Group Meditations

Buddhist prayers have a powerful and uplifting effect on the mind that can be carried throughout the day. The function of these prayers is to prepare the mind for meditation by purifying negativity, accumulating positive energy and receiving blessings from holy beings. Everyone is welcome. Please visit our calendar for details.

All group meditations are held at the Center: 3344 Fourth Ave. (between Upas and Thorn)) in Banker's Hill.

Heart Jewel with Lamrim Meditation
Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays at 7am
Tuesdays at 5:30pm

This practice is the heart essence of Kadampa Buddhism. In the first part we visualize our Spiritual Guide as Je Tsongkhapa and make prayers and requests to purify negativity, accumulate merit and receive blessings. This prepares our mind for a twenty-minute meditation on the Lamrim or Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. After the meditation we make prayers to our Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugd�n. Through this we can overcome obstacles to our practice and create favorable conditions so that we can nurture and increase our pure Dharma realizations. (1 hour)

Wishfulfilling Jewel Puja
Mondays at 8:30pm

This is a more extensive version of Heart Jewel in which we make prayers and requests to Je Tsongkhapa and our Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugd�n. We make a special food offering known as a tsog offering to create a vast amount of positive energy for ourselves and others. We invite all the Buddhas and holy beings to come and enjoy a feast of great bliss and then we enjoy the food offering together. Please bring a food offering. (1 hour)

Offering to the Spiritual Guide Puja
(10th and 25th - check monthly calendar for times)

This is a special Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa in conjunction with Highest Yoga Tantra that is a preliminary practice for Vajrayana Mahamudra. The main practice is relying upon our Spiritual Guide as a Buddha and making praises and requests, but it also includes all the essential practices of the stages of the path, and training the mind, as well as both the generation stage and completion stage of Highest Yoga Tantra. By relying upon Je Tsongkhapa our compassion, wisdom and spiritual power naturally increase. This practice includes a tsog offering so please bring a food offering with you. (2 hours)

Long Protector Puja
(check monthly calendar for dates and times)

This monthly practice consists principally of prayers to our Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugd�n. A Dharma Protector is an emanation of a Buddha or Bodhisattva whose main functions are to avert the inner and outer obstacles that prevent practitioners from attaining spiritual realizations, and to arrange all the necessary conditions for their practice. Dorje Shugden always helps, guides, and protects pure and faithful practitioners by granting blessings, increasing their wisdom, fulfilling their wishes, and bestowing success on all their virtuous activities. This practice includes a tsog offering so please bring a food offering with you. (4 hours)

Liberation from Sorrow, Praises and Requests to Tara
(check monthly calendar for dates and times)

Tara is our holy, spiritual mother who helps and protects us in all our activities. In particular she helps us to deepen our understanding of Lamrim (the stages of the path to enlightenment). By offering praises and requests to Tara we increase our wisdom and compassion and come under the loving care and protection of an enlightened mother. Occasionally for special reasons we do 24 hour Tara practice, in which we recite these prayers every four hours for a twenty-four hour period. (1 hour)

If you have any questions about any events or need directions to the Center, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our phone number is 619.692.3676 or email us.

About Prayers and Meditation - Vajrarupini Buddhist Center

Heart Jewel

Wishfulfilling Jewel

Offering to the Spiritual Guide

Long Protector Practice

Praises to Tara