Bodhicitta Sangha | Heart of Enlightenment Institute is a non-profit organization offering Tibetan Buddhist meditation classes and retreats taught by Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, a professor of Tibetan Buddhism in the Nyingma lineage.

Teachings by Khenpo Sherab Sangpo are open to all who wish to awaken bodhicitta via teachings and meditation practices that generate compassion and loving-kindness for all living beings.

Online Meditation with Khenpo Sherab Sangpo

Khenpo Sherab Sangpo will offer online guided meditation on Noble Wish-fulfilling White Tara. Group practice starts at 10 am, but you may join the meeting at 9:30am, if you wish to spend time online with our meditation community before the practice begins.

• Saturday, June 6, 2020, 10am-11am (Central Time Zone, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)

Khenpo Sherab Sangpo has taught two video series on Noble Wish-fulfilling White Tara. You may watch them on our YouTube channel via these links:

• Video Series on Noble Wish-fulfilling White Tara
• White Tara Retreat Video Series

The Practice of Wish-fulfilling Noble White Tara is available via PDF on our website. As a support for your daily practice of White Tara, we have formed a White Tara Practice Group on Facebook. If you have questions about joining this group, contact Marjorie Pomper.

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Online Lineage Study Group

The Lineage Study Group will meet online on:

• TBD in June 2020

Our group practice text, The Dzogchen Lineage Transmission of Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, is available in the Bodhicitta Sangha Practice Book via PDF on our website.

Please email Colleen Hartwell for Zoom login details.

How to Practice Shamatha and Vipashyana after Completion of the Preliminary Practices

Most people were at the May Retreat in 2019, so they already know how to practice shamatha and vipashyana using the Treasury of Blessings: A Practice of Shakyamuni Buddha.

For those not at the retreat, please watch the videos.

Here is how to practice shamatha and vipashyana for your daily practice when you finish the preliminaries:

Usually we practice the outer preliminaries for 20 minutes every day. Once you finish the preliminaries, you don't have to do that anymore. You should still say the outer preliminaries one time (1x) every day, very slowly with visualizations.

Then, for the inner preliminaries, say the refuge prayer 3x, bodhicitta 3x, Vajrasattva 100-syllable mantra 21x, mandala 1x, guru yoga 1x, and the mantra 100x.

Finish the preliminaries like that.

Then, start the Treasury of Blessings: A Practice of Shakyamuni Buddha according to what I taught at May Retreat in 2019.

At the end, practice either with an object by focusing on the image of Buddha Shakyamuni or without object by focusing on your mind.

Shamatha and vipashyana (in addition to the preliminaries) need to be practiced for at least 30 minutes every single day.

For these instructions, you must watch the 2019 May Retreat videos, if you don't know how to practice shamatha and vipashyana.

Click here for a PDF of these instructions.