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SUMMARY:The Meaning of Empowerments
DESCRIPTION:Most deity yoga practices require that practitioners receive an initiation or empowerment prior to doing the practice.  The empowerment ritual confers authority upon the practitioner to engage in the practice of the particular deity for which the empowerment is given.  There are four stages to the empowerment ritual: the vase empowerment\, which purifies the obscurations of the body; the secret empowerment\, which purifies the obscurations of speech; the knowledge or wisdom empowerment\, which purifies our mental obscurations; and the word empowerment\, which purifies the subtle habitual tendencies which give rise to dualistic perception.\nGape Lama will teach us about the meaning of empowerment and how empowerments can help us transform our ordinary\, habitual tendencies into enlightened activity.  This will be a good introduction to the White Tara Empowerment which he will be bestowing on Friday night\, March 20th.\n\nGape Lama will also be leading White Tara Practice on Wednesday night\, March 18th at 7:30pm at Little Chapel of All Nations\, 1401 E. First Street\, Tucson.\n \n\nMatthew and Rachel’s House\n3935 North Country Club Road\, #36A\nTucson\, Arizona 85716\n(Click here for a map)\nDirections (Central Tucson)\nï N on Country Club Rd past Grant\, Ft.Lowell and Prince Rds\nï Left at Racquet Club Ranch #3935\, before Tucson Racquet & Fitness\nï Pass 1st drive on right. Event entry at next driveway\, #36A\, adobe house with prayer flags\nï Park to left in large dirt lot with palm trees\n\n \nFor More Information:\nMatthew Vasquez: 884-0554
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CATEGORIES:Dharma Teaching
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SUMMARY:White Tara Practice with Gape Lama
DESCRIPTION:Tara Embodies the female wisdom activity of the mind.  \nThis special White Tara practice will be led by the Venerable Gape Lama of Garchen Buddhist Institute\, and will include teachings on  Deity yoga\, also called generation or creation stage practice (one of the main methods of Vajrayana Buddhism).\nAll deity yoga practices have three main components.  In the beginning\, we take refuge and generate bodhicitta\, the altruistic attitude to attain enlightenment for the benefit of others.  In the middle\, or main part of the practice\, we follow a text\, called a sadhana\, and visualize ourselves as the deity\, chant his or her mantra\, and after dissolving the visualization\, rest in the nature of mind.  In the end\, we dedicate the virtue from doing the practice to the benefit of all sentient beings.\nThrough the practice of deity yoga\, we transform our ordinary perception of ourselves into that of the deity.  Through this very skillful method\, we can realize our Buddha nature\, and attain ultimate realization.\n \n\n1st & 3rd  Wednesdays\, Every Month  \nAda Pierce McCormick BuildingUniversity of Arizona Campus1401 East First Street\nTucson\, Arizona  85719(Click here for a map)   \nFor More Information:  Zehra Conner: 299-1083
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CATEGORIES:Weekly Practice
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SUMMARY:White Tara Empowerment and Teachings
DESCRIPTION:Practiced by all four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism\, White Tara has been the main deity practice of many well-known Buddhist scholars and siddhas (in both India and Tibet)\, foremost among them being Nagarjuna and Atisha.Her special function is to promote long life\, both for the practitioner and for others. She removes all unfavorable circumstances\, and bestows upon us good health\, long life\, and prosperity.  Ultimately\, she is the very nature of the dharmakaya; her practice is a means for attaining liberation. \nEmpowerment:\nFriday night\, March 20th 7-9pm\n\nTeachings:\nSaturday and Sunday\, March 21st ñ 22nd\n9am-5pm\n \n Benedictine Monastery 800 N. Country Club RoadTucson\, Arizona 85716 (Click here for a map)
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