21 May 2026

Celebration of Saga Dawa Duchen at the Peace Stupa, Sunray Peace Village

Celebration of Saga Dawa Duchen

Sunday May 31^st 10:00AM EDT

Join us for Celebration of Saga Dawa Duchen with Smoke Offerings and Prayer flags renewal at the Sunray Peace Village Peace Stupa 10am EDT. All are welcome.

Saga Dawa is the most sacred month celebrating the birth, enlightenment and passing into Nirvana of Shakyamuni Buddha. Positive actions are believed to be multiplied by 100,000 to 300 million times. Saga Dawa culminates on the full moon this May 31st. This sacred day is known as Saga Dawa Duchen.

For those afar, please join in by hanging your prayer flags on this auspicious day after offering smoke from incense and prayers! The Seven Line prayer and Heart Sutra can be offered as well.

Click Here to learn more about the Peace Stupa at the Sunray Peace Village.

Quotations

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

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

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

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

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