Karma Samadhi Ling

09/03/2026

As a practitioner, the moment you wake up, spend a few minutes setting your motivation for the day. Make a sincere aspiration that whatever you do today will be meaningful and beneficial, both for yourself and for others. Most importantly, resolve not to indulge in actions motivated by non-virtue.
After taking your morning shower, offer fresh water and incense at the altar. Then make three prostrations as an expression of respect, purification, and the accumulation of merit. Recite your daily prayers and practices, and include a short session of meditation.
From morning until evening, remain mindful of your body, speech, and mind. Observe your actions carefully and do not allow negative emotions such as anger, attachment, jealousy, or hatred to control your behavior. Most importantly, maintain continuous mindfulness and awareness throughout your daily activities.
Before going to bed, spend a few minutes reflecting on how you lived your day. If your actions were meaningful and beneficial, rejoice in them and dedicate the merit with the aspiration that others may also engage in virtuous and beneficial actions.
However, if you recognize that some of your actions were influenced or poisoned by negative emotions, acknowledge them with a genuine sense of regret. Resolve not to repeat those actions and strengthen your determination to improve.
Above all, learn not to give unnecessary space to negative emotions. Recognize them when they arise, remain aware of them, and let them pass without allowing them to control your thoughts, words, or actions.
In this way, each day becomes an opportunity to cultivate mindfulness, compassion, wisdom, and virtue. A meaningful practice is not limited to meditation on the cushion; it is the way we live every moment of our life
作為一名修行者，清晨醒來之際，先花幾分鐘為新的一天確立正確的發心。真誠發願：願自己今天所做的一切，對自己與他人皆有意義且有所助益。最重要的是，下定決心不因任何不善的動機而造作。
早晨沐浴後，在佛壇前供奉清水、燃香，接著頂禮三拜，以此表達恭敬、淨除業障，並積聚福德資糧。之後，持誦每日的祈願文，進行日常修持，並安排一段簡短的禪修。
從早到晚，時時覺察自己的身、語、意。細心觀照自己的行為，不讓憤怒、貪執、嫉妒或憎恨等負面情緒牽著走。最重要的是，無論從事什麼日常活動，都要持續保持正念與覺知。
睡前，花幾分鐘回顧自己這一天是如何度過的。如果今天所做的事情具有意義，也利益了自己與他人，就應當為此感到歡喜，並將所累積的功德迴向，祈願更多人也能行持善業。
然而，如果發覺自己今天的一些言行受到負面情緒的影響，甚至受到其染污，就應當真誠地生起慚愧與悔意，坦然面對自己的過失，下定決心不再重蹈覆轍，並更加堅定地作出改變。
最重要的是，學會不讓負面情緒有不必要的滋長空間。當它們生起時，清楚覺察，保持覺知，看著它們自然來去，不讓它們操控自己的念頭、言語與行為。
如此一來，每一天都能成為培養正念、慈悲、智慧與善行的機會。真正有意義的修行，從不侷限於禪墊上的禪修；修行，更是我們在生命每一個當下如何生活。
ཉམས་ལེན་པའི་ཉིན་རེའི་ཉམས་ལེན།
ཉམས་ལེན་པ་ཞིག་གིས་ཞོགས་པར་གཉིད་ལས་སད་མ་ཐག་པར། སྐར་མ་འགའི་རིང་དུ་རང་གི་ཉིན་གང་གི་རྒྱུ་མཚན་དང་བསམ་པ་ལ་བསམ་བློ་གཏོང་དགོས། དེ་ཡང་དེ་རིང་རང་གིས་བྱ་བ་གང་ཞིག་བྱས་པ་དེ་རང་ཉིད་དང་གཞན་གྱི་དོན་དང་ཕན་ཐོགས་ཅན་ཞིག་ཏུ་འགྱུར་བའི་སྨོན་ལམ་དང་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་དྲང་པོ་ཞིག་བྱེད་དགོས། གལ་ཆེ་ཤོས་ནི་དེ་རིང་ཉིན་གང་ལ་མི་དགེ་བའི་བསམ་པས་སྐུལ་བའི་ལས་གང་ཡང་མི་བྱེད་པར་དམ་བཅའ་བྱེད་དགོས།

ཞོགས་པར་ཁྲུས་བྱས་རྗེས། མཆོད་ཁང་དུ་ཆུ་གསར་པ་དང་བསང་སྤོས་མཆོད་པ་ཕུལ་ལ། གུས་པ་དང་། སྡིག་པ་སྦྱོང་བ། དགེ་བའི་བསོད་ནམས་གསོག་པའི་དོན་དུ་ཕྱག་གསུམ་འཚལ་དགོས། ཉིན་རེའི་ཆོས་སྤྱོད་དང་སྨོན་ལམ་རྣམས་བཏོན་ཞིང་། དེའི་ནང་དུ་དུས་ཐུང་གི་སྒོམ་རྒྱག་པའང་འཇུག་དགོས།

ཞོགས་པ་ནས་དགོང་མོའི་བར་དུ། རང་གི་ལུས་ངག་ཡིད་གསུམ་ལ་རྟག་ཏུ་དྲན་པ་བསྟེན་དགོས། རང་གི་བྱ་བ་ཚང་མ་གཟབ་ནན་གྱིས་བརྟག་ཅིང་། ཁོང་ཁྲོ་དང་། ཆགས་ཞེན། ཕྲག་དོག ཞེ་སྡང་ལ་སོགས་པའི་ཉོན་མོངས་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་རང་གི་བྱ་སྤྱོད་ལ་དབང་མི་འདོད་པར་བྱེད་དགོས། གལ་ཆེ་ཤོས་ནི་ཉིན་གང་གི་བྱ་བ་ཀུན་ལ་དྲན་པ་དང་ཤེས་བཞིན་རྒྱུན་མི་ཆད་པར་བསྟེན་པ་དེ་ཡིན།

ཉལ་བར་འགྲོ་ཁར། སྐར་མ་འགའི་རིང་དུ་དེ་རིང་ཉིན་གང་ཇི་ལྟར་སྤྱད་པར་རྒྱུ་མཚན་བསམ་གཞིག་བྱེད་དགོས། གལ་ཏེ་རང་གི་བྱ་བ་རྣམས་དོན་དང་ལྡན་པ་དང་གཞན་ལ་ཕན་ཐོགས་པ་ཡིན་ན། དེ་ལ་དགའ་བ་སྒོམ་ཞིང་། དགེ་བའི་བསོད་ནམས་རྣམས་བསྔོ་བའི་སྨོན་ལམ་བཏབ་སྟེ། གཞན་རྣམས་ཀྱང་དགེ་བ་དང་ཕན་ཐོགས་ཅན་གྱི་བྱ་བ་ལ་འཇུག་པར་སྨོན་ལམ་བྱེད་དགོས།

འོན་ཀྱང་། རང་གི་བྱ་བ་ཁ་ཤས་ཉོན་མོངས་པའི་སེམས་ཀྱིས་བསླད་པའམ་སྐུལ་བ་ཡིན་པ་ཤེས་ན། དེ་ལ་ངོས་ལེན་བྱས་ཏེ་སེམས་ཐག་པ་ནས་འགྱོད་པ་བསྐྱེད་དགོས། དེ་ལྟ་བུའི་བྱ་བ་སླར་ཡང་མི་བྱེད་པར་དམ་བཅའ་བྱས་ཤིང་། རང་ཉིད་ཡར་རྒྱས་དང་བཟང་དུ་གཏོང་བའི་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་སྔར་ལས་ཇེ་ཆེར་གཏོང་དགོས།

གང་ལྟར་ཡང་། ཉོན་མོངས་པའི་སེམས་ལ་མཁོ་མེད་ཀྱི་ས་ཆ་དང་དུས་ཚོད་མང་པོ་མི་སྤྲོད་པར་སྦྱོང་དགོས། ཉོན་མོངས་པ་རྣམས་སྐྱེ་བའི་ཚེ་དེ་དག་ངོས་ཟིན་པར་བྱས་ཏེ། རང་གི་སེམས་ལ་དྲན་པ་དང་ཤེས་བཞིན་བསྟེན་ཞིང་། དེ་དག་ལ་འཐམ་ནས་མི་སྡོད་པར་རང་བཞིན་གྱིས་འདས་སུ་འཇུག་དགོས། དེ་ལྟར་བྱས་ན། ཉོན་མོངས་པས་རང་གི་བསམ་པ་དང་། ངག བྱ་སྤྱོད་རྣམས་ལ་དབང་བསྒྱུར་དུ་འཇུག་མི་དགོས།

དེ་ལྟར་ཉིན་རེ་བཞིན་དྲན་པ་དང་། བྱམས་པ། ཤེས་རབ། དགེ་བ་བཅས་འཕེལ་བའི་གོ་སྐབས་སུ་འགྱུར་ཐུབ། དོན་དང་ལྡན་པའི་ཆོས་ཉམས་ལེན་ཞིག་ནི་སྒོམ་གྱི་སྟེང་དུ་ཙོག་པའི་དུས་ཁོ་ནར་ཚད་མི་འཇལ་བར། ཚེ་གང་གི་སྐད་ཅིག་སྐད་ཅིག་ཏུ་ཇི་ལྟར་འཚོ་བའི་སྟངས་འཛིན་དེ་ཡིན།

09/03/2026

What wonderful news!

We have waited for more than a decade, and now that the wait is finally over, I warmly welcome everyone to Drupon Khenpo Lodrö Namgyal’s teachings and guided meditation sessions over three special weekends.

Drupon Khenpo Lodrö Namgyal is a truly wonderful master. In these times, it is increasingly rare to encounter a teacher who shares the Dharma not only through knowledge and study, but also through deep personal experience and realization. This makes his teachings a particularly precious opportunity for all of us.

May these three weekends be a wonderful, meaningful, and precious opportunity for everyone to receive the Dharma, deepen our understanding, and practice together.

Please don’t miss this rare opportunity. Mark your calendar and join us!

Here is the registration link:

https://rigpedorjemontreal.org/en/khenpo-lodro-namgyal-negi/

Thank you. 🙏

09/01/2026

Our book club begins today at the Baddeck library at 1:30 pm and will run for three months. Everyone welcome!

08/31/2026

08/29/2026

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08/29/2026

August 25, marks the 103rd anniversary of the birth of Ayya Khema (1923–1997), one of the most influential Western women in modern Theravada Buddhism. A nun, meditation teacher, author, and advocate for Buddhist women, her life crossed an extraordinary amount of twentieth-century history—from N**i Germany and wartime imprisonment in Asia to Buddhist monasteries in Sri Lanka, Australia, and Germany. (Buddhistdoor Global)

She was born Ilse Ledermann in Berlin on August 25, 1923, to Jewish parents. In 1938, as N**i persecution intensified, the fifteen-year-old escaped Germany with a group of children and was taken to Scotland. Her parents had fled to Shanghai, and two years later she was able to join them there. During the Second World War, the family was interned in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, where her father died. After the war she eventually emigrated to the United States, married, raised children, traveled extensively, and encountered meditation during years spent traveling through Asia. (Buddhistdoor Global)

Her path into Buddhist monastic life came relatively late. After beginning to teach meditation in Europe and Australia, she became a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka in 1979, receiving the name Khema, meaning safety or security. She became closely associated with the Theravada tradition and eventually emerged as an unusually direct and accessible teacher of meditation, particularly vipassana, loving-kindness, and the jhanas—the deep states of meditative concentration described in early Buddhist teachings. Her student Leigh Brasington would later become one of the better-known contemporary teachers of jhana practice in the West. (Buddhanet)

But Ayya Khema’s importance extends beyond her teaching. She helped establish Wat Buddha-Dhamma, a Theravada forest monastery in Australia, and later founded or supported Buddhist communities for women in Sri Lanka and Germany. In 1987 she helped organize the first international gathering of Buddhist women at Bodh Gaya, the site traditionally associated with the Buddha’s awakening. Out of that gathering came Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women—“Daughters of the Buddha.” (Sakyadhita)

Sakyadhita became part of a much larger movement addressing one of Buddhism’s complicated historical inheritances: although Buddhist teachings affirm that women possess the same capacity for awakening as men, opportunities for education, institutional authority, and full monastic ordination had disappeared or remained restricted for women in several Buddhist cultures. Sakyadhita brought Buddhist women from different countries and traditions together to address those inequalities, and the organization continues that work today. (Sakyadhita)

Ayya Khema was also a prolific writer. Her best-known English-language work, Being Nobody, Going Nowhere, presented Buddhist practice without requiring readers to adopt an exotic identity or escape ordinary life. Her teaching repeatedly returned to a basic Buddhist movement: relinquishing attachment rather than constructing a better and more permanent version of ourselves. As she put it, “The spiritual path is all about letting go. There is nothing to achieve or gain.” (Lion’s Roar)

There was warmth in her teaching, but little sentimentality. Loving-kindness, in her understanding, wasn’t simply an agreeable feeling. It was something to be cultivated deliberately until it became embodied. Meditation likewise was not merely relaxation. Concentration steadied the mind so that impermanence, dissatisfaction, and the absence of a permanent self could be seen more clearly. Hundreds of her recorded talks remain available today, preserving teachings on everything from loving-kindness and everyday practice to the most subtle stages of meditative absorption. (Dharma Seed)

Ayya Khema died in Germany on November 2, 1997, at the age of seventy-four. Her legacy can be found not only in her books and students, but in something larger: the increasingly visible presence of women as Buddhist teachers, scholars, monastics, and institutional leaders around the world.

On her birthday, perhaps that is the most fitting way to remember her. Ayya Khema’s life suggests that Buddhist practice is not about where a person begins. A refugee from N**i Germany, a wife and mother, a traveler, and eventually a nun and teacher, she spent the latter part of her life asking a much older Buddhist question: What can be let go of, right now, so that we can see more clearly and love more freely?

READING & LISTENING

Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: Meditations on the Buddhist Path — Ayya Khema
https://www.shambhala.com/being-nobody-going-nowhere-15420.html

Ayya Khema — Dharma Seed archive, including more than 500 recorded teachings
https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/334/

Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women
https://sakyadhita.org/

Ayya Khema — Tricycle archive
https://tricycle.org/author/ayyakhema/

Biographical material and excerpts from I Give You My Life: The Autobiography of a Western Buddhist Nun
https://www.buddhanet.net/khema/

08/29/2026