Prayers for Peace: Group Reading of the Golden Light Sutra

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Join Geshe Legtsok for a daily reading of the Golden Light Sutra to help end suffering and promote peace.  With So much strife and recent conflict, we wanted to offer everyone a chance to actively pray for the peace and well-being of all sentient beings.

In particular, we would like to offer these prayers for all those affected by the events in Israel and Gaza and the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Download the Sutra here

Download the Additional Prayers Here

How to Join

You can join in person in the gompa and online via Facebook.  This will be live-streamed on Facebook every evening.

Sunday, October 15 to Friday, October 20:  8 – 8:45 pm
Join us in-person at the LMB Gompa or join online via Facebook

Saturday, October 21:  6 – 7 pm
Join us at Seacliff State Beach (Aptos) and on Facebook.  If you would like to come to the beach, please meet Geshe la on the beach at the bottom of the Seacliff stairs.  Here is a pin on google maps:  https://maps.app.goo.gl/ecr2cdRKaedFccgN7

About the Sutra

This is what Lama Zopa Rinpoche has said about the sutra:

“The most beneficial thing to have peace and to stop the wars is recitation of the Golden Light Sutra. This is the most beneficial thing to bring peace, everyone should try to do this, no matter how busy they are, even to recite one or two pages, even a few lines. When you read the Golden Light Sutra you also read the ‘mantra without attachment’ this practice is within the text. The benefits of reciting just this mantra: Even all the material possessions, all the human wealth, especially all the wealth of the deva realms (asura’s and sura’s) can not compare to the value of this mantra. It is nothing compared to this mantra. You collect limitless skies of benefit and merit by even just reciting one word of this mantra. So by reciting the whole text is unbelievably beneficial, one collects extensive merits, liberates numberless sentient beings from the oceans of suffering and brings them to enlightenment.” – Lama Zopa Rinpoche