Beginning with the practice of taking the Eight Mahayana Precepts, this retreat involves fasting and doing three retreat sessions with the sadhana Drop of Essential Nectar over two days. Everyone is welcome to join these special retreats organized at their local Center to increase their love and compassion. Making extensive offerings, praises, and prostrations to thousand-armed (eleven-faced) Avalokiteshvara results in accumulating great merit and purifying vast negativity for ourselves and others.