{"id":104,"date":"2014-03-09T16:12:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T16:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eadc.hk\/2025\/?page_id=104"},"modified":"2025-02-06T14:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:33:08","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eadc.hk\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadc.hk\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/media5-vajrapani.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1915 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eadc.hk\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/media5-vajrapani.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Everyone welcome to the East Asian Dharma Celebration 2025 with Gen Kelsang Tonglam<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Join us from 14-17 March for a spiritual holiday!<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>FINDING INNER STRENGTH<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Blessing Empowerment of Buddha Vajrapani and Teachings on Guarding Our Mind<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Buddha Vajrapani is the Buddha of spiritual power and skillful means. With the development of spiritual power we possess the confidence, inner strength and skill in guarding our mind, we can not only take on and defeat our own delusions, but to be of great benefit in helping free others from their delusions as well. Nothing could be more meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>During this Dharma Celebration, Gen Tonglam will grant the blessing empowerment of Buddha Vajrapani, which is an inspiring guided meditation and ritual, through which we make a deep connection with Buddha Vajrapani and receive his powerful blessing to ripen our potential of inner strength.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Tonglam will also give teachings on how to guard our mind against delusions through practicing conscientiousness, alertness and mindfulness.<\/p>\n<p>After the Dharma Celebration, we have a precious opportunity to engage in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meditation.hk\/2021\/en\/portfolio-item\/mindfulness-retreat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slient meditation retreat on mindfulness<\/a> from 21-24 March at Kadoorie Centre, Yuen Long.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA very special meaningful holiday learning how to find happiness from within your own mind through concentrating on spiritual practice.\u201d<br \/>\nVenerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone welcome to the East Asian Dharma Celebration 2025 with Gen Kelsang Tonglam Join us from 14-17 March for a spiritual holiday! FINDING INNER STRENGTH Blessing Empowerment of Buddha Vajrapani <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eadc.hk\/2025\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-104","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eadc.hk\/2025\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eadc.hk\/2025\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eadc.hk\/2025\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eadc.hk\/2025\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eadc.hk\/2025\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":70,"href":"https:\/\/www.eadc.hk\/2025\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"https:\/\/www.eadc.hk\/2025\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eadc.hk\/2025\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}