughout the region. Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include a rotating schedule of: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer – If you're looking to enhance your meditation practice or are having discomfort/pain while meditating, the Feldenkrais Method is an immensely useful tool in getting you there. Every Thursday from 5-6pm, we gather for an Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lesson in the gompa. Lessons provide a time for students to find ways of moving that feel good and are efficient to each person's unique nervous system. The structure of a lesson (a series of gentle, attention-filled movement; generally done lying on the floor) and the verbal guidance of the instructor deepens the awareness of your body and the habits you have. We all have habits, and they are necessary in our lives. Sometimes our habits are helpful to us, and sometimes not so much. But becoming aware of our habits and creating other options enables us to feel better in our bodies, improves our movement and even develops us into greater maturity (enhancing meditation). Serina sends out a description of the classes at the beginning of every month. To be on her email list and for any questions, reach out to her at serina.a.carrasco@gmail.com. No experience necessary or pre-registration needed. Please bring your own mat to lie on. Supplies are limited. […] Online Event – Online Event Dates: Thursdays, Sep 3rd- October 8, No class Sep 24 In Mahayana Buddhism, the five paths and ten grounds (bhumis) form the classic roadmap tracing the mind’s progression from ordinary confusion to full awakening. While often treated as distant, theoretical doctrine, this framework actually describes the underlying structure of genuine spiritual transformation. Rather than treating these stages as abstract milestones, this course uses the traditional map to illuminate how practice works from the inside out. In this course, participants will: - Trace how understanding deepens—from intellectual study and conceptual insight to direct, unmediated experience. - Investigate emotional liberation—distinguishing between temporarily suppressing disturbing habits and uprooting their underlying cause. - Clarify the purpose of practice—using the traditional map to orient daily meditation, recognize subtle pitfalls, and understand where the path leads. Join the course to transform your understanding of the path. Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 2 events,Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 3 events, Online Event – Online Event Registration Required. Please register here. Dates: Term 1 Sep 5 - Feb 28, 13 classes In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the very ground of awakening. As always, the year will start with generating the mind of awakening, using evocative instructions ranging from Langri Thangpa to Nāgārjuna and Lord Buddha in the famous Bodhisattvapiṭaka. This mind generation we’ll cultivate through the four immeasurable thoughts and the support of calm abiding. Illuminated by the life stories of the masters of the Gelug Mahāmudrā lineage and beyond, we’ll explore its roots in the history of the early Indian Mahāsiddhas, such as Saraha and Tilopa, through the Kagyü master Gampopa’s and Je Tsongkhapa’s Mañjuśrī lineage up to Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Conquerors and its perspective on this practice. In Sūtra Mahāmudrā we will practice resting attention in the empty nature of awareness, recognizing its clarity and openness as inseparable. Kriyā Tantra offers a complementary method. Rather than suppress the ordinary, narrow self-narrative that we impose on ourselves and our […] Dates: 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month A powerful Vajrasattva purification practice that acts to eliminate negative karma and the obscurations to progress along the path to happiness and joy in this and future lifetimes and, ultimately, to enlightenment. Materials Link Open door, open heart - drop in anytime in person or via Zoom. Donations are always optional. Once a month, on the eighth of the Tibetan month, we perform The Four Mandala Offerings to Cittamani Tara. She is known as the liberator from the fears of samsara and is an embodiment of enlightened action, one of the three essential qualities of a buddha (the others being wisdom and compassion). Materials Link Open door, open heart – drop in anytime in person or via Zoom. Donations are always optional. | 2 events,Dates: Every Sunday Please join us for our weekly meditation practice as we explore the relationship between mindful presence and the heart. These sessions will provide a consistent opportunity to stabilize the mind and nurture an expansive sense of compassion. Each week features a new talk inspired by Buddhist principles, followed by a guided meditation. Students of every background and experience level are welcome to sit, practice, and grow together. Open door, open heart. Drop in anytime. Donations are always optional. Dates: Sundays, June 28 - August 23, Sep 6, 13, 20, Oct 4, 11 The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas was composed in the fourteenth century by the great sage Togme Sangpo and is one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most treasured texts. Recognizing their true potential and letting go of everything that could hinder them on their spiritual journey, bodhisattvas entrust themselves to the Mahayana path taught by the Buddha. The simple verses in this brief text summarize that path to perfection, providing a wonderful and lucid explanation of how each of us can engage in the practices of bodhisattvas, coming to cherish living beings as the source of all happiness and ultimately being able to work solely for the welfare of all. Prayers Materials |
4 events,Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Drop in anytime. Donations are always optional. A tsog offering, typically held on the tenth and twenty-fifth of the Tibetan lunar calendar, is done in conjunction with the practice of Guru Puja, in Tibetan, Lama Chopa (or the buddha Vajrasattva). It is a series of offerings and requests to the spiritual teacher in the form of Lama Losang Thubwang Dorje Chang. Materials Swift Return Prayer Open door, open heart – drop in anytime. Donations are always optional. Online Event – Online Event Dates: Mondays, Aug 24 - Oct 5 The Bodhisattva path asks practitioners to cultivate boundless compassion while maintaining ethical discipline—but what happens when these seem to conflict? This course explores how Mahayana Buddhism approaches ethical complexity: situations where multiple values compete, where compassion appears to challenge precepts, or where there is no obviously correct answer. By the end of the course participants will: - Understand how Mahayana ethical reasoning differs from purely rule-based systems - Develop frameworks for approaching ethical complexity rather than seeking simple answers - Explore the relationship between motivation, consequences, wisdom, and precepts - Become more comfortable holding uncertainty while maintaining ethical commitment - Learn practical tools for applying Buddhist ethics in contemporary life The bodhisattva path does not ask us to wait for simpler circumstances, it asks us to learn how to practice within the complexity of the world as it is. No prior study of Buddhist ethics required. Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 4 events,Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Join us in contributing to FPMT's 2026 Global Mani Retreat, a worldwide accumulation of Chenrezig mantra running from Saka Dawa through Lhabab Duchen — two of the most merit-multiplying periods in the Tibetan Buddhist calendar. Each session follows a Chenrezig sadhana with mantra accumulation. No prior experience with the practice is required. This is one thread in a larger weaving: thousands of practitioners across the FPMT network are reciting together through 2026, working toward Lama Zopa Rinpoche's vast vision of 100 million mani recitations and dedicating the merit toward his swift return, the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and the benefit of all beings. Since the total number of mantras recited in the Global Mani Retreat sessions will be offered to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, please report your mantra count here: GLOBAL MANI RETREAT : MANTRA RECITATION COUNT / 線上觀音心咒閉關：持誦咒數統計. As is indicated at that page, you can either:submit that form ONCE, at the conclusion of the etreat on November 1, 2026 – OR – submit your count in progressive stages, provided you do not repeat your previously reported numbers. Besides attending this or any other online sessions conducted during the retreat, you are also welcome […] Online Event – Online Event This course is designed to introduce you to the definition, practices and techniques of mindfulness. Learn to quiet the mental chatter and physical tension that often cloud your day, replacing stress and scattered thoughts with clarity and calm. Through simple yet powerful techniques, you'll develop the ability to recognize and reshape your thinking patterns, while cultivating inner qualities that enhance your well-being. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed by life's demands or simply curious about mindfulness, this course offers practical tools you can weave into your daily routine – no prior experience needed. Join us to begin your journey toward a more centered, aware, and peaceful way of living. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 3 events,Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Online Event – Online Event Dates For Part Three: Wednesdays, September 9 - Dec 2, No class November 4 and 11 Only for those who have not already registered: In order to have access to the course materials it is necessary to register as a listener. We ask that these materials not be shared with anyone. Please register here. General course information, including the personal conduct guidelines, is available here. Class recordings are available here. Part Three: Striving for Enlightenment (The Great Level, First Section) To enter the third and final level of the Stages of the Path, that of the person of great capacity who has the highest goal of complete enlightenment, it is essential to generate bodhichitta, the mind that aspires to that aim through the development of boundless compassion and love for all beings along with an altruistic intention to benefit them. With bodhichitta, the focus is then placed on engaging in the bodhisattva’s deeds – primarily the| six perfections of generosity, ethical discipline, patience, joyous effort, concentration, and wisdom – that support progress towards the result of buddhahood. Part Four: Realizing Supreme Wisdom (The Great Level, Second Section) For the attainment of complete enlightenment, it is crucial that the last two […] Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 4 events, Online Event – Online Event Every weekday. Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Dates: Weekly on Thursdays, ongoing This is a precious opportunity for FPMT students, staff, and volunteers across North America to gather in unity, generating collective merit and deepening our regional community bonds. These practices are led by rotating facilitators from centers and projects throughout the region. Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include a rotating schedule of: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer – If you're looking to enhance your meditation practice or are having discomfort/pain while meditating, the Feldenkrais Method is an immensely useful tool in getting you there. Every Thursday from 5-6pm, we gather for an Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lesson in the gompa. Lessons provide a time for students to find ways of moving that feel good and are efficient to each person's unique nervous system. The structure of a lesson (a series of gentle, attention-filled movement; generally done lying on the floor) and the verbal guidance of the instructor deepens the awareness of your body and the habits you have. We all have habits, and they are necessary in our lives. Sometimes our habits are helpful to us, and sometimes not so much. But becoming aware of our habits and creating other options enables us to feel better in our bodies, improves our movement and even develops us into greater maturity (enhancing meditation). Serina sends out a description of the classes at the beginning of every month. To be on her email list and for any questions, reach out to her at serina.a.carrasco@gmail.com. No experience necessary or pre-registration needed. Please bring your own mat to lie on. Supplies are limited. […] Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 3 events,Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Online Event – Online Event Dates: Sep 25 - 27 Registration Required, please register here. The world is not going to change to suit us. People will be difficult, things will go wrong, and our default response — aversion, resentment, wishing things were otherwise — means we suffer twice: once from the difficulty, and once from our relationship to it. The Tibetan tradition of lojong, or mind training, offers something more useful than either resignation or positive thinking. It is a set of methods for taking the very things that destabilize the mind and using them as the material of practice. The ego-grasping at the root of our reactivity cannot be seen clearly in comfortable conditions — it only shows itself under pressure. Which means that pressure, properly understood, is not the obstacle to practice. It is the practice. Over the weekend, we will examine the logic and methods of lojong: how to locate the actual source of disturbance in the mind rather than in circumstances, how to work with the mind training teachings as active tools, and how to bring this orientation into the high-friction conditions of ordinary life. If you are interested in how to shift your relationship to life’s challenges and discover […] Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 2 events, Online Event – Online Event Registration Required. Please register here. Dates: Term 1 Sep 5 - Feb 28, 13 classes In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the very ground of awakening. As always, the year will start with generating the mind of awakening, using evocative instructions ranging from Langri Thangpa to Nāgārjuna and Lord Buddha in the famous Bodhisattvapiṭaka. This mind generation we’ll cultivate through the four immeasurable thoughts and the support of calm abiding. Illuminated by the life stories of the masters of the Gelug Mahāmudrā lineage and beyond, we’ll explore its roots in the history of the early Indian Mahāsiddhas, such as Saraha and Tilopa, through the Kagyü master Gampopa’s and Je Tsongkhapa’s Mañjuśrī lineage up to Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Conquerors and its perspective on this practice. In Sūtra Mahāmudrā we will practice resting attention in the empty nature of awareness, recognizing its clarity and openness as inseparable. Kriyā Tantra offers a complementary method. Rather than suppress the ordinary, narrow self-narrative that we impose on ourselves and our […] Online Event – Online Event Dates: Sep 25 - 27 Registration Required, please register here. The world is not going to change to suit us. People will be difficult, things will go wrong, and our default response — aversion, resentment, wishing things were otherwise — means we suffer twice: once from the difficulty, and once from our relationship to it. The Tibetan tradition of lojong, or mind training, offers something more useful than either resignation or positive thinking. It is a set of methods for taking the very things that destabilize the mind and using them as the material of practice. The ego-grasping at the root of our reactivity cannot be seen clearly in comfortable conditions — it only shows itself under pressure. Which means that pressure, properly understood, is not the obstacle to practice. It is the practice. Over the weekend, we will examine the logic and methods of lojong: how to locate the actual source of disturbance in the mind rather than in circumstances, how to work with the mind training teachings as active tools, and how to bring this orientation into the high-friction conditions of ordinary life. If you are interested in how to shift your relationship to life’s challenges and discover […] | 2 events,Dates: Every Sunday Please join us for our weekly meditation practice as we explore the relationship between mindful presence and the heart. These sessions will provide a consistent opportunity to stabilize the mind and nurture an expansive sense of compassion. Each week features a new talk inspired by Buddhist principles, followed by a guided meditation. Students of every background and experience level are welcome to sit, practice, and grow together. Open door, open heart. Drop in anytime. Donations are always optional. Online Event – Online Event Dates: Sep 25 - 27 Registration Required, please register here. The world is not going to change to suit us. People will be difficult, things will go wrong, and our default response — aversion, resentment, wishing things were otherwise — means we suffer twice: once from the difficulty, and once from our relationship to it. The Tibetan tradition of lojong, or mind training, offers something more useful than either resignation or positive thinking. It is a set of methods for taking the very things that destabilize the mind and using them as the material of practice. The ego-grasping at the root of our reactivity cannot be seen clearly in comfortable conditions — it only shows itself under pressure. Which means that pressure, properly understood, is not the obstacle to practice. It is the practice. Over the weekend, we will examine the logic and methods of lojong: how to locate the actual source of disturbance in the mind rather than in circumstances, how to work with the mind training teachings as active tools, and how to bring this orientation into the high-friction conditions of ordinary life. If you are interested in how to shift your relationship to life’s challenges and discover […] |
3 events,Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Drop in anytime. Donations are always optional. Online Event – Online Event Dates: Mondays, Aug 24 - Oct 5 The Bodhisattva path asks practitioners to cultivate boundless compassion while maintaining ethical discipline—but what happens when these seem to conflict? This course explores how Mahayana Buddhism approaches ethical complexity: situations where multiple values compete, where compassion appears to challenge precepts, or where there is no obviously correct answer. By the end of the course participants will: - Understand how Mahayana ethical reasoning differs from purely rule-based systems - Develop frameworks for approaching ethical complexity rather than seeking simple answers - Explore the relationship between motivation, consequences, wisdom, and precepts - Become more comfortable holding uncertainty while maintaining ethical commitment - Learn practical tools for applying Buddhist ethics in contemporary life The bodhisattva path does not ask us to wait for simpler circumstances, it asks us to learn how to practice within the complexity of the world as it is. No prior study of Buddhist ethics required. Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 4 events,Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Online Event –  Online Event The practice of Medicine Buddha not only helps the sick and the dying but also helps remove obstacles in our lives. Open door, open heart. Drop in anytime. Donations are always optional. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Online Event – Online Event This course is designed to introduce you to the definition, practices and techniques of mindfulness. Learn to quiet the mental chatter and physical tension that often cloud your day, replacing stress and scattered thoughts with clarity and calm. Through simple yet powerful techniques, you'll develop the ability to recognize and reshape your thinking patterns, while cultivating inner qualities that enhance your well-being. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed by life's demands or simply curious about mindfulness, this course offers practical tools you can weave into your daily routine – no prior experience needed. Join us to begin your journey toward a more centered, aware, and peaceful way of living. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 3 events,Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Online Event – Online Event Dates For Part Three: Wednesdays, September 9 - Dec 2, No class November 4 and 11 Only for those who have not already registered: In order to have access to the course materials it is necessary to register as a listener. We ask that these materials not be shared with anyone. Please register here. General course information, including the personal conduct guidelines, is available here. Class recordings are available here. Part Three: Striving for Enlightenment (The Great Level, First Section) To enter the third and final level of the Stages of the Path, that of the person of great capacity who has the highest goal of complete enlightenment, it is essential to generate bodhichitta, the mind that aspires to that aim through the development of boundless compassion and love for all beings along with an altruistic intention to benefit them. With bodhichitta, the focus is then placed on engaging in the bodhisattva’s deeds – primarily the| six perfections of generosity, ethical discipline, patience, joyous effort, concentration, and wisdom – that support progress towards the result of buddhahood. Part Four: Realizing Supreme Wisdom (The Great Level, Second Section) For the attainment of complete enlightenment, it is crucial that the last two […] Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 5 events, Online Event – Online Event Every weekday. Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Dates: Weekly on Thursdays, ongoing This is a precious opportunity for FPMT students, staff, and volunteers across North America to gather in unity, generating collective merit and deepening our regional community bonds. These practices are led by rotating facilitators from centers and projects throughout the region. Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include a rotating schedule of: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer – If you're looking to enhance your meditation practice or are having discomfort/pain while meditating, the Feldenkrais Method is an immensely useful tool in getting you there. Every Thursday from 5-6pm, we gather for an Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lesson in the gompa. Lessons provide a time for students to find ways of moving that feel good and are efficient to each person's unique nervous system. The structure of a lesson (a series of gentle, attention-filled movement; generally done lying on the floor) and the verbal guidance of the instructor deepens the awareness of your body and the habits you have. We all have habits, and they are necessary in our lives. Sometimes our habits are helpful to us, and sometimes not so much. But becoming aware of our habits and creating other options enables us to feel better in our bodies, improves our movement and even develops us into greater maturity (enhancing meditation). Serina sends out a description of the classes at the beginning of every month. To be on her email list and for any questions, reach out to her at serina.a.carrasco@gmail.com. No experience necessary or pre-registration needed. Please bring your own mat to lie on. Supplies are limited. […] Online Event – Online Event Dates: Thursdays, Sep 3rd- October 8, No class Sep 24 In Mahayana Buddhism, the five paths and ten grounds (bhumis) form the classic roadmap tracing the mind’s progression from ordinary confusion to full awakening. While often treated as distant, theoretical doctrine, this framework actually describes the underlying structure of genuine spiritual transformation. Rather than treating these stages as abstract milestones, this course uses the traditional map to illuminate how practice works from the inside out. In this course, participants will: - Trace how understanding deepens—from intellectual study and conceptual insight to direct, unmediated experience. - Investigate emotional liberation—distinguishing between temporarily suppressing disturbing habits and uprooting their underlying cause. - Clarify the purpose of practice—using the traditional map to orient daily meditation, recognize subtle pitfalls, and understand where the path leads. Join the course to transform your understanding of the path. Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 2 events,Start the day at 7:30 am Mountain Time with guided meditations every weekday Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. Every weeknight. End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Registration Required: In order to receive the zoom link for this class please email the zoom host coordinator at host@tnlsf.org with your first and last name and a brief description of your interest in attending this class. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. | 2 events, Online Event – Online Event Registration Required. Please register here. Dates: Term 1 Sep 5 - Feb 28, 13 classes In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the very ground of awakening. As always, the year will start with generating the mind of awakening, using evocative instructions ranging from Langri Thangpa to Nāgārjuna and Lord Buddha in the famous Bodhisattvapiṭaka. This mind generation we’ll cultivate through the four immeasurable thoughts and the support of calm abiding. Illuminated by the life stories of the masters of the Gelug Mahāmudrā lineage and beyond, we’ll explore its roots in the history of the early Indian Mahāsiddhas, such as Saraha and Tilopa, through the Kagyü master Gampopa’s and Je Tsongkhapa’s Mañjuśrī lineage up to Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen’s Highway of the Conquerors and its perspective on this practice. In Sūtra Mahāmudrā we will practice resting attention in the empty nature of awareness, recognizing its clarity and openness as inseparable. Kriyā Tantra offers a complementary method. Rather than suppress the ordinary, narrow self-narrative that we impose on ourselves and our […] Dates: 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month A powerful Vajrasattva purification practice that acts to eliminate negative karma and the obscurations to progress along the path to happiness and joy in this and future lifetimes and, ultimately, to enlightenment. Materials Link Open door, open heart - drop in anytime in person or via Zoom. Donations are always optional. | 3 events,Dates: Every Sunday Please join us for our weekly meditation practice as we explore the relationship between mindful presence and the heart. These sessions will provide a consistent opportunity to stabilize the mind and nurture an expansive sense of compassion. Each week features a new talk inspired by Buddhist principles, followed by a guided meditation. Students of every background and experience level are welcome to sit, practice, and grow together. Open door, open heart. Drop in anytime. Donations are always optional. Dates: Sundays, June 28 - August 23, Sep 6, 13, 20, Oct 4, 11 The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas was composed in the fourteenth century by the great sage Togme Sangpo and is one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most treasured texts. Recognizing their true potential and letting go of everything that could hinder them on their spiritual journey, bodhisattvas entrust themselves to the Mahayana path taught by the Buddha. The simple verses in this brief text summarize that path to perfection, providing a wonderful and lucid explanation of how each of us can engage in the practices of bodhisattvas, coming to cherish living beings as the source of all happiness and ultimately being able to work solely for the welfare of all. Prayers Materials – Join us for a potluck every first Sunday of the month. The festivities will start around 11:30 am right after the Sunday teaching. Bring your favorite vegetarian dish to share and help make this a joyous occasion for our community. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional. |
