8-11am Mindfulness
Please join us for our weekly 8–11 am "mindfulness practice" sessions. Who can attend: Everybody. In particular, beginning students are welcome. If you need beginning instruction on mindfulness (= shamatha) practice, please get in touch with us beforehand. Even though mindfulness practice is, in comparison to tantric practice, a "quick entry" practice, it can also be seen [...]
5–6pm Mindfulness
Please join us for our daily 5–6pm mindfulness practice session (shamatha-vipashyanā mahāmudrā). You are also welcome to stay on for evening chants (6–6:30pm) and a light dinner (usually soup).
8–10am Chakrasaṃ.
Please feel free to join our daily Vajrayāna morning practice. We in general practice from 8–10am Vajrayoginī, but prior and post to the Chakrasaṃvara feast day, we practice Chakrasaṃvara from 8–10am. And yes, on Wednesday mornings we have Mindfulness practice from 8–11am. Please check our monthly calendar for specifics: https://www.kccl.ca/events/month/ Whoever has received the abhiṣheka for [...]
5–6pm Mindfulness
Please join us for our daily 5–6pm mindfulness practice session (shamatha-vipashyanā mahāmudrā). You are also welcome to stay on for evening chants (6–6:30pm) and a light dinner (usually soup).
3-9pm Feast: CHAKRASAṂVARA
Monthly Chakrasaṃvara feast practice, open to sādhakas who have received the Chakrasaṃvara abhiṣheka. Bring your liturgy and practice implements. $5 for participants contributing food to the pot-luck; $10 for participants who don’t.
9am – 5pm YOGA Day Retreat with Sean Drohan
This yoga day retreat is an “all levels” non-academic view, practice and discussion of the view of Indian yoga (i.e., eight limbed path) and of the Tibetan teachings on the minds nature in our own language. Sean Drohan is a yoga teacher here in the Halifax regional municipality, Nova Scotia (and beyond), and the host of [...]
9am – 5pm NGÖNDRO Intensive
This Ngöndro Intensive is designed to allow ngöndro students to do a lot of practice with the support of other ngöndro students. Can new students join? When discussing recently our tantric track with Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, it was decided that Lodrö Sangpo can give the ngöndro reading transmission to students who have a good background in shamatha [...]
5–6pm Mindfulness
Please join us for our daily 5–6pm mindfulness practice session (shamatha-vipashyanā mahāmudrā). You are also welcome to stay on for evening chants (6–6:30pm) and a light dinner (usually soup).
Unscheduled open day
Unscheduled open day.
VAJRAYOGINĪ Class: Learning how to be an umdze
Vajrayoginī Class: Learning how to be an umdze Monday, December 12, from 7:00pm to 8:30pm The main occasion for the class is to introduce new Vajrayoginī sādhakas into the Vajrayoginī practice as well as giving old and new sādhakas a chance to venture into the basic feast roles of being a dorje loppön, umdze, chöpön, assistant chöpön. The class [...]
6–8am Sojong
Sojong (Poṣhadha): The Meaning of Poṣhadha In Indian Hindu societies, members of the community regularly observe rites for renewing their connection with virtue. The days of the new and full moons are regarded as holy and set aside for purification of non-virtue and re-establishment of virtue. Those days, and the purification rites performed on those [...]
