TTP Guru Yoga & Mandala Offering Retreat

     June Sat 12th – Tue 12th
     at Mahasiddha Buddhist Centre

   Practising Guru Yoga sincerely is relying on the Spiritual Guide, the root of the spiritual path. Guru yoga is an especially powerful method that enables us to receive the blessings of all the Buddhas and greatly increases our store of merit. By following the Sutra path alone it would take a thousand aeons to accumulate the vast amount of merit needed to attain Buddhahood, but as Sakya Pandita observed, by wholeheartedly practicing Guru yoga, the same amount of merit can be accumulated in the brief span of one human life.
Our mind is like a field. Purifying negative karma and accumulating merit are like clearing the field of obstructions and fertilizing it, and meditating on the stages of the path is like sowing good seeds. However, these seeds will grow into a harvest of realizations only if they are watered by a rain of blessings from the Yidams and Buddhas. Practicing Guru yoga is the means by which we receive these blessings.
Developing faith in our Spiritual Guide is like the sun shining on the snow mountain of our Spiritual Guide causing the water-like blessings to pour into our consciousness. In summary, Guru Yoga is a special method for receiving the blessings of all the Buddhas and Holy Beings and making mandala offerings is a special method to accumulate a vast amount of merit (positive karma/energy).

   Offering the Mandala is the best method to free ourselves from future poverty and to create the cause for rebirth in a Buddha’s Pure Land. In general ‘mandala’ means ‘universe’, but a literal translation is ‘taking the essence’ (of our precious human life). By making mandala offerings we lessen our attachment to worldly enjoyments and possessions and we accumulate a vast amount of merit. As a result we experience a gradual increase of our enjoyments, wealth, and good conditions. Our temporary wishes will be fulfilled and finally we will attain our ultimate goal, full enlightenment. If we wish to experience these benefits we should familiarize ourselves with the practice of offering the mandala.

Recommended reading: ‘Joyful Path of Good Fortune’, ‘Great Treasury of Merit’, 'Heart Jewel', and also ‘Guide to Dakini Land’.

For more info and bookings: please call Tel. 031 4640984 or email us