Past Events: Taking Refuge Ceremony & Bodhisattva Vows

Date: January 21, 2023
3pm-4pm

Location: Sarasota Meditation and Art Center at Art Avenue

Refuge Vows
We take Refuge in the Buddha, as example, the Dharma as the teachings, and Sangha as the community of practioners. The purpose of taking Refuge is to awaken from confusion and associate oneself with wakefulness.

Bodhisattva Vows
Bodhisattva Vows are a further expression of our commitment to the path of awakening, in which we take a vow to help all sentient beings.

“Planting such a seed, as the bodhisattva vow undermines ego and leads to a tremendous expansion of perspective. Such heroism… fills all of space completely. Within such a vast perspective, nothing is claustrophobic and nothing is intimidating. There is only the vast idea of unceasingly helping all sentient beings, as limitless as space, along the path to enlightenment…” Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoch

Sarasota Meditation and Art Center
at Art Avenue Gallery
3501 S. Tamimi Trail #107
Sarasota, FL