Seven day guided group retreat with Lama Justin Von Bujdoss
November 5th - 12th, 2023
(Check in on the 5th after 3pm, check out on the 12th after 12pm)
This is retreat is open to participants of the Mirror of Light One Year Dharma Immersion from 2022 or 2023 cohorts
COST OF IN-PERSON RETREAT:
$900 - $1650 (Includes retreat registration, all meals, and onsite accommodation)
Limited to 15 People
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Registration for in-person retreat will be provided after filling in the brief form at the bottom of this page.
COST OF STREAMING OPTION:
$175 (Includes one session per day November 6 - 12 at 9 - 11am PST)
Traditionally, practicing meditation in a retreat setting is an important way to deepen and stabilize our meditation experience. These in-person retreats serve as a way of supporting students in having the ability to delve more deeply into the practice of Ati Yoga at two crucial points - the first being the special Ati Yoga preliminary practice of rushen the other in helping to foster a solid ground in the experience of trekchö.
These retreats are supplements to the 2023 year-long intensive introduction of Dr. Nida Chenagtsang’s book, Mirror of Light: A Commentary on Yuthok’s Ati Yoga. Volume One focused on helping to foster a closer relationship to Ati Yoga practice as well as to aid in holding students so that they can carve away some useful time for retreat.
About Trekchö Practice
This retreat focuses on the practice of trekchö, sometimes known as ‘cutting through the hardness’ of our dualistic grasping so that we have the ability to experience and then repeatedly familiarize ourselves with the experience of our primordially pure nature. This practice is refreshingly, and sometimes deceptively, simple and can lead us to directly experiencing the nature mind free from the play of afflictive emotions. Through the practice of trekchö meditation we can begin to familiarize ourselves with the view of the Great Perfection, or Ati Yoga, in a way that increases our understanding of mind and appearance while leading to the practical benefits of more embodied, less anxious, being.
SCHEDULE
In the morning of each day there will be an initial daily teaching session accompanied by a brief group practice session. The rest of the day will be divided into two practice sessions in which participants will practice individually, having access to practice in the temple, outside at various locations on the grounds of Pure Land Farms, or in your yurt/room.
There will be time for one 1:1 interview with Lama Justin for each in-person participant if desired.
9:00am to 11:00am
Morning Teaching and Group Practice Session
(Morning practice session will be streamed online for students who
cannot join the retreat at Pure Land Farms)
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Mid-day Individual Practice Session
4:30pm to 5:30pm
Afternoon Individual Practice Session
7:00pm to 7:30pm
Shanglon Mahakala Protector Practice
(All times in PST/ Los Angeles Time Zone)
If you would like to attend the retreat in-person at Pure Land Farms, kindly fill out this brief form.
After filling out the form you will be sent a link to register for the retreat.
Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an American vajrayana Buddhist teacher, writer, and the is a co-founder of Bhumisparsha an experimental Buddhist sangha along with Lama Rod Owens. He is the author of Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity and Embodiment in Dharma Practice published by North Atlantic Books, and contributor to Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections published by Lexington Books. From 2016 until December 2021 Justin served as the Executive Director of Chaplaincy and Staff Wellness for NYC Department of Correction where he also served as Staff Chaplain supervising over 30 chaplains and guided wellness programming for staff. Justin also has professional experience in home hospice and hospital settings as a pastoral caregiver.
Justin was ordained as a repa, a lay tantric yogin in the tradition of Milarepa, by His Eminence Gyaltsab Rinpoche, one of the heart sons of His Holiness the 16th Karmapa. Lama Justin has presented on Buddhist practice at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, University of Chicago, Wellesley, Columbia University, has been a visiting instructor at Union Theological Seminary, teaches at Pure Land Farms. Justin is passionate about helping to create the conditions for authentic embodied tantric Buddhist spiritual practice in the West.
