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Event Series The Four Noble Truths

The Four Noble Truths

The Foundation of Buddha’s teachings. Join us on two Thursdays when Venerable Robina Courtin grants us live teachings on Zoom, explaining the Four Noble Truths. WHEN: Thursdays, March 2 and 23, 7:00 – 8.30 pm CET WHERE: Online only LEVEL: For beginners REGISTRATION: Please REGISTER HERE Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81839377063?pwd=b1ZSMlQ4MVJWYnp3L1drMUF2bVROQT09 Meeting ID: 818 3937 7063 Passcode: 609932 The first discourse given by the Buddha after attaining Enlightenment was the teaching on the Four Noble Truths. As well as establishing the fundamental Buddhist analysis of the human condition, this teaching provides the framework for all of the Buddha’s subsequent discourses delivered throughout his 40-year-long career. The Four Noble Truths have therefore provided the philosophical bedrock for successive generations of Buddhist masters across all traditions; understanding them is essential for anyone who is interested in pursuing the Buddhist path. To understand the whole purpose of Buddha’s teachings, we can learn and internalize the Four Noble Truths.  The Buddha challenges us to consider that suffering can indeed end.  The implications are huge. (Ven. Robina Courtin) About the Teacher Ven. Robina Courtin, Australian-born, has a powerhouse personality and has been a Buddhist nun for nearly 40 years. Well known for her work with people in prisons, Ven. Robina’s life and work is the subject of the award-winning documentary ‘Chasing Buddha‘. She teaches full time around the world at the centers of her teachers’ organization, the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT). Read more PRACTICAL INFORMATION Cost: You would make us very happy by supporting us with a donation. Suggested donation is 0 – 40 CHF. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. You can donate online (via Paypal, Twint or E-Banking). Language: English Level: Beginners and everyone else! Registration: Please REGISTER HERE

Book Club

Join us reading and discussing! WHEN: Friday, May 26, 7.00 - 9.00 pm CET WHERE: Online LEVEL: The book club is open to anyone who is interested to meet and discuss the books we read Please note that registration is required. Register here Join our relaxed and easy-going book club! You find more information here. About the book in May: Book Title: My Journey To Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City Author: Alexandra David-Neel An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David-Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet. In order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa, she used her fluency of Tibetan dialects and culture, disguised herself as a beggar with yak hair extensions and inked skin and tackled some of the roughest terrain and climate in the World. With the help of her young companion, Yongden, she willingly suffered the primitive travel conditions, frequent outbreaks of disease, the ever–present danger of border control and the military to reach her goal. The determination and sheer physical fortitude it took for this woman, delicately reared in Paris and Brussels, is inspiration for men and women alike. David–Neel is famous for being the first Western woman to have been received by any Dalai Lama and as a passionate scholar and explorer of Asia, hers is one of the most remarkable of all travellers tales. PRACTICAL INFORMATION Cost: free Language: English Level: open for everyone Registration: Register here

Wednesday Community Meditation

Lhagsam Tibetan Meditation Gablerstrasse 51, Zurich, Switzerland

Topic for April 5th:  Awareness & the Space of the Mind WHEN: Monthly on Wednesday  7.00 - 8.30 pm CET WHERE: Onsite, the Lhagsam Gompa LEVEL: Beginner, everyone is welcome! LANGUAGE: English Let’s meet at our center and be part of a guided meditation, get an understanding of how to develop valuable realizations on the vastness of the mind: We will analyze and learn how to experience our world, and how we can change this, to have a better understanding and more acceptance of ourselves and for the whole world. We will work on gaining experiential knowledge, a calmer mind, and an open heart full of love and compassion towards ourselves and all sentient beings. Once the meditation has ended, we invite you to stay and enjoy being part of our vibrant community and chat with the other participants. We are not compelled to meditate by some outside agent, by other people, or by God. Rather, just as we are responsible for our own suffering, so are we solely responsible for our own cure. We have created the situation in which we find ourselves, and it is up to us to create the circumstances for our release. Therefore, as suffering permeates our life, we have to do something in addition to our regular daily routine. This something is spiritual practice or, in other words, meditation. ~ Lama Zopa Rinpoche PRACTICAL INFORMATION Cost: You would make us very happy by supporting us with a donation. Suggested donation is 0 – 20 CHF. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. You can donate online (via Paypal, Twint or E-Banking). Language: English Level: All are welcome

Event Series Attachment

Attachment

How to get rid of dissatisfaction and end up living a life full of freedom. Join us on two Thursdays when Venerable Robina Courtin grants us live teachings on Zoom, explaining how to deal with attachment and let go of our innate dissatisfaction. WHEN: Thursdays, April 6 and 20, 7:00 – 8.30 pm CET WHERE: Online only LEVEL: For beginners and intermediate REGISTRATION: Please REGISTER HERE Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81839377063?pwd=b1ZSMlQ4MVJWYnp3L1drMUF2bVROQT09 Meeting ID: 818 3937 7063 Passcode: 609932 The suffering of Samsara is rooted in ignorance, but the driving force is dissatisfaction due to our attachment. Revolving around us grasping at certain objects and desperately wishing to avoid other objects, it’s like being a drug addict in a heroin world: We are constantly dissatisfied and discontent, yearning for something else than what we have, and when attachment doesn’t get what it wants, anger arises. During these teachings, Ven. Robina will address the problems and helps us find a lasting solution full of hope and freedom, which will eventually leave us in a state full of care for other sentient beings. Happiness is what we get when we give up attachment. (Ven. Robina Courtin) Read more. About the Teacher Ven. Robina Courtin, Australian-born, has a powerhouse personality and has been a Buddhist nun for nearly 40 years. Well known for her work with people in prisons, Ven. Robina’s life and work is the subject of the award-winning documentary ‘Chasing Buddha‘. She teaches full time around the world at the centers of her teachers’ organization, the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT). Read more PRACTICAL INFORMATION Cost: You would make us very happy by supporting us with a donation. Suggested donation is 0 – 40 CHF. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. You can donate online (via Paypal, Twint or E-Banking). Language: English Level: Beginners...

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Event Series Open Your Heart to Kindness and Compassion

Open Your Heart to Kindness and Compassion

Landguet Ried Hilfligweg 10, Niederwangen bei Bern, Switzerland

His Eminence the 7th Ling Rinpoche in Switzerland It is a great honour for the Swiss FPMT centres Longku Bern, Gendun Drupa Martigny and Lhagsam Zürich to welcome H.E. Ling Rinpoche for a weekend teaching in Switzerland. WHEN: Saturday & Sunday, April 8 & 9 TIME: 10.00-12.00 and 14.30-16.30 (on both days) WHERE: Landguet Ried Hilfligweg 10, 3172 Niederwangen, Switzerland LANGUAGE: Tibetan with translation into German, French and English Registration is required. Please see below for more information. H.E. Ling Rinpoche is the reincarnation of the 6th Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche, who was the senior tutor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. You can read more about him and his lineage here. Rinpoche will teach on The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas – a text composed by Gyalse Thogme Sangpo in the 14th century. This is one of the most famous Tibetan texts on mind training. It serves as a practical guide for those on the Boddhisattva path. Rinpoche will also grant an Avalokiteshvara Initiation (Jenang) in the tradition of Lama Atisha. The Avalokiteshvara Initiation (Jenang) will take place on Sunday afternoon.  Rinpoche requested that participants must attend in person, as well as being a Buddhist with faith in the three jewels and the deity.  The initiation cannot be taken just as a blessing. About the Teacher His Eminence the 7th Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche was born in India on November 18, 1985. He was taken to the Tibetan Children's Village in Dharamsala, after his mother died, and stayed there until His Holiness the Dalai Lama recognized him as the reincarnation of his Principal Teacher, H.H. the 6th Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche, who passed away in 1983. The 7th Yongzin Ling Rinpoche entered Drepung Monastic University in South India in 1990 when he was five years old and began his monastic studies there at the age of ten....

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Event Series Open Your Heart to Kindness and Compassion

Open Your Heart to Kindness and Compassion

Landguet Ried Hilfligweg 10, Niederwangen bei Bern, Switzerland

His Eminence the 7th Ling Rinpoche in Switzerland It is a great honour for the Swiss FPMT centres Longku Bern, Gendun Drupa Martigny and Lhagsam Zürich to welcome H.E. Ling Rinpoche for a weekend teaching in Switzerland. WHEN: Saturday & Sunday, April 8 & 9 TIME: 10.00-12.00 and 14.30-16.30 (on both days) WHERE: Landguet Ried Hilfligweg 10, 3172 Niederwangen, Switzerland LANGUAGE: Tibetan with translation into German, French and English Registration is required. Please see below for more information. H.E. Ling Rinpoche is the reincarnation of the 6th Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche, who was the senior tutor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. You can read more about him and his lineage here. Rinpoche will teach on The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas – a text composed by Gyalse Thogme Sangpo in the 14th century. This is one of the most famous Tibetan texts on mind training. It serves as a practical guide for those on the Boddhisattva path. Rinpoche will also grant an Avalokiteshvara Initiation (Jenang) in the tradition of Lama Atisha. The Avalokiteshvara Initiation (Jenang) will take place on Sunday afternoon.  Rinpoche requested that participants must attend in person, as well as being a Buddhist with faith in the three jewels and the deity.  The initiation cannot be taken just as a blessing. About the Teacher His Eminence the 7th Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche was born in India on November 18, 1985. He was taken to the Tibetan Children's Village in Dharamsala, after his mother died, and stayed there until His Holiness the Dalai Lama recognized him as the reincarnation of his Principal Teacher, H.H. the 6th Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche, who passed away in 1983. The 7th Yongzin Ling Rinpoche entered Drepung Monastic University in South India in 1990 when he was five years old and began his monastic studies there at the age of ten....

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Event Series Medicine Buddha Practice

Medicine Buddha Practice

Join our monthly Medicine Buddha practice! WHEN:  Monthly on Fridays, 7.00 - 8.30 pm CET WHERE: Online LEVEL: Intermediate - Advanced (beginners are welcome) Join us via Zoom under the following link and login:Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/910346209?pwd=ajRQQlk5NTM1aHJlZ2Z0UGtnUy9BQT09 Meeting ID: 867 1617 3585 Password: 637172 REQUEST DEDICATION A Medicine Buddha Practice consists of meditations, visualizations, reciting mantras, and prayers, including taking refuge and generating bodhicitta, the seven limb practice, mandala offering, followed by the request prayers. The session is concluded with dedications. The Seven Medicine Buddhas made special prayers to benefit beings of degenerate ages, hence in the sutric tradition this is considered one of the most powerful practices, which possesses the greatest and quickest blessings. This practice purifies and heals on all levels – physical, mental, spiritual and environmental. In our monthly Medicine Buddha Practice we will make dedications to all the beings who need help and support at the time. If you would like for us to make a special dedication to yourself, friend or family member, please fill out the Request Dedication Form. PRACTICAL INFORMATION Cost: Suggested donation is 0 - 20 CHF. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. You can donate upon arrival or online (via Paypal, Twint or E-Banking). Language: English Level: Intermediate - Advanced. Previous knowledge in buddhist practices is helpful. Beginners are still welcome. We will happily give you a small introduction!