Lama Yeshe on the importance of lineage
Saturday, April 4, 2020 3-4 PM: Lama Yeshe gave a teaching on the importance of lineage in Tibetan Buddhism, with a focus on the Kagyu lineage holders named in the beginning of the Mahamudra Lineage Supplication that we do regularly at our center. You can view the...
White Tara Practice online with Lama Yeshe
Tara is a female Bodhisattva. Her Tibetan name, Jetsunma Pakma Drolma, means Exalted Female Liberator. She bestows health and long life and freedom from fear. She represents both an enlightened being and our own enlightened essence and potential. Our precious guru...
Losar 2020 Nyine and 4-in-a-row Nyungne
Saturday Feb. 22 – Sunday March 1: 4-NYUNGNE RETREAT Nyungne is a very powerful purification practice. Doing even one is beneficial. Lama Yeshe hosted and led a 4-Nyungne retreat at Hay River from 2/22 to 3/1. The dates were carefully chosen so that the first nyungne...
January Dharma in Wisconsin
In honor of Khyabje Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche On January 5th, Lama Yeshe led the group in White Tara and then spoke to us on the topic of Renunciation. "The Buddhist path leads us from samsara to the way out. We need to have a desire to reduce our suffering and...
First Light Prayers 2020
Offering Lamps in KTD Shrine Room At the beginning of each year we join to renew our prayers for world peace in the coming year. On January 1st, 2020, we held a First Light Celebration at the Hay River KTC. After chanting the first light prayers, we performed a fire...
New Beginnings
Sunrise at Hay River KTC On December 28 & 29, Lama Yeshe gave a teaching on New Beginnings. This talk was given at the Hay River KTC and also to the new group forming in Minnesota as the Minneapolis KTC -- another new beginning! "The new year is seen world wide as...
Short Guru Yoga instructions for Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche
As you may know, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche died early yesterday morning at Karme Ling. The instruction from KTD is to do guru yoga, mixing your mind with his. Below is the Guru Yoga prayer we do when we chant Chenrezig and Amitabha, and a link to instructions from Lama...
Confession and Purification
JULY 14 CONFESSION AND PURIFICATION JULY 14 CONFESSION AND PURIFICATION We have all accumulated lots of bad karma. The one good thing about bad karma is that it can be purified before we experience the negative results. Lama Yeshe will go into detail about karma...
The Four Dharmas of Gampopa
JUNE 23& 30 FOUR DHARMAS OF GAMPOPA JUNE 23 & 30 FOUR DHARMAS OF GAMPOPA This is a very condensed teaching of Gampopa that summarizes the entire Buddhist path in four lines. ‘Dharma’ here means teaching. Here is a link to a talk Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche...
THE UNSATISFACTORY STATE OF SAMSARA
JUNE 16 UNSATISFACTORY STATE OF SAMSARA JUNE 16 UNSATISFACTORY STATE OF SAMSARA This is the fourth of the four thoughts that turn one’s mind to the Dharma and avoid accumulating negative karma. There are 6 realms in cyclic existence or Samsara. This talk will...
The Tashi Prayer
JUNE 9 TASHI PRAYER 8 auspicious symbols JUNE 9 TASHI PRAYER Tashi means auspicious. This prayer is excellent to do to dispel obstacles and difficulties. We do it at the center when we chant Chenrezig. It is recommended to do it every day and especially when you...
Khenpo Tenkyong Visit
MAY 29-JUNE 3 VISITING TEACHER KHENPO TENKYONG Came TO WISCONSIN, TEACHing IN both WASHBURN AND RIDGELAND Khenpo Karma Tenkyong taught Himalayan yoga and meditation at two different sites in Wisconsin May 29 through June 3, 2019. Khenpo Tenkyong is a dynamic teacher...
The Kagyu Lineage
MAY 26 KAGYU LINEAGE Namo Buddha Stupa MAY 26 KAGYU LINEAGE The precious teachings of the Buddha exist today for us to hear and practice because they have been practiced, realized and passed down to others who then followed their teachers and did the same. This...
Karma: Cause and Effect
MAY 19 KARMA: CAUSE & EFFECT This talk was on the third of the four thoughts that turn one’s mind to the Dharma and avoid accumulating negative karma. Karma is cause and effect. This teaching focused on why it is in our best interest to loosen our attachment to...
May Nyungne
Another wonderful Nyungne retreat completed in May 2019! Over Mother's Day weekend, the Hay River KTC Buddhist Meditation Center held a residential Nyungne retreat for the benefit of all mother-beings. We had a wonderful group which included Center members and...
Mindfulness & Meditation
April 28 Mindfulness & Meditation Four middle school students and five adults from the Unitarian Society joined Lama Yeshe and KTC members for an exploration of Mindfulness and Meditation. The students were very curious and asked great questions. The group did...
TONGLEN PART 1
APRIL 21 TONGLEN PART 1 APRIL 21 TONGLEN PART 1 Tonglen is a Mahayana practice that helps us develop love and compassion for all beings. It also aids in weakening our self cherishing. Compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free from suffering and the...
Death, Dying and the Intermediate State Pt 3
April 14 All Day Program on Death, Dying and the Intermediate State Pt 3 Tibetan Buddhism has special teachings for working with death and the process of rebirth. The aim of these teachings is to ease and eliminate the pain of dying and have the best possible outcome...
PRECIOUS HUMAN REBIRTH
APRIL 7 PRECIOUS HUMAN REBIRTH & WHITE TARA GROUP PRACTICE The human body is precious because it gives us the best conditions to practice Dharma and actually travel the path to liberation. Since the beginningless beginning we have not attained liberation. What...
MEDICINE BUDDHA TEACHINGS
MARCH 31 MEDICINE BUDDHA TEACHINGS MARCH 31 MEDICINE BUDDHA TEACHINGS Medicine Buddha Teaching and Practice Learn to do the short Medicine Buddha practice. Lama Yeshe will go through the text, step by step. Khenpo Ugyen gave both the Medicine Buddha Empowerment and...