Seven day retreat with Lama Justin Von Bujdoss
September 24th - october 1st, 2023
At Pure Land Farms and Online
(Check in on September 24th between 3 and 6pm; Check out on October 1st between 1 and 3pm)
Pre-requisites:
Participation in Lama Justin’s Nine Week Online Death & Dying Course: The Death Process and Dharma Practice: for Self and for Others
This course is available to watch as a self-paced video course: SIGN UP HERE
OR
Participation in the 2022 Death and Dying Retreat
Price:
Early bird (registration before June 25, includes 10% discount):
Commuter: $990 (Includes retreat plus all meals, no accommodation)
Residential: $1215- 1035 (Includes retreat plus all meals and onsite accommodation for seven nights)
Registration after June 25:
Commuter: $1100
Residential: $1350 - $2150
All in-person participants receive twelve month access to our online learning platform with video recordings (not downloadable) of all live sessions and additional (downloadable) audio and text resources to support you in your continued study and practice.
Limited to 15 Residential Guests (Maximum 25 Participants Total)
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Registration for in-person retreat will be provided after filling in the brief application at the bottom of this page.
ONLINE STREAMING OPTION:
For those who are not able to travel to Pure Land Farms in person
$300 (Includes Morning Teachings & Afternoon Guided Practice Session)
One of the most profound places of practice that we find in the Vajrayana tradition is the inclusion of the process of death and the bardo experience into the spiritual path. In this retreat we will journey together into this unique and powerful way of bringing insight and wisdom into our own eventual experience of death. We will also develop skills around caring for loved ones who may be entering into the death process, and hone skills for professional caregivers including chaplains, social workers and other clinicians who wish to go deeper into the intersection of Vajrayana spiritual formation and their respective caregiving modalities. This retreat is a wonderful way to deepen the relationship of dharma into caregiving and how we can understand caregiving to be a profound spiritual practice.
During our time together there will be daily teaching sessions which will offer practical instructions that have been time-tested through the clinical experiences had by Lama Justin in the following:
Teachings and practical guidance on the inner processes that occur before physical death, during active dying and in the phases immediately after physical death
Teachings on the bardo process and a review of Bardo Practice
Bringing difficult emotions into practice
The use of Ati Yoga and Mahamudra as a way of training in open non-judgmental presence
Instructions on Phowa Practice from the Yuthok Nyingthig tradition as well as using Ati Yoga and Mahamudra as an essential phowa
Supportive practice modalities including guided visualizations, group discussion to dive deeper into what is alive for each one of us in working with what death and dying brings us
A deep exploration of Vajrayana spiritual practices that can be applied for those who are critically ill, dying or who are on their bardo journey
SCHEDULE
8 - 9am:
Breakfast
9am - 12pm
Morning Teaching and Group Practice Session
(LIVESTREAMED)
2:30 - 4pm
Mid-day Individual Practice Session:
4:30 - 5:30pm
Afternoon Group Ati Yoga/Mahamudra Practice Session
(LIVESTREAMED)
7pm - 8pm
Shanglon Mahakala Protector Practice Followed by Yuthtok Nyingthig Chöd
(All times in PST/ Los Angeles Time Zone)
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 three practice sessions in which participants will practice together in the temple. There is also space for personal contemplation, reflection, and practice 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 as well as opportunities to receive massage and Tibetan medical healing therapies in our clinic will be available.
Application for Attendance to In-Person Retreat at Pure Land Farms
If you would like to attend the retreat in-person at Pure Land Farms, kindly fill out this brief form.
After processing your application you will receive a link to register.
This retreat is limited to 15 residential guests (maximum 25 participants total) accepted on a first come first serve basis.
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 16 th 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.
