Jewel Heart Joyful Summer Retreat
Demo Rinpoche
Enlightening our mind begins with understanding the relationship between our mind and our actions. In this retreat with Demo Rinpoche we will explore questions such as “What is the mind? Can we train the mind? How might that take shape? The Buddhist approach to training the mind includes stabilizing and analytical meditation practices focused on bringing compassion and wisdom to all we do, for the sake of ourselves and others.
In this joyful summer retreat, Demo Rinpoche will guide us through the Stages of Meditation, a meditation manual by the great ninth-century Indian master Kamalashila. This retreat is open to all levels of interest and experience. Join Demo Rinpoche onsite or online via webinar.
RETREAT ELEMENTS:
- Demo Rinpoche’s teachings based on Kamalashila’s Stages of Meditation – Middle Stages, along with the Five Paths and Ten Bhumis
- Five Paths Handout
- Daily early morning White Tara guided healing meditation sessions
- Group discussions on the retreat teachings, facilitated by senior students
- Some evening teachings, some extracurricular evenings
- Registrants have on demand access to daily recorded sessions through a personal login web account – please allow 24 – 48 hours
SUGGESTED READING:
– Stages of Meditation – the Dalai Lama (root text by Kamalashila)
– Perfection of Wisdom by Gelek Rimpoche
– The Bodhisattva Path to Unsurpassed Enlightenment: A Complete Translation of Bodhisattvabhumi (Tsadra), Snow Lion, 2016, by Asanga, translated by Artemus B. Engle
– On Knowing Reality: The Tattvārtha Chapter of Asaṅga’s Bodhisattvabhūmi, Janice Dean Willis, 2002.
– Alex Berzin’s Five Paths with a section on the Ten Bhumis