2019 Jewel Heart Centers Tour
Glenn Mullin
TANTRIC HEALING
Jewel Heart New York
Description:
Tantric Buddhism presents a wide variety of meditations, yogas, and mantras for maintaining health and balance, and to induce the ultimate healing of highest enlightenment. These can be practiced on a daily or weekly basis for keeping one’s body and mind well attuned, or in retreat when one is struck by a deadly disease. The workshop will look at some of the methods taught by the First Dalai Lama, based on the the oral transmissions from the 11th century female mystic Siddharani, as passed through Rechungpa and Milarepa.
SACRED CAVES AND CRYSTAL PALACES: ENLIGHTENMENT TIPS FROM THE MEDITATIVE EXPERIENCES OF THE FOURTEEN DALAI LAMAS
Jewel Heart Northern California
Diamond Light Tibetan Buddhist Group
Reading from his books “The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation” and “From the Heart of Chenrezig: The Dalai Lamas on Tantra,” Glenn will distill the simple principles of happiness, humor and wholeness embodied in the lives and teachings of the early Dalai Lama.
FEMALE BUDDHAS: AN EXPLORATION OF THE TANTRIC LINEAGES DESCENDING THROUGH GREAT FEMALE MASTERS IN THE BUDDHIST TRADITION
Jewel Heart Northern California
Diamond Light Tibetan Buddhist Group
Tibetan Buddhism is rich in lineages descending through great female masters, such as Niguma, Sukkhasiddhi, and Siddharani. This weekend workshop will explore some of the key themes of their teachings, and how these are relevant in modern life.
TARA AND THE EIGHT FEARS
Jewel Heart Bloomfield Hills
Tara, the female Buddha of quick compassionate action, is often called upon for healing and protection. In particular, she is known for protecting from the eight fears, the outer fears of various dangerous animals and environmental disasters and the inner fears of our own negative emotions which endanger us spiritually, called by Gelek Rimpoche the “Nightmares of Spiritual Practitioners”.
SIX YOGAS OF NIGUMA
Jewel Heart Ann Arbor
Niguma, which simply means “Sister”, was the blood sister of the great Indian master Naropa. The Six Yogas of Naropa, brought to Tibet by Marpa Lotsawa and transmitted through Milarepa, are very famous in Tibetan Buddhism, and Tsongkhapa wrote two commentaries to the traditions. Lesser known, but of equal importance, is the lineage of Six Yogas descending from Niguma, who is famed for achieving enlightenment in one lifetime. Her lineage was brought to Tibet by Kyungpo Naljor and became the basis of the Shangpa School. The Second Dalai Lama held two streams of this lineage: the “close” oral transmission from Lama Tsongkhapa; and the “long” transmission that he received from his father, who was the head of the Shangpa School. Our weekend will explore the yogas that are taught in the Second Dalai Lama’s commentary.
SIX YOGAS OF NAROPA
Jewel Heart Cleveland
The SIX YOGAS OF NAROPA are perhaps the most widespread approach to completion stage tantric practice in Tibet. Originally transmitted from Naropa to his Tibetan disciple Marpa, the lineage was quickly absorbed by all schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Glenn, who has published two books on the tradition, originally received the oral transmission of the Six Yogas as part of his studies and training in Dharamsala between 1972 and 1992. The workshop is open to everyone, although anyone wishing to seriously pursue the practice should eventually seek out the empowerments associated with the tradition.
TRANSMISSION AND TRANSLATION OF BUDDHISM IN THE WEST
Jewel Heart Cleveland
The transmission of Buddhism as a living enlightenment legacy is often called “Cho-kyi-khorlo-korwa.” meaning “Turning the Wheel of Dharma.” The meaning is that knowledge of the practices for invoking enlightenment, as well as the according realizations or wisdoms that are produced, are like a wheel that rolls from one generation to another. It passed in this way in India from one generation to another, and then rolled from Indian holders to Tibetan, (e.g, from Atisha to Lama Drom, from Naropa to Marpa, and so forth). It is presently in the process of rolling from Tibetan masters to Western ones. The success of this experiment depends on both translation and transmission — the outer words and the inner realizations of the enlightenment tradition.
LUCID DREAMING AND SLEEP YOGA
Jewel Heart Chicago
In Buddhist Tantric Practice, the main body of practice is twofold, termed simply “clear light yoga” and “illusory body yoga.” In general, sleep yoga is part of the clear light yoga practice, and dream yoga part of the illusory body practice. In turn, the clear light of sleep yoga becomes clear light yoga at the time of death, and dream yoga becomes bardo yoga, the means of accomplishing enlightenment in the bardo.