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| Mind Training: 'The Great Collection' Teachings and Meditations, Part III |
Mind Training: 'The Great Collection' Teachings and Meditations, Part III
led by Gen-la Chokyi Dhakpa
February 23-25, 2007
Location: The Frisco Sangha, Frisco, CO
Start time: Friday, 3:30pm
End time: Sunday, approx 1pm
Cost: $150 - (Please pay at signup, non-refundable)
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Or email retreats@summitdharmacenter.org
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This retreat is the third of four parts, creating the most comprehensive teachings about Mind Training available anywhere in the West. It is not necessary to attend all four parts to benefit from these teachings, and you do not need to attend a prior retreat to understand the material for a future retreat, but we encourage you to attend as many as you can to experience this rare opportunity!
Compiled in the fifteenth century, this collection of meditations is the earliest anthology of mind training. We will meditate and give teaching on the highlights from 43 individual texts, This retreat will focus upon the teachings from:
- An Instruction on Purifying Negative Karma
- Melodies of an Adamantine Song: A Chanting Meditation on Mind-Training
- Sumpa Lotsawa's Ear-Whispered Mind Training
- Yanggonpa's Instructions on Training the Mind (1213-1258)
- Glorious Virvapa's Mind Training (12-13th centuries)
- Bodhisattva Samantabhadra's Mind Training
- Taking Joys and Pains onto the Path
The meditations for the retreat will focus on Tonglen and the Four Immeasurables.
The practice of mind training is based on the essential teachings of impermanence, compassion, and the exchange of self and other (also known as Tonglen) that the 11th century master Atisha, who learned from his Indonesian master Serlingpa, brought to Tibet from India. The Mind Training teachings are a source of inspiration and guidance shared by masters of all Tibetan traditions. The translations we will be using are from Geshe Thubten Jinpa, the primary translator for His Holiness the Dalai Lama for the past twenty years. For the first time, this early collection of instructions of the great Kadampa masters has been translated. The clarity and raw power of these 1000 year old teachings are astonishingly fresh, whether studied completely, or practiced at random for inspiring verses on the heart of Buddhist practice.
Directions to the Frisco Sangha can be found on the Frisco Community Page. Early signups are encouraged so that housing arrangements can be made. Please contact Tina K. (tkcreate@gmail.com) for housing information.
Tentative Schedule (subject to change before and DURING the retreat):
| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Time | Activity | Time | Activity | Time | Activity |
| 3:30pm | Retreat Begins | 7:00am | Breakfast | 7:00am | Breakfast |
| 4-5:30pm | First Session/Meditation | 8-10am | First Session/Meditation | 8-10am | First Session/Meditation |
| 5:30-6:30pm | Dinner | 10-11am | Tea Break | 10-11am | Tea Break |
| 6:30-8:30pm | Second Session/Meditation | 11a-1p | Second Session/Meditation | 11a-1p | Second Session/Meditation |
| | | 1-2pm | Lunch | 1pm | Retreat Ends |
| | | 2-3pm | Break | | |
| | | 3-5pm | Third Session/Meditation | | |
| | | 5-6:30pm | Dinner | | |
| | | 6:30-8:30pm | Fourth Session/Meditation | | |
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