Shamabala Journey - July 3rd, 2022 -  Patty Marcotte - What Keeps you Going?
Channel: Lion's Roar
Date: 2022-11-03

When we see the obstacles and hardships people our families and communities face, our hearts naturally open and a deep wish to help is aroused. We call this innate wish to wake up for the benefit of all sentient beings bodhicitta.

Join us this Sunday at 11 am, when sangha member, Patty gives a talk on what inspires bodhicitta in her own every day life.

Patty works as a Speech Language Therapy Assistant in a low income school. She provides speech therapy to special needs children and gets to intimately know not only them but also their families.

She is often moved by their courage, warmth and generosity. Their obstacles are daunting and yet they can still smile and they can still dream. A single mother, working two low paying jobs to support her three children drops by homemade enchiladas. A nonverbal 8 year old child with severe autism speaks for the first time with great vigor, "I do!"  A child who lives in a hotel wishes to share his snack at every session.  All day long, she is inspired and moved by a never ending stream of ordinary, extraordinary, amazing people.

Lion's Roar Dharma Center at Do Nga Dargey Temple in Sacramento, California, is a Tibetan Buddhist Temple within the Gelugpa Lineage.  Lama Yeshe Jinpa is the spiritual director and resident teacher of Lion’s Roar Dharma Center, which he co-founded with Geshe Losang Gyatso in 1992. In 1995, Lama Jinpa received direct heart/mind transmission from Geshe Gyatso after 25 years of Dharma practice and study. He is one of the few western lamas thus far recognized within the Gelugpa lineage of Tibetan or Vajrayana Buddhism, the lineage of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Please visit https://lionsroardharmacenter.org/ for more information!