Meditation Practices

Online Morning Meditation, weekdays, Monday through Friday

Please join us for Nalandabodhi Colorado’s daily meditation practice via Zoom. The session starts at 8:00 AM Mountain time and consists of a short opening chant followed by silent meditation and closing with a final short chant. The session will last approximately 30 minutes. All are welcome to join, regardless of background or experience. All are welcome!

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Outline of the online meditation practice:
• Please join the meeting on time
• Mute your microphone
• Once the opening chant is completed, the session leader, the umdze, will ring the meditation bell to commence the practice.
• Shamatha practice
• After 30 minutes, the umdze will ring the meditation bell
• Dedication of merit

Online 21 Tara Practice Monday-Thursday mornings

Nalandabodhi Colorado hosts 21 Taras practice!  Monday-Thursday  7:30-8:15 am MT via Zoom.  If you want to practice with us,  please contact Trish Flaster at tflastersprint@earthlink.net.  Come one day or more.  Your choice to practice with a caring, friendly, very dedicated group. We are also seeking umdzes for this practice.  

Sunday Morning Meditation Practice
9:30 to 11:00 am MT

On Sunday mornings, we have  calm abiding meditation from 9:30 to 11:00 am on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Sunday of the month.  All are welcome.  Address is 2229 Broadway, Boulder CO.   Entrance on the southwest corner of the house.  Please come and join us. You’re welcome to come and go during the session.  Meditation instruction available.

Please contact our Practice director, Rachel Seely, if you have any questions at rcseely@gmail.com.

Vajra Songs of Realization

On the 2nd Sunday of the month, we gather to sing Songs of Realization.  More information, including a Zoom link to participate on-line.  Access prior month recordings ….

 

Shamatha Meditation with Lojong Contemplations

On the 4th Sunday of the month, we will contemplate short, pithy sayings from the mind training tradition of wisdom and skillful means, Lojong.
 
For more information about the the lojong teachings, our friends at the Lion’s Roar share this:
 
The Lojong teachings include instruction in formless meditation, in the practice of “sending and taking” (tonglen), and in postmeditation practice—putting our meditation into action in our daily lives. These teachings are attributed to the great tenth-century Buddhist master Atisha Dipankara and became widely known after the Tibetan teacher Geshe Chekawa arranged and summarized them in a collection of fifty-nine mind-training sayings or reminders. Often referred to simply as the Atisha slogans, these encapsulate the essence of what it means to practice the Mahayana. 
 
Our practice starts with 15 – 20 minutes of Shamatha, a brief tonglen period, a bit more shamatha and ends with reading the slogans aloud.  After that we begin our discussion of the slogan which was chosen the previous month to be mediated on and contemplated.  All are welcome!