1 Apr 2024

Heart Awareness, Wisdom Revealed

Gate Gate, Paragate, Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha
The Heart Sutra resonates with the wisdom within

“Beyond words, beyond thought, beyond description, Prajñāpāramitā, Unborn, unceasing, the very essence of space. Yet it can be experienced as the wisdom of our own awareness:
Homage to the mother of the buddhas of past, present and future.”
Prajñāpāramitā Series, Lotsawa House

Sunray Meditation Society invites you to join precious teachings on “Heart of Awareness, Wisdom Revealed,” based upon the Heart Sutra, offered by Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo, Pema Sangdzin Khandro. To be preceded by a day of meditation, dance, and a potluck feast commemorating completion of the Sunray Peace Stupa renovations.

Saturday June 15, 2024

10:00AM-4:00PM EDT
(Participate in-person only)

Dance and meditation
Stupa Commemoration
Community Potluck

See Schedule Below

Sunday, June 16, 2024

10AM-Noon, 3:00-5:00PM EDT
(Participate in-person or on Zoom)

Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo, Pema Sangdzin Khandro ’s teaching and practice on “The Heart of Awareness, Wisdom Revealed”, based upon the Heart Sutra, The Great Mother of Transcendent Wisdom, Prajnaparamita.

In-person at the Temple of the Adawees & Sunray Peace Village
in Lincoln, Vermont and Sunday in-person or by Zoom.

All in-person attendees are welcome to join at any point on Saturday.

If you would like make a donation to support the Sunray Peace Village Sacred Sites, click here

Please find our health and wellness safety guidelines for the Sunray Peace Village here:
https://sunray.org/peace-village/visitors/health-safety-guidelines/
Please check for possible updates to these guidelines closer to the event date.

Schedule

Saturday June 15

At Stupa

(Copies of texts will be available at Stupa)

10:00 – 11:00 am Riwo Sang smoke offering

In Temple

11:15 am – 12:30 pm Dance and Meditation

12:30 – 2:00 pm Light lunch. Soup/salad/bread

2:00 – 4:00 pm Drumming, dance, meditation

May include work offerings.

Sunday June 16

In Temple and on Online via Zoom
(Texts will be printed for on site and can be purchased for printing costs)

9:30 am Gather and settle

10:00 am -12:00pm Teachings with Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo

12:00 – 2:30 pm Lunch, walk about

2:45 pm Gather in Temple

3:00 -5:00 pm Teachings with Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo

Dedication and Long Life Prayer

Note: Envelopes will be provided for offerings. Kata offering welcome

Quotations

Ceremony is the opportunity to say thank you. It is the gift of our life force and our thought to explore the potential. Ceremony honors the cycles of the moon, the sun, and even more subtle cycles that connect our solar system with other galaxies and the very heart of this and all universes.

Learning Cherokee Ways

Often as people come closer and closer to understanding their true nature, they find themselves distracted and annoyed by things, or deep fears come up that they had not known were there. When these fears and other uncertainties of the mind arise, it is a great opportunity to see them as they are, just thought patterns, and have no attachment to them. (p. 258)

Voices of Our Ancestors

Each of us is a battery, a resonator, a musical instrument, and we are setting waves of many patterns and many possible futures in the sea of life. Let us be discriminating in the futures that we shape forth. (p. 157)

Voices of Our Ancestors

As human beings we have a significant responsibility in this time. It is to relate to those patterns in ourselves that lead to fear, doubt, and aggression in such a way that they are transmuted. You never deny what is, but simply acknowledge, “Oh, that feeling is there.” Is it really you? No, it is feeling arising from emotion. Generate the antidote.

Voices of our Ancestors

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