Burn the Mortgage! Fire Puja and Celebration

Burn the Mortgage! Fire Puja and Celebration ~ Saturday, November 22, 2014

To celebrate the end of construction debt for KSC the lamas led the fire puja called Riwo Sangchö (Mountain Smoke Offering). Along with aromatic cedar wood and branches, silks, foods, medicinal herbs, incense, sweets, and roasted barley flour, a symbolic mortgage was burned. The meditation was accompanied with drum and cymbals. Afterwards, the Sangha and donors enjoyed light appetizers and a gratitude cake to celebrate the close of this amazing chapter in the history of Kagyu Sukha Chöling.

 Taking fire Offerings outside:

                       

Expressing the Heart of Compassion

Lama Lodru Rinpoche 

gave a public teaching entitled

 “Expressing the Heart of Compassion"  om Friday November 8.  

He talked about how we can become more skillful 

in expressing and acting from our natural concern

 for awareness and capability.   

On the weekend, he taught and gave the empowerment for  the Mahakala practice, 

which is about the reliable methods of expanding our heart understanding,