Pujas will be live-streamed only through the end of May – please contact Sumit Som, Puja Coordinator at fp@brooklynmeditation.org for links. Beginning in June, you can pre-register below to attend select pujas in-person.
Heart Jewel
The Essential Practices of Kadampa Buddhism
This hour-long program, which includes chanted prayers set to music and two meditation sessions, is the standard daily practice for students of the New Kadampa Tradition of Mahayana Buddhism. It is designed to help practitioners achieve spiritual realizations and eventually experience the joy of full enlightenment.
Everyone is welcome, regardless of prior experience, faith or knowledge. If you’re participating for the first time, please arrive 15 minutes prior to start time for an introduction. You must pre-register below to attend.
BEGINNING IN JUNE (except June 20)
Sundays: 10 – 11 am
Free for everyone.
IN-PERSON ONLY
Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden
Wishfullfilling Jewel with TSOG
Chanted prayers on the 28th or 29th of the month (1 hour)
This practice is the heart essence of Kadampa Buddhism. In the first part we visualize our Spiritual Guide as Je Tsongkhapa and make prayers and requests to purify negativity, accumulate merit, and receive blessings. This prepares our mind for a twenty-minute meditation on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. After the meditation we make prayers to our Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden. Through this we can overcome obstacles to our practice and create favorable conditions so that we can nurture and increase our pure Dharma realizations.
Free for everyone.
JUNE 25: IN-PERSON ONLY
In-person registration coming soon.
Je Tsongkhapa, The Spiritual Guide of Kadampa Buddhism
Offering to the Spiritual Guide
Chanted prayers on the 10th and 25th of the month (2 hours)
This is a special Guru Yoga of Je Tsongkhapa in conjunction with Highest Yoga Tantra that is a preliminary practice for Vajrayana Mahamudra. The main practice is relying upon our Spiritual Guide as a Buddha and making praises and requests, but it also includes all the essential practices of the stages of the path and training the mind, as well as both the generation stage and completion stage of Highest Yoga Tantra. By relying upon Je Tsongkhapa, our compassion, wisdom, and spiritual power naturally increase.
Free for everyone.
THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 4 – 6 PM
LIVE-STREAM & IN-PERSON
In-person registration coming soon. Email fp@brooklynmeditation.org for links.
FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 6 – 8 PM
IN-PERSON ONLY
In-person registration coming soon.