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Summer Dzogchen Retreat – Day 8
Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
Live Webcast
July 24, 2021
The Essential Point of Effortless Profound Meditation by Mipham Rinpoche
2021 Summer Dzogchen Retreat
with Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
July 17-24, 2021 – 4 Daily Sessions
Watch:
Day 1 Overview of Dzogchen
July 17, 2021 – Live Webcast
“The Essential Point of Effortless Profound Meditation“
by Mipham Rinpoche
“One’s own nature of mind is fresh awareness-emptiness that never changed from the beginning, and is free from accepting, rejecting, and effort. Abide directly in this nature with confidence. This is the great Dzogchen, the ultimate nature of all phenomena.”
There are still many days of teaching and practice to join!
The Dzogchen teachings by Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Rinpoche must be viewed live as they’re happening from 10:00am-noon EDT.
The majority of these precious teachings will not be shared publicly afterwards.
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While this retreat is being offered for free, donations to support the Dharma activities of the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center are graciously accepted.
Summer Dzogchen Retreat
with Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
Live Webcast
July 17 – 24, 2021
The Essential Point of Effortless Profound Meditation
by Mipham Rinpoche
“One’s own nature of mind is fresh awareness-emptiness that never changed from the beginning, and is free from accepting, rejecting, and effort. Abide directly in this nature with confidence. This is the great Dzogchen, the ultimate nature of all phenomena.”
Click Here to Register for All or Part of this special retreat:
As the cornerstone of our annual summer retreat, Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Rinpoche will confer special Dzogchen teachings by Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche on the importance of relying on lineage masters to fully discover and realize the Dzogchen view of self-liberated awareness. Once you’re introduced to your true nature through the blessings of the lineage and your root teacher, in combination with your buddha-nature and its radiant qualities, those with opportunity and great fortune to put these pith instructions into practice will break through the delusions of samsara and nirvana.
During the 2021 Summer Dzogchen Retreat webcast live from Padma Samye Ling, Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche will impart the heart essence of Dzogchen Pith Instructions according to the stainless wisdom lineage of the great master Mipham Rinpoche. These are direct pointing out instructions on how to discover enlightened awareness this very moment.
Mipham Rinpoche’s root text will be available to participants as a free download.
Daily Schedule
• 7:00 am – 8:00 am EDT
Guru Padmasambhava, Buddha Shakyamuni, and Arya Tara Practice led by Lama Laia
• 10:00 am – Noon EDT
Pith Instructions from Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche & Dzogchen Meditation
• 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm EDT
Meditation on the Dzogchen Luminosity, Vajrakilaya & Dharmapala practice led by Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
• 7:15 pm – 8:00 pm EDT
Heart Sutra Practice led by Lama Dragpa
Anniversary of the Buddha’s Turning the Wheel of Dharma
Wednesday, July 14
3:30pm – 5:45pm EDT
Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche will lead meditation practice centered around our Great Kindness Teacher, Buddha Shakyamuni.
Practice will include a vegetarian tsok ceremony.
For Buddhists, this is one of the most sacred days of the year when karmic effects are naturally multiplied millions of times, so meditation practice and virtuous deeds are strongly encouraged and celebrated!
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Question: When we were driving here today, there was a man standing by the side of the road saying he needed food and I felt bad. I didn’t know what to do. When I think about bodhichitta and taking the bodhisattva vow, I realize that I can’t even make these things work in my own life in small situations. So I would like to know, how can I help myself and others?
Answer: In general, in these kinds of situations it’s important to act according to your personal capabilities. However, we shouldn’t give excuses about our capabilities in order to not do anything. Try to have enthusiasm for helping others and then do what your capabilities allow. Do a little bit every time, and do as much as you can. Don’t try to do big things immediately. Just do what you can in the minimum way—simple things done with love and compassion can help achieve something much bigger in the future. Try to always have more courage and more enthusiasm for beneficial activities. The main point is to utilize your capabilities. It’s not good to try to do big things immediately and then stop everything. Then there would be no continuation or progress. Question yourself and examine your capabilities to determine what you can do. If you try to do too much, it will bring discouragement and stop your progress. Always try to develop the aspiration to help, sincerely recite aspiration prayers with a good heart and good thoughts, and then do whatever you can to help others. That is called bodhisattva practice. You cannot immediately remove everyone’s troubles, but whatever you can do to help really moves you in the right direction.
Venerable Khenpo Rinpoches
Uprooting Clinging: A Commentary on Mipham Rinpoche’s Wheel of Analytic Meditation (pgs 139-140)
www.padmasambhava.org/chiso/books-by-khenpo-rinpoches/uprooting-clinging-a-commentary-on-mipham-rinpoches-wheel-of-analytic-meditation
Photo of Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche at Padma Samye Ling in July 2019.
“All of the 84,000 teachings given by the Buddha Shakyamuni are contained in the Seven Chapter Prayer. It is therefore very profound and powerful. Also, from the outer perspective, this prayer is very accessible; it is not esoteric or mysterious. Why? Because prayer is based on devotion, and devotion is not esoteric. Devotion is something that almost everyone knows about and feels in one way or another. What is devotion? In the context of the teaching, devotion is an unfailing sense of joy and appreciation. It is trust. You feel that there is something calm and soothing and very beautiful about the teaching. You want to be part of it, you want your experience to grow and deepen. All of this is devotion. Devotion is fundamental to your meditation practice, and it is the very root of your spiritual realization. Without devotion, even if you’re connected to and practice the most esoteric and sophisticated spiritual discipline such as Dzogchen, you won’t make progress. This is why the power of devotion is mentioned constantly throughout the Buddha’s teaching. Therefore, after you investigate the teachings intellectually and settle down with good analytic understanding, in order for that understanding to really sizzle and materialize as a living reality in your heart, you need meditation practice. And for your meditation practice to really bear fruit, you need devotion.
In the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, every ceremony begins with the chanting of the Seven Line Prayer—not with refuge and bodhichitta. Of course refuge and devotion are most important; but when you have devotion you have unfailing trust, and that is itself refuge and bodhichitta. For the same reason, the Kagyu schools begin their ceremonies with the recitation of Calling the Lama from Afar. All the great masters who reached enlightenment have said that devotion was the most powerful catalyst. This Leu Dunma practiceis a very special way to connect to and actualize our devotion to Guru Padmasambhava.
The Power of Devotion
The great master Nagarjuna also celebrated the power of devotion. Nagarjuna was one of the most famous scholars and intellectuals in all of human history—not only in Buddhist history. He said that without devotion there is nothing we can accomplish. In his Precious Garland of Madhyamaka, Nagarjuna said that if we want spiritual awakening and enlightenment, we need two things: wisdom and devotion. According to Nagarjuna, wisdom is necessary for realization, but before we can gain wisdom we must have devotion. Without devotion, whatever we learn becomes dry. It won’t really sink into our heart and mind. It stays as mere knowledge. If we want full and complete benefit from our study, analysis, and contemplation of the teachings, as well as from our meditation practice—and not only for this life, but for many lives to come—devotion is the way. If we practice like this, externally we are like scholars and internally we are beautiful realization beings. We will have accomplished great meaning in our lives.
Whether we are practicing Dzogchen, Mahamudra, Madhyamaka, or the Shije pacifying techniques, we will not succeed unless we have devotion. The teachings are emphatic that when we have devotion the blessings will come. The blessings are realization. The teachings say that when the window of our devotion is open, the sunlight of the Buddha’s blessing comes pouring in. Our devotion and the blessings merge, which brings enlightenment. Similarly, the coming Buddha Maitreya said in his teaching that realization of self-born primordial wisdom comes through devotion. The great masters and realization beings have stressed the importance and power of devotion so much that it is like a pith instruction or a secret message.”
Venerable Khenpo Rinpoches
Vajra Sound of Peace: Practicing the Seven Chapter Prayer of Guru Padmasambhava (pgs 83-84)
The great Dzogchen master Longchenpa gave this advice:
“On a comfortable cushion, relax your body with your spine straight. Don’t recollect past memories and don’t provoke future plans. Settle your mind in the instantaneous present. Smile and enjoy the fresh, radiant tranquility that you begin to experience by allowing this to shine.”
Venerable Khenpo Rinpoches
The Seven Nails: The Final Testament of the Great Dzogchen Master Shri Singha (pg 95)
Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Live Webcasts with Lama Laia and Lama Dragpa!
https://t.e2ma.net/message/lywgee/xb7qbc
Saturday, July 10, 2021
3:30-5:15pm EDT
Padma Samye Ling
As an offering to interested Sangha members, Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche has requested that Saturday Ngondro sessions with Lama Laia and Lama Dragpa be webcast.
For those who wish to join, instructions will be given on the essential points of the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro foundational practices, their vital importance within Tibetan Buddhism, as well as instructions for each section, including Refuge, Bodhichitta, Mandala, Vajrasattva practice, and Guru Yoga.
The essential meaning of this practice is that the Tibetan Buddhist foundational practices of Ngondro embody all the teachings of the Buddha. They are a perfect and complete framework for cultivating a balanced, effective, and rewarding spiritual practice.
We’ll also get to practice the entire Ngondro every session!
Join the Live Webcasts from Padma Samye Ling:
www.padmasambhava.org/2020/08/live-teachings-and-meditations-with-ven-khenpo-tsewang-dongyal-rinpoche
https://t.e2ma.net/message/lywgee/xb7qbc
Saturday, July 10, 2021
3:30-5:15pm EDT
Padma Samye Ling
As an offering to interested Sangha members, Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche has requested that Saturday Ngondro sessions with Lama Laia and Lama Dragpa be webcast.
For those who wish to join, instructions will be given on the essential points of the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro foundational practices, their vital importance within Tibetan Buddhism, as well as instructions for each section, including Refuge, Bodhichitta, Mandala, Vajrasattva practice, and Guru Yoga.
The essential meaning of this practice is that the Tibetan Buddhist foundational practices of Ngondro embody all the teachings of the Buddha. They are a perfect and complete framework for cultivating a balanced, effective, and rewarding spiritual practice.
We’ll also get to practice the entire Ngondro every session!
Join the Live Webcasts from Padma Samye Ling:
www.padmasambhava.org/2020/08/live-teachings-and-meditations-with-ven-khenpo-tsewang-dongyal-rinpoche
PSL Summer Dzogchen Retreat with Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche!
“One’s own nature of mind is fresh awareness-emptiness that never changed from the beginning, and is free from accepting, rejecting, and effort. Abide directly in this nature with confidence. This is the great Dzogchen, the ultimate nature of all phenomena.”
WEBCAST LIVE FROM PADMA SAMYE LING
July 17-24, 2021
Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche Rinpoche will lead the annual PBC Summer Dzogchen retreat via live webcast from Padma Samye Ling. Retreat will include a full four-session schedule.
Registration is required for everyone attending this retreat.
We humbly request everyone participating to help sustain the Dharma activities of Padmasambhava Buddhist Center. All donations are graciously accepted.
For complete schedule updates and details:
The main topic will be vajra mind.
It’s our pleasure to invite you to participate in live Dzogchen Teachings and Meditations with Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche webcast from Padma Samye Ling. “Heart Advice for the Fortunate Ones” by H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche encapsulates the essential instructions and advice for daily practice on all of the Buddha’s teachings in general, and the three Inner Tantras in particular. These sacred lineage instructions usher us to discover the enlightened nature of Kuntuzangpo, the all-perfect present.
Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche brings these teachings vividly to life with practical, pithy advice that goes straight to the heart and inspires us all to use this precious opportunity for the great and lasting benefit of all beings.
Also . . .
Join Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Rinpoche for Dakini Day Meditation
Sunday, July 4, 2021
10:00am-noon EDT
Join live here:
Dakini Day: Queen of Great Bliss
revealed by Jigme Lingpa
Also . . .
PSL Summer Dzogchen Retreat
“The Essential Point of the Effortless Profound Meditation”
by Mipham Rinpoche
WEBCAST LIVE FROM PADMA SAMYE LING
July 17-24, 2021
We are delighted to announce that Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche Rinpoche will lead the annual PBC Summer Dzogchen retreat via live webcast from Padma Samye Ling. Retreat will include a full four-session schedule.
“The Essential Point of the Effortless Profound Meditation”
by Mipham Rinpoche
“One’s own nature of mind is fresh awareness-emptiness that never changed from the beginning, and is free from accepting, rejecting, and effort. Abide directly in this nature with confidence. This is the great Dzogchen, the ultimate nature of all phenomena.”
Register here:
We humbly request everyone participating to help sustain the Dharma activities of Padmasambhava Buddhist Center. All donations are graciously accepted.
To make a donation in support of the webcast retreat:
For complete schedule updates and details: