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Easy Path to Enlightenment: Meditations
on the Stages of the Path in the Oral Tradition of Lama Tsongkhapa
The Six Perfections, with a Special Emphasis on How to Develop Calm Abiding
and Special Insight into Emptiness
Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa will teach for four days on a text
entitled Easy Path to Omniscience composed by the First Panchen Lama.
These teachings are both practical and profound instructions on actual
meditation practices for progressing on the path to enlightenment. Rinpoche
will teach on how to meditate upon them just as the past yogis of Tibet
practiced them.
Rinpoche will pick up these teachings with the topic of impermanence
and then progress into other topics including the nature of samsara, how
karma works, and how one progresses to liberation from suffering. These
teachings are in the tradition of the “stages of the path to enlightenment,”
combining those vast and profound practice instructions with unique methods
from tantra and from the unique oral tradition coming from Lama Tsongkhapa.
This particular set of teachings will focus on the trainings of bodhisattvas—their
vast and extensive practices of generosity, ethics, patience, and joyful
effort on the path to full awakening along with a detailed explanation
of the final two trainings in how to develop deep meditative absorptions
through calm abiding and how to combine this with special insight into
emptiness, the ultimate nature of reality.
This will be the final set of teachings on Easy Path to Omniscience. Also
after this four-day teaching, Rinpoche is not scheduled to return to the
center until early November.
These teachings are open to everyone.
When:
Friday, February 24 through Monday, February 27, 2012
Rinpoche will teach both a morning and an afternoon session on each of
these four days.
Morning session: 10:30-12:15 Afternoon Session: 2:15 – 5:00
There will be a lunch break each day. People will be free to bring their
own lunches, or go out to get lunch. There will also be a brief break
during the afternoon session.
Where:
Manassas, Virginia
(at Lorne's; please send email registration to guhyasamajadc at gmail.com
for address)
Suggested Donation:
Members: $150 Non-Members: $250
Kalachakra Six Session Guruyoga Group Practice
Saturdays: February 11th; March 17th; April 14th 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Unitarian Universalist Church, 1625 Wiehle Ave., Reston VA 20190, downstairs
the Church is Universally Accessible
FPMT
Discovering Buddhism Classes
Meditations
on the Path to Bliss
First Saturday every month
Unitarian Universalist Church, 1625 Wiehle Ave., Reston VA 20190, downstairs,
the Church is Universally Accessible.
When: 4 February and 3 March 2012.
We will practice a variety of different meditation techniques such as focusing on the breath and loving kindness. We will learn how to gain control of our minds, to break negative thought patterns by developing mindfulness. To develop wisdom, we will focus on topics from the Stages on the Path to Enlightenment (Lam Rim) teachings particularly the sections covered by Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche in his commentary on the Path to Bliss. To accumulate merit, we will do a variety of prayers and practices such as sutra readings, or Medicine Buddha puja, or maybe even an extensive offering.
9:00 - 9:30 am -- Silent meditation (to develop concentration)
9:30 - 9:40 am -- break
9:40 - 10:40 am -- Discussion and meditation on the Path to Bliss teachings
(to develop wisdom)
10:40 - 10:50 am -- break
10:50 - 12:00 pm -- Prayers and Practices (to accumulate merit)
These monthly Saturday morning sessions are open to everyone who is interested in Buddhism, there are no pre-requisites. Newcomers are welcome to attend. Participants can choose to attend part of the session according to their interests.
Suggested donation: Members $25, Non-members ($30), no one will be turned away due to lack of funds
Led by: Ven. Losang Tendrol
last updated: January 29, 2012
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