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Schedule
Friday nights, 7-9 pm. Doors open at 6:45.
1716A Linden Avenue (door on the right)
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Mahamudra Retreat
with Claudia Hansson
St. Mary's Sewanee
September 12-16
Join us for the 2012 Luminous Mind Retreat at St. Mary's in Sewanee, TN. The retreat will be held in noble silence, Wednesday evening through Sunday noon.
The intention of the retreat is to set up the conditions that lead to the direct discovery of awakened awareness and will include pointing out instructions for Mahamudra (direct awareness).
Claudia began practicing over 18 yrs ago and has studied primarily with Tibetan trained Western teachers from the Karma Kaygu and Shangpa Kagyu traditions. She is a senior student of Ken McLeod and has received the benefit of several years of training in the Buddhist Teacher Development Program which he directed. She was authorized to teach by Dan Jorgensen and Ken McLeod in 2003. In recent years her practice has been centered in Tibetan vajrayana, mahamudra and dzogchen practices.
Claudia emphasizes awareness of the body and the development of stable attention as the foundation for all other practices. Claudia has an extensive background in higher education as a professor, counselor and administrator. She currently co-owns and operates Sierra Mental Fitness Inc., a neuro-feedback center in Roseville, California.
For more on Claudia, go to Clear Mountain Wisdom.
Registration details will be coming soon. |
Dzogchen meditation is subtly powerful in dealing with the arisings of the mind and has a unique perspective on them. All the risings are seen in their true nature, not as separate from Rigpa, and not as antagonistic to it, but actually as none other-and this is very important-than its "self-radiance," the manifestation of its very energy.
-- Sogyal Rinpoche
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This Friday we begin wrapping up Chapter 7 in Ken McLeod's book, Wake Up to Your Life. Topic: The Four Immeasurables. We will start on page 292.