Meditation and Retreat

The Festival will include many opportunities to engage in life-changing contemplations and sincere retreat. Gen-la Dekyong will guide the Festival meditations and Gen Jampa will lead the retreat to help us gain a special experience of the practices presented in the teachings.

Finally, we will dedicate the collective positive energy we create during this Festival to the end of all violence and war. This is a profound way for us to make a real contribution to happiness in this world. If we work to establish peace within our own minds with the intention to also give happiness to others, we will gradually solve our inner problems and improve our love, compassion and wisdom. As a result, outer peace—world peace­—will arise naturally.

All the physical forms of myself and others are
manifestations of Arya Avalokiteshvara’s body,
all sounds are manifestations of the six-letter mantra,
and all mental activity arises from great exalted wisdom.