A Feast of Awakening with SI Europe
On this day, we will perform a Mandala Offering based on the short text by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, thus supporting the most energetic and hopeful ancient Eastern Slavic carnival—Butter Week, or Maslenitsa, the festival of awakening, the festival of renewal, that joyful side of impermanence!
The Mandala Offering is a practice that contributes to the accumulation of merit, the purification of attachment, and the development of the paramita of generosity. Mandalas exist in various forms: they are drawn, embroidered, created with coloured sand and other materials, and even sculpted. During our virtual gathering, we will share the history and traditions of Russian Maslenitsa and engage in the creation and brief offering of a (pancake) mandala.
Pancakes are an essential attribute of Maslenitsa celebrations—they were made in abundance, shared with others, and given away. This tradition has always taken place under the vast skies of early spring—skies that, to paraphrase Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, quite literally come crashing down on our heads like a blue pancake: “If a giant pancake falls on our heads, it falls on everyone’s heads.” The sky overturned upon us is a symbol of liberation from habitual mental conditioning and a step beyond duality.
We invite you to participate online, so please have at hand either some pancakes cooked following any recipe of your choosing, or any other round bread or pastry (pita, lavash, round waffles, etc., will do just fine).
🔗 Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/93604666803
Webinar ID: 936 0466 6803
Passcode: 026609
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☀️ See you soon!
༄༅། །མཎྜལ་བསྡུས་པ་བཞུགས།
SHORT MAṆḌALA OFFERING
by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
བདག་གཞན་དུས་གསུམ་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་དགེ་ཚོགས་དང༌། །
dakzhen dü sum longchö gé tsok dang
All my own and others’ possessions and positive actions, accumulated in the past, present and future,
རབ་འབྱམས་སྐུ་གསུམ་ཞིང་གི་མཆོད་པའི་སྤྲིན། །
rabjam kusum zhing gi chöpé trin
And clouds of offerings that fill the infinite realms of the three kāyas,
བློ་ཡིས་བླངས་ཏེ་དཔལ་ལྡན་བླ་མར་འབུལ། །
lo yi lang té palden lamar bul
We imagine now and offer to the glorious teacher:
བཞེས་ནས་མཆོག་དང་ཐུན་མོང་དངོས་གྲུབ་སྩོལ། །
zhé né chok dang tünmong ngödrub tsol
Accept them, and grant us the accomplishments, ordinary and supreme!
ཨོཾ་གུ་རུ་བུདྡྷ་བོ་དྷི་སཏྭཱ་རཏྣ་མཎྜལ་པཱུ་ཛ་མེ་གྷ་ས་མུ་དྲ་སྥ་ར་ཎ་ས་མ་ཡེ་ཨཱཿཧཱུྃ།
om guru buddha bodhisatva ratna mandala pudza megha samudra saparana samaye ah hung
oṃ guru buddha bodhisatva ratna maṇḍala pūja megha samudra spharaṇa samaye āḥ hūṃ
