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Venerable Robina Returns to teach Karma: We Create Our Own Reality

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Dharmakaya Center is honored to host Venerable Robina again.
Venerable Robina will be teaching Karma: We Create Our Own Reality
on Wednesdays, February 1st, 8th and 15th.

(This event is being held using the Zoom Online platform. Please go to www.dharmakayacenter.com to register for one or more of the teachings. Once you have completed the TicketTailor registration you will receive a Zoom link for the session you registered for.)

WE CREATE OUR OWN REALITY: THE NATURAL LAW OF KARMA

We spend our lives being seduced by the outside world, believing utterly that happiness and suffering come from "out there." Even more fundamental than that, we assume that we are the handiwork of someone else, either a superior being or our parents. The experiential implications of this are blame, anger, and guilt, bringing ever-deepening levels of suffering and hopelessness.

Buddha’s view of reality is that we create ourselves: we come into this life at the first moment of conception in our mother’s womb fully programmed with our own tendencies and the seeds of our experiences in this life. As the Dalai Lama says, the view of karma is one of “self-creation.” We are, literally, the creators of our lives, our happiness, and our suffering. We are the boss.


With this view we realize that everything we experience is our own "karmic appearance," as Lama Zopa Rinpoche puts it. Everything is made by our own minds, in the past and in the present.


The experiential implication of this view is empowerment, accountability, and the courage to change and, combining it with an understanding of the Buddha’s model of the mind, we gradually loosen the grip of ego-grasping and the other neuroses, thus developing our marvellous potential for clarity, self-confidence, empathy and the other qualities that Buddha says are at the core of our being.


​And there is no negative karma that we can’t change, so we’ll also discuss the practice of purification, which Lama Zopa Rinpoche says “we’re insane not to do every day.” And as Lama Yeshe says, “We create negative karma with our minds and we purify it by creating positive karma with our minds.”

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Meditation 101
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Buddhism in a Nutshell


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Every Other Sunday 
​11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

In Person  

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​Buddhism in a Nutshell and Meditation 101 are introductory courses that provides an overview of Tibetan Buddhist concepts and meditation. 
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​ It begins with an introduction to the life of Shakyamuni Buddha and then discusses the Buddha’s first teaching on The Four Noble Truths: the truths of suffering, the cause of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the path to the cessation of suffering. This teaching is common to all Buddhist traditions and forms the cornerstone for all the other teachings given by the Buddha.

It also provides an overview of Tibetan Buddhism based on the three principal aspects of the path to enlightenment—renunciation, bodhichitta, and the right view of emptiness—as taught in the stages of the path teachings and based on the short text 'Foundation of All Good Qualities' by, Lama Tsong Khapa.  The course also provides the foundations of meditation practice and five guided meditations suitable for beginners
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(Please register below if you are going to attend in person.)

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Led by Trey Ligon
Center Director 
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Guided Meditation Group

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Every Wednesday & Friday 
12:00 PM (noon) - 12:45 PM

(Online) 

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​Meditation is an effective, yet simple, way of dealing with many stresses in life. There is a growing body of scientific evidence of meditation being highly effective at reducing physical and mental stress.

Every week we focus on one topic on the Lam Rim using excellent meditations from Kathleen McDonalds' "How to Meditate" that are suitable for anyone interested in exploring and incorporating the benefits of meditation into their daily lives, regardless of whether you are a Buddhist practitioner or not. 



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​Led by Cyndy
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​Dharmakaya Buddhist Center Membership

We want to make supporting our center simple. We are launching a new, single level of membership — $50 per month. This simplified structure provides members with access to all of Dharmakaya Buddhist Center's  programming. Consider joining now! All donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.

We want to be generous with our membership so everything is included with a minimum $50 per month membership: all classes, meditations, weekend retreats, Saturday workshops – everything! There is great merit in supporting the Dharma … please consider how you can help.

Whatever level you choose, every dollar is critical to the support of our teachers, our programs, our center, and our ability to grow and flourish in Northern Nevada. We are a 100% volunteer-run organization, so your offerings will be well utilized.  

As always, Dharmakaya Buddhist Center offers access to all programs for free to anyone who cannot afford to pay.
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      • Venerable Courtin
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