Guru Yoga Mandala Offering Retreat

Service Description

Guru Yoga Mandala Offering Retreat Friday, Oct 23rd Intro • Saturday, Oct 24th & Sunday, Oct 25th • $45 whole retreat (includes Sunday Morning Meditation) • OR $5/retreat session (excluding Sunday Morning Meditation which remains $15) (FP & TTP discounts apply) • with Resident Teacher, John Baker Everyone Welcome • No Experience Necessary Guru Yoga and Mandala offering retreat combines two of the four great preliminary guides that we need to practice if we want to gain Mahamudra realizations – the quick path to enlightenment. ​ In this retreat we focus on the preliminary practices of accumulating merit, or positive energy, by making mandala offerings and receiving powerful blessings by engaging in the Guru Yoga practice of Je Tsongkhapa. ​ Mandala offering is an offering of the entire universe visualized as a Pure Land, with all its inhabitants as pure beings. By making mandala offerings we create the cause to be reborn in such a pure world. ​ Through receiving Wisdom Buddha’s powerful blessings, we can easily and swiftly make progress in and complete our practice of the stages of the path of both Sutra and Tantra. Through this we can fulfill our own and others’ wishes.In each session we recite Offering to the Spiritual Guide prayers with a pause to make mandala offerings. Friday night Intro: 7pm - 8pm ​ Saturday: Session 1 10-11:30 Session 2 12-1:30 Lunch Break Session 3 2:30-4 ​​​ Sunday: Session 1 8:30-10 Sunday Morning GP 10:30-11:45 Lunch Break Session 2 1-2:30 Offering to the Spiritual Guide 3-4:30