Kadampa Meditation Center Arizona

Nyungnay: Compassion Fasting Retreat

Celebration of Buddha's Enlightenment Day
April 15 - 16
With Gen Kelsang Lingpur

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Nyungnay is one of our most precious Kadampa Dharma jewels and as a center practice it comes around just once a year – on Buddha’s Enlightenment Day.

We can spend two days with thousand-armed (eleven-faced) Avalokiteshvara – ‘Mahakaruna’ – the nature of our Guru’s great compassion, making exquisite offerings, praises and prostrations and thereby accumulate huge merit, purify vast negativity for ourself and others and receive the most powerful blessing to propel ourself swiftly along our path to enlightenment.

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Wrapped within the practice of Mahayana Precepts, it involves fasting and making three sessions of prostrations, with the sadhana ‘Drop of Essential Nectar‘, over two days. Usually the second day is accompanied by a full fast, although strongly recommend, this is not compulsory. Everyone is welcome to join us for this special retreat.

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Schedule:

Tuesday:

6:30am: *Precepts

8am: Session one

1pm: Session two

3pm: Session three​

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Wednesday:

6:30am: *Precepts

8am: Session one

1pm: Session two

3pm: Session three

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*Precepts are required on each day you do the retreat​

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Cost: $20 for entire retreat, free for members