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Retreats in India: Karmapa's Annual Meditation Course 2015-16



KIBI organizes a public meditation course every year, in winter at its New Delhi KIBI campus. The Karmapa himself will be teaching a few sessions. This is a perfect venue to learn about the Meditation as taught in the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

 Public Meditation Course (PMC) at KIBI, is to be held from the 24th of December 2015 to the 2nd of January 2016. The course will begin with an introduction to the program and celebration dinner on the evening of December 24th, and will finish with a conclusion ceremony on the morning of January 2nd.





Dupsing Rinpoche will continue teaching on Ngondro. This year the focus will be on the practice of Dorje Sempa (Vajrasattva). Every morning there will also be an opportunity to take the Sojong vows with Rinpoche for those who wish to.

Ven. Dupon Nyigyam from Sharminub Retreat Centre in Kathmandu will give us teachings on Shine (Shamatha).

Tentatively, as I am made to understand it: The daily schedule is from 6AM to about 6:30PM with a 3 hour lunch break from 11AM to 2PM. the Meditation sessions (concentration and wisdom) are after 2PM. The Purification practice , refuge and vows sessions are before lunch. Again, please do register and participate. Regards
  
For more Public courses offered by KIBI please visit: http://www.kibi-edu.org/public-courses/


References:
All images and quotes 
are from the KIBI website :
 http://www.kibi-edu.org/


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Retreats in India: Zazen Retreat at Bir by Ven Sudhamacara
A zazen rertreat will be conducted at The Deer Park Institute at Bir, Himachal Pradesh India. The retreat will be headed by Ven Sudhamacara from November 19th 2015 to November 24th 2015.
Please Deer Park Institute website for more info.

http://deerpark.in/slideshow/campus-sunset--DP3.jpg

As Zen instructions are often hard to find in India, this would be very enlightening experience to visit and learn from a true master. If you decide to drop in, you might find me there too.

 Please check out more about the wonderful
Deer Park Institute
nested near the sacred Himalayas
at Bir, Himachal Pradesh, India
http://deerpark.in/themes/dp-theme/images/logo-square-198x118.png
www.deerpark.in


Useful links:
http://deerpark.in/programs/schedule/zazen-retreat/
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The Mindful way – Ajahn Chah

 

I came across a nice documentary about the Thai forest tradition of monasteries, based on one led by Ajahn Chah.
http://www.watnongpahpong.org/videomfw.php

The video link is given above, it is hosted by the website of Wat Pah Nanachat (WPN)

Wat Pah Nanachat is a Buddhist monastery in Northeast Thailand, in the Theravada Forest Tradition. It was established by Venerable Ajahn Chah to provide English-speaking people the opportunity to train and practice in the way the Buddha taught his monks in the forests 2600 years ago.

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010 Sign in front of the Kitchen

S01E03.the.young.ajahn.chahYoung Ajahn Chah

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Gazing at your Mind through Shadow Wall Gazing
Shadow Wall Gazing

As hard as it is for ones mind to be come still. the process only gets worse when to try to force your mind into stillness- a state of having no identification with your thoughts.


I tried my hand at wall gazing as in Chan or the Zen School, and found my self getting absolutely nowhere. One is supposes to sit erect facing a fall and just start perceiving non-duality by realizing the wall is staring back at you.


I tried to do wall-gazing for the past 2 days. and today something strange happened. i was sitting facing the wall, and apparently there was a window behind my back and the sunlight was just flooding into the room.and i noticed something , a shadow was being cast on the wall before me, and the shadow was a very hazy one, i could actually see many layers of the shadow being superimposed on each other. and there i was looking at a very opaque but not sharp image of mine. it was very unexpected , and i started to observe the shadow , and i notice that i could sit there and just gaze at the shadow for a really long time. I guess the mind it self just gave up arguing and complaining about a shadow of the very body which it had successfully deluded to be identified with it. At last! victory of the identification and the conditioning, albeit a very temporary one. but the fruits of such a dis-identification are very high indeed.


and so i have been shadow-wall-gazing for sometime today, and i feel its a great exercise to attain stillness , especially when the mind is very very restless.
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