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SUMMARY:Saturday Morning Meditation
DESCRIPTION:Meditation is a helpful way to relax the body and calm the mind\, and it can help us connect to timeless\, deep inner peace.  Join us Saturday mornings as Rinpoche gives a brief teaching followed by silent meditation practice.    A donation of $10.00 per class is requested\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nSaturday morning meditation is held both in-person at the Dharma Center and virtually on Zoom.\n\nPlease do join us for this profound practice. Tashi Delek!\n\n\n\nZoom Link to Join: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86274306749?pwd=MHhxUmtQZlVmWDJKUklSS3QvV05rdz09\nMeeting ID: 862 7430 6749\nPasscode: Love=Peace\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,86274306749#\,\,\,\,*4723131265# US (San Jose)\n+16694449171\,\,86274306749#\,\,\,\,*4723131265# US\n\n\nDial by your location\n        +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n        +1 669 444 9171 US\n        +1 719 359 4580 US\n        +1 253 205 0468 US\n        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n        +1 564 217 2000 US\n        +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n        +1 646 931 3860 US\n        +1 689 278 1000 US\n        +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n        +1 305 224 1968 US\n        +1 309 205 3325 US\n        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n        +1 360 209 5623 US\n        +1 386 347 5053 US\n        +1 507 473 4847 US\nMeeting ID: 862 7430 6749\nPasscode: 4723131265\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdVGgCWTHU
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LOCATION:Manjushri Dharma Center\, 724 Forest Ave\, Pacific Grove\, CA\, 93950\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meditation
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Introduction to Ngöndro:  The Kagyu Preliminary Practices
DESCRIPTION:Dear Sangha–Rinpoche has asked to postpone this teaching to a later date.   Sorry for the late notice\, and thank you for understanding!  \n\n  \nIntroduction to Ngöndro: The Kagyu Preliminary Practices \nSaturday\, February 28\, 2026\nfollowing meditation from 10:00am to 11:00am\n11:00am to 11:30pm–tea/coffee/snacks available/set up Luckypot\n11:30am to 1:30pm–teaching\n1:30pm to 2:30pm–Luckypot (pot luck)\nManjushri Dharma Center\nIn-Person and on Zoom\nDonations of any amount welcome\, no one turned away for lack of funds\nNo registration needed–just show up! \nAbout the Event\nOur mind has the potential to bring forth a bountiful harvest of wisdom and compassion\, but for such seeds to grow\, the ground needs to be properly prepared. Preliminary practices serve to purify negative karmic imprints\, enrich our mind with positive potential and blessings\, and connect us to a long lineage of practitioners. Engaging in the preliminary practices serves as an invaluable tool to both create a firm foundation for practice and deepen our path.  Khenpo Karten Rinpoche will present an overview introduction to the Kagyu preliminary practices known as Ngöndro along with an oral transmission blessing.  Please bring a dish to share for a “Luckypot” luncheon on after the teaching (breakfast items welcome!).  Consecutive interpretation will be provided by David Molk aka Jampa Tharchin. \nText\n\nNgondro Sadhana\n\nResources for Ngöndro Practice:\n\nTurning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism\, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (print or audio book)\nNgondro: Karma Kagyu Preliminaries\, DVD–By: Lama Karma Wangdu\nTorch of True Meaning: Instructions and the Practice for the Mahamudra Preliminaries–By: Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye\, Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje\nNgondro for Our Current Day: A Short Ngondro Practice and Its Instructions–By: Seventeenth Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje\nNgondro Commentary–By: Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche\nMandala supplies (purchase at Vajra Collection or other retail store selling items from Nepal/Tibet/India)\nKagyu Refuge Tree Guru lineage poster \n\nNames on the Refuge Tree in English\nབཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཀྱི་བརྒྱུད་པའི་ཤིང་སྡོང་གི་པོ་སྟེར་ཐོག་གི་མིང་བྱང་བོད་ཡིག་ཏུ་བྲིས་པ།\n\n\n\nAbout Ngöndro\nSource:  Adapted from Wikipedia \nThe Tibetan term Ngöndro refers to the preliminary\, preparatory or foundational practices common to all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism and also to Bon.  Each tradition will have a variation on the practice.  The version we will learn in this retreat is the Karma Kagyu practice.  The term ngöndro literally denotes meanings in the range of “something that goes before\, something which precedes.” The preliminary practices establish the foundation for the more advanced and rarefied Vajrayana practices of Dzogchen\, Heruka and Mahamudra.   Nevertheless\, Vajrayana masters are careful to point out that “foundational” does not mean “lesser\,” that the practice of Ngöndro is a complete and sufficient practice of the spiritual path\, and that it can take the practitioner all the way to full enlightenment. \nOuter and inner preliminaries \nIn general the preliminary practices are divided into two sections or kinds: the first are the common or ordinary kind of preliminary practices\, and the second are the special or extraordinary kind of preliminaries. \nOuter preliminaries \nThe common or ordinary preliminaries consists of a series of deep reflections or contemplations on the following four topics: \nthe freedoms and advantages of precious human rebirth\nthe truth of impermanence and change\nthe workings of karma\nthe suffering of living beings within samsara \nThe above four contemplations are sometimes referred to as “the four reminders” or “the four mind-changers” or “the four thoughts which turn the mind towards Dharma.”  Additional reflections may be included in the specific instructions on the outer preliminaries within different lineages\, but the above four topics are the main reflections. \nInner preliminaries \nThe special or extraordinary kind of preliminaries consist of : \ntaking of refuge in the three roots in conjunction with the performance of prostrations (purifying pride)\ncultivation of bodhicitta (purifying jealousy)\nrecitations of Vajrasattva’s hundred-syllable mantra (purifying hatred/aversion/harsh words)\nmandala offerings (purifying attachment)\nguru yoga practices (purifying delusion) \nThese practices purify negative deeds and accumulate merit. Traditionally ngöndro practice is done for the enlightenment of the spiritual aspirant and for the benefit of all sentient beings. That is\, the merit of doing the practices is dedicated to all sentient beings. These practices are typically done to reach a certain goal (100\,00 prostrations\, 100\,000 Vajrasattva recitations\, etc). \n\n\n\nZoom Link to Join: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86274306749?pwd=MHhxUmtQZlVmWDJKUklSS3QvV05rdz09\nMeeting ID: 862 7430 6749\nPasscode: Love=Peace\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,86274306749#\,\,\,\,*4723131265# US (San Jose)\n+16694449171\,\,86274306749#\,\,\,\,*4723131265# US\n\n\nDial by your location\n        +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n        +1 669 444 9171 US\n        +1 719 359 4580 US\n        +1 253 205 0468 US\n        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n        +1 564 217 2000 US\n        +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n        +1 646 931 3860 US\n        +1 689 278 1000 US\n        +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n        +1 305 224 1968 US\n        +1 309 205 3325 US\n        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n        +1 360 209 5623 US\n        +1 386 347 5053 US\n        +1 507 473 4847 US\nMeeting ID: 862 7430 6749\nPasscode: 4723131265\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdVGgCWTHU
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LOCATION:Manjushri Dharma Center\, 724 Forest Ave\, Pacific Grove\, CA\, 93950\, United States
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