Upcoming Retreats

 


Full Moon Medicine Buddha Puja

Venerable Angie Muir

December 15, 2024
Full Moon Medicine Buddha Puja: Ultimate Healing.     Please join us for a Full Moon Medicine Buddha Puja Dec. 15th at 8:00 AM!   December 15th is a full moon, merit-multiplying day, which increases the strength of the puja. Merit refers to the positive energy or spiritual benefit accumulated through virtuous actions, thoughts, and practices that align with the path of compassion and wisdom.   The Medicine Buddha puja purifies and heals on all levels: physical, mental, spiritual, and environmental. Medicine Buddha is the manifestation of the healing energy of all enlightened beings. Prayers to Medicine Buddha are especially…

New Year’s Vajrasattva Practice Retreat

Elaine Jackson

December 28, 2024 - January 1, 2025
Most of us operate from profound ignorance, a solid mis-knowing. This ignorance – that happiness and unhappiness come from somewhere “out there” – blocks us from seeing our clear light mind. The Vajrasattva practice purifies our mind from grasping so strongly onto the mistaken view. Utilizing time-tested visualization and meditation, deluded states – pain, sorrow, hatred, pride, jealousy, doubt – lose their power. Our mind is purified. We’ll explore why this powerful Vajrasattva practice actually works, and how we can use it in our daily life to grow our happiness.

Cultivating Lasting Happiness: What Buddhism and Science Have to Say about it

Elaine Jackson

January 5 - 26, 2025
The Buddhist Mind Science series is being offered in collaboration with Thubten Norbu Ling, our sister FPMT center in Sante Fe, New Mexico. The centers will alternate handling registrations. For this first Module, TNL will handle the registration. This new and transformative series is suitable for beginners and those wishing to deepen their practice.     Sundays Jan 5, 2025 - Jan 26, 2025 Time: 9:00AM - 10:30AM (PT) Where: Online Only     About: What is it that we all are pursuing? Do we succeed in it? Should we explore more carefully and wisely how to fulfill our deepest…

Long Life Prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche

Venerable Gyalten Chimé

January 5, 2025
Long Life Prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche First Sunday of the month 4:00pm – 5:30pm Pacific Time The four Bay Area FPMT centers (Land of Medicine Buddha, Ocean of Compassion, Tse Chen Ling, and Vajrapani) will offer Long Life Prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa on the first Sundays of each month.  Please check the schedule below to see the organizer for each event, and how to participate. May the glorious lamas live long. May happiness and well-being arise for all sentient beings, present throughout space. May…

Yamāntaka Approximation Retreat

Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa and Venerable Gyalten Chimé

January 8 - 29, 2025
  After receiving an Anutarayoga (Highest Yoga Tantra) initiation, it is recommended that one attend teachings by a qualified lama or read commentaries on the specific deity practice and then complete an approximation retreat.   An approximation retreat is an enabling action retreat in which one, utilizing the sadhana practice, completes a specific number of mantra recitations that permit one to perform subsequent mandala actions such as the fire puja and the self-initiation practice.   We are excited to announce that in January 2025, we will hold a 3-week approximation retreat for Solitary Hero Yamantaka. This is a father tantra,…

Wisdom at the Workplace

Duanna Pang

February 1 - 22, 2025
Four Saturdays from 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM (PT) Online Only We are now offering select online courses through Vajrapani Institute! Wisdom at the Workplace is a transformative workshop series that helps students develop the skills to apply Buddhist wisdom and compassion to their daily work lives. We are so fortunate to have Duanna Pang, a long-term practitioner, mindfulness meditation teacher, and expert leadership coach, lead this exciting course for our students.   Student Testimonial: This class brought two crucial areas of my life – dharma and work –together in helpful, applicable ways. Duanna provided a balance of guided teachings…