With Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa of Santa Fe
Saturday & Sunday, May 15-16, 2021
9:00-noon & 2:00-4:30 pm PDT
Online via Zoom
This program focuses on the Buddha's own technology for cultivating experiential knowledge of the Dharma through what we call "integrative practice," a multidimensional combination of three seminal techniques: listening, contemplating, and meditating.
Integrative practice is the Buddha's contemplative pedagogy, first recorded in the Pali suttas, and serving for over a thousand years in Tibetan Buddhism as the crucible for cultivating prajna (precise knowing). Rarely presented in detail in Dharma centers in the West, integrative practice is traditional and proven effective--and also organic, adaptable, and especially suited to modern practitioners. A content-neutral approach that is universally applicable to any teaching, integrative practice is disarmingly simple on its face. Nevertheless, it is a powerful means for bringing Dharma into everyday life. Though deeply personal, it lends itself readily to group instruction and practice.
The weekend itself mirrors the three-fold rhythm of integrative practice, incorporating cycles of listening, contemplating, and meditating over the course of two days. The resulting fundamental knowledge of the core elements of integrative practice and the active interplay between them empowers practitioners to hone their Dharma practice from within their individual interests, strengths, and weaknesses while remaining true to the Buddhadharma.
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$ 85 Reduced level
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THE TEACHERS
Karma Yeshe Chodron and Karma Zopa Jigme are students of Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, and have been full time practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism for over twenty years. Since 2005, they have been teaching and translating Dharma texts and oral teachings from Tibetan to English for the Rigpe Dorje Institute for International Students at Pullahari Monastery in Nepal. In 2016, they successfully completed the traditional Kagyu lineage three-year cloistered retreat at Vajra Vidya Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado, under the auspices of Kyabje Thrangu Rinpoche. They are passionate about sharing traditional methods for transmitting experiential understanding of Buddhadharma with Western students through their international Dharma community, Prajna Fire.