Sangha of Auspicious Companions

with Pema Chödrön

Saturday, July 14, 2012

(Varying time zones)

Over 6000 of Pema’s friends and students from as far away as Iran, and the Mozambique will be celebrating Pema’s 76th birthday with a day of “Practicing Peace” on July 14. Please join Pema in meditation on this day.

To honor the occasion of Pema’s birthday, we’re holding a world wide ‘Practicing Peace’ meditation. She’s invited all of you to take half of that day (or longer) as a retreat. You could do this alone at home, or gather with friends, to share in this experience. You can do this anytime in whatever time zone you are in. To have her friends and students from around the globe ‘practicing peace’ on her birthday will be a wonderful offering to Pema.

This is the first time in all the decades that Pema’s been teaching that she’s asked her friends and students to gather together. Pema has made a video of a teaching just for this occasion, offering advice, encouragement, and meditation instruction. This video will be emailed to you on July 1.

There’s no cost to do this, but any donations made to the Pema Chödrön Foundation for this retreat will support a very special project that Pema is dedicated to- the building of a three-year retreat center (Pema Chödrön Drupde) in Nepal, for a remarkable, and threatened, lineage of nuns from Tibet. There’s more information about this wonderful project – here

We ask everyone who will participate to register for the retreat, so we can let Pema know who is practicing and where they’re from around the world. We’ll send you the 35 minute link to the teaching on July 1. You’ll be able to watch this whenever you want, and as often as you want.

If you won’t be taking part in the retreat, but would like to support the building of Pema Chodron Drupde, click here. This is a wonderful event honoring a remarkable person. We appreciate your participation in making this a most memorable birthday for Pema.

Here’s a link to some of Pema’s best articles to inspire you – here

If you can’t take part in the retreat, but would like the make a
birthday offering to Pema, and receive the teaching
Please go here

Sincerely,

Tim Olmsted and Margie Rodgers
The Pema Chodron Foundation
retreat@pemachodronfoundation.org