Welcome! We hope you will join us for one of this month’s Tara's Triple Excellence worldwide sangha activities. We offer opportunities to connect with your TTE sangha each week.
HIGHLIGHTS FOR AUGUST
Do not miss the series of three Saturday talks by Heidi Koppl on Seeing Appearances as Divine. The series begins on July 31, at 9:00 am (NY), 3:00 pm (Vienna). For details click here.
Registration is open! From August 31 to September 21, Lama Tenzin will guide an intensive 3-week Inner Tara Sadhana retreat at Gomde UK. Covid/quarantine restrictions in the U.K. have decreased; for the latest information and to register for the in-person retreat, click here. Information on the online option will be coming soon. Following that, from September 22 to 30 there will be a 7-day Tara’s Triple Excellence Preliminaries (ngondro) retreat with Lama Tenzin at Gomde Scotland. For more details, click here. For more information on online TTE retreats contact: onlineretreats@tarastripleexcellence.org.
New Reading Groups start on August 26 at 8:00pm (Vienna) or 8:00pm (New York). We will be studying the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva using Heidi Koppl’s translation of the commentary by Chökyi Drakpa and Reflections on Silver River by Ken McLeod. More information and registration below.
Individual interviews with Heidi Koppl are available in German or English. If you have a dharma question you would like clarified, you can book a time to talk with her on August 19 between 3:00-4:30 pm (Paris). Click here to make an appointment.
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Thank You So Much For Your Support!
We are still tallying the final numbers, but are so pleased to let you know that we surpassed our fundraising goal and were able to raise close to $40,000. As you know, this money will go towards improving the website and the online meditation platform, so that we can continue to spread these profound treasure teachings around the globe.Thank you so much for your practice and your support for offering these teachings online. We are genuinely grateful.
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FACILITATED GROUPS
We are now offering the opportunity to study, reflect and meditate on Tara’s Triple Excellence together with fellow students. For more information, click here.
Sangha members from Dharma House Amsterdam, who successfully participated in the TTE facilitator training, will facilitate a group for the First Excellence, starting September 13, 2021. The group will be organized in a "hybrid" form. Participants can either attend in person in Dharmahouse Amsterdam or attend online over Zoom. If you live within traveling distance of Dharma House Amsterdam and wish to connect with fellow sangha members, then this is a great opportunity to meet and practice together.
If you wish to participate in this or a future facilitated group, please fill out the form at the bottom of this page. Expressing your interest will help us to schedule new groups sooner.
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WEEKLY READING GROUPS
We will be starting a new reading group on August 26 using two books to explore the classic 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva. Please choose the time that is convenient for you and join with sangha to explore this great text.
Illuminating the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva
Chokyi Drakpa, transl. Heidi Köppl
and
Reflections on Silver River
Ken McLeod
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Meets every Thursday evening
First meeting: Thursday, August 26.
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Milarepa: Lessons from the Life and Songs
of Tibet's Great Yogi
by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
and
Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
by Garma C. C. Chang
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English language reading group meets every Tuesday evening
Next meeting: Tuesday, August 3.
8:00-9:30 pm (New York)
8:00-9:30 pm (Vienna)
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THIRD EXCELLENCE READING GROUP
Creation And Completion: Essential Points of Tantric Meditation
by Jamgon Kongtrol
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Third Excellence and experienced Vajrayana practitioners meet on the first and third Saturdays of each month to share their understandings of these profound practices.
Meets 1st & 3rd Saturday of every month
Next meeting: August 7.
Note: we will start 30 minutes later than usual
10:30 am (New York)
4:30 pm (Vienna)
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READING GROUPS IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Besides the English-speaking reading groups, we are currently hosting reading groups in Hebrew, German and Ukrainian. If you would like to start a reading group in your own language, please contact outreach@tarastripleexcellence.org.
בית הדהרמה על הכרמל פותח מועדון קריאה שבו נשוחח על ספרי דהרמה בשפה העברית. המפגשים יתקיימו פעם בשבועיים בזום, בימי שלישי בשעה 20:00. המפגש הראשון יתקיים ב-13 באפריל.
הספר הראשון בו נעסוק הוא ״התחילו במקום שבו אתם נמצאים״, מאת פמה צ׳ודרון.
להרשמה נא ליחצו כאן.
Die deutschsprachige Gruppe trifft sich einmal im Monat, um das Buch Buddha-Natur Mahayana-Uttaratantra-Shastra zu besprechen. Um der Gruppe beizutreten, sende bitte ein E-Mail an Ruth.
Українська група читає "Путівник по бардо" Чок'ї Ньїми Рінпочє, коментар на текст Целе Нацоґ Рандрьола «Дзеркало пам'ятування». Щоб приєднатися до цієї групи, будь ласка, зареєструйтеся тут.
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MONTHLY Q&A
with Lama Tenzin and Heidi Koppl
Our Q&A this month will be a video in which Lama Tenzin and Heidi Koppl answer questions asked by the Bardo Guidebook reading group. Please join us for this important teaching.
If you have a question for Lama Tenzin for a future Q&A session, please submit it by using this form. Alternately, you can ask your questions on the Forum and have them answered quickly.
Meets 2nd Saturday of every month
Next meeting: Saturday, August 14.
Note: we will start 30 minutes later than usual.
10:30 am (New York)
4:30 pm (Vienna)
Meeting ID: 886-893-203
Password: 108108
Previous Q&A videos may be found at this link on the TTE Forum. Note: you must be currently enrolled in a TTE course and logged in to the website to access this link.
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Online Group Practices for the TTE Sangha Available
A variety of online practices are available for all of us. Chant the 21 Praises to Tara along with Lama Tenzin and Ani Choying Drolma. Join a live daily online sadhana session with fellow practitioners around the world on Zoom. For details on these and other sessions every week, please refer to the listings in this directory:
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*ZOOM MEETING DETAILS
You can join the Zoom room by simply clicking the "click here" links that are provided above.
It has the password embedded in the link. Or, if you prefer, you can manually enter the Zoom room number and when prompted, enter the password.
Please check your Zoom application for updates—they happen frequently, improve the product, and sometimes Zoom won't work properly unless you have the latest version.
If you haven't already installed Zoom, then ahead of time, you will need to download the Zoom app, which is free. You can do this on your computer, or on any one of your other devices. Download the version you need here: https://zoom.us/download
You might want to check out the functions of Zoom ahead of time to figure out how to turn your camera on/off, your sound on/off, etc. Here’s a help page with a way to test it out:
We will open the Zoom room a few minutes early, so people can get comfortable with all the bells and whistles of their Zoom app.
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