Diamond Way Buddhist Group Calgary North
Bridgeland Community Center - 917 Centre Ave. NE T2E 0C6 Calgary, AB, Canada

Practicing Buddhist methods doesn’t magically change the world around us to fit our needs. So what is it that changes? By understanding the teachings and using tools like meditation, we gradually alter our view of whatever is happening in life, and incorporate this into our daily life with our families and jobs. It’s not about putting on rose-tinted glasses but rather removing veils that prevent us from seeing how things really are. We meditate every Tuesday @ 7:30 pm Bridgel...and Community Centre 917 Centre Ave NE https://www.diamondway.org/calgarynorth/ #calgarybuzz #calgaryliving #calgaryevents #calgarynow #diamondwaybuddhism #vajrayanabuddhism #buddhismquote #tibetanbuddhism #meditation

From a Buddhist perspective, Inner Wealth is the most essential thing that we need as individuals. The timeless values of compassion and wisdom have been with u...s and within us over the course of centuries and millennia. We cannot survive without compassion, a parent or guardian’s care, or care for one another. When we look at the dependent, material world, we can see that, in many ways, Inner Wealth is a basic human need. We cannot survive without loving kindness, universal care, or universal love. #Karmapa (Photo/Tokpa Korlo)

Highest truth is highest joy is highest functioning. - Lama Ole Nydahl

Hi everyone! You are all welcome to attend our Tuesday night meditation at 7:30 pm. Question: How can we always experience things on the highest level and at the same time work with them practically on the relative level?... Lama Ole’s answer: That’s easy: you just remember that everyone is a buddha and at the same time that they don’t know it. That’s why one shouldn’t give a bottle of wine to a drunk or a gun to an angry man. If one didn’t know that all beings are buddhas, it wouldn’t make sense to do anything. The fact that they have buddha nature makes Buddhist practice worth it. The view is what is crucial. Imagine you are a teacher and you enter the classroom and think, Who put those thirty angry gorillas here? Then you might as well turn around and leave because one cannot teach gorillas anything. What can you do with that attitude? But if you come in and think, Who brought these thirty Einsteins into my class? then suddenly everything is possible and you give your best. And maybe they’ll quit poking their pencils around in their ears and mouths and will actually listen and learn. Everything is a projection of one’s own mind. So the faults we see in others we actually have ourselves. For example, if one gets angry about something, this happens because something within oneself was attacked. If one doesn’t have any anger within oneself and people behave strangely, then one thinks, Why do they do that? What’s the meaning of this? You look at it like a strange object in a showcase. But if you get angry, that means something in yourself got pricked. We don’t see the world directly; we see it through our own gray or rosy eyeglasses. The more we see people as pure and beautiful, the closer we come to what they really are. We don’t have to die to go to a pure land or go anyplace else to meet buddhas. We just have to thoroughly polish our own glasses. If we do that we are at home; we see that every atom vibrates with joy and is held together by love, that everything has meaning just because it appears or doesn’t appear. On the highest level, you are like someone sitting on the mountaintop with a 360-degree vieweverything is open, vast, and full of possibilities. At the same time, you can look down the side of the mountain and say, All those people have been my parents or friends at some time. They are all trying to find happiness and avoid suffering, and causing themselves some difficulties in the process. Then without losing the pure view, you work on the relative level to preserve and pass on the Buddhist methods.

Hello everyone! Tuesday night is meditation night! 7:30 pm at Bridgeland Community Centre... Why do we meditate? Meditation is mind's gift to itself. It is necessary because we have such strong mental habits, that apart from meditation there’s no other way to change them. Neither the highest view, or even the best actions themselves will change the structure of the ordinary mind. For this you need meditation. - Hannah Nydahl

Joint statement of His Holiness Trinley Thaye Dorje and His Holiness Ogyen Trinley Dorje Source: https://www.karmapa.org/joint-statement-of-his-holiness-tri

Lama Ole gave inspiring teachings on Mahamudra in Chestermere last week with 300 attendees at the course!

Another super meditation night!

Hi friends, please join us for meditation tonight at 6pm at the Centre - 917 Centre Avenue NE Hope to see you there! :)

We had a great time at meditation last night. Eugene gave an amazing talk. What a great turn out! We meet every Tuesday at 7:30 pm at the Bridgeland Community Center. We invite everyone interested in learning about and practicing Diamond Way Buddhism to join our public meditation. We are all heading out to Chestermere tomorrow for a 4-day Mahamudra course with Lama Ole Nydahl

Join us for a short talk about Meditation in Diamond Way Buddhism on Tuesday, September 25 at 7:30 pm! If you are interested to hear how Buddhist practice can be applied in our everyday lives, Eugene Trak - an experienced teacher of Diamond Way Buddhism from USA and close student of western Buddhist master Lama Ole Nydahl - will give a short talk on how meditation can impact our lives. The talk will be followed by a Q&A and a guided meditation. We meet for public meditation ...every Tuesday at 7:30 pm. We welcome newcomers and always present a short talk on a Buddhist topic in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere and are happy to answer any questions. Diamond Way Buddhism offers practical and effective methods to realize mind’s inherent richness for the benefit of all. With an accessible and modern style, it works with people’s confidence and desire, using every situation in life to develop fearlessness and joy. Suggested donation: $10 For more information: E-mail: [email protected] Website: https://www.diamondway.org/calgarynorth

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Our fall program is underway! Weekly Public Lecture Series and Meditation "Foundations of Buddhism"... Sept 5 Introduction to Buddhism Sept 12 The Precious Human Life Sept 19 Impermanence Sept 26 Karma: Cause and Effect Oct 3 Disadvantages of Samsara Oct 10 Buddhist Refuge Oct 17 Developing the Enlightened Attitude Oct 24 Buddhist Meditation Methods When: Every Tuesday @ 7:30-8:30 pm Where: Bridgeland Riverside Community Assoc. 917 Centre Ave NE Suggested donation: $10/week We hope you can be there with us.

We invite anyone interested in learning about and practicing Tibetan Buddhism to join us for WEEKLY MEDITATION TUESDAY’s at 7:30 PM Bridgeland Community Centre - 917 Centre Ave NE... What to expect: - 10 minute talk on a Buddhist topic, followed by a guided meditation. Guided meditation usually last up to 30 minutes. What Is Buddhist Meditation? In Buddhism, meditation means "effortlessly remaining in what is". This state may be brought about by calming and holding the mind, when compassion and wisdom are realized, or by working with our bodies' energy channels and meditating on light forms of Buddhas.