The United States

COURSE

Treasures of Bön: History, Lineage & Practices

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. Bön offers practices for the challenges we face in our lives, and a complete path to enlightenment..

Ligmincha International is pleased to share our online course designed for anyone who would like to learn more about, or deepen their existing knowledge about this ancient, profound tradition. This course is ideal for beginners who have recently connected with Bön teachings, and want to know more about where it comes from and the many varied forms of practice in the tradition. It is also well suited for practitioners who have learned several practices and would like to know how all the practices fit together into a beautiful and complete system of philosophies and meditations.

We use a new format for this course, in which Geshe Denma Gyaltsen, our resident lama of Ligmincha Texas, and John Jackson, mentor for many of our courses and frequent international teacher, enter into deep conversations around the essential masters and teachings of our tradition. Each topical conversation is followed by a guided meditation, led by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche or Geshe Denma Gyaltsen , which illustrate and demonstrate the themes discussed.

John Jackson will be the mentor for this course.

Registration is now open.

FREE EVENT

24-Hour Full Moon Practice:

Through Spaciousness, Manifest Qualities That Benefit Others

During the full moon of February 5, 2023, 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 spaciousness of the mind, the full moon practice marks the start of the Month of the Mind, part of a yearlong program of live online teachings, meditations, and science & spirituality dialogs. The 24-hour session begins with a meditation guided by Lourdes Hinojosa 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.

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

To stay informed of future 24-hour full moon practice sessions, subscribe to the CyberSangha Announcements email list.

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RETREAT

Tibetan Dream Yoga: Awake While Dreaming

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Tibetan Bön Master, opens his return to Houston Jung Center with an evening talk and conversation about dreams from the Tibetan and Jungian perspectives with Jung Center’s Executive Director, Sean Fitzpatrick.

The weekend teaching with Rinpoche aims to evoke the connection between sleeping, dreaming, and being awake. All are forms of awareness that can be experienced as a continuum and can also manifest as a constant awareness called the “natural state.” Rinpoche will focus on dream practice, explaining the underlying concepts and teaching methods of inviting the experience of the natural state. The benefit of instruction and practice is to increase access to the potential of enlightenment through developing heightened awareness. All are welcome.

In person and online attendance will be offerred.

Hosted by Ligmincha Texas

RETREAT—In person and online via Zoom

Sherap Chamma: Mother of Wisdom and Love

with 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, Mother of Wisdom and Love, 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.

In this retreat, participants will learn a beautiful and simple meditation practice enabling each to directly connect with the divine feminine energy. Within the support of the group, an environment is created to promote profound healing of physical, energetic, emotional and spiritual dimensions of life. 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.

Languages of live translation will be posted.

Onsite Schedule (New York Time)
Link to your local time zone

February 16, 2023
4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Onsite registration
6:00 p.m.–6:45 p.m. Dinner
6:45 p.m.– 7:00 p.m. Break
7:00–8:30 pm Teachings

February 17, 2023
8:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m. Breakfast
9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Teachings
11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Practice
12:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Break/Lunch
3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Teachings
4:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Break
5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Practice
6:00 p.m.–6:45 p.m: Dinner

February 18, 2023
7:30 a.m.–8:30 a.m. Practice
8:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m. Breakfast
9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Teachings
11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Practice
12:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Break/Lunch
3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Teachings
4:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Break
5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Practice
6:00 p.m.–6:45 p.m: Dinner

February 19, 2023
7:30 a.m.–8:30 a.m. Practice
8:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m. Breakfast
9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Teachings
11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Practice
1:00–1:45 p.m.: Lunch

Marcy Vaughn, a senior teacher and student of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, has been a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism for more than 40 years. She graduated in the first class of the master’s program in contemplative psychotherapy at Naropa University. Currently a therapist in private practice in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, she edited the books Tibetan Sound Healing, Awakening the Sacred Body, Awakening the Luminous Mind and Spontaneous Creativity: Meditations for Manifesting Your Positive Qualities, all by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and narrates the audio version of his books The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep and Spontaneous Creativity. She helped design and teaches in The 3 Doors Academy, a three-year training program bringing contemplative practices to the secular world, as well as The 3 Doors Compassion Project for those who provide care for others.

RETREAT—In person and online via Zoom

Abiding in Presence

with Gabriel Rocco

As students of Tenzin Wangyal, Rinpoche, we have received and benefited from his teachings and guidance in practices from the Tibetan Bon tradition. The core of the Bon dzogchen teachings as Rinpoche has generously offered us, points us to discover the inner refuge, the spacious, luminous warmth of our essential nature, by opening the doors of our body, speech and mind through resting in stillness, silence and spaciousness.

Join Gabriel Rocco at Serenity Ridge or via Zoom for an opportunity to rest and abide. Abiding in presence offers the opportunity to devote yourself to practice, lightly guided within the warmth of community, where you are supported to develop the strength and steadiness of attention necessary to open the three doors and discover your authentic self.

This retreat is open to all who have received or are familiar with the Nine Breathings of Purification practice and the practice of abiding, including all 3 Doors practitioners. For those unfamiliar with these practices, instruction will be given during the first evening teaching on February 16.

Onsite Schedule (New York Time)
Link to your local time zone

February 16, 2023
4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Onsite registration
6:00 p.m.–6:45 p.m. Dinner
6:45 p.m.– 7:00 p.m. Break
7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Teaching

February 17, 2023
8:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m. Breakfast
9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Practice
11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Practice
12:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Break/Lunch
3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Practice
4:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Break
5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Practice
6:00 p.m.–6:45 p.m: Dinner

February 18, 2023
7:30 a.m.–8:30 a.m. Practice
8:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m. Breakfast
9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Practice
11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Practice
12:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Break/Lunch
3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Practice
4:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Break
5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Practice
6:00 p.m.–6:45 p.m: Dinner

February 19, 2023
7:30 a.m.–8:30 a.m. Practice
8:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m. Breakfast
9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Practice
11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Practice: Sitting, sharing, closing the retreat
1:00–1:45 p.m.: Lunch

Gabriel Rocco, M.A is a Senior Teacher for The 3 Doors and a student of its founder, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal, Rinpoche for nearly 30 years. Gabriel earned his Master of Arts in Contemplative Psychotherapy degree from Naropa University in 1982.

In 1986, he pioneered the Cancer Support Care and Crisis Intervention program at Einstein Medical Center where he also served as counselor at Einstein’s Hospice, one of the nations’ first hospital based hospices. In 1990 he founded “Life Support Group,” a nonprofit organization providing mind-body practices in group format to cancer patients and their families. 

In 2003, on behalf of Tenzin Rinpoche, he was honored to present directly to the Dalai Lama, at Garrison Institute, on the topic of teaching meditation to Westerners. 

FREE EVENT

The Flashlight, Floodlight & Juggler: Training Attention with Meditation

with David R. Vago, Amishi Jha, Tenzin Wangyal and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich

A live online conversation with contemplative neuroscientists David R. Vago, Ph.D., and Amishi Jha, Ph.D.; dzogchen master Geshe Tenzin Wangyal; and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Ph.D.

Can we live more fully just by paying more attention? Our panelists discuss the science behind attention, how mindfulness can help us achieve our greatest potential and strategies for being more present in each moment.

Using metaphors from Dr. Jha’s recent bestselling book, Peak Mind, the panelists will discuss three subsystems of attention: the flashlight (selective focus), floodlight (receptive attention), and juggler (executive functioning). They will also discuss the similarities and differences between neuroscientific and Buddhist models of attention, plus recent findings from lab-based and field studies of contemplative training.

• View live on Facebook page of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche to join the chat — click here

• Or, view on the CyberSangha website —  click here

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

This CyberSangha broadcast is part of the Month of the Mind in “A Year of Body, Speech, and Mind,” a free online program of live teachings, practices, and science & spirituality dialogs. Other related events during the Month of the Mind include:

• Sunday, February 5, 2023, 10 a.m. New York time: 24-Hour Full Moon Practice, “Through Spaciousness, Manifest Qualities That Benefit Others”
  Learn more & register now
• Saturday, February 18, 2023, 11 a.m. New York time: “Realizing Your Full Potential: Manifesting Qualities That Benefit Others”
  Learn more & view live

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FREE EVENT

Realizing Your Full Potential: Manifesting Qualities That Benefit Others

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

In a live online broadcast, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche offers a teaching and guides a meditation as part of the Month of the Mind in his free yearlong program “Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life.” Open to all.

Mind refers here to our disturbing emotions and other distracted movements of the mind, as well as to the vast, open nature of mind — the source of all positive qualities — and the capacity to distinguish the difference. As we deepen our familiarity with resting deeply in a state of spacious awareness, the obstacles and obscurations of our habitual patterns naturally dissolve into the openness of our true nature, and our positive qualities spontaneously arise from this source to benefit others.

In advance of his teaching, Rinpoche encourages creating a bit of space for meditation in your house — in a quiet, peaceful location where you can feel some sense of warmth and connection to yourself. You might provide a comfortable cushion to sit on, and a candle or stick of incense. A supportive outer space can support your inner space during meditation.

Related activities, Month of the Mind, February 4 – March 7:

• Sunday, February 5, 2023, 10 a.m. New York time: 24-Hour Full Moon Practice, “Through Spaciousness, Manifest Qualities That Benefit Others”
  Registration opens after January 7

• View live on Facebook page of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche to join the chat — click here

• Or, view on the CyberSangha website —  click here

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

View the full yearlong schedule and access recordings

About Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche