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Dear Lopön Chandra,
thank you very much for your teachings. But like all good teachings, they gave way to more questions 🙂
Could you explain the differences of peaceful – semi-wrathful – wrathful and why wrathful Taras sit on moon discs and not on sun discs?
And I have some questions on the 21 aspects of Tara: Is there a reason why Tara has 21 aspects (a myth or story to this?). Do the numbers of the Taras have a meaning (numerological)? Are the aspects connected to the next following one? Do the 21 Taras in the circle have special places and are they associated with directions (like the Dakinis)?
I also wanted to ask you if you know Werewere Liking, I thought about her as a possible Jigjé Chenmo.
In this past week, in the practices of the sadhana for Jigten Sumle Gyalma, not only did this Tara come forth out of the wondrous Mandala, but also Dipa Ma! I barely know her, but I absolutely felt her presence and the blessing of this Living Prayer and Love. I couldn’t even help it as tears streamed down my face in response.
Ellen Booth Church is a modern day 10th Tara for me. Her playful spirit imbues practice with richness and light. I love dancing with her!
OH NO! I just realized I missed the last week! I thought there was one more in Part 1! I had people here working on my house and could not get privacy. See you in the fall? I guess I will just watch the videos. So sorry to have missed it!
Hold the phone Michelle!
We DO have one more next week!
Check the recordings though for last Tuesday’s webcast … it was awfully good 🙂
See you THIS coming Tuesday!
Isabelle
Have you come across Dr Robin DiAngelo? EXCELLENT! Especially for white progressive Americans. We are NOT “the choir”! I just found her. Listened to this excellent talk and ordered her book “White Fragility: Why its So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism”. Very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ey4jgoxeU&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2ZXWEEEf8kZ2R5gmZAda3MjCB7CzPaOCSnS1CpUet3Yoht1wFjp62JEYo
https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=white+fragility&qid=1591878745&sr=8-1
Hello Everyone – I haven’t posted here yet but I wanted to say I’m really enjoying the Spotify Playlist. I listen to it on my morning walk. My world is enlivened with Tara as I walk and listen and sometimes quietly sing/chant along.
I also wanted to share this link to a story I read. It is about the Haenyeo women free divers of Jeju Island, South Korea. I think they are modern day Tara #1. They needed to support their families and started free diving for food which just happens to be a type of Conch!!! My husband, son and I were on Jeju in 2010 and got to experience their courage, joyfulness and loud banter. They removed suffering and obstacles for their families and villages when it was needed because men died at sea or during times of war. Enjoy reading.
https://www.patagonia.com/stories/honorary-haenyeo/story-86484.html?utm_source=em&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=051020_mothers_day&ett=1550975053
Here are two commentaries
http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/TheSmileOfSunAndMoon.pdf
https://www.lamayeshe.com/sites/default/files/pdf/1020_pdf_0.pdf
Thank you Suzanne – I needed to have Lopon Chandra have a look before approving … Here are her comments
1) This one is in the Longchen Nyingtig lineage and is the text we based our statues off of at Tara Mandala. It is older and the English translation is a bit archaic. The same author, Khenchen Palden Sherab, also did the more accessible, updated, and cleaner English version which is the primary text I recommend for the class: Tara’s Enlightened Activity. It’s similar but better and more updated.
http://www.skydancerpress.com/book/tara.html
2) This looks like a very good resource, very in depth explanation on the text in a traditional way, which is nice for those who want to go ‘down the rabbit hole’. There may be some variations on the Tara iconography, but from what I saw looking over the first sections, that doesn’t seem to be an issue.
https://www.lamayeshe.com/sites/default/files/pdf/1020_pdf_0.pdf
I found the name od the “sky meditation,” …..namkha arte
Hi Everyone – I met Lama Tsultrim in 2005 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in the Bay Area and have been following her ever since. I studied Green Tara with her at Tara Mandala in 2010 when the 21 Tara statues had not arrived yet and the Temple construction was still in progress. I’ve always been fascinated with the many aspects of Tara and welcome this opportunity to delve into them formally under the guidance of scholar and teacher Lopon Chandra. Studying and practicing more aspects of Tara offers me personal expansion and grace and I want to reflect Tara’s principles and qualities back into our distressed world to help replenish it. Thank you All for creating this healing environment together.
By the way, I understand that the structure will be two Tara aspects over the next weeks but I must admit that I felt a bit overwhelmed with the introduction of a second one today. – mica-Meri Furnari
Hi Mica
I first heard of Lama Tsultrim from a teaching she did at Spirit Rock too! She was speaking in an event with Lama Palden.
Hopefully you are settling in by now. Yes – we could be doing each Tara for a week or a month! But in the moment, Lopӧn Chandra addressed practicing in the last webcast, and we added some suggestions in week 2 for how to work with 2 Taras a week. Basically take it easy… commit to one practice each day. How you divide up the time can be a work in progress… alternate days or do several days in a row with each. As the practices are rather short, you could also do one practice in the morning and one in the evening. Or perhaps sit, center and see which one is knocking on the door. On days that you have time, add some journaling, art, FYD or other practice to take it deeper. Let it be intuitive and nourishing.
Hello Everyone,
I am Athne Machdane from Casper, Wyoming. I have been practicing Green Tara since taking the class in October of 2019. I have always felt the Goddess within me, manifesting early on through my gender identity and spirituality. I feel and connect with Goddess archetypes from many cultures and periods o history, there is so much common ground in these stories and beliefs. Practicing Green Tara has brought this understanding to deeper realms within and beyond. Finding and sharing this journey with this community and all of my beloved communities is a great honor. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting social isolation has forced me to really go deep into practice and take refuge, a lot of demon work also…
I’m really looking forward to deepening my connection with Tara through this class and practices. I express my profound gratitude for these teachings and opportunities to practice them in my life.
Namaste
Athne Machdane
Hello everyone!
Just to share how powerful was yesterdays meditation with Tara Nyurma Pamo. Wow! she felt really powerful, I even began to shake, it was a strong fierce energy. Very magnetizing also. Listening to the conch shell while chanting the mantra I felt here fierceness calling us to turn around and look inside our hearts and bowing to Her.
The energy was so powerful I had to move, dance and embody it like a wild animal.
Never happened to me before. But it felt really good to feel that fierceness that is almost always forbidden for us women to express.
I didnt know before Harriet and I loved her story and could feel her power and determination. I love that we have these archetypes of fierce,strong women to look upon in contrast to the nice, sweet, sexy lady that is the archetype of todays society; Although I think that it is slowly changing.
Hello everyone – I’m Ute from Germany and I’m very glad about the chance to attend this online course about the 21 Taras. I joined the Call to Practise against the Covid 19 epidemia a few weeks ago guided by Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton and I’m eager to learn from her more.
First of all I beg your pardon if I do mistakes in English. I don’t need English language in my daily profession as a natural practitioner psychotherapist and yoga teacher in Germany. That causes problems to follow the lessons in English but I’ll do my very best.
Well, I hope it will work, because I’m a little bit familiar with Tara since nearly 17 years. During this time I learned about her in German language. I’m very happy that several books of Lama Tsültrim are translated into German.
The first time I’ve heard about Tara was when I became friend with a lady doing Buddhist practice in 1999. I learned that her main deity was the green Tara. So I became interested and started to read several books about green Tara, one from Lama Thubten Yeshe, translated by Sylvia Wetzel, another from Gonsar Rinpoche, and one from Susa Nientiedt and I learned to chant the Tara mantra which I really love.
Later on a book about Tibetan Mystic from Lama A. Govinda showed me in a well understandable way for layperson, many backgrounds of Buddhism.
Then my friend taught me about Machig Labdrön and so I found and read the books of Lama Tsültrim Alione in German: Women of Wisdom in Tibet, Wisdom rising, Feeding Demons, and I had the chance to meet Lama Tsültrim in Frankfurt two times, once for a Prajna Paramita training and the second time last year, when she introduced her book Wisdom rising/ 5 Dakinis. 4 years ago during a Tara retreat with Sylvia Wetzel I learned a rezitation and praise of the 21 Taras which touched me deep inside.
I’m pracising several spiritual healing work from different sources and I’m very grateful for all this knowledge and for all these experinces that was given to me in the last 25 years of my 66 year lasting life.
The spiritual ways I found – and Prajna Paramita, the Heart Sutra and Tara in all her emanations are like the main center in it – helped me to overcome most of all fear, but also anger, and jealousy, and other bad habits.
But they also helped me to develop confidence, courage, love and compassion. In my daily life I try to share all these gifts of life with my family, my neighbours, my clients and students. Just to mention a little bit of the great benefit of my spiritual practise with Tara and Prajna Paramita I’ve got.
But there are many inner obstacles in my way left to work with. One ist the lack of continious meditation practise. Actually my personal, family and business situation needs more than 24 hours per day. So that is my deepest heart wish to the 1. Tara to eliminate the obstacles for a continious meditaiton practise. Sorry for this long text, maybe it should have been briefer.
With love and gratitude
Ute
Hello everyone,
I have been drawn to Tara for a long time, maybe over a decade, and it’s a little inexplicable to me because I am not Buddhist. I do have a family member who is, however, and we kind of bonded over Tara a little! Well, I’m trying to remember exactly how I was introduced to Tara but I can’t seem to recall I was just always very intrigued by the idea of Boddhisattvas. My birth name is actually Chandra, and I changed it to Amber because everyone always pronounced it wrong but I wish I had kept it. I have only received the Greet Tara lung (thank you Tara Mandala), but I do the White Tara mantra as well. I have years of experience with energy and other forms of healing, and I like that this aspect of the 21 Tara’s course was featured in the course description. I’m very excited about this course and very grateful I am able to attend (but I missed the first day, unfortunately).
~ Amber
Greetings Everyone!
My name is Jay and I live in near Minneapolis Minnesota in the US. I am new to Tara practice. I attended the Green Tara virtual retreat 2 weeks ago. I have practiced Soto Zen for 25+ years, yoga for 15+ years and more recently Spring Forest Qigong.
In recent years I find connecting to Feminine Divine and having some form of Deity practice to be necessary. I frequently experience the ‘natural world’ as conscious, aware – ‘observing me, observing them’ ( all very non-paranoid) and communicating – but the content of the communication is unknown. I also have visions at times which contain beings who are divine and appear female. I experience awe and reverence to all of these this!
I am an artist. In recent years, my work has been exclusively digital photography macro images of flowers I grow. The theme or investigation is finding, recording, exploring Divine consciousness in these flowers.
So, intentions: take up a daily formal practice of embodying the Feminine Divine – seems an obvious ‘next step’ given these experiences and the art I make. Also, personally I have been experiencing much adverse emotion since the pandemic started and I wish to help in the world while being secluded for now – Tara practice seems a powerful medicine in both these cases.
Looking forward to meeting and traveling with each of you!
Blessings,
Jay
My son does the same thing with his photography Jay! He has been intuitively drawn to macro photography, especially images of flowers and other things in nature since he was very young. I practice Qigong as well, and Spring Forest was one of the first “schools” I learned from. Well, nice to meet you and I hope you enjoy the class.
~ Amber
Hello, I’m Sara from south of France (a very little mountain village in Alpes de haute provence). I’m very happy to participate to this course. Sorry, my writing in english is not good and it’s difficult for me to communicate in this langage. Also, it’s the first time for me that I will follow a teaching in english. It’s a big challenge but I’m very interested in Tara Practice. Thank you very much to give us the opportunity to learn, practice and be inspired by Tara.
Hello everybody,
I am a member of the Austrian Tara Mandala Sangha, regularly doing the Wisdom Rising Dakini Mandala Practice after having been at a retreat that was lead by Lama Tsultrim in Austria in 2018.
In November 2019 Lopön Chandra taught the Chöd of Namkhai Norbu in France and I was lucky to be able to attend this retreat, learning and practicing Chöd since than (nearly 🙂 every day. I have little experience in the Tara Practice but felt drawn to it since I came in touch, chanting with the Austian Sangha for rain and against epidemics in 2019 and now again. Lopön Chandras recently given online-teachings on the 20thed Tara made the practice so powerful that I decided to attend this course.
Practicing has been of great help to me, especially in this days, learning not to get lost in “hopes and fears” but having the possibility to remember (again and again) who we are and to be able to feel connected although physically separated.
Having a tool for transformation is such a blessing and I am really thankful to have found teachers like Lopön Chandra and Lama Tsultrim who combine profound intellectual knowledge and compassion. And that leads me to one of the things I hope to learn here, a deeper feeling and understanding of compassion (in contrast to commiseration => in German Mitgefühl instead of Mitleid) also of what wrathful or semi-wrathful compassion is.
So I am looking forward to the coming weeks and to coming to know all of you
lots of rainbow love, Barbara
Hi all,
My name is Camille and I am also new to the study of the Taras. I have a couple of reasons why I am taking and am interested in 21 Taras online course. The world feels very intense and strained right now on many levels. I feel that an opportunity to participate in the Befriending Fear & Embodying Compassion online course would help me learn how to meet these challenges with strength and compassion as I become a new mother. What better time to channel goddesses than when you are going to be a new mom in a pandemic! Secondly, I am down to take part in anything that stokes my inner fire and expand my horizons. And I just want to learn about some badass goddesses. Looking forward to the class!
Hello, I’ve been practising the Tara 20 for a few weeks now after joining the facebook live link with Lopön Chandra and found it very inspiring. I feel connected to the Tara energy and had some knowledge of Green Tara but feel drawn to know more, deepen the practice and use it lovingly for the benefit of all beings.
It is an exciting time and a real privilege to be able to join. I love the fact it is feminine and empowering. I am also inspired by the beauty of this tradition on all levels.
My ultimate goal is the awaken fully to the true nature of reality.
I am from Ireland, living in Scotland and am on furlough. I am using this time to deepen spiritual practice and contribute to the world on the subtle levels. Looking forward to the next few weeks xxx
I have been extremely fortunate to be able to attend Lopon Chandra’s classes in San Francisco when I still lived there. I am now in Seattle, surprised and stressed by our sudden lesson in precariousness, and yet delighted to be able to Zoom in to the SF Dharma Collective, where she teaches on Wednesday evenings with Eve Ekman.
I am transgendered, non-binary, was assigned female at birth, and transitioned to a less-female-looking appearance twenty-three years ago. I have been a rabid feminist the whole time. 🙂 I originally came to Buddhist practice through the writings of D.T. Suzuki, and started sitting zazen many years ago. Sitting with several teachers at the SFDC has broadened my understanding of Buddhist thought and practice, but I feel especially drawn to Chandra’s guidance in Tibetan tantric traditions: by her simultaneously pragmatic and compassionate emphasis on coming home to the body, which is enormously freeing to me as a survivor of childhood abuse; and by her clearly inspired intention to bring to light the many, long-obscured women’s contributions to Buddhist traditions that are coming together here in the West. Signing up for this class was simply the obvious thing to do.
At this moment, my wish is to maintain balance for myself and to make whatever small contributions I can to restore it to the culture surrounding me–a culture that has forgotten, among so many things, its connections to life on Earth in all of its complexity. May we be well. And may we be, and remain, awake.
Hi Everyone,
I have spent many years studying yoga and have held an interest in learning more about the incarnations of Tara. This course came at an auspicious time, as I was searching for something to study during our shelter in place here in San Francisco, California. I study Yoga with Chandra and am very much looking forward to learning with all of you!
Thank you,
Sabrina
I am new to the study of the Taras. With more teachings available through Zoom, I was able to attend a couple of the ‘Wisdom Rising’ sessions. I am looking forward to continuing my learning. Namaste.
Hello everyone, I am so happy to be here!
I am Isabella, nice to meet all of you!
I have been following Tibetan Buddhism, mainly the Mahayana tradition, since I was 18, … a long time ago 😉
My reason to take the 21 Tara retreat is that Tara is my practice, as it was given to me by my guru, Geshe Jampa Gyatso, who passed away 13 years ago and who has given me several initiations of Green Tara and White Tara. I live in Italy, and since the beginning of the lockdown ( 57 days today!) I have started a 100.000 mantras retreat and do the 21 Tara praises daily, as also advised by the Dalai Lama…and so it would be wonderful to deepen my knowledge and Practice with your help.
I am a conference interpreter/translator, and have been translating many meditation retreats/courses over the years, including Tibetan Lamas (from English, as I don’t speak Tibetan -yet!!). I had the immense honour of interpreting for His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 2017, when he came to Italy for a conference on Mindscience. I know Tara Mandala and Lama Tsultrim as I had the great honour of translating for Lama when she offered a Feeding the Demons course in Tuscany, years ago, and I have been following her since, read some of her books, including Wisdom Rising, and since corona virus has hit Italy so hard and I am home I have been following all FB live events.
I love the Dakini energy and feel truly blessed to have crossed paths with Lama.
And I feel very excited to embark in this new journey with all of you!!
Isabella
Hello!
I was given the Tara practice in 2001 in the context of the Triratna Buddhist Order and have been very happy gently deepening my understanding and connection to her over the years. I grew interested in the Praise a couple of years later and after lots of reading and investigation, seemed to settle on the images and mantras outlined by Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche in his wonderful book The Smile of Sun and Moon. I feel very lucky to have come across a course that addresses these same figures who have become so central to my life. I’m really looking forward to some systematic practice with them. I live in the UK and am happily confined to the house with my wife and two boys (10 and 18). Much metta, Gunasara
I began reading Wisdom Rising shortly after the quarantine begun, after it was on my shelf since December 2018. About the same time saw an online 20th Tara Retreat taught by another tradition, which I attended. Then I felt drawn back to Tara Mandala and signed up for this program. I’m also excited to hear and see more from Lopön Chandra, whom I watched on YouTube and her 20th Tara meditation. It seems like a rather auspicious coming together.
I have just joined and am so excited to be attending. I am a long-time practitioner but I have yearned for a more complete connection to Tara. See you Tuesday.
Good morning from the west coast rain forest of British Columbia,
I am grateful to be joining this exploration of the divine feminine with you all. In particular my dear dharma heart friend Heather who has guided me so generously to this opportunity.
Through our common aspiration to awaken speedily for all beings, I look forward to knowing each of you in the weeks and months ahead.
“In sweet dharma”
Sandy
Tashi deleg from Germany 🙂
So glad that Lopön Chandra is offering this very special course…in these challenging times!
As long term student and translator of Lama Tsültrim’s, I feel deeply connected with Tara in her 21 forms (which vary from tradition to tradition), and I started to investigate them 20 years ago, including learning Tara dances.
Coming to Tara Mandala for the first time, I was struck by these marvellous Tara statues, and when I returned the next time, all statues had received their colored halos.
Lama started a retreat by introducing each Tara with her mantra and meaning; then we would circumambulate the temple with a candle and place it in front of the Tara that called us most strongly…
In my first Drubchen, my karma yoga was taking care of the candles in front of each Tara several times per day, so I had the chance to become more familiar with their peaceful smiles or frowning brows and fangs.
Last time I got the beautiful postcard set and can pick whichever Tara feels right now…
When Lama brought up the idea for the Tara drupchö 2 years ago, I was very excited but unable to attend because I did not have the chance to come over in spring. Now we are receiving the core teachings of that drupchö in our virtual mandala, and I am very grateful to have this opportunity.
May Tara in all her forms pacify the enormous suffering in our world
Yamuna
Hi, Yamuna, I am wondering who you learned Tara dances from – I am a student of Lama Tsultrim, and I’ve also done some study with Prema Dasara over the past few years; I have found her approach very accessible and also heart-opening; doing moving meditation in a group has opened a different kind of awareness of Tara energy in me. There is a mandala dance she created for the 21 Taras which is the only other practice of all of them that I’ve done; after a 4-day retreat learning that mandala dance, I had the most amazing dreams for awhile – there’s something so powerful about mandala work wound together with dance. I hope I can start to feel as free an expression with the Taras in this venue; I’m grateful for direct, short practices for each with the emphasis on the energy of each Tara.
I also have enjoyed the insight of circumnambulating the Nirmanakaya level of the temple while feeling which Taras I’m aligned with during different retreats. I always slip into the temple during breaks and spend some time with them. Reading your experience moved me to reach out – hope you are enjoying the course. I am a bit behind as I’m working full time still (in healthcare – I’m busier than ever) but am taking a few days off and beginning to catch up.
I also have taken the Green Tara course twice in the last 6 years; I didn’t do much with it after my first time through, although simpler versions of Green Tara practice have been in my practice life off and on for over 30 years. Now I’m more moved to practice this “very Vajrayana” version of it more actively and loved learning it once again from Charlotte, and it definitely feels like the practice I need in my life during these difficult times.
Interesting how I had 2-3 retreats planned this year, all of which I have had to cancel or which have changed to online, but I’ve been able to participate in even more events and retreats during the off and on mini-vacations I’m spending being quiet and restful at home.
Happy to finally settle into this course more deeply (at last – am writing this on June 6th.)
Emaho!
Anne Ramey
Dear Anne,
Thank you for asking – it feels good to know someone here is sharing my experience and path as a dancer.
My main dance teacher is the Newar Vajracharya priest and dance master Prajwal Ratna Vajracharya, who’s father Ratna Kaji was a famous scholar priest in the Newari tradition. The Vajracharyas say they have 1000 dances for 1000 deities, of course incl. Tara dances.
I went to Kathmandu to study with Prajwal back in 1999 and 2000 (he was Lama Tsültrim’s and Miranda Shaw’s translator in Nepal, this is how I met both of them live in 2000 when they came to Cologne.)
Prajwal asked me to organise a 3 months tour in Germany in 2000, which I organised and during which I assisted and translated. In summer 2000 he moved to the US, later he settled in Portland and opened the first Newar temple where he is teaching today: http://www.dancemandal.com
I performed various Tara and Dakini dances during tsog in several White Dakini Drubchens at Tara Mandala (and loved doing the 16 offering goddesses, dakini mandala and daka dance as well).
Yes, I learnt the mandala dance from Trishana, one of Prema Dasara’s teachers over here in Germany (while translating for the course) and I accompanied a group of nuns from Kopan (Kachoe Gakyil Ling) who were presenting this mandala dance in a modified form during their tours in 2003, 2004 and 2005 in Germany and Austria. I love the melodies and the profound texts, and the way women (and men, of course) can learn to embody the various “tastes” of the Taras. A part of the movements is from Charya dance, and from Odissi and “dances of universal peace”.
So let’s dance the Taras 🙂
I have wanted to learn about the 21 Taras for a long time and now gratefully, there is some wish fulfillment in being able to do just that!
At the onset of the pandemic I learned of the practice of the 20th Tara being offered through Tara Mandala and was inspired by Lopon Chandra and by the practice of the 20th Tara. In those very early days, it gave me a way to take hold of all the energies that were swirling around within and without and to direct them for the subsiding of the pandemic. My intention for this course is to nourish a wholesome focus in this time and to come together with others to learn and to uphold the Dharma for the benefit of all beings.
I am deeply grateful that my friend Esi sent me the YouTube link of the Video of 21 Tara. I was deeply touched by Lopön Chandra. Now I have the opportunity to take part in this Course with my sister and my friend. Thank you
Welcome Sabine
How beautiful!
Wonderful you can share this!
Isabelle
With the upcoming of covid-19 pandemic I decided for myself not to follow the fear but to try to be a light in this times. For myself, for my family and for people who might look for light, too.
It has been a coincidence that I found your first live meditation and prayers with the 20th Tārā. And doing this with you was a very special and intense experience for me.
After that I was looking for books about green Tārā and finally decided to make this course to get in a deeper contact with this impressive buddhistic figure.
I’ll try to follow all live courses but it might be that I can’t be online to all sessions. It’s dinner time in Germany; 7pm and family time for me. So, I’ll try.
I’m really happy and looking forward to the course 😊🙏🏼
(I hope my English is understandable. I’m not a native.)
Welcome Anja
Beautiful.
Dinner with small and even medium … and even old ones is important!
The recordings will be embedded into your weekly lessons each Thursday.
Isabelle
Me too. I am so looking forward to this! And finding out who practices in the UK…Thank you. Much love and light to all!
Hello Xanthe!
You can be the first!
As I said to Jeanette, you can just make a group.
And as this is the first time we have offered this class, I think you are the trailblazers!
Be bold 🙂
Isabelle
Hi Monica 🙂
Hello Everyone,
I feel it will be the hard – working and enriching course for me… 🌍❤️
I have been wanting to get back to Tara mandala to study the 21 Taras for a long time, but have been unable to do so. This is an incredible opportunity to be able to do this online. So I am very happy. I have been doing the Green Tara ,off and on, for a long time. I have also practiced the 12th and 20th Tara mantras. I have found no one yet that does these practices in Maine. I have been practicing for many years alone. So being forced to learn about this tech. , and connecting with a community is very good for me!
Welcome Back Jeannette,
We have had participants make their own small satellite sanghas and practice together! Just saying!
In this digital age, it would be easy to get together across the distances that separate you!
I think it’s a great idea :-). No pressure!
Very excited about this course with Lopon Chandra!
💚
Welcome Monica,
Nice to see you again!