[UD News] Weekly Happenings
"What Steadies the Heart"We won't become free of attachments by "getting rid" of them—only through clear seeing will we naturally lay them aside. Watch this drop of dharma here! This Weekend: Freedom From FearsJust a reminder that there are still in-person and online tickets available for this upcoming weekend’s “Freedom From Fears: Principles & Practices of Lady Tara” retreat with Dorjé Lopön Dr. Lye. Dr. Lye invites you to a special retreat on Lady Tārā—a buddha who vowed to always appear in a female form to protect beings from any and all fears. Dr. Lye will help us consider this paradox of fear and offer traditional vajrayāna resources on working with fear through the principle and practice of Tārā. Register here! Recent Events with the Drikung Dharmakirti International SanghaThis past weekend, Dr. Lye offered a special retreat to the Drikung Dharmakirti International Sangha. A number of folks flew in and will also stay to attend the upcoming "Freedom From Fears" program this weekend. Check out the photos below, or visit the DDIS post here for more. On Monday, Dr. Lye and DDIS members of the went to the Forest Hermitage Land to hang prayer flags, make smoke cleansing offering, and walk some of the land. As we are approaching the Tibetan New Year, this is considered an especially good time to engage in special interdependences such as these. More photos here! This Week at Urban DharmaPlease note that we will not be holding Sunday Smoke Cleansing on 3/2 due to the Freedom From Fears program scheduled for that day. |
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Words for the Year of the Snake February 28th marked the beginning of the Female Wood Snake Year in the Tibetan calendar. Our spiritual director Dr. Hun Lye shared some words about the significance of this day in the Tibetan Buddhist context, and encouraged the following: ...Trust in each other, trust in basic goodness have eroded so much that even teachers who are supposed to inspire bodhicitta and divine pride in all of us are sowing more seeds of confusion and divisions, wedging Mount...
"This storm is you." From our Spiritual Director Dr. Lye's Facebook Page “Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do...
"Start with you right now..." One drop of dharma from the ongoing series “The Foundational Teachings are Truly Profound” that Dr. Lye has been giving at Urban Dharma recently. For more details about that series (and to access the full recordings, available upon registration), click here. Dr. Lye's Travels Our Founder and Spiritual Director Dr. Lye is wrapping up his time teaching in Cusco, where he also serves as Spiritual Director to the Budismo Drikung Kagyu Cusco community. Over the last...