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| Dear Dharma Friends, As the year comes to a close, we invite you to join us in finishing 2025 with reflection, connection, and practice. This December, we continue our monthly offerings with opportunities to nurture the heart and settle the mind, together in community: • Chenrezig Practice with Lama Karma Drodhul • Getting Familiar with Your Mind: Meditation Practice and Discussion with Lama Kathy Wesley • Mindfulness Meditation in person Let’s take this time to ground ourselves in compassion, awareness, and gratitude as we enter the new year. Yours in Dharma,KTC SoCal |
| December 4 | Lama Karma – Chenrezig Practice December 6 | Mindfulness Mediation in person December 18 | Lama Kathy – Getting Familiar with Your Mind: Meditation Practice and Discussion December 20 | Mindfulness Mediation in person |
| December 4 Lama Karma – Chenrezig Practice |
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| Join us with Lama Karma as he guides us in Chenrezig Practice, a profound meditation cultivating compassion and lovingkindness. Chenrezig, known as Avalokiteshvara, embodies compassion in Tibetan Buddhism. Through this practice, we tap into the limitless wellspring of compassion, extending it to all sentient beings. It’s a beautiful opportunity to nurture our hearts, deepen our connection with others, and foster positive change in the world. Whether you’re new to this practice or have practiced it before, everyone is welcome to participate. |
| December 6 & December 20 Mindfulness Meditation Classes |
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| Join Dr. Charles Dawes, senior meditation practitioner and KTC SoCal Board member, first and third Saturdays in Desert Hot Springs for instruction on practicing mindfulness meditation. Classes are held at 11 am, Hidden Springs Country Club, Community Center Clubhouse, 14912 Yerxa Rd, Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240. Classes are free, open to all, reservations not required. |
| December 18 Lama Kathy Wesley – Getting Familiar with Your Mind: Meditation Practice and Discussion. |
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| Lots of people are meditating these days, which is wonderful, since the practice can help reduce anxiety and promote positive change in our minds and lives. And getting tips and pointers can help us work through the rough spots and deepen our understanding of ourselves. Using Thrangu Rinpoche’s short book, “A Guide to Shamatha and Vipashyana Meditation,” Lama Kathy will offer tips and sit with us to encourage us to get familiar with ourselves and create space for positive inner change. |
| ZOOM starts at 6:15 PM PST with a 15-minute silent meditation; regular teaching begins at 6:30. Please be mindful when entering at that time. We encourage you to keep your video on as much as you’re comfortable. Seeing each other’s faces helps create a sense of presence and connection in the space we’re sharing today. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81574392660 Phone +1 669 900 6833 Meeting ID: 815 7439 2660 Ask questions via chat and keep them concise and to the point. If you have more in-depth questions, we can arrange an interview with the teacher. |
Inspirational Quote:
“Be grateful to everyone and everything.”
When people hurt or harm us, or throw obstacles our way, we should regard these situations as opportunities to practice. Why? Because they offer the chance to activate our patience and willingness to carry through and develop our compassion. Acknowledging and appreciating this kindness of difficult people is a way of making use of problems on the path to enlightenment, and it comes under the heading of contemplating the great kindness of everyone in order to increase our cherishing of others.
It is a way to reduce self-cherishing and increase cherishing others, so that we may bring whatever difficulties we have onto the path of enlightenment. It is a way of training in relative bodhichitta.
Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
Teaching Link:
How to Meditate on Pride and Transform It — Ask Mingyur Rinpoche