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Green Tara Meditation Mini-Retreat

When
25 Jan 2025
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Location
DGCEC or via Zoom

Registration

In-Person - Sliding Scale - $40 – $40.00
In-Person - Sliding Scale - $50 – $50.00
In-Person - Sliding Scale - $60 – $60.00
via Zoom - Sliding Scale - $40 – $40.00
Via Zoom - Sliding Scale - $50 – $50.00
via Zoom - Sliding Scale - $60 – $60.00

with Geshe Kalsang Rapgyal

Saturday, January 25, 2025

10:00am – 3:00pm, via Zoom or In-Person

In this mini-retreat Geshela offers four sessions that includes teaching, visualization practice and meditation with breaks between them.

Tara is the most beloved of all the Tibetan feminine meditation deities. She represents fearlessness, the swift ability to save beings from danger, and protection from suffering. In the beautiful myth of her creation, Tara is said to have sprung from the tears of Chenrezig, the great bodhisattva of compassion. So great was the scope of suffering he saw around him that Chenrezig shed tears in despair at not being able to help everyone, and from the lake of tears that grew at his feet sprang Tara in two forms: White Tara and Green Tara. With their help, we believe Chenrezig's wish to liberate all beings from suffering can be fulfilled. Tara is also a bodhisattva, someone who has vowed to attain enlightenment for the sake of liberating all beings, but she took a special vow: to attain enlightenment in a female body and so always to be reborn as a woman until this was fulfilled. Tara's vow has, consequently, given hope and inspiration to countless generations of women.

Green Tara is perceived as giving powerful help to remove obstacles. These obstacles may be external or within our own mind - anything that causes us suffering or prevents us from being happy. People pray to Tara for help with worldly problems as well as for help with progress along the spiritual path. Images portray her as quick and fearless in her activity, for example, her outstretched right leg shows her readiness to spring into action whenever she is needed and she is often described as youthful, playful and dynamic. Green Tara is particularly associated with the quality of fearlessness and her special role lies in helping beings to overcome all kinds of fear and the suffering associated with fear.

A simple lunch will be provided.

Registration Required or by calling 502-614-5616. Cost on a Sliding Scale: $40, $50 or $60.

Please email us at DrepungGomangCompassion@gmail.com for a scholarship if needed.

DGCEC is a 501 (C) (3), Non-profit Organization.

Tashi Gomang Dharma Center is a Non-profit Religious Organization.