Dzogchen Trekcho Retreat:

Cutting Through Appearances
April 16th-18th, 2010
Location: Frisco, CO
Start time: Friday, 3:30pm
End time: Sunday, approx 1pm

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Tsik Sum Ne Dek: Striking the Essence

Dzogchen is the supreme essence teaching in Buddhism. It is also known in Sanskrit as Mahasandhi or Atiyoga. It is the highest of the nine yogas in the ancient Nyingma lineage of Tibet. Dzogchen means great completeness or perfection.

Dzogchen is beautiful in both its simplicity and directness, but may seem difficult to grasp at first, as it is a direct experience, not an intellectual concept. Dzogchen cannot be grasped intellectually as it is the experience of pure awareness that comes through being relaxed and spontaneously open. This state is distinctive from conceptualization which is the state of mind that clings with attachment to its own thought processes. All concepts present a grasping duality by their very nature: for example when we say something, “is easy,” we infer that some other thing, “is difficult,” and in this way all concepts are dualistic.

The quality of our minds is like a reflection of the world in a mountain spring. Since mind perfectly reflects all of our experience it is vital that we know the qualities of our mind, and finally begin to experience it as it is: a vast emptiness of pure potential.

All are welcome. 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!