Please offer aide and prayers for Haiti

Dear Community:


The earthquake in Haiti and the massive loss of life reminds us of how fragile is life upon this planet. I invite each of you to offer aide to the American Red Cross and most importantly to offer prayers for those who have lost their lives and for those who have survived the catastrophe.

We are each part of the human family and the suffering of one touches every person upon this planet. The prophecies of many cultures speak of these times as ‘trial and tribulation’. Our compassion can be expressed as contributions for the healing and rebuilding of Haiti’s communities.

Sincerely yours,

Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo

American Red Cross link

New Moon and Solar Eclipse ceremony, Friday, Jan. 15th, at 1 and 7 pm

This coming Friday, January 15, is the day of the New Moon, as well as a solar eclipse, where our prayers and practices are said to multiply 10,000 times, benefiting all beings!


Lighting of the Fire in the Sacred Arbor at the Peace Village in Lincoln, VT. Offering prayers, dances and practices will be offered on Friday at 1:00 PM for several hours.

All are invited to make offerings!

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Also, at the Vajra Dakini Nunnery at 7 pm, we will be holding ceremonies. Traditionally Samantabhadras prayer is recited. Good to practice your heart practice, the one you are most close to. You are welcome to join in the evening service at Vajra Dakini at 7pm. We are doing the Sukavati prayer for 5 families who have lost loved ones this month in addition to protector prayers and the Samantabhadra prayer.

Khenmo Drolma
Abbess

Help Haiti with mediation, your prayers, and donations

We have many spritual and artistic friends who are Haitian.  This disaster is striking their spirits a fierce blow. They need our love and support.  Give if you can give, pray and meditate, send RIP and LOVE .

Many Blessings,
Ama & Nate
Doctors Without Borders

2010 Calendar for Cherokee Ceremonial Cycle and Buddhist Celebrations

Sunray Sunday School in Germany

There was a dream since 1992, to bring ancient wisdom back into schooling. Well, noticing that in Germany some 15% of all boys of 12 years are on Ritalin, and some other events put an end to postponing. In 2005 the Munich Sunray Sunday School was started. The school is an official Sunray program, supported by Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo. It addresses children and those who can be present as a child at heart.


Foundation of it all is the wild river and the axe. The site is a post-civilization wilderness at the shore of Isar river, with concrete ruins, white water and sometimes hundreds of tons of scattered driftwood - paradise for young ones who are in for an adventure, but within tramway distance from the city centre. The axe turned out to be the first step of initiation for every single member that joined activities at least for some period of time, and owning an axe (preferably of Swedish make) has become a priority item on Christmas wishlists.

The trust by parents is most precious - in a country of overprotecting parenting, forbidding fire and handling of dangerous tools it is quite something to hand over an 8 year old to a bunch of kids with logsaws, axes and very, very long knifes. But that is how it is, and I see that parents' trust is part of the medicine generated.

Arrival in the circle is complete when the first log was chopped through just with an axe (no saw, no help by others). Then usually the building starts, and it remains a central occupation throughout the years. Bridges, cabins, furniture, ovens - whatever can be made of what the river brings. Firekeeping is a standard feature, as well as swimming in cold and turbulent water.

The road points towards a coming-of-age ceremony. It is by intention that we will make coming of age tougher again, gradually. We want them to be able to swim in white water, perform under severe frost and heavy rain, be able to keep fire, handle saw and axe and thereby learn to listen to nature, tree and bird, be aware of where the comrade stands and that he is safe, and we want them to experience that all is different if it is embedded in ceremony and recognized as medicine.

In the same time we explore their incredible wisdom potential: Each child has different gifts, different rhythms and timing - an endless realm to explore. We were sent children that were officially labeled as of "critically disturbed behaviour." In Sunray Sunday School in not a single case were we able to confirm such perceptions. All we found are children and youngsters that learn at tremendous speed, offer magic wisdom and evidence that their ancestral medicine is alive.

Love,
Waya Usdi (Little Wolf)

P.S. If you have google toolbar when you open the German site, there is a translate option in the upper right corner that will translate the website for you.

Vajrayogini retreat with Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo -- sign up by Feb. 1st

“In retreat we deepen the experience of the Holy Mother’s wisdom as the natural state. We pacify conflictive states that give rise to separation and strengthen that which gives rise to the seed of wisdom within with skillful practice.” Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo


Vajra Dakini Nunnery is pleased to host a Vajrayogini retreat with Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo! The retreat from May 27 – June 21 is a rare opportunity to go deep into meditation with Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo. Students are accepted for the first week if they are unable to attend the full month. Note: most students who attended previous retreats regretted not arranging to take the full month. All received joyous inspiration! We need a commitment by February 1st along with a non refundable down payment of $500.

Ven. Dhyani will teach the Drikung Vajrayogini and Nyingma Yeshe Tsogyal sadanas and three special sadanas made public in the retreat for the first time.  These are two mind termas or sadanas revealed through Ven. Dhyani as an emanation of Yeshe Tsogyal.  One is a complete practice in movement!  In addition we will be given a special protector practice written for Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo.

The retreat will be held in Lincoln, VT and is open to qualified students. Please contact Khenmo Drolma for information on prerequisites and detailed information.

info@vajradakininunnery.org  802-453-6867

New Year's Eve Meditation

Please join Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo and the community at the Temple of the Adawees, Wise Protectors, at the Peace Village in Lincoln, VT on Dec 31 at 9:30 PM for our traditional Meditation, welcoming the New Year.

FAMILIES AND CHILDREN-- ALL ARE WELCOME!

Please park in the parking lot and walk carefully to the Temple.  Bring warm slippers or socks (as the floor may be chilly) and blankets for the children.  Bring personal meditation objects (cushions, shawls, etc). We also have chairs in the Temple.

Wisdom of the Peace Village Elders -- Documentary Series

2 0 1 2: What Future Do You Want To Energize? - This video is an excerpt from the Wisdom of the Peace Village Elders Documentary Series. Algonquin Elder Mike Bastine delivers a positive and powerful antidote to the misunderstanding and fear that surrounds most messages about the end of the Mayan calendar on December 21, 2012. This video invites each one of us to join the tipping point of consciousness toward co-creating a culture of peace and sustainable living on the planet.

The WISDOM OF THE PEACE VILLAGE ELDERS Documentary Series

Produced by: Mutual Abundance Media

Here’s the challenge: Are we so hypnotized by our steady diet of media-fed horrors, that we’ve despaired of ever achieving the dream of a violence-free world? Or are we ready for the shift from the war path to the peace path? Does anybody even know what peace looks like?

The WISDOM OF THE PEACE VILLAGE ELDERS documentary series provides a rare opportunity to witness Native Elders from North, Central, and South America, exploring how to walk the way of peace and sustainability in a world overrun with paths to war and environmental devastation. At the Peace Village, the indigenous Elders remind us that we are all co-creators of our agreed upon dream / reality. “Change the Dream!” the Elders inspire, calling for us all to reconnect to the cycles of Nature, and to practice compassion-in-action in our daily lives. Only together, moment to moment, can we co-create & energize a future of peace and equanimity on the planet.

Mutual Abundance Media has decided to produce these documentaries as independent films, in order to guard the integrity and freedom of expression of the featured Native Elders. The documentary series is a sacred trust, for the Elders have entrusted us to deliver their message as good medicine for the planet now & for generations to come.

This project is supported by Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo and Sunray Meditation Society.

Please donate by clicking here.  Visit the website here.

 

Join our team of Sponsors / Supporters. Help us complete editing of the first two documentaries in our series by the summer of 2010 & become part of an important tipping point toward a culture of peace. Any amount is appreciated. Be as generous as you can.

 

 

Ceremony and Celebrations at the Peace Village in December

You and your family, along with community members and neighbors are invited to the Winter Solstice Ceremony in the Sacred Arbor at the Peace Village on Sunday, December 20 with the lighting of the Fire at 7 PM.  There will be an all night vigil on Sunday night, followed by dances and practice at 7 AM on Monday morning.

The solstice ceremonies are the times of strengthening community bonds and offering thankfulness for the beauty of the seasons' change and progression! These Ceremonies are under the guidance of Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo.

CALENDAR DATES:
December 20 7 PM Lighting of the Sacred Fire for Winter Solstice
December 21 7 AM Dances and Practices after all night sacred vigil
December 31 Gather in Temple of the Adawees, Wise Protectors for NY's eve meditation with Venerable Dhyani at 9:30 PM.

ALL ARE WELCOME TO CEREMONIES AND CELEBRATIONS!

PLEASE COME JOIN US.

Vajra Dakini Nunnery newsletter

We are known as the practice lineage. Retreat is when our meditation practice becomes a part of us, down to the bone. We remove all distractions and focus solely on specific practices to see the nature of our minds and reality. In the time of the founding of the Drikung Lineage 150.000 people went into retreat. Two retreats are highlighted in this newsletter:


Spend New Years with us! As we close this year and start anew, we invite you to gather perspective. Dharma teachings invite us to contemplate the immanence of death and to meditate with impermanence and our fragility in mind. With ample practice time, Turning the Wheel of Time; Dec 27 - Jan 3, will focus on readings that familiarize us with the aging and dying process. This retreat is suitable for both beginning and advanced practitioners and will be an intimate in-house event.
 
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