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Buddha House
Centre for Advanced Buddhist Studies Inc
Tel (08) 8333 2824
Address
1 Fisher St, Tusmore
Postal
PO Box 434, Glenside, 5065, South Australia
Buddha House is affiliated with the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT
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The only way to bring our intellectual understanding of the teachings to a deeper level of knowing is through our practice. In the Deity practice we use visualisations of the Buddha or an aspect of the Buddha in order to create the causes for our own enlightenment, and we recite mantras, prescribed syllables, to protect the mind from our attachment, anger, ignorance and so forth. While we recite the mantra, we think and visualize in a beneficial way to develop constructive habits in the mind. We recite mantras in Sanskrit because there is a special beneficial energy or vibration that is induced by the sound of the syllables. While doing recitation, we can concentrate on the sound of the mantra, on its meaning, or on the accompanying visualizations. During the month we rotate between different deity practices.
ChenrezigWeek 1 - Chenrezig PracticeThe benefits of reciting the Compassion Buddha mantra are infinite, like the limitless sky. Compassion is the wish to bring about the happiness of others by freeing them from suffering. By visualizing Chenrezig and reciting the mantra, we awaken and develop the potential for compassion and the wisdom to understand suffering and deal with it skillfully.
Medicine BuddhaWeek 2 - Medicine Buddha Practice“This can be done for anyone who is sick, dying or even who has already died. Medicine Buddha practice is not only for healing. In addition, it is very powerful for success and for solving any problems.” Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Shakyamuni BuddhaWeek 3 - Shakyamuni Buddha PracticeThrough this we learn to identify with our innate wisdom and compassion our own buddha nature. A buddha is a fully awakened being who has completely transformed their mind. By visualising the Buddha and reciting the mantra we create the causes to become a buddha ourselves.
VajrasattvaWeek 4 (of 5) Vajrasattva PracticeOver our lives we commit a multitude of negative actions, which through the laws of karma will not only have adverse effects but will increase over time. Purification of these negativities is possible through Vajrasattva practice and feelings of guilt and inadequacy will gradually disappear.
TaraLast Week - Tara PracticeWe experience so many inner obstacles to the development of our mind, and in turn they create many outer obstacles. For the success of our Dharma practice, of our actualizing the graduated path to enlightenment, we must rely upon a special deity, or buddha, such as Tara. All the actions of the buddhas have manifested in this female aspect of buddha, Tara the Liberator, in order to help living beings to accomplish successfully both temporal and ultimate happiness.
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