Teachings on Eight Verses of Mind Training
Every Tuesday (7:30pm)

The Eight Verses on Transforming the Mind written by the eleventh century meditator, Geshe Langri Tangpa Dorjey Sengey, is one of the most important and influential texts of mind training in the Mahayana tradition known as Lojong, literally (transforming the mind). The central themes of Lojong are enhancing compassion, cultivating balanced attitudes towards oneself and others, developing positive ways of thinking, and transforming adverse situations into conditions favourable for spiritual development. Many great Lamas often refer to The Eight Verses as one of their main sources of inspiration and motivational prayers. The meditation practice in this particular commentary is done conjointly with the visualisation of Amitabha Buddha.

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Praise of Dependent Origination by Lama Tsong Khapa
Every Thursday (7:30pm)

This poetical praise was written in the morning after Lama Tsong Khapa had direct realization of emptiness. The previous night, he dreamed of the great Indian Puditas Nagarjuna, Aryadeva, Buddhapalita, Chandrakirti, and others discussing profound and subtle points of the Madhaymika view. Buddhapalita rose and blessed Lama Tsong Khapa by placing the text on emptiness on his head that he had composed. When Lama Tsong Khapa woke up, he found that he was actually studying the very same text. While reading, he was rewarded with a direct realization of emptiness, which generated even stronger devotion in his mind to Buddha. He then wrote the Praise of Dependent Arising as an offering of praise to Buddha for his discourses on Dependent Arising - Emptiness.

The first verse of the praise reads:
"Seeing and speaking of dependent arising,
He was wisdom supreme, teacher supreme.
I bow to him (the Buddha) who knew and taught
The all-conquering dependent arising."

To find out the profound meaning of this beautiful poem with lucid commentary, you are welcome to join the teaching.