Fearless Right Action in a Time of Consequence

🕊️ In a time when speaking truth can carry real risk, how do we act with courage, clarity, and compassion?

Join us for a full-day retreat exploring:

✨ How fear disguises itself as reason

✨ How compassion becomes power

✨ How to act when conscience and safety collide

Includes meditation, discussion, and the Avalokiteśvara Empowerment — a living transmission of fearless compassion.

📿 Reclaim moral courage. 🧘

‍♀️ Reconnect inner stillness with outer action.

💬 Rediscover the question: What is right?

📍Freemont Branch of the Seattle Public Library - 731 N 35th St, Seattle, WA 98103

📅 Sunday October 26th 10:45 am – 3:45 pm

🔗 Register now (Free Teaching, but please register so we can prepare materials)

Program Overview

In this full-day retreat, Palden Rinpoche invites us to explore what it means to take a “right action.” Drawing from Buddhist ethics, mindfulness, and the living example of Avalokiteśvara, we will learn to cultivate awareness before action, compassion within action, and dedication after action.

Schedule

10:45–11:00 am

Opening & Refuge

Chanting of Refuge and Bodhicitta prayers. Establishing intention and sacred space.

1100 –12:30 am

Avalokiteśvara Empowerment

Avalokiteśvara Blessing and Empowerment

Full empowerment with visualization, mantra, and transmission.

NOTE: For those receiving the empowerment, it is suggested to abstain from eating meat, onion, garlic and eggs prior to the initiation.

12:30–12:45 pm

Meditation I — Resting in Awareness

Guided meditation

12:45 –2:00 pm

Lunch Break

mindful lunch

2:00 –3:15 pm

Teaching

The Ground: How Do We Know What Is Right?

Compassion as Right Action

Rinpoche reflects on awareness, interdependence, and wisdom. How right action arises naturally from compassion. The union of prajñā(wisdom) and karuṇā (compassion). How Avalokiteśvara embodies responsiveness.

3:15–3:30 pm

Meditation II — Resting in the Heart of Compassion

Silent sitting; opening to the spontaneous knowing of right action.

3:30–3:45 pm

Dedication & Closing

Dedication of merit and aspiration for compassionate living.

How Do We Do Right?

The Ground of Compassionate Action

Taught by Palden Sengye Rinpoche

Palden Sengye Rinpoche was born in Lhasa, Tibet, in 1987 and subsequently fled to India in 1993. There, he was blessed by the compassionate grace of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to study at the Tibetan Children's Villages (TCV) school.

In 1998, while reading in the 4th grade at TCV school, His Holiness the Dalai Lama recognized him as the 7th reincarnation of Palden Sengye Rinpoche of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery. That year, he joined the Tashi Lhunpo monastery to receive a monastic education. Soon after, he took novice vows and later received the complete vows from His Holiness the Dalai Lama at age 20.

At Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, he underwent rigorous study for many years and eventually participated in the various examinations conducted by Gelugpa Universities. In 2019, he was awarded the “Kachen Rapjampa Degree” and subsequently the Geshe“Lharampa Degree” in 2020, the equivalent of PHD at universities worldwide. Since then, he has been serving as a teacher at Tashi Lhunpo monastery and offering dharma teachings worldwide.