The United States

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Acclaimed author and meditation master Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will draw on the ancient wisdom of the Tibetan Bon Buddhist tradition in this experiential program.

All proceeds for this event will be donated to the Tibetan Association of North America (TANC) to benefit the children’s cultural education programs. For more information about TANC, please see tanc.org.

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SPONTANEOUS CREATIVITY: MEDITATIONS FOR MANIFESTING YOUR POSITIVE QUALITIES

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Spontaneous Creativity, the title of Rinpoche’s newest book, “draws on the ancient teachings of the Tibetan Bon Buddhist tradition to guide us in developing the ability to show up fully for our lives and express our creative gifts for the greater good.”  In this workshop, Spontaneous Creativity: Meditations for Manifesting Your Positive Qualities, Rinpoche will offer support for participants to engage their creative nature, release pain identities that create blockages, and awaken to greater inspiration, awareness, openness and the ability to joyfully serve others.

The Tibetan spiritual traditions tell us that unleashing our dynamic creative energy is a matter of recognizing and tapping into the wellspring of creativity that already exists within us. Participants will explore how to recognize and clear physical, energetic and mental obstacles, connect with and trust their innate creative potential, and discover the inner strength and confidence that can allow their creativity to naturally blossom.

AWAKENING THE LUMINOUS MIND: MEDITATION FOR INNER PEACE AND JOY

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

In this retreat Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides participants to find refuge within instead of searching for support outside themselves.

“Do you recognize and honor the space of being, the truth of who you are, in the life in which you find yourself?” Rinpoche asks in his book Awakening the Luminous Mind. “This space within yourself is not a passive place where nothing happens. The whole universe arises, rests and dissolves in that single space. . . . Solutions will come naturally from the connection with the open space of being, which is boundless and infinitely full of potential.”

Rinpoche will present teachings and meditations that provide a direct way to meet the challenges of life as we encounter them. Incorporating these practices into daily life can help us open and transform our perceived limitations, self-doubts and self-judgment into unlimited possibilities as we discover the wisdom and light inherent within us.

Unleash Your Potential by Connecting with the Source: Meditation for Manifesting Your Positive Qualities

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Spontaneous Creativity, the title of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche’s newest book, “draws on the ancient teachings of the Tibetan Bön Buddhist tradition to guide us in developing the ability to show up fully for our lives and express our creative gifts for the greater good.” Rinpoche will offer support for participants to engage their creative nature, release pain identities that create blockages and awaken to greater inspiration, awareness, openness and abilities.

DZOGCHEN PRACTICE RETREAT: TURNING INWARD

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Winter is a time when nature draws its energies inward to rest and renew itself for the coming season. We also need time to turn inward and rest in the nature of mind. This year’s annual Winter Retreat at Serenity Ridge will offer us the opportunity to do just that. There are no prerequisites to attend this retreat. All are welcome.

Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche warmly invites everyone to join him for this meditation and practice retreat. During his morning session, Rinpoche will offer teachings and lead meditation. Rinpoche’s afternoon session will focus on meditation and practice, with the opportunity for participants to ask questions and share their experiences. Both of Rinpoche’s sessions will be followed by meditation sessions led by senior teacher Marcy Vaughn. As a support for practitioners, this retreat will be in partial silence.

The teachings of Winter Retreat come from dzogchen, known as the “great perfection” or “great completion” and considered the highest teaching in the Tibetan Bön Buddhist tradition. The essence of dzogchen is to recognize the spontaneously perfected nature of one’s own being, allowing all that arises in the field of experience to exist just as it is without grasping, aversion or elaboration by the conceptual mind. As we become familiar with who we truly are, all the positive qualities of the enlightened nature of mind can begin to manifest.

Simultaneous live translation into Spanish. Con traducción simultánea al Español, en vivo. Para más información comuníquese con la oficina del Instituto Ligmincha.

The first teaching will be held December 26 at 7:15 p.m.

THE POWER OF MANTRA: A, OM, HUNG

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

An open mind and compassionate heart are important and necessary virtues to lead a good life. But we are often bound and limited by our prejudices, fears and divisions. Awareness is the key that frees us and allows our positive qualities to be expressed. Awareness is essential for spiritual transformation. When we open our body, speech, and mind with awareness, our inherent capacity for love is found to be already present.

In the Bön tradition of Tibet, sacred sound is used as a skillful means to release tensions and blockages in our body, free our speech of divisions of exclusion and bias, and activate the compassionate qualities of an open heart. Through engaging the sacred syllables of A, OM and HUNG, we employ the power of mantra to awaken the sacred dimension of our body, speech and mind and transform our life for the benefit of ourselves and others.