Right Meditation

March 5th-7th, 2010
Location: Sarasota, FL
Start time: Friday, 3:30pm
End time: Sunday, approx 1pm

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This retreat will focus on the practical aspects of accessing Samma Samadhi or Right Concentration, the necessary precursor to absorption states critical for attaining realization and enlightenment.

The retreat is open to all and will vividly detail the meditative practices necessary to develop a calm, alert mind capable of penetrating the depths of reality. With precision and lucidity we will discuss and practice step-by-step the progressive stages of meditation, and practical antidotes to the various obstacles that may arise in one’s practice.

The retreat will be drawing on accessibly classic ancient Indian knowledge by Asanga on the concentrations and the formless absorptions as presented in Maitreya’s, “Ornament for Clear Realization.”

Right Meditation is a point of intersection between the subjective world that each of us projects and the relationship to the mental states that serve as their basis. Thus, all practitioners, from those approaching as beginners to well-adapted yogi’s will be able to locate both their present mental state, on the one hand, and their aspirations and goals, on the other, in a comprehensive map of mental states, and they can also find, on that map, a layout of means for reaching their goals of calm-abiding and compassionate wisdom.

We look forward to coming together in practice and kindness. May All be well, happy, safe, peaceful, and at ease.

Gen-la Chokyi Dhakpa

Gen-la Chokyi Dhakpa is the founder of the Summit Dharma Center and has been actively practicing Buddhism for more than twenty years. During the last ten years Gen-la has taught almost daily to hundreds of students in Asia and America and more recently has expanded his teaching and friendship to students, both lay and ordained, in Europe, South America, and Africa, leading well over a hundred meditation retreats on almost every subject matter related to Dharma. He has led hundreds of students on meditative pilgrimmages through Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, and throughout India, further connecting them with their studies and practice.

Professionally, Gen-la worked as investment banker and as Chief Operating Officer for a mid-size Denver, Colorado real estate firm.

Gen-la was ordained as a monk for almost five years by H.E. Gylatsab Rinpoche at Rumtek monastery in Sikkim and has received the vast majority of empowerments of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages including the Dam Nga Dzod from H.E. Gyaltsab Rinpoche and the Rinchen Terdzod from H.H. Penor Rinpoche. He is also fluent in written Tibetan and is casually proficient in colloquial Tibetan language. Gen-la has also received a degree in Buddhist Studies from the Naropa Buddhist University as well as from the University of Virginia. He has also undergone several ninety day retreats in Thailand and Burma in the Theravadin tradition, and is currently practicing and teaching at the Karuna Meditation Center in Phuket, Thailand.

Gen-la has been blessed to study under a wide variety of teachers including Bokar Rinpoche, Thrangu Rinoche, and Penor Rinpoche.

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Full Retreat Cost: $200
Work-Study Donation: by sliding scale, please consult our work-study page for details
(Please pay at signup, non-refundable)

CDs available after the retreat for a modest production cost of $75. (MP3 format only)

Work-study is available for this retreat to help offset the cost for those who need it. Please see our Work-Study Information page for details about the program.

Please call Avtar at 970-618-1032,
Or email retreats@summitdharmacenter.org
Or use signup sheets at local classes to sign up!