Mirror of Light
Trekchö Retreat | November 6th-12th 2022
Trekchö Retreat
Yuthok Nyingthig Ati Yoga with Lama Justin Von Bujdoss
November 6th - 12th
9am - 11:30am Los Angeles
12 - 2pm New York
6 - 8pm Rome
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Traditionally, practicing meditation in a retreat setting is an important way to deepen and stabilize our meditation experience. These in-person retreats serve as a way of supporting students in having the ability to delve more deeply into the practice of Ati Yoga at two crucial points - the first being the special Ati Yoga preliminary practice of rushen the other in helping to foster a solid ground in the experience of trekchö.
These retreats are supplements to the 2022 year-long intensive introduction of Dr. Nida Chenagtsang’s book, Mirror of Light: A Commentary on Yuthok’s Ati Yoga. Volume One focused on helping to foster a closer relationship to Ati Yoga practice as well as to aid in holding students so that they can carve away some useful time for retreat.
About Trekchö Practice
This retreat focuses on the practice of trekchö, sometimes known as ‘cutting through the hardness’ of our dualistic grasping so that we have the ability to experience and then repeatedly familiarize ourselves with the experience of our primordially pure nature. This practice is refreshingly, and sometimes deceptively, simple and can lead us to directly experiencing the nature mind free from the play of afflictive emotions. Through the practice of trekchö meditation we can begin to familiarize ourselves with the view of the Great Perfection, or Ati Yoga, in a way that increases our understanding of mind and appearance while leading to the practical benefits of more embodied, less anxious, being.
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9:00am to 11:00am
Morning Teaching and Group Practice Session (ONLINE)
(Morning practice session ONLY will be streamed online for students who cannot join the retreat at Pure Land Farms)
The following schedule is the schedule that group will be following in person at Pure Land Farms and is a suggested practice schedule for online participants who would like to dedicate more hours of practice during the week:
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Mid-day Individual Practice Session
4:30pm to 5:30pm
Afternoon Individual Practice Session
7:00pm to 7:30pm
Shanglon Mahakala Protector Practice
(All times in PST/ Los Angeles Time Zone)
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Sign Up
$175.00
12 Sessions
Course curriculum
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1
WELCOME
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Course Overview & Welcome
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Navigating this Online Learning Platform
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Classroom Etiquette and Technical Requirements
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Retreat Resources
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Retreat Poems
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LIVE ONLINE PROGRAM
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Session 1: November 6
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Session 2: November 7
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Session 3: November 8
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Session 4: November 9
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Session 5: November 10
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Session 6: November 11
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Session 7: November 12
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Lama Justin von Bujdoss
Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an American Vajrayana Buddhist teacher, writer, and the is a co-founder of Bhumisparsha an experimental Buddhist sangha along with Lama Rod Owens. He is the author of "Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity and Embodiment in Dharma Practice" published by North Atlantic Books, and contributor to "Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections published by Lexington Books".
From 2016 until December 2021 Justin served as the Executive Director of Chaplaincy and Staff Wellness for NYC Department of Correction where he also served as Staff Chaplain supervising over 30 chaplains and guided wellness programming for staff. Justin also has professional experience in home hospice and hospital settings as a pastoral caregiver.
Justin was ordained as a repa, a lay tantric yogin in the tradition of Milarepa, by His Eminence Gyaltsab Rinpoche, one of the heart sons of His Holiness the 16th Karmapa. Lama Justin has presented on Buddhist practice at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, University of Chicago, Wellesley, Columbia University, has been a visiting instructor at Union Theological Seminary, teaches at Pure Land Farms. Justin is passionate about helping to create the conditions for authentic embodied tantric Buddhist spiritual practice in the West.
www.justinvonbujdoss.com