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The Great Master of Oddiyana once said:

     Don't investigate the roots of things,
     Investigate the root of Mind!
     Once the mind's root has been found,
     You'll know one thing, yet all is thereby freed.
     But if the root of Mind you fail to find,
     You will know everything but nothing understand.

Keith Dowman

Urban Yogi Reload:
Radical Dzogchen
An Introduction to Dzogchen and the Four Samayas

Public Adress and Weekend Seminar in Berlin: 3rd to 5th of June 2005

Dzogchen Praxis
View, Meditation and Conduct

7day Intense Praxis-Seminar
from 6th to 12th of June 2005
in Karma Tengyal Ling in Menz
northern of Berlin

Programme

Urban Yogi Reload:
Radical Dzogchen: The Snowball Effect – An Introduction to Dzogchen and the Four Samayas – the actuality of buddhahood – and how we can use tantra (vajrayana)

Public Adress, 3rd of June, 19:30, Berlin
Weekend Seminar in Berlin: 4th and 5th of June 2005

an introduction to the nature of mind through dzogchen vision and meditation. The formless dzogchen method is the way of natural meditation or no-meditation on the way of natural perfection. Dzogchen vision and meditation will be presented within the frame of the four commitments (as in Longchemba's Nelukdzo -- The Way of Natural Perfection.) This essential basis of the Four Samayas unifies view, meditation and conduct. Let's use Tibetan Dzogchen to get past Tibetan culture to the root of the matter! Let's go immediately to the destination at the end of the path. The view and the meditation are one.

Countryside Retreat:
Dzogchen Praxis
7day Intense Praxis-Seminar
from 6th to 12th of June 2005
in Karma Tengyal Ling in Menz
northern of Berlin

View: The Four Dzogchen Samayas from the Way Of Natural Perfection
Meditation: Unstructured through Inner Rushen and semdzin windows
Conduct: Without parameters.

Dudjom Rinpoche:
T
he exposition of Dzogchen is conventionally expressed in terms of Vision, Meditation and Action. The mystical jargon is highly abstract and abstruse. One of the great masters of Dzogchen in this century, Kyapje Dudjom Rinpoche, expressed the vision of Dzogchen something like this:

'The first thing is Dzogchen vision which sees what really is -- the nature of mind itself. This is the natural state of being, where the mind makes no distinctions and judgments. This state of awareness is called rigpa. Rigpa is naked awareness of the wholistic here and now. We cannot actually express this awareness and there is nothing to compare it to in order to describe it. It is certainly not the ordinary state of emotional confusion and conflicting thoughts, but neither is it nirvanic cessation. This state cannot be produced or developed, and on the other hand it cannot be stopped or extinguished. We can never be free of it and nor can we fall into error in it. It is impossible to say that we actually exist at that moment but we cannot say that we do not exist. This experience is neither of infinity, nor of anything specific.'

'So, to be brief, because the nature of mind, the Great Perfection, rigpa, cannot be established as any specific thing, state, or action, it has the original face of emptiness which makes it pure from the beginning, all pervasive and all-penetrating. Because the unobstructed lustre of Emptiness and the entire gamut of experience whether confused or transcendant are like the sun and its rays, Emptiness is experienced positively as everything and anything whatsoever and it has the intrinsic nature of non-dual awareness of the spontaneously arisen universe of pure quality. For this reason the recognition of the presence of what is, as the primordial natural state of being, the Real Self of the Three Buddha Bodies, intrinsic awareness as the union of light and emptiness, is called the vision of the inconceivable Great Perfection.'

On the Dzogchen page the nature of Dzogchen is described by various adepts through the ages.

from: "The Heart Jewel of the Fortunate" Dudjom Rimpoche's Personal Advice on Dzogchen Praxis

About Keith Dowman: www.keithdowman.net

When:
3.06. 19:30pm Public Speech
4./5.6. Weekend-Seminar 10am and 3pm (lunch break between 1 and 3pm)
17.-23.5.2004 Intensive Praxis seminar in Menz near Berlin about 1,5 h drive.
Karma Tengyal Ling, Neuruppiner Str. 6, 16775 Menz, see: www.karma-tengyal-ling.de

Prices:
Public Speech:10 EUR;
Seminar: Sa+Su compl.: 65 EUR, or each single morning or afternoon session: 20,- €;
complete weekend (Fr-Su) 70 EUR;
7-day Seminar: 220 EUR incl. 3 light meals a day, add. fee for accommodation. With registration and payment of registration fee of 100 € till 31rd of March 15% discount, till 15th of April 10% discount on the seminar fee.

Accommodation in Karma Tengyal Ling:
In own tent per day/person 5,-- EUR
Dormitory per day/person 7,50 EUR
Double room per day/person 12,-- EUR
Single room per day/person 21,-- EUR

Accommodation in Berlin: Private sleeping places can be organized. For 8 EUR it is also possible to stay at the seminar room (in own sleeping bag). Please register early online or with Anne Gäbler Fon: +49-(0)30-5342508 eMail: Yontan (ad) gmx.net

Place Berlin: Wamos, Hasenheide 9, 2.Hof, Aufgang 1, 4. Et. U-Bhf Hermannpl. (U7 / 8), 10967 Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany

Karma Tengyal Ling, Neuruppiner Str. 6, 16775 Menz, see: www.karma-tengyal-ling.de
between Gransee and Rheinsberg, ca.1,5 h drive northern from Berlin. Exact description available at the Berlin Seminar or after the registration. We will try to organize lifts from Berlin to Menz on Sunday evening or Monday morning.

Registration: is necessary for the 7-day seminar. Please come at time!

Online Registration:

For further question and registration:
Info: A n d r e a s: Fon: +49-(0)30-2833276, Fax: +49-(0)89-1488 290026 or eMail: andreas (ad) khordong.net and Anne Gäbler Fon: +49-(0)30-5342508 eMail: Yontan (ad) gmx.net


The Garuda 

Dzogchen is 'The Great Perfection', the apogee of Tibetan Tantric Buddhist meditation accomplishment. It is the Buddha's enlightenment in rainbow light.

Dzogchen is also a path of existential praxis which is the quintessence of all Tantra. But it cannot be taught or learned. Either you get it or you don't. It is the school of Buddhism with greatest affinity to the sanity of  twenty-first century mystical aspiration.

A sign of Dzogchen is the Garuda, a mythical bird, Khyung or Kading in Tibetan, an ancient  sun-god, the celestial bird sometimes with human face.
 

'All thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky'


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