About the Event:
“First you should have the foundation in mind. In order to enter the Tantrayana path you need to receive an initiation. To enter the Highest Yoga Tantra path, Maha-anuttara Tantra, you must receive an initiation into the Maha-anuttara Tantra path. To be granted the initiation it is desirable that the mind should be enriched in the three principal aspects of the path: the thought to renounce samsara, bodhicitta and the wisdom realizing emptiness. A mind that has these fundamental realizations is the perfect receptacle for the initiation.
In order to free the numberless sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric sufferings and bring them to enlightenment as quickly as possible, there are four levels of tantra: Kriya (Action), Charya (Performance), Yoga and Maha-anuttara Yoga Tantra (Highest Yoga Tantra). We need to achieve enlightenment as quickly as possible, in order to free the numberless sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric sufferings as quickly as possible, therefore we need to practice Highest Yoga Tantra.
Practicing the lower tantra teachings we can achieve enlightenment in one lifetime, because even lower tantra has a more skillful path than the Mahayana sutra path, but even then, sentient beings have to suffer for a long time because we have to achieve a long life, like living for one thousand years. That's why, with unbearable compassion for sentient beings, so that sentient beings don't have to suffer for a long time, Buddha revealed the Maha-anuttara Yoga Tantra teachings.
Maha-anuttara Yoga Tantra is the highest level of tantra. It is the most skilled in method as well as in wisdom. The wisdom clear light mind has gross and subtle and extremely subtle [levels], so through that, by realizing emptiness, that ceases the obscurations the fastest and we are able to achieve enlightenment in a brief lifetime of degenerate times, in a certain number of years. This is why we need to practice Highest Yoga Tantra, why it is so important.
Achieving the tantric path is based on actualizing the lamrim, renunciation, bodhicitta and right view. That depends on perfectly following the virtuous friend, so having realizations of that, seeing the guru as a buddha, as numberless past, present and future buddhas, and seeing that every single action of the guru is a buddha's action. We have to realize that and by training the mind in that, on the basis of that stable realization, then we can achieve realizations of tantra and attain the state of omniscience.”
Lama Zopa Rinpoche
More about this teaching subject will be discussed and clarified in this weekend teaching retreat by Geshela.
About our Teacher:
Geshe Phuntsok Tsultrim is immensely popular for the warm and approachable way in which he presents the Dharma and inspires our community. He became a monk in Tibet and did extensive study at Sera Je Monastery in India, where he was awarded his Geshe degree (the equivalent of a doctorate in Buddhist studies) in 2005. He began teaching at Chenrezig Institute in 2014 after being chosen for our community by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. He teaches in Tibetan with the help of an interpreter.
Geshe Tsultrim has a warm hearted, caring and practical approach to teaching Dharma. He has been the resident Geshe at Chenrezig Institute since 2014. Since then he has taught Dharma both in the Gompa and by the example he sets outside of the Gompa.
Schedule:
The general schedule for the weekend is below (this maybe subject to slight change):
Saturday 15th March
9:15am - 10:00am Morning Meditation
10:00am - 10:30am Break
10:30am - 12:00pm Teaching with Geshela
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 2:30pm Discussion/Q&A with Geshela
2:30pm -3:00pm Afternoon Tea
3:00pm - 4:30pm Teaching with Geshela
5:00pm - 6:00pm Supper
Sunday 16th March
7:00am - 8:00am Breakfast
9:15am - 10:00am Morning Meditation
10:00am - 10:30am Break
10:30am - 12:00pm Teaching with Geshela
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 2:30pm Discussion/ Q&A with Geshela
2:30pm - 3:00pm Break
3:00pm - 4:00pm Teaching with Geshela
Registration and payment
The recommended contribution for this two-day weekend is $120
BUT – under our new by donation payment policy, you may pay whatever you feel comfortable with.
A payment of $45 will be very helpful
A payment of $60 will cover our basic costs.
A generous contribution of $120 will cover our costs and help us to continue to offer other teachings to so many – often free of charge.
Sangha are always able to attend our courses free of charge but are encouraged to please register (using their coupon).
Registration will be in person or online.
Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83960055769?pwd=ajN1Tkw0WnVRRzE2ajd2UU5zcmFOQT09
Meeting ID: 839 6005 5769
Passcode: 606191
Youtube:
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