Meditation Programs

This phenomenological seminar focuses on the practice of meditation as the art of becoming aware of the nature of one's own awareness. The object of awareness becomes awareness itself. In meditation sessions one learns to hold the field, enter the field, rest deeply in the field and become the field itself. Through meditation practice one can begin to experience and embody the qualities of this innate immediate field of consciousness.

The qualities of the field are spaciousness, energy, light and compassion. The field of awareness itself becomes the base and the medium through which we experience our self and the world. Once established in the awareness state we practice the method of extension in order to expand the field of ongoing Being; the field which is infinite in its horizon and so multidimensional. The experience of the state of awareness is entered into through many different methods and in a sense every experience is method.

We are artfully eclectic and practices from many traditions are utilized, including: Dzogchen Tibetan Buddhism, Hindu Kashmir Shavism, Western Phenomenology, Christian Mystic traditions as well as Sufism and Taoistic Qi Gong understanding.

This seminar is intensely experiential and everyone enters and holds the primordial field of awareness together, thus learning to generate and sustain this view both for one's self and the other.

In this meditation wherein the participants enter into the awareness field and become the field of awareness. This meditation practice is amplified through the practice of extension. Everyone who participates describes the experience of being in the field of spaciousness, energy and luminosity.

Every Saturday after the morning meditation there will be a Dakini practice for about 40 minutes. The practice will include the Troma Nagmo invocation which is the Dark Mother; that aspect of primordial awareness that is symbolized as the creation of experience and the dissolving of experience. We also practice the invocation of the Kurukulle which is that aspect of primordial awareness which is symbolized as the power of resonance which is the power of oneness. We also practice Yeshe Tsogyal which symbolizes divine nurturance and belovedness. These practices consist of the chanting of a text that both invokes and deepens the experience that the Dakini symbolizes within oneself.

On selected mornings there will be the readings of other texts that are dedicated to the luminosity of the Divine Mother.

This is a three hour course in the practice of meditation. Participants will learn how to utilize a variety of techniques to enter meditation states. This course elaborates the psychology of meditation from both a western and eastern viewpoint.

This experiential seminar facilitates both mind and body strength via the subtle energy. In this hour long seminar, we have the good fortune of practicing Empty Force QiGong with Mr. Shuren Ma; a QiGong Master and martial arts expert of the Empty Force tradition. In this tradition, the Qi is used for healing and defense.

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