Course info
Creating happiness & reaching our goals
In striving to accomplish our goals and to find real meaningful happiness, we often encounter many obstacles. No matter how much effort we put into it, often we still don’t manage to get what we want. Some attribute this to bad luck, but in reality it depends on whether we’ve created the right causes and conditions. We need to first create conducive conditions for success and this means creating the powerful positive karma or merit that is the main cause of all our happiness, success, and even “good luck”. Buddha taught many powerful methods to create this positive energy such as the practice of giving, rejoicing in others’ happiness, and mentally creating a pure world or “mandala” and offering it to all Enlightened beings.
On this course, Gen Thekchen will explain proven methods to create the actual causes for both the temporary happiness of this life and the ultimate happiness of full enlightenment. It’s a course you don’t want to miss!
This course can be taken either as a day course on Saturday or as a weekend event with an introduction to karma Friday night and instructions on how to do mandala offerings Sunday morning.
An opportunity to engage in a week of retreat follows this course. Please see ‘Guru Yoga & Mandala Offering Retreat’ for more information.
Useful info
Teacher
This event is taught by Gen Kelsang Thekchen, senior Buddhist Monk and Resident Teacher of Bodhisattva KMC.
Schedule
Friday:
(Supper will be served at 6 pm)
7.30pm – 8.45pm: Introduction to karma
Saturday:
10am – 11.15am: Teaching and Meditation
12noon – 1pm: Meditation and discussion
Lunch break
2:30pm – 4pm: Teaching and Meditation
7pm – 8.15pm: Wishfulfilling Jewel puja with food offering (optional)
Sunday:
10am – 11.15am: Teaching on Mandala offerings
12noon – 1.15pm: Guided Session on Mandala Offerings and Guru Yoga
Unguided Mandala offering retreat begins at 4pm on Sunday.