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His Holiness Kyabje Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche passed into parinirvana on 12/27/11. Rinpoche wrote down a message for all of us, asking that everyone do Vajrasattva practice for three weeks.

Please do Vajrasattva and 100 syllable mantra practice every day. This is a very special opportunity to receive Rinpoche’s blessings. These practices can be found at: vajrayana.org

Also every morning on the online meditation transmission of the Washington center, these practices are being used during the meditation transmission.

Online at: www.transmissiononline.org

Workshop:
~~Spacious Mind~~
~From Ordinary Awareness to Awareness of Infinite Being~

For most of us, our awareness is retricted to thinking, feeling, sensation memory and imagination, all of these fused into what we consider our "identities." But imagine that you could suspend "ordinary" mind just a bit and begin to focus on awareness itself - awareness of awareness. In that brief moment, no longer filtering the world through the lens of you own identity, you may experience awareness as a field, infinite in its horizon, multidimensional: ongoing Being istelf. If you can hold this state, its qualities - spaciousness, energy, luminosity, compassion - slowly become the organizers of your personality, the medium through which you experience self and world. In this workshop, we'll spend the day experientially exploring these possibilities through a range of practices including Dzogchen Tibetan Buddhism and Western phenomenology.

Thursday, March 24th

For more info: www.psychotherapynetworker.org

Transmission:The Journal of the Awareness Field is going online on February 16, 2011 at transmissiononline.org. Transmission is the Journal of The Washington Center for Consciousness Studies. The purpose of the Journal is to enhance the study of the sublime art of becoming aware of awareness itself. This sublime process can be both the basis of psychotherapy and healing as well as the profound meditative experience of oneness between self and otherness. Human beings easily and relentlessly transmit their experience of their mind to each other but what is the wonder of all wonders is that they can transmit their experience of their sublime awareness field to each other, and within each other, with great and co-emergent consequences. As Dudjom Rinpoche, the great Dzogchen teacher writes "although hundreds or thousands of explanations are given, there is only one thing to be understood. Know the one thing that liberates everything- awareness itself, your own true nature."

The journal essays reflect both the meditation seminars as well as the advanced psychotherapy seminars offered at The Washington Center. All of the seminars programs are archived on the Center website www.meditatelive.com. One of the themes of emphasis is the utilization of the contemporary understanding of western phenomenology and contemporary relational psychologies in elaborating the profound understanding of Dzogchen, Mahamudra and Shavistic teachings on becoming aware of and living within the awareness field.

The journal is free and of course we look forward to having others writing and making contributions to the co-emergent and collective process of becoming aware of the awareness field. We are grateful to our root teacher Swami Muktananda who so many years ago gave us the suggestion and inspiration for this contemporary Meditation Center.