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April 15 is Buddha’s Enlightenment Day! This year we are celebrating this with a a practice of Offering to the Spiritual Guide, our special Guru Yoga of Je Tsongkhapa in conjunction with Highest Yoga Tantra, a preliminary practice for Vajrayana Mahamudra. This practice includes a special food ‘tsog’ offering so you can bring a vegetarian food offering with you if you wish. After the practice, we enjoy a ‘tsog’ party celebrating this very special occasion.

The main practice is relying upon our Spiritual Guide as a Buddha and making praises and requests, but it also includes all the essential practices of the stages of the path and training the mind, as well as both the generation stage and completion stage of Highest Yoga Tantra. By relying upon Je Tsongkhapa our compassion, wisdom, and spiritual power naturally increase.

We engage in this practice on Buddha’s Enlightenment Day to celebrate and to help create causes for the swift enlightenment of all living beings. Also every month, we engage in this practice on the 10th and 25th each month to increase our compassion, wisdom, and spiritual power for the sake of all living beings.