Heart Jewel Prayers with Guided Lamrim Meditations Monday to Friday, 8-9am

Heart Jewel Prayers and Lamrim meditations are heart practices of the New Kadampa Tradition. They are a daily practice at KMC Ottawa and all NKT centres throughout the world.

Through practicing Heart Jewel, we learn how to generate the right state of mind with which to meditate successfully. It empowers, purifies and, most importantly, blesses our mind, so that we can meditate at much deeper levels and gain actual experience in meditation.

Lamrim meditations are essential Buddhist meditations that guide us step-by-step towards enlightenment.

From Monday to Friday each week, we will offer Heart Jewel Prayers from 8 to 9am with a special Lamrim meditation, which will be guided by Gen Kelsang Thekchen.

Everyone can attend in-person, and all Centre Members can attend online. For more information, please contact [email protected]

Guided meditation topics for this week:

Monday Sept 9 - Our precious human life
Tuesday Sept 10 - Death and impermanence
Wednesday Sept 11 - The dangers of lower rebirth
Thursday Sept 12 - Going for refuge to Buddha, Dharma and Sangha
Friday Sept 13 - The wisdom understanding karma

Second week:
Monday Sept 16 - The first noble truth: true sufferings
Tuesday Sept 17 - The first noble truth: true sufferings
Wednesday Sept 18 - The second noble truth: true origins
Thursday Sept 19 - The fourth noble truth: true paths
Friday Sept 20 - The third noble truth: true cessations

The Heart Jewel Prayer Booklet

This short prayer booklet includes two practices revealed by the Wisdom Buddha Manjushri. By engaging in the special Guru yoga practised in conjunction with Je Tsongkhapa we can purify negativity, accumulate merit and receive blessings, and attain a very special wisdom. By engaging in the special method for relying upon the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden we can overcome obstacles to our practice and create favourable conditions so that we can nurture and increase our spiritual realizations. These two practices are the very essence of Kadampa Buddhism. If we practise them regularly and sincerely, we will reap a rich harvest of pure Dharma realizations, and eventually come to experience the supreme joy of full enlightenment.

There will be copies of this prayer booklet available to you at our Centre when you attend these sessions.

Questions? Please contact [email protected] .