Sadhana Practice: Expanding Our Compassion for All Beings

A Retreat with Tulku Sherdor Exploring Two-Stage Yoga Practice

RETREAT BY INVITED PRESENTER

This intensive retreat will be an exceptional opportunity to deepen your understanding and experience of development-stage sadhana practice; it includes teachings on a range of relevant topics, as well as an empowerment.

“A wonderful, peaceful supportive environment in which to fully express my practice.”

DUAL PROGRAM: Pair with the 18th Annual Rimay Monlam, led by Tulku Sherdor, June 8-11, and save 10% off your accommodations. REGISTER HERE

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

We have asked Tulku Sherdor to help us unpack and deepen our understanding of sadhana practice and the creation and completion stages. Specifically, we have requested that during the retreat intensive Tulku Sherdor provide teachings on relevant topics such as the three samadhis, the four stakes, and the four stillnesses.

During the retreat we will practice a terma sadhana revealed by our teacher His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa associated with the yidam Amogapasha, a form of Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig) whose name could be translated as “unfailing lasso.” His commitment is to rescue beings in all six realms from circulating in samsara; the lasso is one of his implements for accomplishing this goal.

The sadhana expresses the highest Nyingma Dzogchen view and at the same time is both inviting and accessible. People who have accomplished an ongoing regular practice relationship with the sadhana have reported a deep experience of non-referential compassion for all beings.

On the final day of the retreat Tulku Sherdor will lead us through a ceremony to assist recently deceased persons; the ceremony is a special application of this Amogapasha sadhana. The transmission of this practice will also include an empowerment.

Copies of the sadhana will be made available and the intensive will begin with a lung (reading transmission).

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

• Intimate setting with personal access to the teacher
• Interactive sessions with question and answer periods
• Guided meditations
• Aspirations for the welfare of all sentient beings
• Opportunity to pair with the 18th Annual Rimay Monlam and receive discounted accommodation fees
• Delicious all-vegetarian meals with locally sourced ingredients
• Option to extend stay on Personal Retreat
• Extensive library of dharma books
• Expansive wooded grounds with beautiful paths, flora and fauna

OPEN TO ALL

The retreat is open to anyone who considers themselves a Buddhist practitioner and who has taken refuge and has an interest in exploring what is known in the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition as development stage (creation and completion) practice. Due to the nature of the practice, participants should plan to be present at the initial session of the retreat and stay until the end.

SCHEDULE

(subject to change)

Wednesday, June 4

Thursday, June 5 – Saturday, June 7

Sunday, June 8