Meditation Prayers
Receiving spiritual energy
The Centre holds “pujas” – chanted prayers and meditations – each day. All our pujas are sung in English with meditations, mantras and sometimes offerings of food & drink to the holy beings.
These prayers, or chanted meditations, help us to purify our negativities, accumulate spiritual energy or merit and receive inspiration from enlightened beings to grow our wisdom and compassion and make progress on the spiritual path. Everybody is welcome.
“In general, prayers made by a gathering of many practitioners are very powerful and cannot be compared to the prayers of one or two people. The scriptures give the analogy of a broom. If we try to clean a floor with a few bristles, we make little progress, but if we gather many bristles to make a broom, we will succeed.”
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Heart Jewel
A special practice for developing compassion, wisdom and spiritual strength by relying upon the Wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa, and for overcoming obstacles and difficulties on the spiritual path by relying upon his Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden.
These two practices are the very essence of Kadampa Buddhism. If we practise them regularly and sincerely, we will reap a rich harvest of pure Dharma realizations, and eventually come to experience the supreme joy of full enlightenment.
This puja includes time for meditation on Lamrim and/or Mahamudra.
Duration: 1h, Sunday-Friday
Wishfulfilling Jewel with Tsog offering
A special practice for developing compassion, wisdom and spiritual strength by relying upon the Wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa, and for overcoming obstacles and difficulties on the spiritual path by relying upon his Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden.
These two practices are the very essence of Kadampa Buddhism. If we practise them regularly and sincerely, we will reap a rich harvest of pure Dharma realizations, and eventually come to experience the supreme joy of full enlightenment.
This puja includes a Tsog offering so it is traditional (but not required) to bring an offering of food or drink (no meat or alcohol, please).
Duration: 1h10, usually on Saturday evenings
Melodious Drum Victorious in all Directions (Kangso)
The extensive sadhana, or ‘method of attainment’, for fulfilling our commitment to rely upon the Dharma Protector and to practise Lamrim, Lojong and Mahamudra, and for restoring any degenerate or broken commitments.
This puja includes a Tsog offering so it is traditional (but not required) to bring an offering of food or drink (no meat or alcohol, please).
Duration: 3h30, on the 29th of each month
Liberation from Sorrow
Praises to the twenty-one manifestations of our great, compassionate mother, Buddha Tara. Because these are Sutra, the actual words of Buddha, they are particularly powerful and blessed.
Duration: 1h, on the 8th of each month
Offering to the Spiritual Guide
The special Guru yoga practice of Je Tsongkhapa in conjunction with Highest Yoga Tantra, which also includes all the essential practices of the stages of the path to enlightenment. By relying upon our Spiritual Guide as one with Je Tsongkhapa, our compassion, spiritual power, and especially our wisdom will naturally increase. A complete commentary to this practice can be found in Great Treasury of Merit.
This puja includes a Tsog offering so it is traditional (but not required) to bring an offering of food or drink (no meat or alcohol, please).
Duration: 1h45m, on the 10th & 25th of each month and other holy days
Quick Path to Great Bliss
The extensive self-generation practice of Vajrayogini, the female Buddha who is the manifestation of the wisdom of all Buddhas.
To practise this sadhana successfully we should first receive the Highest Ypga Tantra empowerment of Vajrayogini, and then study authentic instructions on the practice such as those found in the commentary Guide to Dakini Land.
Duration: 2h, Sunday afternoons
Powa Ceremony
The purpose of the practice of transference of consciousness, known as ‘powa’, is to lead countless deceased beings to the Pure Land of a Buddha.
It is auspicious (but not required) to make offerings of food, drink (no meat or alcohol, please) or flowers on behalf of the deceased. If you wish to make a dedication for loved ones who have recently died, you can add their names here.
Duration: 45m, monthly
A Pure Life (Mahayana precepts)
Taking and keeping the eight Mahayana precepts is a special practice of moral discipline that is performed with bodhichitta motivation. The essence of the practice is to take eight precepts and to keep them purely for a period of twenty-four hours.
Duration: 30m, at 6:30am on the 15th of each month
Meditation prayers
Attending pujas
The schedule can vary so please check times and dates on the calendar before traveling. Our regular pujas are free to attend and everybody is welcome.
Dedications
In all our pujas we always pray for all living beings without exception. However, if you wish you can request us to make a dedication for your loved ones who are suffering or who are recently deceased by adding their names here and they will be read out in our regular Wishfulfilling Jewel with Tsog offering and Offering to the Spiritual Guide pujas.
