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Packing day. Shrine items and statues set aside fo

Packing day. Shrine items and statues set aside for the move. #rimecenter #kcbuddhists #movingonup

The Rime Center is looking for volunteers for this

The Rime Center is looking for volunteers for this Saturday 9am - 4pm to help pack up items that will be moved to the Wayne Ave property or be put into storage. Due to Covid-19 we are asking volunteers to please wear a mask.

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Stop by the Rime Gift shop October 24th as the Gem

Stop by the Rime Gift shop October 24th as the Gem Tree Gift Shop will be open from 9am – 5pm for our moving sale. 50% off all non-book items! 30% off books! #rimecenter #kcbuddhists

Thanks to popular demand the Rime Center is now of

Thanks to popular demand the Rime Center is now offering our Wednesday evening meditation online. Meditation begins at 7pm and goes until 7:30pm. Find out more http://ow.ly/c08X50BzbYo

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Thank you to all of you who shared images of your

Thank you to all of you who shared images of your personal shrine for the Rime Sangha Shrine project this summer. Even though many of us have been feeling isolated while socially distancing, seeing each of your home shrines made us feel closer and more connected. Lama Matt mentioned that he liked the stories behind the various objects on all the different shrines: whether it was an object that reminded the person of an event, a gift from a teacher or friend, or an object that reminded the person of a loved one. Did you have a favorite shrine? Did you find a home shrine inspiring and give you an idea for your own home shrine? Lama Matt would love to hear your insights, so comment below.

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This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Julio Si

This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Julio Simone Ballestrini from Chile. He says that he has several statues of Buddha, Kuan Yin, Ganapati Dharmapala, alongside some quartz stones and a wool mandala. He loves the Hotei or laughing Buddhas, which reminds him that nothing is that serious, and that happiness must not be lost through the path. He also keeps his vajra, bell and mala on his shrine. All the items have been collected throughout the years and most of them have been given to him by his mom, who isn't a Buddhist but respects and encourages his practice.

If you would like to share your home shrine, email spiritual.director@rimecenter.org to submit your photo.

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This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Derek Tu

This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Derek Tucker. He says that many of the items (statues, offering bowls, candle holders, incense holders, flower offering, boxes, etc) on the shrine were gifts from his partner Jessica, friends, and family. The text is one of the first books he ever got on Buddhism, long before he began his practice and study. The sugar skull was a gift from Geoff and Shea Geist, friends from Rime, and is kept on the shrine as a memento mori. He's grateful for the benefits the presence of the shrine provides, and the sun shining through the windows with the plants, and provides an atmosphere of peace and warmth that he relies on in his practice.

If you would like to share your home shrine, email spiritual.director@rimecenter.org to submit your photo.

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This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Toni Wil

This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Toni Wills. She says her shrine is a reflection of her interest in crystals and colored stones. It also contains some special items - a laughing Buddha she bought at Expo 67 in Montreal; a bone mala a friend brought her from Tibet; a small Buddha and tsa tsa forms that Lama Chuck and Mary brought her from India and a carved, painted cat from a trip to Copper Canyon, Mexico in 2009.

If you would like to share your home shrine, email spiritual.director@rimecenter.org to submit your photo.

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This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Jean Dav

This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Jean Davis. The most meaningful part of her shrine is the table it sits on. Her dad bought her first sewing machine from Sears when she was sixteen. He took her there and let her pick it out... and this is that cabinet it came with. That was fifty years ago. It was the only piece of furniture she brought with her to Kansas City from Chicago when she came here to live in 1978. Her space is limited so her shrine was always rather small and this cabinet was perfect for a small space. Almost everything on it is a gift from friends (the Buddha and singing bowl) and family ( the green covering is a prayer shawl her sister brought back from Israel), or from a thrift store, and a few small items she purchased from our gift store.

If you would like to share your home shrine, email spiritual.director@rimecenter.org to submit your photo.

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This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Lama Mat

This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Lama Matt. This is his current arrangement of his shrine as it grows as his practice develops. Many of the images are of teachers he has connection to and deities that he received empowerment. A unique item is the long life arrow on the right side of the shrine. It is a ritual arrow decorated with silk ribbons. It is used in many Long Life practices for recalling all the aspects of our vital energy and protective energy that are damaged, lost or stolen. Its main features are a stick and five silk ribbons or scarves, jewels or beads and a melong or mirror. The stick symbolizes our masculine energy; it is stable and represents form. The silk ribbons represent our feminine energy: they are light and move in the air and symbolize wisdom and energy and the essence of the five elements. The jewels represent concentrations of energy. The melong is a symbol of our primordial potentiality.

If you would like to share your home shrine, email spiritual.director@rimecenter.org to submit your photo.

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This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Fanny Ma

This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Fanny Mandelberger. She says that this is one of her altars that she had while listening to lama from southeast sangha in London.

If you would like to share your home shrine, email spiritual.director@rimecenter.org to submit your photo.

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This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Natasha

This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Natasha Ashford. She says that it's not much but it's hers. There wasn't much room left for anything elaborate after she had moved recently and she has never had anything too elaborate. She thinks if we attempt to be Bodhisattva we already are.

If you would like to share your home shrine, email spiritual.director@rimecenter.org to submit your photo.

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Today is Chökhor Düchen, the 'Festival of Turn

Today is Chökhor Düchen, the 'Festival of Turning the Wheel of Dharma' — one of the four major Buddhist holidays. For seven weeks after his enlightenment, Buddha did not teach. Finally, encouraged by Indra and Brahma, he turned the Wheel of Dharma for the first time, at Sarnath, by teaching the ‘Four Noble Truths’.

From the Sūtra of the Wheel of Dharma,

“Monks, once I had achieved the vision, insight, knowledge, understanding, and realization of turning these four truths of noble beings in three phases with twelve aspects, I was freed from the world replete with its devas, māras, Brahmā, mendicants, brahmins, humans, and gods. I had escaped from it, severed ties with it, and been delivered from it. I dwelled extensively with a mind free from error. Monks, I then had the knowledge that I had fully awakened to unsurpassed and perfect buddhahood.”

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Not everyone has a shrine in their home, and that

Not everyone has a shrine in their home, and that is okay. This week's meditation space comes from Hans von Rautenfeld. He doesn't think of it as a shrine so much, since it is rather simple. He is also a bit of a wall gazer right now. The mala he received when he took Refuge vows and he keeps a text by the cushion. The only other thing that is missing from the photo, which he uses every time he meditates, is his phone, which has meditation apps.

If you would like to share your home shrine, email spiritual.director@rimecenter.org to submit your photo.

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This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Glenn Re

This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Glenn Reed. The items on the shrine have been collected over many years. We love the asymmetry of the various items and the brocade framing the Buddha.

If you would like to share your home shrine, email spiritual.director@rimecenter.org to submit your photo.

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This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Andrea D

This week's Rime Sangha Shrine comes from Andrea Duloc. She says that this shrine includes water offerings, a torma made with Geshe-la’s help at a Rime pop-up class, a gold Buddha pendant with a stupa on the back from Tarthang Tulku, a tiny gold Buddha from Santosh, and a mandala below made from colored scarfs and a gold katag. The mandala was created while learning the 5 Wisdom Dakinis practice. Below the mandala is an image of Guanyin of the Southern Seas, a puzzle pieced together and framed.

Andrea says the other neat feature of this Shrine is that it has wheels! It was made from a bookshelf type thing from ReStore. So, sometimes it is next to her husband's shrine and sometimes it has a wall of its own. Having a shrine gives her a wonderful opportunity to make a sacred space in her home.

If you would like to share your home shrine, email spiritual.director@rimecenter.org to submit your photo.

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Happy 85th birthday to H.H. Dalai Lama. Praying fo

Happy 85th birthday to H.H. Dalai Lama. Praying for your long life. May your wisdom and compassion continue to shine around the world for many years to come.

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This week’s Rime Sangha shrine comes from Nicole

This week’s Rime Sangha shrine comes from Nicole Esquibel. She says that the center Buddha is from the Shambala Center. The two side Buddhas are from her travels to Thailand and Korea. The Rose was picked from her garden.

If you would like to share your home shrine, submit your shrine photo to Lama Matt at spiritual.director@rimecenter.org.

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This week’s Rime Sangha shrine comes from Christ

This week’s Rime Sangha shrine comes from Christy Markham. She says that her shrine table was handmade for her by her son, Ethan. She love it just how it is so she has yet to pick out a stain color for it. A couple of the items were gifts. The offering bowls took her several months to find since she was looking for some that weren't very large, and these fit perfectly! She plans to add a couple more smaller statues eventually. The little plant stem has been on it for a little over a year. She had flowers in the jar and once they died a little stem of leaves began growing, she is not sure if it will ever grow flowers but thinks it's pretty amazing so it stays! In the prayer hands of the Buddha statue is a tiny girl worry doll, it represents her daughter and the Buddha keeping her safe and in good hands and prayers always.
If you would like to share your home shrine, submit your shrine photo to Lama Matt at info@rimecenter.org.

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This week’s Rime Sangha shrine comes from Dr. No

This week’s Rime Sangha shrine comes from Dr. Nora Quiason. She says that her shrine that is in her apartment in Fairbanks Alaska was crafted from repurposed materials. The Buddha sits on a plank on top of a printer box. The Tara Mandala sacred texts lay on used USPS boxes. Her seat was crafted from the foam inside the printer box.

If you would like to share your home shrine, submit your shrine photo to Lama Matt at info@rimecenter.org.

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