Buddha’s Secret Golden Age Prophecy

Buddha’s Secret Golden Age Prophecy

With the advent of Artificial Intelligence, war drones, modified food, disease, continuous war, rampant materialism, addiction and climate change it may seem like the world is getting worse. So how is it that the world will get better?Khentrul Rinpoche is giving the Kalachackra Empowerment July 23-25th online. This Empowerment is often linked to a Golden Age of World Peace but many people do not understand why. The secret lies in Buddha’s prophecy for a Golden Age of Peace and Harmony. Find out more in Rinpoche’s upcoming talk.

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Unified Sangha Stupa Consecration Ceremony

Unified Sangha Stupa Consecration Ceremony

After much anticipation, Khentrul Rinpoche and members of the Sangha will consecrate the Unified Sangha Stupa in Belgrave, Victoria. We have invited members of all traditions of Buddhism to take part as the Stupa represents the unification of the Universal Sangha that is needed to manifest the 2nd Golden Age of Peace and Harmony in our world. All are welcome to attend the event rain or shine in the 21 Taras Garden of Abundance at the Tibetan Rime Buddhist Institute.

1:30 PM Tea and Refreshments served to the Venerable Sangha
2:00 PM Consecration Prayers

Creating Unity and Harmony for the Golden Age of Dharma
This stupa strengthens our bonds, enabling us to establish the Golden Age of Dharma ‘Dzokden’ for the benefit of all beings.The significance of this stupa dates back to the time of the Buddha. The Buddha created 8 types of Stupa that represented different aspects of his life and death. This was constructed by the local inhabitants of the kingdom of Magadha to increase the unity and harmony within the realm.The sangha unifying stupa is characterised by its four octagonal steps with equal sides representing the four immeasurable, the steps are 8 sided, totalling 32 in number. There is a Bhumpa and base representing the Buddha’s body and the thirteen layers at the top of the stupa are the 13 Dharma wheels representing the top half of the Buddha’s body.

Benefits of Being Interconnected with the Stupa
A Stupa represents all aspects of the Dharma; it is the Dharmakaya, the perfect mind of all fully enlightened beings. Circumambulating stupas, or prostrating and making offering becomes Dharma. And Dharma is the ultimate the cause of happiness.

Purifying Without Hardship
Physical representations of the Buddha, like the stupa, are said to cause liberation on seeing and benefit beings immensely. The wind blowing over a stupa, the rainwater touching a stupa, the earth around a Stupa are blessed. Therefore going around or seeing or touching or prostrating or offering in front of a Stupa purifies negative karma in a very effective kind. All these actions to purify our mind are easy to take.Creating Conditions for Enlightenment.
Actions towards a Stupa plant the seed for everlasting happiness and absolute freedom and enlightenment. This is because the law of cause and effect and the power of the holy objects.

18 Benefits of Building Stupas
Volunteers, patrons who donate funds, and organizers will accumulate merit and reap benefits in future lives from their contribution.

1) One will be reborn in a royal family.
2) One will get a beautiful body.
3) One’s speech will be entrancing.
4) One’s mere sight will be a great joy for the others.
5) One will have a charming and attractive personality.
6) One will be knowledgable in the five Bodhisattva sciences.
7) One will become a support (an example for all).
8) One will be praised from all directions.
9) One will be inclined to sounds and words of Dharma.
10) One will live only with happiness.
11) One will be venerated both by men and gods.
12) One will obtain great riches.
13) One will be granted a long life.
14) All one’s wishes will be fulfilled.
15) One’s beneficial activity and wisdom will grow.
16) One’s body will become as indestructible as the Dorje.
17) One will be reborn In the higher realms of existence.
18) One will reach quickly perfect Awakening.

Online & In-person: 6-Week Course: What’s Real? Intro to Buddhist Philosophy

Online & In-person: 6-Week Course: What’s Real? Intro to Buddhist Philosophy

More Details to come soon.

This course is for the Australia and European Timezones

There will be an North and South American timezones version available on Dzokden

To register for the North and South American Timezone version of the course in English, Espanol, or Portuguese.

SCHEDULE
This schedule is based on Melbourne time. If you are unsure if the time is correct for your timezone please convert it yourself.
Melbourne, Australia

7:30 PM Septemer 18
7:30 PM October 2
7:30 PM October 9
7:30 PM October 16
7:30 PM October 23
7:30 PM October 30

ABOUT THE 6-Week COURSE

What is real? What does really matter in life? How can we deal with the many ups and downs that we face? 

In this 6-week-course, Rinpoche will encourage us to look deeper into the very nature of our experience for developing insight into what is truly meaningful in life.

Although the sheer extensiveness and profundity of the Buddhist teachings may easily overwhelm a newcomer, Rinpoche teaches it in a way that is suitable for everyone. With his simplicity and directness, he invites us to focus upon the essence of the teachings and, from that, to step by step expand our understanding further.

INTRODUCTION TO THIS COURSE

Can we live our lives without any problem whatsoever? The answer is no. Unfortunately, this is not possible. Is there then any solution for this limitation? Yes, and the solution is very surprising: it has to do with the fact that actually there is nothing ‘real’. All of what we think is ‘reality’ is not reality at all.

There is no ‘real reality’, neither for me nor for you. And yes, we all have a lot of fixations and neurosis which we think are real. Worse than that, we wrongly think we are actually very sophisticated. 

There is no real reality, but we create many temporary realities. In order to get more clarity regarding those, we call them ‘relative reality’. Until we do not break our fixations and bring clarity to our minds, we are not free from anything at all. In this course we will learn how to free ourselves. It is indeed a gradual process, we need to remove our veils of obscurations layer by layer.

FOR WHOM IS THIS COURSE FOR?

If you are new to Buddhism or skeptical about it or towards any spiritual path, this is the perfect opportunity for you to bring your questions and arguments to Rinpoche and get to know the basics of this ancient tradition. Discover why it is so relevant for our modern times. 

This course is not necessarily only for those who are new to Buddhism. It is true that often practitioners tend to grasp too much into the so-called ‘higher’ teachings. But, if a teaching or practice will be really ‘high’ or not relies strongly on the mind of the one who is practising. Do not miss this opportunity to learn directly from Rinpoche and refresh your previous understanding of the fundamentals through the lens of the Vajrayana.

SUMMARY OF THE CLASSES:

1 – Schrödinger’s Cat

Deceptive Appearances: why and how do things appear? 

2 – The Mind Makes the Difference

Attitudes, perspectives and emotions: how to make them useful?

3 – Interconnected Realities 

Understanding the connection between all of our life experiences: how to manage them well? What does interdependent relationship mean? 

4 – The Power of Clarity and Decision

With clarity in what to rely on, we can learn to take every situation as an opportunity 

5 – Body & Mind Relationship

Looking in detail at the body and mind relationship: how to make our own minds much more pure and powerful, so that even our bodies rejuvenate?

6 – Death: The Greatest Magic Trick of All Time

The so-called death is actually an unusual opportunity to break through our relative reality. How to understand that we actually never die and how to take it as an opportunity?

SUGGESTED TEXTS

Unveiling Your Sacred Truth Book 1Khentrul Rinpoché explores the external reality of the world that we encounter on a daily basis. Through a wealth of practical advice, he provides us with a variety of methods for working with the many ups and downs that we face. He then encourages us to probe deeper into the very nature of our experience in order to develop insight into what is truly important to us and how to make the most of the precious opportunities that this life has to offer.

HOW DO I ACCESS THE COURSE?
After you register prior to the online course, you will be sent an email containing all of the information to log into learn.dzokden.org and follow along. The course will be held through “Zoom“. In order to access the sessions, you need to download the Zoom App onto the device through which you want to join.

We will provide you with the Zoom link (as well as Zoom Meeting-ID and Password) created by Dzokden. You will need this link (or alternatively Zoom Meeting-ID and Password) to access the online sessions. The Zoom link (as well as Zoom Meeting-ID and Password) will be provided at the latest two days before the online event in your email as well as in the Dzokden learning center.
Access to Video Materials Afterwards

The retreat access and all the prayers will be provided for you in Dzokden’s new online learning center (Khentrul Rinpoche’s International Organization). We encourage everyone to connect to the live-streamed retreat in real time but if that is not possible, you can still log in to the learning center after the retreat and access all of the retreat content. This retreat material will not be accessible online to people outside of the learning center.PROGRAM FEESWe have many costs to make Khentrul Rinpoche’s teachings available to you. The platforms we use, the center to house volunteers, their food, our servers and many more things are not free. Therefore we can not make our courses free without cost. Because we have students in all areas of the world we have adjusted for the cost of living in various countries. Thank you for understanding our decisions on how we can make this accessible to our global family. If your ability to pay makes it difficult to attend this program, we will make every effort to make attendance possible. Please email [email protected] to discuss a lower offering amount or a full scholarship. No one is turned away for lack of money.OFFERING DANA TO RINPOCHEIt’s customary for students to make an offering of Dana to the teacher. As this is an online event, you can make the offering of Dana to Rinpoche here.

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS?
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Online: Other-Emptiness & the Heart Sutra with Khentrul Rinpoche

Online: Other-Emptiness & the Heart Sutra with Khentrul Rinpoche

The essence of the heart sutra is often taught from the point of view of self-emptiness (Rangtong). Khentrul Rinpoche will give a commentary on the Heart Sutra in honour of Jetsun Taranatha’s Parinirvana from the perspective of the Other-Emptiness (Shentong) perspective.

SCHEDULE BY TIMEZONE
7:30 PM Melbourne, Australia Time* Event is located here.
5:30 Pm Hong Kong Time
11:30 AM Vienna, Austria
5:30 AM New York
2:30 AM San Francisco