GYETRUL JIGME RINPOCHE

TEACHING ON THE PRAJNAPARAMITA

27th-30th March 2008

at London Shambhala Meditation Centre
27 Belmond Close, Clapham, London, SW4 6AY

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To purchase tickets at the door, please turn up 30mns earlier

Whole city retreat attendance, minimum donation £90/ Daily, minimum donation £25 (excluding evening)
Morning, Afternoon or Evening, minimum donation £15

Please note that prices have been kept deliberately low to allow Rinpoche's students who are traveling from afar, to attend the teachings. Therefore, there will be no concessionary prices and we will welcome donations made to Padma Ling in order to help us organise future events of this nature. Many thanks in advance.

Thursday 27th & Friday 28th March 2008:

7-9.30pm

" The eight forms of consciousness and the five wisdoms: introducing the Dakini principle"

In the Mahayana, the Buddha has described six forms of consciousness: five forms linked to the senses, related to the sense organs and faculties of seeing, hearing, smelling,tasting and touching; the sixth form, the mental consciousness, connected to the other five, is defined as conceptual. It is this sixth consciousness which determines whether we create a mental construct of something being pleasant or unpleasant.

The Buddha described the seventh and eight form in the Great Vehicle, calling the seventh "veiled consciousness" and explaining that it works in terms of a fundamental grasping at self; and describing the eigth as "the basic Universal consciousness", or the basis of all the other forms.

When meditating we aim to dissolve pleasant and unpleasant sensations in order to appease our mind, that way bringing forth the natural and authentic mind as the ultimate wisdom. In such a state of inner peace and clarity, the eight forms of consciousness become the five wisdoms. On their basis, the four bodies of the Buddha will arise.

Friday 28th March 2008: 9.30-11.30am / 2-4pm

An introduction to Meditation with practice.

Opened to all and specifically so to those who would like to learn to meditate in a friendly and informal environment. Rinpoche will guide and instruct us in developing inner peace.

Saturday 29th March 2008: 9.30-12am/2.30-5pm

Bodhicitta

The transcendant consciousness, the Prajnaparamita is the sixth and the most important of the six paramitas ( or perfections ). The five others are the generosity, moral conduct, patience, diligence and contemplative concentration. Prajnaparamita is the consciousness that can liberate from Samsara; it can be obtained whilst studying and meditating by those who follow the Spiritual path. Prajnaparamita, or Sunyata, cannot be separate from Compassion, or Karuna; the Union of both makes up what is called Bodhicitta, or the Enlightened mind.

Sunday 30th March 2008: 9.30-12am

Prajnaparamita, Sunyata or the Dakini principle

In the Mahayana, the Prajna is the direct consciousness of the Emptiness of a self and of all phenomena. Rinpoche will introduce us to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal, Her life and Her teachings as we will unveil the Dakini principle.

2.30-6pm

Introduction to the practice the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal, from the Taksham tradition with Refuge ceremony.

Yeshe Tsogyal was a disciple and consort of the great Indian master Padmasambhava during the VIII th century. She remains one of the most well-known enlightened women of Tibet. With Guru Padmasambhava, she preserved his very sacred teachings in the form of hidden treasures (Termas), later and to this day, to be discovered and transmitted by the finders of Termas (Tertons). The teachings that we will receive are from the part of the Terma Taksham of Yeshe Tsogyal, revealed by the Terton Namkha Rabjam Drimed Rinpoche, the father of Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche.