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The diverse Buddhist ceremonial practices are a powerful way to clear obstacles, achieve success and harmony in our daily lives and progress in our spiritual development. Pujas, which belong to this group of practices, are a ritual incorporating meditation, visualization, and prayers to celebrate and bring good fortune. They’ve been relied on by Buddhist practitioners for centuries. There are many different types of pujas, which emphasize different aspects and bring particular benefits.
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Avalokiteshvara Guru Yoga
Avalokiteshvara, known as Chenrezig in Tibetan, embodies the great infinite compassion aspect of all the Buddhas. Great compassion (mahakaruna) comes from not only from wishing all sentient beings to be free from their individual suffering, but more urgently putting into action to alleviating everyone’s suffering.
In this guru yoga, we’ll engage in a sadhana written by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, called “The Inseparability of the Spiritual Master and Avalokiteshvara”. The practice will be facilitated by a member of Lhagsam. As part of the practice, a mediation on the four immeasurables and tonglen is included.
Dedication: We are dedicating our collective efforts to all the beings who need our care, help and support. If you would like for us to make a special dedication to yourself, friend or family member, please fill out the Request Dedication Form.
Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga
Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga is a particularly powerful practice for receiving the blessings of one’s personal teacher and developing the realization of guru devotion. Also known as the “Hundred Deities of Tushita (Ganden Lha Gyama)”, it is a seven-limb practice related to Lama Tsongkhapa, the great Tibetan scholar, saint, and yogi of the 14th century.
To supplement and complete this short text, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has added a preliminary practice of the “Four Immeasurable Thoughts”, the lam-rim prayer “Foundation of All Good Qualities” by Lama Tsongkhapa, and two visualizations to do while reciting the “Five-Line Migtsema Prayer to Lama Tsongkhapa”; one for purifying negative karmas and one for achieving seven special types of wisdom.
Vajrasattva Guru Yoga
In this guru yoga on Guru Vajrasattva, we apply the four opponent powers to purify our negative karma: Regret, Refuge with Reliance, Remedy and Resolve. We end the guru yoga with a meditation on emptiness or mahamudra meditation.
In this practice, we invoke Vajrasattva, a meditational deity embodying the purity of all the Buddhas, as a support to purify our obscurations, afflictive disturbances, negative karma and habitual patterns. At the culmination we rest in emptiness: the absence of any inherent, independent existence in all phenomena. And from that openness we may enter into Mahamudra — the direct, non-conceptual awareness of the mind’s luminous, ungraspable nature. In Mahamudra we let go of seeking and abide in effortless presence, free from dualistic grasping.
Green Tara
Awaken compassion and courage with the blessings of Green Tara — a sacred gathering to nurture healing, protection, and inner peace. The perfect remedy to clear away obstacles to your dharma practice.
Joyful and peaceful, beautiful and powerful, Tara is the embodiment of enlightened activity. She is a fully awakened Buddha, who vowed to work for all sentient beings as a female until samsara ends. She achieved liberation by following the same spiritual path many practitioners follow until this day. Known as the Liberator, she is always ready to rush to the aid of others.
Meditating on Green Tara can help us to connect with the energy of action, joy and compassion within ourselves. Tara can help to prevent hindrances and to discover and realise our true potential, all the way to enlightenment.
The ancient Mantra related to Green Tara is:
Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha
Medicine Buddha
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.
Lama Chöpa (Guru Puja)
Lama Chöpa (Guru Puja) is an offering practice, which celebrates the kindness and compassion of our teachers and lays the whole path to enlightenment onto our mindstream. The practice of guru puja with Tsog as a group is a skillful way of accumulating vast merits and purification of negative karma, which is the core practice of Mahayana Buddhism. Lama Chöpa is traditionally offered on the 10th and 25th days of Tibetan Calendar. If you wish to join us for Lama Chöpa, please bring a small symbolic offering, such as sweets, snacks or fruits. One does not need to have a personal teacher to participate and benefit from this practice.
Tsog means gathering. Gathering together with other practitioners concentrating our minds into the same space gives us great inspiration. Realizations come as if magnetically attracted.
~Lama Yeshe
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