Karma Thegsum Choling Jacksonville warmly invites you October 2nd to join us in person or on Zoom for an evening presentation titled “Meditation: Making friends with your mind.” Khenpo Tenkyong is a resident teacher visiting from our parent monastery Karma Triyana Dharmachakra.

Khenpo Tenkyong is a dynamic teacher committed to protecting nature and spreading dharma blessings to children and adults everywhere. As a bridge between ancient ways and modern needs, Khenpo Tenkyong meets students where they are in order to build strong foundations for strong practice. Skilled in meditation, yoga, and understanding precious nature Khenpo Tenkyong’s passion for life can be felt in all of his teachings.

Visit https://kagyu.org/teachers/resident_KhenpoKarmaTenkyong for his full biography.

Schedule:

Wednesday, October 2nd

7:00pm-8:30pm

Location: 4168 Herschel Street Jacksonville FL 32210

SUGGESTED DONATIONS:

The event is by donation, please select whatever donation you would like to give.

In person or Zoom Registration:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-talk-meditation-making-friends-with-your-mind-by-khenpo-tenkyong-tickets-1021785336447

PLEASE NOTE: KTC Jax brings authentic Buddhist teachers to the Jacksonville area year-round for programs and retreats. Suggested donations are requested to offset the costs associated with holding these special events. We always greatly appreciate your generosity, but no one has ever been turned away because they couldn’t make a donation.

Khenpo Tenkyong will also be visiting Gainesville KTC for a weekend Shinay retreat October 4-6th for more information visit https://www.ktcgainesville.org/courses/shinay-khenpo-tenkyong

Save the date:

Lama Karma Drodhul will be visiting KTC Jacksonville October 19 & 20th Teaching on and giving the Boddhisatva vow. Invite coming soon.

Karma Thegsum Choling Jacksonville warmly invites you August 10th & 11th to attend a precious opportunity on Zoom from Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Monastery President, Lama Lodro Lhamo. Lama Lodro will teach the Guru Yoga of the 8th Karmapa Mikyö Dorje. The power of this sadhana holds great blessing and purifies negativity. The Karmapa said that hearing this sadhana once leads to liberation from rebirth in the lower realms. All are welcome to attend this online teaching.

All may join on Zoom. If you attend in-person at KTC Jacksonville, we will receive the teachings from Lama Lodro on a large screen.

Mikyö Dorje was one of the most renowned of the Karmapas, a great meditation master as well as a prolific and learned scholar. Karmapa Mikyö Dorje composed the The Four-Session Guru Yoga during the 16th Century. This sadhana is a short yet powerful practice for developing the realization of devotion mahamudra. As it is one of the principal practices of the Karma Kagyu school, many monastic and lay practitioners recite this text daily.

Lama Lodro Lhamo Biography: The first woman to serve in the role of KTD President, Lama Lodro Lhamo has been a student of Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche since 1990. She completed three three-year retreats at Karme Ling Retreat Center and received her full bhikshuni ordination in 2008. Lama Lodro Lhamo is also the women’s retreat master at Karme Ling and has a Master’s degree in Buddhist Studies from Columbia University. She is fluent in Chinese, English, and Tibetan.

Schedule:

Saturday, August 10th

10am – 12pm- Session 1

2 pm – 4 pm- Session 2

Sunday, August 11th

10am – 12pm- Session 3

2 pm – 4 pm- Session 4

SUGGESTED DONATIONS:

The event is by donation; those who wish to give at the $108 sponsorship level will receive gifts of a special Dharma necklace and printed commentary and text of the Four-Session Guru Yoga. To give at this $108 level, choose “Sponsorship” in the Tickets section of this event.

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PLEASE NOTE: KTC Jax brings authentic Buddhist teachers to the Jacksonville area year-round for programs and retreats. Suggested donations are requested to offset the costs associated with holding these special events. We always greatly appreciate your generosity, but no one has ever been turned away because they couldn’t make a donation.

Karma Thegsum Choling Jacksonville is happy to welcome back Lama Tsultrim Yeshe the first weekend in February. Lama Yeshe’s kind mid-west demeanor and gracious presentation of dharma teachings are sure to bring benefit to our daily lives and practice. 

PUBLIC TALK:

Using Life’s Manure For Spiritual Growth

February 2nd, Friday Night 7:00-8:30pm

We can face many difficult situations as we go through life. No matter how hard we try to avoid problems and pain they still are present in our lives. Rather than trying to get away from or being controlled by painful past experiences, this program will show you how to use difficult, even traumatic, experiences to grow and develop. The program covers trauma, anger, self-loathing, and depression. Just as a flower transforms manure into a blossom, you can learn, through love and nurturing, to grow, be happier and be more content. The techniques are forgiveness, love, compassion, mindfulness, and understanding. Participants will learn methods they can apply to their daily lives when they return home.

TEACHING: Emotional Healing Weekend Workshop

February 3rd-4th, Saturday and Sunday

10:00am-Noon and 2:00p-4:00pm

Sometimes it seems like difficulties and painful emotions follow us around like our shadow, but it doesn’t have to be this way. While difficulties in life are unavoidable, suffering is optional. This program will explore why some emotions leave us wounded and how to encourage emotions that heal and lead to happiness. We will also explore themes of past trauma, negative childhood experiences, grief, self-compassion, and resiliency.

Refuge Ceremony February 3rd, Saturday 7:00-8:00pm

In Person

Gainesville KTC Losar Teaching with Lama Tsültrim Yeshe:

Bringing the Buddha’s Teachings into Daily Life

February 9 – Public dharma talk 7:00-8:30pm

February 10-11 – Weekend teachings 10am-4:00pm

Being a dharma practitioner is not contrary to being successful in your mundane life. The teachings show us how to navigate the stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness, and death with skill and wisdom. As we progress on the path through listening, contemplating, and applying the teachings, we find growing satisfaction, happiness, and harmony in our lives. The path leads to seeing our mundane life and our spiritual life as inseparable.

For more information visit https://www.ktcgainesville.org/courses/Buddha-Daily-Life

About Lama Tsultrim Yeshe:

Lama Tsultrim Yeshe (John Samuelson) has been a student of Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche since 1989. He completed the first three-year retreat at Karme Ling Under the direction of Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche earning the title “Retreat Lama.” He took novice monk vows in 1994 from Tai Situ Rinpoche and fully ordained monastic vows in 2008 from Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche.

Lama Yeshe is the resident Lama at the Hay River Karma Thegsum Choling located in Western Wisconsin. He travels throughout the country to other Buddhist centers to teach and lead retreats, as well as holistic learning centers like the Omega Institute.

He worked for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections for 8 years as a prison Chaplain. He continues to do volunteer work in the prison teaching meditation, Buddhism and giving guidance. He has gained valuable experience working with inmates in a medium security prison. Many of them having difficult and abusive childhoods, anger management problems, and high levels of anxiety and stress.

Lama Yeshe has a BS degree in Sociology from the University of Oklahoma and did graduate work in Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He taught Sociology 4 years at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.