Summary: Dr. Hun Lye, founder of Urban Dharma (NC), introduces various indigenous Tibetan spiritual concepts and ritual-practices that can help increase and raise our vital essence (sok), physical strength (lu), and presence/power (wangthang). These include cleansing rituals involving smudging (with smoke from sacred-plants) and sprinkling of consecrated water, hanging of prayer-flags, and offerings to local and environmental spirits and elements. presented by Urban Dharma NC at Asheville Chocolate and Arts Festival www.UDharmaNC.com Urban Dharma NC is a new Buddhist center, a community-in-progress in western North Carolina. We are committed to the growing of Dharma locally, for Dharma to take roots in our lives here in this corner of the world, in this part of North Carolina, on the soil of these Appalachian mountains. Our motto “Changing Minds, Transforming Cities” expresses the vision of living the transformative teachings of the Buddha in a contemporary, urban context where we ground our lives in Dharma. Urban Dharma NC emphasizes integrating rather than compartmentalizing, engaging rather than retreating, communing rather than isolating. http://archive.org/download/raisingWindhorseSanctifyingSpaceByDr.HunLyepresentation2Of4/20121208Part02RaisingWindhorseSanctifyingSpace.mp3
