Medicine Buddha blessing empowerment – Cape Town 
Sunday 25 April 10.00am - 4.00pm
5 Wolmunster Road, Rosebank:
with Resident Teacher,
Gen Kelsang Pagpa Medicine Buddha is the supreme doctor who heals our mental and physical pain, and gives us the ability to free others from their suffering.
This empowerment, is a wonderful blessing ceremony in which we can make a special connection with Medicine Buddha and opens the door to gaining deep experience of this sublime practice.
Everyone is welcome!
Please contact us if you would like to attend. Alternatively, you can contact the Tushita Kadampa Buddhist Centre directly by visiting
www.meditateincapetown.org.
Funding of Kadampa Centres
- If you are wondering how Kadampa Buddhist Centres around the world (including our Centre), are financed. The constitutions of the various Centres (more than 1000 Centres and branches around the world) make provision, that all the Centre's income is generated from public talks, General Programme classes (weekly meditation classes), Study Programme classes, and events, such as weekend courses or Empowerment ceremonies. This income is then supplemented by income from the lay and ordained residents living in the Centre.
We also try raise money through various fund raising activities, such as holding raffles, jumble sales and other social gatherings, which are held at the Centre from time to time throughout the year. In addition, there are also people who donate time, money and skills for specific purposes, like refurbishing work at the building, new Buddha statues, a bigger property etc. and in essence, make donations towards future purposes for the daily running of the Centre.
No such income is ever used for the benefit of a single person, such as a director, or other office bearer, a Teacher or any one else, but is only used for the development of spreading Buddha's Advices in this world, with the purpose of overcoming our problems.
If you ever wish to know how to make a contribution, please contact us, we certainly have an idea.
Weekly Meditation Classes Tuesday evenings in Blairgowrie at our Centre (7:00pm – 8:30pm)
Thursday mornings in Blairgowrie (11:30am – 12:30pm)
These classes are a perfect place to take a break, and learn more about meditation and Buddhist teachings.
Cost per class is R30 and everyone is welcome.
http://daily-meditations.com/ tells you more about meditations for everyday life.
You can find out more about these CD’s from the Centre Shop.
Words of Wisdom 
Most precious things become valueless if they are broken, but if a diamond is cut into pieces, each fragment, however small, is still valuable. In this respect, the instructions on training the mind are like a diamond because, while it is most valuable to practice all the instructions on training the mind, it is still very worthwhile to practice just some of them. Just as we would take care not to lose even the smallest fragment of a diamond, so we should not disregard any part of the instructions on training the mind, however small.
Just as full sunlight completely dispels all darkness but even a few rays provide a measure of light, so, if we complete the practice of training the mind, we will totally dispel the darkness of our ignorance, but if we engage in only some parts of the practice, this will still help to reduce our ignorance and self-cherishing.
Just as every part of a medicinal tree - the roots, trunk, branches, leaves, flowers, and fruit - provides medicine and is useful in curing disease, so every part of the instructions on training the mind can cure the mental disease of the delusions. Ordinary medicines can cure only physical disease, but the panacea of training the mind cures sicknesses of both body and mind. This is why the practice is sometimes called the "unsurpassed medicine".
From
Universal Compassion by
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso 
