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Learn about our Sangha and it's activities through this website and KtcBlog.
This is the best way to understand our role as a center for the study and practice of Tibetan
Buddhism. Please read our philosphy here.
"To relieve suffering for all sentient beings"....You do not have to suffer. More....
"Buddhism is a verb. It is the deliberate pursuit of higher states of consciousness." ...... Lama la
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NEW SUNDAYs AT KTC:
8:50 - 9:50AM Karma Yoga
9:55 - 10:15AM Chanting
10:30 - 11:30AM Open Meditation
11:40 - Sunday Topics
Private Conversations with Lama La
Classes & Practices:
- Nonsectarian Classes for Everyone: (External Web Site)
- NEW Mind & Consciousness Classes, Beginning Level Practice, & Practices for Serious Students
- KTC Minneapolis Members: (KTC Web Site)
- Advanced Tibetan Buddhist Path & Practices, For KTC Members
"Everything you need to achieve the highest level of consciousness is present right here, right now.
There is no need to go anywhere else. No need to get anything else."
Lama la
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The Way of Death and Rebirth Ritual, ceremony, and curriculum for The Way of Death and Rebirth in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition. To learn more: Death Rebirth Home Page
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Sangha Corner
Ven Bardor Tulku Rinpoche Visit
Solitary Retreats
Multiplying & Auspicious Practice Days
Site Archives
Butterlamp Offerings
Support
Donation--Why support KTC?
Wish List--Things KTC needs.
Donation Form (Print, Fill Out & Fax)
Links
Home of HH Karmapa
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"Invest in what you will take with you when you die."
- Lama la
KTC Calendar
Times and dates of KTC classes, meetings, and events. Scheduling information for Community Education classes is at www.LAMATEACH.org
EVENTS
See Our KTC CALENDAR at the link above for event times and to find last minute changes.
Sundays (as noted on our calendar) KTC Hosts Topics in Tibetan Buddhism: 28 February - The Chenrezik Sadhana, Become Pure Compassion, Hal & Stu; 7 March - Dying Well Tibetan Style, An Ongoing Study with Lama la - $10 each session for nonmembers.
Visit the KTC BLOG Events Page
Join us for our 7th Annual Meditation-thon featuring formless meditation sponsored at $1. per minute from 8 - 15 March, 9AM - 9PM each day. Call the Center (952) 926-5048 to join in. More details on the KTC BLOG Events Page.
Information about past and sometimes upcoming events can be found on the Events Page of the Ktcblog. When underlined, the title of the event is a link to the full article.
The following Bill Plotkin quote is from ION’s Shift magazine, No 19, June-August 2008, page 9:
"Over the past two hundred years, industrial civilization has been relentlessly undermining Earth’s chemistry, water cycles, atmosphere, soils, oceans, and thermal balance. Plainly said, we have been shutting down the major life systems of our planet. Compounding the ecological crisis are decaying economies, ethnic and class conflict, and worldwide warfare. Entwined with, and perhaps underlying, these devastations are epidemic failures in individual human development.
True adulthood, or psychological maturity, has become an uncommon achievement in Western and Westernized societies, and genuine elderhood nearly nonexistent. Interwoven with arrested personal development, and perhaps inseparable from it, our everyday lives have drifted vast distances from our species’ original intimacy with the natural world… “
I strongly agree with this Bill Plotkin quote, particularly underlining his points that “underlying these devastations are epidemic failures in individual human development --- true adulthood, or psychological maturity, has become an uncommon achievement in Western and Westernized societies, genuine elderhood nearly nonexistent…”
Nothing about the direction that we are going in, that Plotkin points to in his statement above, will change until a significant number (most often estimated at a minimum of 10%) of the adults in Western and Westernized societies shift their consciousness to higher levels. The only scientifically proven way to accomplish this shift requires healthy, self actualizing adults doing consistent formless meditation beginning with at least 4 disciplined years and going on from there. Even then only a small percentage of meditators will accomplish a shift in the initial four years. Others will require longer.
Wilber - There isn't a single pregiven world lying around out there waiting for all and sundry to see. Different phenomenological worlds - real worlds - More ..."
Visit the KTC Blog
A source for KTC: news and photos covering recent events, last minute schedule changes, important thoughts, and more for our Sangha and friends ..... "There's something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear. There's a Lama with a pen over there. Telling me I got to beware. I think it's time we start Marinating Here."
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KTC Member Library Online
So you can see some of the books that we use, the KTC Member Library is now online.
The library site currently is a very large page.
The site works best if you have a broadband internet connection
and a reasonably fast computer.
It is not suitable for dialup and/or an old computer unless you have patience.
Reference Guide for Students and Teachers of Comparative Religion
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