The Truth That Sets You Free: Discovering Your Inner Wisdom Through Practices of Waking and Sleeping

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

This three-week online workshop with personal support and guidance from Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is about becoming liberated from fear and other disturbing emotions so you may live more fully and genuinely in all aspects of life. Ultimately, its practices are about achieving liberation, or enlightenment.

The meditations taught in the workshop include daytime contemplative practices from the dzogchen, or «great perfection,» tradition of Tibetan Bön Buddhism. They also include sleep yoga practices of the night from the Bön Mother Tantra, which offer helpful support for one’s dzogchen practice. Through these practices Rinpoche helps you to discover the truth of who you are: a state of spacious awareness that is beyond the ego-based identity and which is eternal, changeless, indestructible and serene. Realizing this truth is what liberates us from the fear and negative emotions that have trapped us in suffering.

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THE BODY OF LIGHT, PART 3: TRANSFORMATION THROUGH SPACE, LIGHT, AND ENERGY

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Every one of us has the possibility of becoming more open, more aware, and more creative by lightening the densities that prevent us from experiencing ourselves as we truly are.

In  this five-weekend series, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will teach practices that guide us towards this essential state of pure space and awareness, the body of light. These practices take us through the layers of our pain identities as they manifest within each of the five aspects of spiritual and personal development: body, speech, mind, positive qualities, and spontaneous creativity. As we release first the gross and then the subtler blockages we discover the body of light that becomes accessible as these blockages clear. This weekend will focus on mind.

All the weekends emphasize self-reflection and practices of the tantric and dzogchen teachings of the Bön tradition. There are no prerequisites needed in order to attend these teachings. Everyone is welcome.

The Body of Light flyer Part Three

NGӦNDRO: THE FOUNDATIONAL PRACTICES

Online Workshop with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

The ngöndro teachings are a set of nine practices that offer complete instructions for taming, purifying, and perfecting the suffering mind. Although these practices are considered the foundation for entrance into the five-part cycle of Tibetan Bön dzogchen teachings – Bön’s highest teachings on the nature of mind – many practitioners adopt the ngöndro as their main meditation and complete the nine sets of 100,000 repetitions over the course of a lifetime. Within each is contained the entire path to liberation. They are considered to be the foundational practices for the entire tradition.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche rarely teaches the ngöndro, and recommends it for dedicated practitioners who feel a strong connection to the Bön lineage. Within the ngöndro are found practices that are used within many other practices, such as the Guru Yoga Prayer, Bodhicitta Prayer, Refuge Prayer, Prostrations, and the Three Heart Mantras, so the ngöndro supports and deepens all other meditation practices.