Palden Sakya Maine Dharma Study Group

05/20/2015

TONIGHT! Meditation & Dharma Study in Yarmouth
This month's topic: The Awakening Mind
Wednesday May 20 (future dates TBA shortly)
7pm-8:15pm, $10 (goes to support space and future programs)
Message us for address! :)

04/05/2015

NYC, April 2015, Amitayus teaching and Medicine Buddha empowerment.

03/10/2015

Overcoming Obstacles

"All obstacles are the outcome of your own actions. The arising of the obstacle is the purification of the negative karma accumulated. Therefore the obstacle is something good in terms of bringing negative karma to exhaustion. Recite Tara and Vajrasattva mantra and think that this obstacle is good because brings to an end the negative karma accumulated. If the karma would not have been accumulated, the obstacle could not arise. All obstacles, illness etc. arise from self-clinging, the mental afflictions arising from it and the karma accumulated in dependence on those afflictions. Generally, the altruistic mind that wishes to benefit others helps to eliminate any obstacle. Practice love and compassion, take on the suffering of others and exchange it for your own happiness (Tonglen). Then when you
die you will not experience difficulties. This practice is of your own
and others benefit. Study and train in the 37 Bodhisattva practices, all instructions are included within them."
-HE Garchen Rinpoche

02/26/2015

We have a space in YARMOUTH!
Palden Sakya Maine Dharma Study Group (Tibetan Buddhist--Sakya lineage)
Spring schedule:
Wednesdays, March 25, April 29, May 20, 7pm-8:15pm, $10, in Reiki for Women's new meditation space (open to all on meditation night; $ goes to support space & future programs). Cushions provided. Please bring fruit or flowers for shrine. Opening prayers, 30 min silent meditation, 25 min Dharma study facilitated by Jenny (Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, books provided), closing prayers. We promise it will be enjoyable and boring all at the same time.
Small parking lot adjacent to building. Please remove shoes upon entering. I have three spots in my car if anyone would like to ride up with me from Portland on the early side. RSVP helpful but not required. **Please plan to arrive a few minutes early as we will start promptly at 7.** More info: Jenny, [email protected], http://www.vikramasila.org/
(Photo by Marteen Santerre)

10/21/2014

Tuesday morning groups are forming! If you are not available on Tuesdays, please stay in touch--we are looking forward to adding more programs in the future.

General information
All programs in Rosemont neighborhood of Portland, ME unless otherwise indicated. Please contact us for location. You can join at any time. All suggested donations go to cover costs and support future programs.

OPEN meditation & Dharma study
1ST TUESDAYS 10-11:15 a.m. Opening prayers, 25 mins sitting meditation, Dharma reading & discussion, closing prayers.
Suggested donation: $5 / Min participants: 3

PARENTS’ meditation & Dharma study
2ND TUESDAYS 10-11:15 a.m. (no child care). Same as above with a focus on parenting in our reading / discussion. Topics include patience, attachment / non-attachment, building a practice in the context of family, and more. (If you are a parent of very young children and are interested in hosting a program, please contact us.)
Suggested donation: $5 / Min participants: 3

09/02/2014

Fundraiser for Vikramasila Foundation. $4 from each sale goes directly to the foundation. Makes a great gift! http://www.lulu.com/shop/jenny-van-west/flowers-up-close-2015/calendar/product-21786189.html

Buy Flowers Up Close 2015 by Jenny Van West (Calendar) online at Lulu. Visit the Lulu Marketplace for product details, ratings, and reviews.

06/09/2014

http://blog.bufferapp.com/how-meditation-affects-your-brain

The science behind how meditation affects your brain.

03/15/2014

His Holiness the Sakya Trizin Teaches in New York City
(April 26 &27)

Please share this site!
www.vikramasila.org

We are formally announcing His Holiness the Sakya Trizin's teachings on White Tara, Refuge and Bodhisattva Vow, and the Phowa Transmission as organized by Palden Sakya, NYC. Everyone is encouraged to participate this special and rare Dharma event and share this announcement among facebook friends. You are also welcome to request prayer and blessings for your family and friends in person or through email. Just contact us.

༧སྐྱབས་མགོན་ས་སྐྱ་༧གོང་མ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ནས་ནིའུ་ཡོག་དཔལ་ལྡན་ས་སྐྱའི་ཆོས་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཞུས་པ་ལྟར་དུ་རྗེ་བཙུན་མ་སྒྲོལ་མ་དཀར་མོའི་རྗེས་གནང་དང་། སྐྱབས་འགྲོ་དང་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་ཀྱི་སྡོམ་པ། མི་མང་ལ་བཀའ་སློབ། འཕོ་བའི་ལྗགས་ལུང་དང་ཁྲིད་ལུང་བཅས་གནང་རྒྱུའི་ཞལ་བཞེས་བཀའ་དྲིན་གནང་བ་འདི་བོད་རིགས་ཚང་མར་སྙན་སེང་ཞུ། ཚང་མས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐལ་བཟང་འདི་ལ་མཉམ་འཛོམས་ཡོང་བ་ཞུ་རྒྱུའི་མགྲོན་བརྡ་དང་། ནང་མི་དང་སྤུན་མཆེད་ཚང་མར་སྐྱབས་འཇུག་དང་བསྔོ་བ་སྨོན་ལམ་སོགས་ཞུ་དགོས་ན་འདི་ཐད་ཀར་འབྲེལ་བ་གནང་ན་ཆོག

03/05/2014

"Once you have been struck by the pointlessness of letting yourself be forever influenced and conditioned by your habitual tendencies, you will become sick of it. Once you know that it is sheer delusion to be preoccupied by thoughts of the future, and to lose your mindfulness and vigilance in the present moment, you will weary of it." Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Photo: courtesy James Gritz.
http://jgphoto.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Buddhist-Teachers/G00007jb4WZq2kAA/I0000ny.Im9qnyt0

02/07/2014

Good morning!

Sometimes people think that when they meditate there should be no thoughts and emotions at all; and when thoughts and emotions do arise, they become annoyed and exasperated with themselves and think they have failed. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is a Tibetan saying: “It’s a tall order to ask for meat without bones, and tea without leaves.” As long as you have a mind, you will have thoughts and emotions.
—Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, chapter 5