A Zoom retreat with tim olMsted

Saturday, November 9th

Join Sangha members and view the retreat in the KSC Shrine!

Supporter Tuition: $108, Base Tuition $80, Financial Support Tuition $55

Schedule:

8:00 am– 9:45 am Teaching

9:45 am-10:00 am             Break

10:00 am– 11:30 am         Teaching

11:30 am - 12:30pm     Lunch break

12:45 pm - 2:15 pm           Teaching

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm            Break

2:45 pm – 4:00 pm            Teaching

Program Topic

We all imagine a way of being that is more open, free, and connected than currently experience. Everything we do, knowingly or not, is motivated by the impulse to make this vision a reality. And yet somehow, we often find ourselves anxious and cut off from each other and the world around us.

The Buddha himself was driven by the same imagination. Through his example, and the guidance of wisdom traditions throughout the ages, we can discover a way of experiencing our lives and the world around us as being open, fluid and fundamentally good.

During this day, through teachings, discussions, and meditation, we’ll discover the path that leads to an experience of the world as being a "sacred world,” a world of people who are—just like us—fundamentally whole, complete and affectionately connected to each other.

Tim is a senior Tergar International teacher who began his Buddhist studies in 1977 under the late Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in Boulder, Colorado. In 1981, Trungpa Rinpoche invited Mingyur Rinpoche’s father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, to teach in Boulder. Profoundly moved by him, Tim and his family moved just a few months later to Kathmandu to study with Tulku Urgyen and his sons. During the twelve years that he lived in Nepal, Tim studied with many of the older teachers living there and worked as a psychotherapist serving the international community. In 2000, Tim moved to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia where he served for three years as the director of Gampo Abbey, the largest residential Buddhist monastery in North America. He is presently the president of the Pema Chödrön Foundation, which supports Gampo Abbey.

In 2003, after a visit by Mingyur Rinpoche to Gampo Abbey, Tim started the Yongey Foundation to support and promote Mingyur Rinpoche’s activities in the West. Tim lives with his wife Glenna in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where he leads an active community that follows Mingyur Rinpoche’s teachings and those of his family lineage.