Embodying the Great Compassionate One and Introducing Dying with Confidence
Highlights:
- With: Anyen Rinpoche.
- Location: WESTBORO studio.
- Dates: Sept 24 to Sept 26, 2010.
- Cost: suggested donations: $45/session, $10/Friday lecture, $5/Saturday lunch, $120/full week end, $80/Saturday only.
FR1 – Friday Sept 24 / 7:30pm to 9:00pm: Suggested donation $10
SA1 – Saturday Sept 25 / 9:30am to 12pm: Suggested donation $45
SA2 – Saturday Sept 25 / 2:30pm to 4:30pm: Suggested donation $45
SU1 – Sunday Sept 26 / 9:30am to 12:30pm: – Suggested donation $45
SA1/SA2/SU1 – Week end only: Suggested donation $120
SA2/SA3 – Saturday only: Suggested donation $80
Note: Financial assistance available if necessary
Description
A Three Day Retreat on the Practice of Avalokitesvara, the Embodiment of Compassion in Ottawa with Anyen Rinpoche Friday September 24 to Sunday September 26, 2010.
This is a wonderful opportunity to develop a Loving Kindness meditation practice or deepen an already established Secret Mantrayana practice. In addition, Anyen Rinpoche will be introducing his new book, Dying with Confidence, Friday night. The remainder of the weekend will be dedicated to receiving the empowerment called “the self-liberation of suffering,” transmission and instructions on the practice of Avalotikesvara.
Rinpoche will teach on a special text that was revealed as a mind treasure by the great Dzogchen master Padma Kongtrul Namgyal Zangbo. We will also have the opportunity to practice together and clarify through question and answers.
We have enjoyed receiving teachings from Anyen Rinpoche twice over the past year in Ottawa, and hope you will join us for this very special weekend. All are welcome to attend regardless of experience, as this practice is one that can be done by pure beginners as well as experienced Tantrikas, and is beneficial to all.
Also, receiving the above empowerment is especially important to any one wishing to learn a Phowa practice. Rinpoche will be back later in the year to teach Phowa and anyone wishing to learn it must first receive the Avalotikesvara empowerment as it is the basis of Phowa practice. For those unfamiliar with Phowa practice, as is discussed in “Dying with Confidence”, it is a practice we should master ourselves for the moment of death and also so we can offer support to others at the moment of their death.
Anyen Rinpoche is an esteemed scholar and fifth in an unbroken lineage of heart sons who received their lineage of the Longchen Nyingthig and Dzogchen teachings directly from the renowned Dzogchen master Patrul Rinpoche. In additiion to teaching throughout North America and Asia, he is also on the faculty at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. He is the author of “The Union of Dzogchen and Bodhichitta”, “Momentary Buddhahood”, and “Dying with Confidence” (October, 2010). You can learn more about Anyen Rinpoche at www.anyenrinpoche.com.
Important:
Receiving the above empowerment is the basis for later instruction in the practice of phowa, a practice to be mastered and used at the time of death. Rinpoche will be returning later in the year to teach this practice.
