Eifel Retreat Autumn 2013

The view and practice of trekcho We will focus on gaining direct experience of the open nature of the mind. We will do a range of practices including the semdzin exercises to develop non-conceptual experience. Read the transcripts here in English and German. Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

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Eifel Retreat Spring 2013

Dying and death from the view of Dzogchen “In dzogchen we practice to integrate all experience within the state of infinite life. Life itself, the ever-fresh presence of awareness, is unlimited by any experience which arises, including the movement of dying and death. This involves de-centering but not annihilating the ego” Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

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Death and Dying, Eifel 2013

Life and death – all the modalities of existence are embedded within the great open space of our awareness which is ungraspable and ever-present. If you try to grasp it you’ll never find anything. If you open to it and relax into it, it’s always there. This is the liberation from the duality of life and death.

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Death and Dying, Eifel 2013

Life and death – all the modalities of existence are embedded within the great open space of our awareness which is ungraspable and ever-present. If you try to grasp it you’ll never find anything. If you open to it and relax into it, it’s always there. This is the liberation from the duality of life and death.

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The Heart of Dzogchen. Eifel, Oct 2012

“What does it mean for me to be me? What is our real identity? Is our identity just what we take it to be – the narratives that we say about ourself – or is identity perhaps something different?
From the point of view of dzogchen, there are many ways to see the constructed way in which we create fantasies of identity about who we are. We may occupy them for some time, but then it becomes impossible to occupy them any more because the present becomes the past.
The present is always becoming the past, so what shall we rely on? This is the central question in dzogchen because if we rely on something unreliable we feel betrayed and we do not feel supported.”

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The Heart of Dzogchen. Eifel, Oct 2012

“What does it mean for me to be me? What is our real identity? Is our identity just what we take it to be – the narratives that we say about ourself – or is identity perhaps something different?

From the point of view of dzogchen, there are many ways to see the constructed way in which we create fantasies of identity about who we are. We may occupy them for some time, but then it becomes impossible to occupy them any more because the present becomes the past.

The present is always becoming the past, so what shall we rely on? This is the central question in dzogchen because if we rely on something unreliable we feel betrayed and we do not feel supported.”

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