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

Practicing Buddhist methods doesnt 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. Its 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 guardians 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 Oles answer: Thats easy: you just remember that everyone is a buddha and at the same time that they dont know it. Thats why one shouldnt give a bottle of wine to a drunk or a gun to an angry man. If one didnt know that all beings are buddhas, it wouldnt 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 theyll quit poking their pencils around in their ears and mouths and will actually listen and learn. Everything is a projection of ones 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 doesnt have any anger within oneself and people behave strangely, then one thinks, Why do they do that? Whats 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 dont 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 dont 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 doesnt 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 minds gift to itself. It is necessary because we have such strong mental habits, that apart from meditation theres 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 minds inherent richness for the benefit of all. With an accessible and modern style, it works with peoples 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 TUESDAYs 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.

We hope you will join us to engage in the first of a video series featuring Lama Ole Nydhal. Karma: Cause and Effect Tuesday, July 18 at 7:30 pm Bridgeland Community Centre... 917 Centre Ave NE Just about everyones heard of karma. Many people think karma is fate, or something closely tied to it. Theres a misunderstanding about what karma really is. Buddha explained karma as the basis of personal freedom. Lama Ole explaiins "since karma is the natural unfolding of cause and effect, and not a fixed destiny or fate, the causes that have not yet matured can be weakened, changed, and even made useful. Whatever one sows one will also harvest if one does not remove or transform the karmic seeds beforehand. One thereby becomes the conscious master of ones life and can begin to effectively sow seeds for future happiness. from his book The Way Things Are

The Diamond Way Buddhist Group is pleased to invite you to attend a 6-week video series featuring Lama Ole Nydahl. July 18 Karma: Cause and Effect July 25 Meditation Aug 1 Love and Partnership... Aug 8 Teacher/Student Relationship Aug 15 Death and Rebirth Aug 22 Mahamudra Every Tuesday @ 7:30 pm Bridgeland Riverside Community Association 917 Center Ave NE Cost: $5/week Dont miss this opportunity now to access these Timeless Teachings for the Modern World. We hope you can be there with us. With his wife Hannah Nydahl, Lama Ole was given the task by his main teacher the 16th Karmapa to spread lay Karma Kagyu Buddhism in the West. Travelling constantly since the 1970s, he has founded over 650 Diamond Way Buddhist centers around the world. Lama Ole Nydahl is one of the few fully qualified Western Buddhist lamas in the Karma Kagyu lineage. www.diamondway.org/calgarynorth calgarynorth@diamond way.org

#Karmapa explains Karma: When causes and conditions come together, then it produces a result. That is the mechanism. If those conditions are not met or not prop...er, for example if there is no seed, or if there is a rotten seed, no matter how much you try to bring in positive conditions, such as by trying to give sunlight, water or fertiliser, it will never work. So there has to be a seed and also the proper conditions are required. When all the things are there, then it works, it is flawless, it is inevitable. In the whole of the universe, it is the greatest law. Karmapa

Interested in learning more about Buddhism and meditation? Please join us Tuesday evening for a short talk and guided meditation. Where: 917 Centre Ave NE When: 7:30 pm

A motivating and concise teaching by His Holiness Karmapa Thaye Dorje.

Just 2 more days until Meditation night! Hope to see you Tuesday 7:30 pm at Bridgeland Riverside Community Centre. Everyone is welcome. Here is a short video on the nature of mind from our teacher Lama Ole Nydahl.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJHu4mCP-0Y&feature=youtu.be

Just a reminder that Tuesday night is meditation night with Diamond Way Buddhism. Interested in learning more about Buddhism? Come and join us this Tuesday at 7:30 pm. Its the perfect opportunity to ask questions about anything you would like some more information about. We meet at the Bridgeland Community Centre - 917 Ave NE Hope to see you there! "If you look at Buddhas life story, it is clear that he could have had, and indeed he did have, everything he could wish for f...rom worldly life. But after examining it, he could see that - no matter how pleasant or satisfactory a feeling or situation he was experiencing - these were all temporary. He saw that it was not the ultimate goal or priority to attain this type of experience, what we are calling Emotional Happiness. Therefore, he left that life in search of something that is lasting, something that is unchangeable. This is what students of Buddhas way and path are practicing: the practice of Timeless Happiness." 17th Karmapa Thaye Dorje

http://www.karmapa.org/karmapa-europe-2017/ Thaye Dorje, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa #Karmapa, will visit Sweden, Spain and France in July and August this year. Full details:

Hello friends! Remember, every Tuesday is meditation night at Bridgeland Community Centre. We start at 7:30pm. "First of all, try to see everybody and everything on the highest possible level. Meditate when possible, even if only for a few minutes. Dont judge your meditations, and enjoy the aware space behind and between the experiences. It is your buddha essence and the source of highest, timeless bliss." Lama Ole Nydahl, interview published in Buddhism Today, Issue 20

View: "Since yesterdays thoughts become todays words and may easily become tomorrows actions, ones mental state is highly important." Meditation: "The purpose is to create space between subject and object, between the meditator and ones varying experiences. As the waves of impressions come to rest and the aware space between them grows, liberating insight emerges."... Action: "It is essential that any achievement in meditation be tested and solidified in the world. With no real certainty grounding ones insights, mind is mutable and one is not reliable." Lama Ole Nydahl "The Way Things Are"

Tuesday night is mediation night. Program starts at 7:30 pm at Bridgeland Riverside Community Association: 917 Centre Ave NE

Tuesday is meditation night. Come and meditate with us! See you all at 7:30pm at Bridgeland Community Centre!

Interested in learning about Buddhism? Join us this Tuesday January 10 for teachings on "Diamond Way Buddhism" and a guided Guru meditation on the 16th Karmapa. Our program begins at 7.30pm at Bridgeland Community Centre. Hope to see you there!