Nalandabodhi Boulder Practice

Open Sunday Morning Practice
Nalandabodhi Boulder offers community Meditation Practice every Sunday morning at Dzogchen Cottage. We aspire to provide an open environment for practice.
Shamatha meditation, Prayer4Peace and Social Gathering are open to the public; please feel free to invite friends, family, and others to join us. Mahamudra practice is restricted to authorized students only.

First Sunday of the Month
Shamatha 9 - 10:45
Mahamudra 11 - 12 (restricted)

Second Sunday of the Month
Shamatha 9 - 11 (Practice Instructors and students are encouraged to practice together.)
Tara Practice 11 -12

Third Sunday of the Month
Shamatha 9 - 10:45
Prayer4Peace 11 - 12

Fourth Sunday of the Month (if not the last Sunday)
Shamatha 9 - 11

Last Sunday of the Month (usually the fourth, sometimes the fifth, Sunday)
Shamatha 9 - 10:15
Nalandabodhi Boulder Community Meeting 10:30 - 12

Prayer4Peace: Special Vajrasattva Mantra Practice
Prayer4Peace is one of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche's aspirations for the world. The purpose of Prayer4Peace is to create world peace and harmony and to bring the experience of enlightenment to all sentient beings. In practice, it is a global effort to accumulate one billion recitations of the six-syllable or 100-syllable Vajrasattva mantra. The meditation and recitation of Vajrasattva is supreme among all forms of purification [and confession] practice employed in Tibetan Buddhism.
Every level of practitioner may participate, from dharma beginners to sadhakas. No ngondro transmission or prostrations are required. An explanation of the practice, its purpose, liturgies and practice instructions for every level of practice is available here.
As an individual you can submit the number of you mantras on the Prayer4Peace website. Sangha members should not register as individuals on the website; the Boulder Sangha is registered as a center. Sangha members should report the total recitation accumulations to Robbie Rettmer every month.

Other Practices
Additional practices are scheduled as needed. Please check the calendar for the schedule.

Open Heart Circle:
Community practice for those who are ill or who are recently deceased.

Nalandabodhi Tara Sadhana:
Supplication to the Protector Arya Tara.

Chenrezig:
The practice of compassion.

Feast Practice:
The principle of feast practice is to transcend duality and experience nondual wisdom. With one-pointed mindfulness of the union of prajna and upaya, the union of perceiver and perceived, the union of the sacred and profane, the union of good and bad, we enjoy the feast. (from Echoes of Tantra by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche) Yogins and yoginis gather for feast to purify and fulfill their samaya. Once a month we celebrate the Sadhana of the Single Mudra of Vajrasattva ganachakra; every three months we celebrate The Essential Daily Simple Practice of the Peaceful Guru (Konchok Chidu). Please check the calendar for the schedule. Feast practice is restricted to those who have received abhisheka for that practice.