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| Seven Factors of Awakening |
Seven Factors of Awakening
led by Gen-la Chokyi Dhakpa
Apr 25-27, 2008
Location: (various local communities)
Start time: Friday, 3:30pm
End time: Sunday, approx 1pm
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Full Retreat Cost: $150
Work-Study Donation: $40
(Please pay at signup, non-refundable)
Cost includes a FREE set of the retreat on CD to each attendee!
Please call Dave or Tracy at 303-665-2393,
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When you practice meditation, you have to deal with factors that are unfriendly, that are known as impediments. You also feel factors that are positive, that are constructive. This retreat will focus on the Seven factors Necessary for Realization and Enlightenment, which are positive factors of meditation.
The Pali word sambojjhanga is a combination of two words, sambodhi and anga. Sambodhi normally means, “enlightenment,” the realization of truth, but, in this context, it also means the thorough knowledge of the objects of meditation, which are mind and matter, or mentality and materiality. The word anga means limb or factor. So, the factors of realization or enlightenment means the knowledge of the seven components or factors for awakening of thorough knowledge of all phenomena. This knowledge begins with the ability to discern the rising and fading away of phenomena and can be met through all the different stages of Vipassana knowledge from no-self to emptiness - leading to the moment of attainment – or the realization of all – nirvana.
After sitting in meditation at the foot of the bodhi tree 2550 years ago, when the morning star arose, the Buddha realized enlightenment and said, “How amazing that all living beings have the basic nature of awakening, yet they don’t know it. So they drift on the ocean of great suffering lifetime after lifetime. “ it means that the potentialities of the seven factors of Awakening are already in us, but we don’t know it.
The Seven Factors of Awakening, if practiced diligently, lead to true understanding and emancipation. The Buddha said that the four Immeasurables – loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity practiced with the Seven Factors of Awakening bring Complete, Perfect Enlightenment. The Seven Factors of Awakening are, therefore, the practice of love.
Your attendance in this retreat is welcomed and there are no prerequisites. We look forward to your presence and sharing this weekend experience together.
This retreat will be done using our satellite center broadcast technology, so local groups will be hosting this retreat in various locations around the world. Please contact Dave Rodenbaugh to find out more about a community near you, or how to host your own retreat gathering!
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 |
| 4-6pm | First Session/Meditation | 8-10am | First Session/Meditation | 8-10am | First Session/Meditation |
| 6-7pm | Dinner | 10-11am | Tea Break | 10-11am | Tea Break |
| 7-9pm | Second Session/Meditation | 11a-1p | Second Session/Meditation | 11a-1p | Second Session/Meditation |
| | | 1-2pm | Lunch | 1pm | Retreat Ends |
| | | 2-4pm | Break | | |
| | | 4-6pm | Third Session/Meditation | | |
| | | 6-7pm | Dinner | | |
| | | 7-9pm | Fourth Session/Meditation | | |
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