Buddhistische Gruppe Dachau

20/10/2025

Alle Wilkommen: jeden Montag um 20:00 öffentliche Meditation auf den 16. Karmapa

Das buddhistische Zentrum Dachau ist eines von über 550 Zentren der Karma Kagyü Linie im Diamantweg Buddhismus weltweit. Diese Zentren wurden von Lama Ole und Hannah Nydahl auf Wunsch des 16. Karmapa gegründet und stehen unter der spirituellen Leitung des 17. Karmapa Thaye Dorje.

Unsere Zentren richten sich an selbstständig denkende und im Leben stehende Menschen in der modernen westlichen Welt. Gleichzeitig sind sie fest in der seit 2500 Jahren ungebrochenen Linie der mündlichen Übertragungen von Buddhas Lehren verwurzelt.

Natürlich ist jeder herzlich willkommen, bei Interesse an einem unserer öffentlichen Meditationsabende einfach unverbindlich vorbeizuschauen.

09/04/2025

02/04/2025

,,Meditating is not always joyful and it is not always very blissful. Knowing this is part of the practice. It is the process of getting used to concentrating and training the mind. In that process, you do not look for the results. You just do it with confidence that, when you do it, the results will come.''
Hannah Nydahl

10/01/2025

"...As we learn and practice the dharma we might get some understanding of emptiness. Then we should remember that however much we know, we should never forget our understanding of cause and effect. We should always behave in accordance with cause and effect. We will never be too clever and too realized not to have to consider cause and effect anymore. This means that even small things are important and that everything we do on the relative level counts. It is very important not to start thinking that we have understood a lot and have so and so much realization, have meditated a lot, and that it no longer matters how we act. This would be a complete misunderstanding of the meaning of dharma. Simply set a good example, keep a good and warm heart, and be honest, because if one is dishonest and cheats and harms other beings, one is not practicing dharma. To live in accordance with cause and effect is of utmost importance. ..."

~ Excerpt from "The Bardo Teachings" by Lopon Tsechu Rinpoche, Rødby 1992.

27/08/2024

'When you meditate, disturbances can come; whether thoughts, disturbing emotions or something else. In meditation, we simply learn not to follow them, to stay with the meditation. You don't push them away but you learn not to follow them. You cannot run away because it is your own mind; there is no one else there.'
Hannah Nydahl

09/08/2024

Mitgefühl widersetzt sich der Logik und den Gesetzen des Lebens, transzendiert Geburt, Altern, Krankheit und Tod. Mitgefühl ist die einzige Eigenschaft, die uns helfen kann, diese vier Phasen des Lebens nicht als etwas Schreckliches, sondern als Wahrheit, Unbeständigkeit und Natur zu verstehen. Daher hilft es uns, den Mut zu einem sinnvollen Leben zu finden. Plötzlich, durch das Erkennen und Akzeptieren der Vergänglichkeit des Lebens, entdecken wir viel mehr Freude, viel mehr Sinn im Leben.

Compassion defies the logic and laws of life, transcending birth, ageing, illness and death. Compassion is the only quality that can help us understand these four stages of life not as something terrible but as truth, impermanence, and nature. Therefore, it helps us to find courage to live meaningful lives. Suddenly, through knowing and accepting the impermanence of life, we discover much more joy, much more purpose in life.

07/08/2024

30/07/2024

Try to let things be. Try to let the sun rise on its own. Try to let the sun set on its own. If you’re sick, let it be and try not to get too hung up about it. If you’re dying, just let it be, don’t try to fight it, because it’s natural. It’s not a bad thing at all. You know, we’re meant to move on in a way, and just go further and further. We are never meant to stay in one place and get stuck there.

So, therefore, try to somehow find a way to let it be, in your own way. Whatever way works. Of course we are individuals, we all have our own way of letting go and letting things be. Try to do that, and by doing that, then all the things we wish for automatically come. I cannot explain why. We often think that if you want things you must do things but often that doesn’t work. And when we finally get what we want we are not happy with it, and we want something else. So therefore, if you let it be, in fact, the things we want the most actually come. It’s the funniest thing. We don’t know how to explain it, but that’s the way it is. So in that spirit, in that mindset, try to let things be. Then whatever it is that you’re looking for, it will come.



(Photo/Thule Jug)

06/07/2024

21/06/2024

Following the Summer Course at the Europe Center (EC), two editors from the German and English editions of Buddhism Today had the exceptional opportunity to interview Thaye Dorje, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa. We asked him about the role of the Karmapa, the future of the lineage, and the imp...