Dakini Day Puja

Dakini Day Feast Puja — Tomorrow October, 5th at 6:00 PM
At 8200 W. 106 Ave Westminster, CO 80021

Mipham Shedra warmly welcomes everyone to join us tomorrow at 6:00 PM, either in person or online, for our Dakini Day Yumka Dechen Gyalmo Feast Puja.

For those who have received Vajrayana empowerments, and particularly Dzogchen empowerments, feast practice is an important way of maintaining and renewing our samaya—the sacred commitments established through empowerment.

One of the essential Vajrayana commitments is not to abandon the unsurpassed view. In simple language, we might call this the highest form of positive mind, but its deeper meaning is pure perception: training ourselves to recognize ourselves, others, and the phenomenal world as primordially pure.

This is why Vajrayana ritual is much more than ceremony. Sadhana and feast practice are forms of guided meditation through which we train our perception. For a period of time, instead of remaining within our ordinary habitual world, we enter the mandala and practice allowing a different world to appear—the world of Vajrayogini, the world of wisdom, sacredness, and pure perception.

I sometimes compare Dharma centers to charging stations for electric cars. Many people have received empowerments, but we also need places where we can come together, practice, reconnect with the view, and recharge our samaya.

At a minimum, I encourage Vajrayana practitioners to participate in feast practice regularly—even once during each of the four seasons is a meaningful way to maintain this connection.

So tomorrow evening, come to Mipham Shedra Temple!
Monday — Dakini Day
6:00 PM
Mipham Shedra 8200 W. 106 Ave Westminster, CO 80021
In person & online

Come practice with the sangha, renew your samaya, strengthen pure perception, and enter together into the sacred world of Yumka Dechen Gyalmo (Queen of Great Bliss).

If you would like to join us online for this puja, register through the portal to receive the Zoom link: https://miphamshedra.org/all-courses/

Everyone is warmly welcome. Lhoppon Rinpoche