Kathok Gonpa - Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Centre in Qualicum BC
Events
Lingtrul Rinpoche, Karzang Rinpoche and some of the volunteers April 14, 2012
* Temple Etiquette and Visiting *
You are welcome to visit the Golden Shrine any time (new building to your left as you drive into the car park). If you would like to visit the temple (main large red building) at times other than during events/sessions listed below, please phone first so we can see if someone is available to open the Temple for you: Chris & Melissa (250) 228 0759
It is customary to walk mindfully around the outside of the temple building 3 times before entering. This give you a chance to adjust your energy before entering. After removing your shoes and hats, once inside you can do 3 porstrations if you wish. Prostrations are a way of humbling ourselves, purifying our body, speech and mind and recieving blessings to transform the wrathfulness of our mind. Once we are humble and peacful we can then learn to really feel the positive energy of the teachings. Please move mindfully and practice silence as much as possible so to best enjoy and appreciate the space and energy!
Personal Interviews with Lingtrul Rinpoche and Tulku Karzang Rinpoche
Lingtrul Rinpoche and Tulku Karzang Rinpoche are offering to help people how ever they can. It is traditional in Tibetan Culture to ask the advice of one's teacher about one's practice or life circumstances. If you would like an interview with either Rinpoche, please email Mary Pat at info@kathokcentre.ca to book your appointment.
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Upcoming Events and Announcements
Saturday & Sunday May 19/20 Work bee continues! 10am - 3pm Work inside the Temple, preparing objects to go inside Guru Rinpoche Statue, work on the Shrine building and planting and landscaping! Please bring some finger food/drinks to share for lunches and gardening tools.
Sunday May 20, 10am Seated Meditation. All levels welcome including beginners!
Saturday & Sunday May 26/27 Work bee continues! 10am - 3pm Work inside the Temple, preparing objects to go inside Guru Rinpoche Statue, work on the Shrine building and planting and landscaping! Please bring some finger food/drinks to share for lunches and gardening tools.
Sunday May 27, 10am Seated Meditation. All levels welcome including beginners!
Saturday & Sunday June 2/3 Work bee continues! 10am - 3pm Work inside the Temple, preparing objects to go inside Guru Rinpoche Statue, work on the Shrine building and planting and landscaping! Please bring some finger food/drinks to share for lunches and gardening tools.
Sunday June 3, 10am Seated Meditation. All levels welcome including beginners!
*Schedule subject to change - please check regularly!
Inspiration from Tulku Karzang's teaching on Sunday May 13 before meditation practice: 'Instead of getting carried away in anger or jealousy, first recognize it; 'Oh - I am angry', then look to the root of the feeling. What is an emotion? Is it even there? Then just let it be. Leave it as it is. Don't feed it and watch what happens.'
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For all events above a suggested minimum donation of $20 is appreciated, unless otherwise stated, however if you are unable to contribute financially at this time your presence and help in any way is also appreciated! To Receive official tax receipts which you can apply to your year end tax return please donate on the button below. Please consider it's your donations that pay for the teachers flights and food and the upkeep of the Centre! Thank you!
!!! Calling All Cooks-Kathok Centre Cookbook !!!
Steve Ayers has had an inspiration to create a cookbook of recipes from the lamas and sangha at Kathok Centre. This would be a fundraiser that will also benefit our families and health! Please contribute a recipe or two. Steve asks that if you're writing the recipe down for the first time, please test it before you send it. Also, please don't send in recipes from cookbooks or other sources that might be copyrighted. Email Steve: stayers@shaw.ca
If you would like a copy of the Kathok AGM minutes held April 15, 2012 please email: info@kathokcentre.ca
*Wish List for the landscaping around the pond: 15 Dwarf fruit trees, 30 Scotch Heather, 30 Forsythia, 30 Rhododendrons(red preferred), 30 Ornamental Grass, 200 Daffodil bulbs, 3 Corkscrew Willow trees,1 Cutleaf Japanese Maple, 6 Kerria Japonica,6 Spice Bush. All purpose Fertilizer( 7-7-7 or 10-10-10), 5 cubic meters of topsoil, 6 meters of mulch, bone meal, 50 Bags manure. Feel free to drop of any time with the other plants at the edge of the carpark/pond. If you can support a larger part of this please contact Shawn to arrange details: shawnheslip08@gmail.com *Please bring plants in numbers of 3, 6 or 9 as this is how they're planted - Thank you!
For further information e-mail: info@kathokcentre.ca