Zasep Tulku Rinpoche will offer these Empowerments and Retreats in 2024.
Meditation on Death and Dying weekend of April 20th and 21st 2024
Venerable Zasep Tulku Rinpoche will teach mediation on death and dying in general and the Phowa practice of transferring one’s consciousness to Amitabha Buddha pure land. This is optional for those who don’t need Phowa practice.
Meditating on death and dying is very important. Great Kadampa masters advised that meditation on death and dying is a powerful method to motivate Dharma practice. Life is too short. Death is definite, but the time of death is indefinite. Death can happen at any time, we simply don’t know when. People go to bed and don’t wake up, people go to work and don’t come home.
You could say that you might have ten, fifteen years, maybe even twenty years but the time goes fast and death is definitely going to happen sooner or later.
Schedule will be the same for both Saturday and Sunday:
Teachings and Meditation: 9:00am – 10:30am
Tea Break: 10:30am -11:00am (Tea & Coffee provided)
Teachings and Meditation: 11:00am – 12:30pm
Lunch: 12:30pm-2:00pm (Please know for this particular weekend students should bring their own vegetarian lunch and please make time to clean up after yourself if you have used anything in the gompa during the breaks. No food will be provided, Only Tea & Coffee)
Teachings, Meditation and Question & Answer: 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Tea Break: 3:30pm -4:00pm (Tea & Coffee provided)
Final meditation: 4:00-5:00pm
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/venerable-zasep-tulku-rinpoche-will-teach-meditation-on-death-and-dying-tickets-846458188227
Lam Rim retreat May 18th to June 1st with Venerable Zasep Tulku Rinpoche
Venerable Zasep Tulku Rinpoche will lead Lam Rim retreat. Rinpoche will teach Lam Rim based on the third Panchen Lama, Losang Yeshe’s beautiful text called Nyur Lam – the Quick Path to Enlightenment.
Lam Rim is a gradual path to enlightenment or Buddhahood. Lam Rim is the essence of the 84,000 Dharma teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha revealing a complete step by step path to enlightenment. The Lam Rim method was first compiled in the concise text called Lamp For The Path by the great master Atisha Dipamkara, when he first arrived in Tibet. Lam Rim is the profound philosophy of Renunciation, Bodhicitta and Shunyata – the wisdom of emptiness meditation. Lam Rim is a method to overcome the stresses of everyday life like anxiety, confusion, fear, grief and trauma.
Lam Rim teaching explains there are three levels as we practice Lam Rim, We go through the practice step by step through the three levels. The first level person has the basic motive of searching for happiness in achieving a high rebirth. The second level person of medium motive, seeks personal liberation by achieving the peace and eternal bliss of Nirvana. The third level person of high motive, seeks by all means to liberate all sentient beings. This is the Mahayana path of the Bodhisattva. By joyfully and patiently doing all of these meditations we shall gradually experience the fruits of Lam Rim practice. Eventually we shall attain freedom from all suffering and the unchanging peace and happiness of enlightenment.
Please know this is a silent retreat.
Lam Rim Retreat Schedule – May 18th to June 1st
7:30am to 8:30am – Meditation
8:30am to 9:00am – Kora around the stupa – the act of walking around or circumambulating a sacred place or object.
9:00am to 10:30am – Teaching
10:30am to 11:00am – Tea Break
11:00am to 12:30pm – Guided Meditation
12:30pm to 2:30pm – Lunch Break ( A light vegetarian lunch will be served each day)
2:30pm to 4:00pm – Teaching
4:00pm to 4:30pm – Tea Break
4:30pm to 6:00pm – Meditation
Zoom Only – Suggested Donation (appreciated by May 2024) Lam Rim Two Week Retreat is $450-900 CAD (sliding scale).
In Person Retreat – For students who will attend the Lam Rim retreat in person is $1,400 CAD. Fees appreciated by the 2nd week of May) Please email gadenwest@gmail.com for any questions.
*Please know at this time we do not have any spots available to stay overnight at our gompa.
All retreat information and daily schedules will be emailed by May 2024.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lam-rim-retreat-may-18th-to-june-1st-with-venerable-zasep-tulku-rinpoche-tickets-854859205897
Please send any questions to: gadenwest@gmail.com