Maitripa College

Please join us for a 4-week course on deepening and expanding our loving-kindness and compassion.

Each of us already possesses a basic goodness — a natural caring heart that can be cultivated and expanded. Beginning with self-compassion as our foundation, we will explore how caring for ourselves can deepen our compassion for others and gradually open into bodhicitta, the awakened heart.

Through meditation, listening, contemplation, questioning, and discussion, we will further illuminate and develop this naturally abiding capacity for compassion.

With Venerable Tenzin Drolma

🗓 Sundays, June 7, 14, 21, 28
⏰ 6 PM – 7:30 PM PT
📍 Hybrid: in person + online

https://tnlsf.org/event/deepen-a-caring-heart-from-self-compassion-to-bodhicitta/2026-06-14/

Join us in celebrating Saka Dawa, one of the most sacred days in the Buddhist calendar. 🕯️

Saka Dawa commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana of Shakyamuni Buddha — a time traditionally devoted to meditation, prayer, generosity, and compassion. During this auspicious day, positive actions are said to be especially powerful and meaningful.

Together, we will practice Guru Puja (Lama Chöpa) and honor the Buddha’s life and teachings in community.

📅 Sunday, May 31, 2026
🕚 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PT
📍 Maitripa College + Online

All are welcome.

🔗 To attend:
maitripa.org/events/saka-dawa/

Join us in exploring Tara’s Four Enlightened Activities:

🤍 Peace — connected with Akshobhya/Vairocana and the Vajra (Tathagatha) Buddha family
💛 Increase — connected with Ratnasambhava and the Jewel Buddha family
❤️ Power — connected with Amitabha and the Lotus Buddha family
💙 Wrath — connected with Amoghasiddhi and the Karma Buddha family

These activities express enlightened compassion in action.

All are welcome for practice, community, and a vegetarian potluck afterward. 🕯️

🔗 Learn more & register: maitripa.org/events/tara-puja-community-practice/

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA

The mantra of Green Tara is a prayer for liberation, protection, healing, and awakening.

• OM — Tara’s holy body, speech, and mind
• TARE — release from samsara
• TUTTARE — dispelling fears and dangers
• TURE — release from suffering and disease
• SOHA — may these blessings take root within us

Join us for Tara Puja & Community Practice on Sunday, the 24th, as we gather in meditation, chanting, and prayer for the benefit of all beings.

All are welcome.

🔗 Link in bio
🌿 maitripa.org/events/tara-puja-community-practice/

TaraPuja Maitripa

On Mother’s Day, we honor the Twenty-One Tārās of Lama Atīśa’s tradition and the boundless compassion they embody.

In the lamrim teachings, Lama Atīśa transmitted the seven-point cause-and-effect instruction for generating bodhicitta—the awakened heart dedicated to the benefit of all beings. The practice begins by reflecting that all beings have, at some time, been our mothers: caring for us with kindness, protection, and love.

Remembering their kindness, we cultivate gratitude.
From gratitude arises the wish to repay that kindness.
From this, love and compassion expand beyond self and other, embracing all beings without exception.

Tārā, the compassionate Mother of Liberation, reminds us that wisdom and compassion are inseparable—and always responsive to suffering.

On this day, may appreciation for our own mothers open into compassion for all mother sentient beings.

🌿 Om Tāre Tuttāre Ture Svāhā 🌿



Images by Fred Van Der Zee, available free at the Digital Thangkas website

Private, short, confidential spiritual care conversations are available—in person at Maitripa or on Zoom. 🤍

Would it help to reflect on integrating spiritual practice, a struggle you’re facing, or concerns for our world? Would you like someone to listen and offer compassionate presence?

Email Leigh at [email protected] to schedule.

For more information: https://maitripa.org/private-spiritual-care-conversations/