News & Events
Monday, April 14, 7:30 PM
Meditation and Teaching
Cambridge Friends Meeting House
Friday, April 25 – Saturday, April 26
A Weekend Retreat
St. John’s Chapel, EDS
Monday, February 25, Monday, March 17, and Monday, May 5, 7:30 PM
Meditation and Teaching
Cambridge Friends Meeting House
Saturday, May 10, 10:00 AM (note new venue)
Meditation on Natural Love and Awareness led by Lama John
Sheraton Commander Hotel, Mt. Vernon Room, 16 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA.
Monday, January 21, 7:30 PM
Meditation and Teaching
Cambridge Friends Meeting House
Saturday, February 2, 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM
A Half-Day Retreat
UU Church of Manchester, 669 Union St, Manchester NH 03104
Sheraton Commander Hotel, Mt. Vernon Room, 16 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA.
Mondays, 7:30pm
Dzogchen meditation, Dzogchen Center Cambridge, Cambridge Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA.
Sittings other than those on the Dzogchen Center Cambridge calendar are led by authorized senior students of Lama Surya Das and Lama John Makransky.
For more information, contact us at cambridge@dzogchen.org
Second Saturday of every month, 10am
Fourth Wednesday of every month, 7:30pm
Due to the upcoming holidays, the Wednesday practice in December will be held on the 3rd Wednesday:
12/19 (not 12/26)
Guided meditations on love and compassion as expressions of innate awareness. Practices of bodhichitta and the bodhisattva path. Lama John Makransky urges all his students in practice to attend these sessions as often as possible.
Saturday group: contact Jane Moss (781) 259-9822 or e-mail jbmoss123@comcast.net.
Wednesday group: contact Leah Weiss at leahweiss@stanfordalumni.org
See our calendar for details events
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Event Registration FAQ
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Welcome to the Dzogchen Center Cambridge
Through our root teacher, Lama Surya Das, his associate teacher, Lama John Makransky, and other associate teachers including Lama Choying Palmo, the Center provides the essential teachings and transmissions of the Dzogchen lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in forms appropriate for Western culture.
The Center provides:
Monday evening sittings, many taught by Lamas
Natural Love and Awareness Practice on the second Saturday and fourth Wednesday of every month
One-day and weekend retreats and other special teaching events
Lama-led teaching and supervision of core Mahayana mind-training practices
Participation in, and scholarships for, Dzogchen Center intensive retreats
Support (dana) for the work of our Lamas
A spirit of compassion and support for practitioners and all beings
The Dzogchen practice is accessible and aims for simplicity. As Lama Surya Das has said:
"Dzogchen points to our own innate wholeness, our own true Buddha nature, our untrammeled spirit, perfect and pure from the beginningless beginning. It is what we call the Buddha within -- not an oriental Buddha, not an historical Buddha, not one of stone, not male or female, but the Buddha nature within each of us, true and wise, loving and compassionate. We want to come back to that, awaken it, cultivate it -- that is what the path is about. We don't get it from outside, from someone or somewhere else, or even from our own ideas of what we are. The Hevajra tantra says we are all Buddhas by nature but must, through our own spiritual work, awaken to our true nature."
The Center is committed to Lama Surya Das, the Dzogchen teachings, and the lineage. We offer a complete course of practice and guidance for individuals who choose the Dzogchen path of spiritual awakening. We also invite all spiritual seekers and questioners to join us.
For more information, consider attending a Monday sitting, exploring our Web site and links, enjoying books and tapes by Lama Surya Das and other Dzogchen Center teachers, or contacting us to have a conversation about Dzogchen and the Center.
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