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A Special New Year's Day Practice with
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
5:30 a.m - 4:00 pm
Pre-registration is required!
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Please see Retreat Schedule, below.
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Nyungney 1-Day Fasting Practice:
Translated as "abiding in the fast", Nyungney is a profound practice that can be effective in the healing of illness, the nurturing of compassion, the purification of negative karma, and the pacifying of suffering of all sentient beings.
Join us in a day of prayer for peace, health and happiness.
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Lama Drimed will lead the Nyungney fasting practice, which is a practice of the eleven faced, thousand armed form of Chenrezig. The benefits of this practice are vast: relatively, it can purify accumulated obscurations and wrongdoings, and ultimately can lead one to supreme enlightenment. This one day retreat begins before sunrise and involves taking the eight precept vows (for 24 hours), fasting and reciting the Mani mantra.
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The History of Nyungney
Gelongma Palmo, founder of the Nyungney tradition, was born as a princess to King Oddiyana. She chose to become a fully ordained Buddhist nun and practice the dharma. However, she contracted leprosy and, due to fear of the contagion, she was abandoned in the forest. There she practiced extensively, accomplished many samadhis, overcame her leprosy, and had a vision of Chenrezig. She told him "I have been praying to you for twelve years, waiting for you to appear." Chenrezig replied: "I was with you all along, from the time you started praying to me. It was due to your own obscurations that you were unable to see me." He then gave her many teachings and blessings. She achieved the level of the tenth-bhumi bodhisattva and became inseparable from Chenrezig. Nyungney has since been taught, and cherished, as a highly effective practice to purify negative karma and accumulate merit and wisdom.
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Retreat Schedule
Upon awakening, bathe and brush your teeth. You may drink water, tea, etc., but do not eat. Please dress comfortably but wear no adornments, makeup, or perfume, and
arrive prior to 5:30 am.
5:30a Explanation of practice and vows, and the taking of vows.
8:30a Tea break
9:30a Chenrezig mantra recitation
11:30a Break
12:00p Vegetarian lunch served
1:30p Chenrezig mantra recitation
4:00p Depart for home, maintaining silence and keeping the vows
until sunrise on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019
THE (24-hour) Vows
1. No killing of any kind
2. No stealing
3. No sexual activity
4. No lying (even in jest)
5. Abstain from intoxicants (alcohol, etc.)
6. Abstain from singing, playing musical instruments, jewelry, makeup, perfume.
7. Abstain from food and drink until dawn on Thursday
8. Avoid high seats or high beds.
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About Lama Drimed Lodro
Born in Tibet, Lama Drimed studied and mastered the Chinese language as a young boy. At the age of twelve, he asked his mother to leave home to study under Galo Rinpoche. After three years of intensive study of the Tibetan language and dharma, he entered the Sertha Larung Five Sciences Buddhist Academy. There, he was ordained by His Holiness Jigme Phunstok Rinpoche, whom he trained under to master the five sciences: art, medicine, linguistics, valid cognition, and inner sciences.
Lama Drimed currently lives in Alameda, at Orgyen Dorje Den. In 2005, Lama Drimed founded Dechen Rang Dharma Center in the South Bay, San Jose, California.
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Where: Orgyen Dorje Den When: Tuesday, January 1, 2019
2244 Santa Clara Ave. 5:30 a.m.- 4:00 pm
Alameda, CA 94501
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| Suggested Donation: $10 No one turned away for lack of funds. |
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Please do not park in the ODD parking lot! Parking at ODD is reserved for the lamas, tenants, essential staff only.
Parking:
Parking is available one block away from ODD, at the Civic Center Parking Lot. It's located at 1416 Oak St., between Central and Santa Clara Aves. Cost is only .75/hour, and is free after 5 pm.
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Orgyen Dorje Den| orgyendorjeden@gmail.com |
www.orgyendorjeden.org
Orgyen Dorje Den is a 501c3 non-profit organization.
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