You Are Pure Potential 1

October 8th-10th, 2010
Location: Friso, CO
Start time: Friday, 3:30pm
End time: Sunday, approx 1pm

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Our retreat will focus on the method of how to combine meditations and teachings on realizing the inherent qualities and Buddhahood present in all beings, otherwise known as Buddha Nature. The elucidation of this potential, the inseparability of luminosity and emptiness, is the bridge between the Sutra and tantric paths, it is the view of Tantra, the ground for Mahamudra, and thus it is an essential understanding that must be gained for all practitioners. The weekend will focus on the third century text, and practice of, The Uttaratantra, which clarifies the Third Turning of the Buddha’s teachings on Enlightened potential or tathagathagarbha, one of the five seminal works of Arya Asanga and Maitreya. The verses are written in exquisite prose and thus require a commentary to explain their unlimited potential and profound meaning. All are welcome to attend, regardless of experience.

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 e-mail or call Teresa if interested in workstudy. teresa.stidsen@gmail.com or 508- 873-7604. (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 e-mail or call Teresa if interested in workstudy. teresa.stidsen@gmail.com or 508- 873-7604.

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