RETREAT

Who Am I?—Online Via Zoom

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

In this six-day retreat, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will teach from his poem “Who am I?”, a dzogchen poem about freedom and self-liberation, to discover how we can let go of our imagined identity. We will connect to our limitless potential that will allow us to manifest everything we really are.

Rinpoche will guide us through unique exercises that he has developed to enable us to access deep sources within ourselves and to transcend the deeper layers of our personality on a journey to self-realization, to our own enlightened qualities.

The retreat will be translated from English into German.

Read the poem “Who am I?”. PDF download in: English | Chinese | Dutch | French | German | Hindi | Hungarian | Italian | Korean | Nepali | Polish | Portuguese | Russian | Slovak | Spanish | Tibetan | Turkish

Schedule: Start: Monday 18.30 h, end Sunday 12.30 h Central European time (for schedule see schedule above). To find the time in your area: www.worldtimebuddy.com

Cost: Regular price: 350 EUR, discount 1: 250 EUR, discount 2: 150 EUR, scholarship *: 75 EUR (* only after prior contact and approval)

Organized by Ligmincha Germany

About Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche: A lineage holder of the Bön Buddhist tradition, Rinpoche is renowned for his engaging teaching style, his ability to make profound teachings highly relevant and practical, and for bringing Western students to clear, direct understanding through personal experience.

RETREAT

Tummo: Teachings on Inner Heat & Bliss

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is a renowned meditation master and author of multiple books on spirituality. Rinpoche has been teaching in many countries of Europe, Asia, and both Americas for thirty years. During this year’s summer retreat, he will deliver the teachings about inner heat and bliss (tib. Tummo). The teachings and meditation allow us to connect to our own heart. Thanks to these teachings we discover space, openness, and an unlimited source of possibilities within ourselves. By connecting to our own essence, the nature of mind, we can transform our life into being more joyful and valuable.Practicing meditation in our daily life enriches our relations with other people, helps us adopt a more creative approach to our work, and teaches us how to make wiser and more compassionate use of our own life.

Translation: teachings in English, with translation into different languages.

Hosted by Ligmincha Poland.

RETREAT

Guidance for Living and Dying

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Commentary on the Bardo Teachings

The word “bardo” means “in between” in Tibetan, including the time between life and death, and the time between death and rebirth.

During this retreat, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will offer guidance on living and dying. Rinpoche will lead participants in exploring the transition between life in death, including preparation for dying, the process of dying, practices related with the bardo, how to prepare for one’s own death, and how to help others who are dying.

In the process of dying, one of the most challenging things and what makes transition difficult, is attachment. A key issue is that things always change and we are always in transition. Rinpoche will guide participants in discovering the changeless self within all of our changing experiences—the stillness, silence and spaciousness beyond the body, speech and mind.

The retreat is open to people at all levels of spiritual practice, and welcomes those with life-threatening illnesses, caregivers, hospice professionals and all who wish to develop and deepen their relationship to life and to death.

Hosted by Ligmincha Finland.

RETREAT

Spontaneous Creativity

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Rinpoche will be teaching his book, Spontaneous Creativity. The English version of this book was published a few years ago. Now the Dutch translation is available. In the book, Rinpoche offers accessible methods so that our natural, positive qualities can blossom spontaneously and our connection with everything around us can take shape in a positive way.

The seminar is open to anyone who wants to learn to live from openness and clarity.

Lecture: Friday evening, 17 September from 20.00 – 21.30

Teachings: Saturday, September 18, and Sunday, September 19 from 10.00. – 17.00

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche teaches in English; Translations will be made into Dutch.

RETREAT

Serenity Ridge Dialogues: Body, Breath & Mind

Online Summit With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and Guests

Join Rinpoche, leading scientists, physicians, and practitioners for a fascinating journey featuring conversations at the intersection of scientific and spiritual knowledge about body, breath, and mind.

*Sessions bring leading edge presenters into multi-disciplinary conversation with peers.

*Last year’s guests included Deepak Chopra and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.

*Guided practices of body, breath and mind between each dialogue.

*Informal opportunities for discussion and conversation.

If you missed last year’s program, to watch the summit: Click here

More information on this year’s program coming soon.

FREE EVENT

Moving with Awareness: Unlocking Your Potential through Contemplative Movement

A live online discussion with Laura Schmalzl, Ph.D., Marieke van Vugt, Ph.D., Geshe Tenzin Wangyal and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Ph.D.

When coupled with awareness, physical movement can serve as an entryway to the joyful spontaneity of our true nature. In a live online conversation, Doctors Laura Schmalzl and Marieke van Vugt discuss with Tibetan meditation master Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche how yoga, contemplative dance, and other forms of meditative movement can unlock the potential for healing in ourselves and others. Hosted by Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, the CyberSangha broadcast is part of “A Year of Body, Speech, and Mind,” a free 2021 online program of live teachings, practices, and science & spirituality dialogs. Learn More

• To join the chat, view live on Facebook — click here
• Or, view on the CyberSangha website —  click here

If the livestream doesn’t appear at the scheduled time, try refreshing the page.

About the Presenters

FREE EVENT

24-Hour Full Moon Practice: Finding Peace through Silence of Speech

During the full moon of  August 21, 2021, join us online for a guided meditation followed by a 24-hour session of mantra recitation, contemplative silence, and further periods of guided meditation.

With its focus on silence of speech, the full moon practice marks the start of “The Month of Speech” — part of A Year of Body, Speech, and Mind, a free 2021 online program of live teachings, practices, and science & spirituality dialogs. The 24-hour session begins with a meditation guided by Alejandro Chaoul-Reich at 10 a.m. New York time on the day of the full moon and ends at 10 a.m. the following day. We will be supported by Ligmincha International’s global community of practitioners. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and other Ligmincha lamas will take opportunities to join participants throughout the 24 hours.

Unlike Rinpoche’s CyberSangha® Facebook Live broadcasts, the 24-hour full moon practice takes place via Zoom, in an online meeting space. There is no cost to participate, but registration is required.

Learn more and register — click here

About Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

COURSE

Sherap Chamma: Mother of Wisdom and Love

with Marcy Vaughn

Ligmincha Learning is pleased to announce that we will be offering our course introducing the practices of Sherap Chamma, Mother of Wisdom and Love, taught by Marcy Vaughn.

In many cultures the primordial female energy is seen as the origin of existence and the source of all positive qualities. As such, Sherap Chamma is the source of wisdom, and her medicine is love and compassion. The teachings of Sherap Chamma comprise one of the most important tantric cycles of the ancient Bön tradition.

Join Marcy Vaughn in this special course to learn a beautiful and simple meditation practice that will enable you to connect directly with the divine feminine energy. With visualization, the sound of mantra, and deep contemplation, participants can make a personal connection to this sacred form of the universal mother, Sherap Chamma, and are guided through this connection to innate wisdom and the love and compassion that naturally radiate from that wisdom.

Those experienced in meditation as well as those who are beginning are warmly welcomed.

COURSE

The Five Elements: Healing with Form, Energy and Light

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

In this course Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche explores how the five elements from the Tibetan Bön tradition relates to our daily experiences, emotions and relationships. Rinpoche guides meditations for each of the elements, designed to help clear our obstacles and bring balance to our lives.

The course is structured into six parts of one week each:

• Overview of the Five Elements
• The Earth Element
• The Water Element
• The Fire Element
• The Air Element
• The Space Element

Each section of the course includes a video of Rinpoche’s teaching, Rinpoche leading a guided meditation, readings from his book Healing with Form, Energy and Light, and assignments for journal writing, discussion, formal and informal practice.

The course is designed so that you may integrate study and practice into your everyday routine, learning at your own pace, yet enjoying the support of classmates and the course mentor.

COURSE

Tibetan Dream Yoga

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

It is said that the practice of dream yoga deepens our awareness during all our experience: the dreams of the night; the dream-like experience of the day; and the bardo experiences after death. Indeed, the practice of dream yoga is a powerful tool of awakening, used for hundreds of years by the great masters of the Tibetan traditions. Unlike in the Western psychological approach to dreams, the ultimate goal of Tibetan dream yoga is the recognition of the nature of mind or enlightenment itself.

In this four-week workshop, students will explore and practice the ancient Bön Buddhist teachings of Tibetan dream yoga. The workshop provides detailed instruction for dream yoga practice, with discussion of the relationships between dreaming and waking and between dreaming and death. Rinpoche also will provide instructions for foundational practices done during the day and for the uses and methods of lucid dreaming.

Learn more and view introductory video

COURSE

Transforming Our Emotions Through the Six Lokas

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

This meditation course will give you a thorough introduction to the Six Lokas practices of the Tibetan Bön Buddhist tradition.

At one time or another each of us suffer strong emotions that throw us off balance, cause us to act in ways that we later regret, and make us lose touch with our true nature. Centuries ago the masters of the Bön lineage developed the meditations of the Six Lokas specifically to remedy this situation, to help us live our lives in a balanced and relaxed way.

The meditations focus on the root causes of our suffering: anger, desire, greed, ignorance, jealousy, pride and laziness. Through each meditation we examine our habitual patterns so that we may recognize them, then invoke the enlightened energy of the Buddhas to purify and transform us so that we and all other beings might not continue to suffer in this way. The practices have a deep healing and transformative power, and are traditionally practiced at length as a preliminary to dzogchen contemplation.

COURSE

Treasures of Bön: History, Lineage & Practice

with Geshe Denma Gyaltsen and John Jackson

Bön counts itself among the oldest spiritual traditions in the world. With origins steeped in an oral, shamanic tradition and yet deeply rooted in teachings of the buddha Tonpa Shenrap, the buddha who preceded Shakyamuni Buddha. This course is designed for anyone who would like to learn more about, or deepen their existing knowledge of, the ancient, profound tradition of Tibetan Bön Buddhism.

Geshe Denma Gyaltsen, resident lama for Ligmincha Texas, and John Jackson, mentor for many Ligmincha Learning courses and international teacher, enter into deep conversations around essential masters and teachings of the Bön tradition. The conversation is followed by a guided meditation led by either Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche or Geshe Denma.

The course is divided into five parts:

• History and Lineage
• The Causal Vehicle
• The Path of Sutra
• The Path of Tantra
• The Path of Dzogchen

COURSE

Who Am I? A Journey to Self-Realization

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

“I–Who Am I?
I am no one.
I can be anyone.”
– Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

The primary journey of every spiritual path is to reclaim what has been lost: the truth of who we really are. Once we come to a deep recognition that our true nature is spontaneous perfection, there is no more need to search for insights or solutions, no more need to strive. According to the dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Bon and Buddhism, this simple recognition is the way to ultimate liberation, to our own Great Perfection.

This two-week online workshop is based on a poem Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche wrote during moments of self-reflection on retreat. It essentializes the deep personal work he does as a teacher, father, husband, friend and spiritual being. Each session of the workshop will guide you through his poem, line by line, in your own journey of self-discovery.

“This poem has supported me in incredible ways, and I hope it will help all of you in the same way,” Rinpoche says. “At any moment when you feel challenged, threatened, lost, or sad, that’s a simple sign that you have lost connection with who you are. I wrote this poem as a support for remembering, and reconnecting.”

Throughout every stage of life, from childhood through adulthood and old age, we have a different sense of identity, a strong mental image of who we are. Each of these identities causes us pain, because it is only a mental projection based on ignorance, anger and attachment. In the workshop, Rinpoche encourages you to make note of your current sense of identity and work with it in the guided meditations and throughout your day. For it is only by discovering who you are not that you can connect deeply with the beauty and infinite potential of who you are.

The online workshop features personal guidance and support from Rinpoche as you work with the practices, instruction via Internet-based video and an easy-to-use course site. There are no set class times, and instructional videos remain available throughout the workshop.

Website: GlideWing (https://www.glidewing.com/twr/who_am_i_home.html)

COURSE

Tibetan Meditation: The Nature of Mind

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

This three-week interactive online workshop, offered through GlideWing, allows you to learn and practice from your own home, at your own schedule, with personal guidance from Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Its video-based teachings offer a direct introduction to the nature of mind. Rinpoche will guide you through each of the five steps of meditation in the Fivefold Teachings of Dawa Gyaltsen — an 8th century dzogchen meditation master — helping you to enter the state of pure awareness that leads to peace, joy and ultimately, to self-realization.

Dzogchen, also known as the “Great Perfection” or “Great Completion,” is considered the path of self-liberation and the highest form of teaching and practice in the Bön Buddhist tradition. For practitioners, it offers the potential for ultimate realization during a single lifetime.

Website: GlideWing (https://www.glidewing.com/twr/meditation_home.html)