Online: Marici and Retreat with Khentrul Rinpoche

Marichi is the life-long personal protector from Khentrul Rinpoche. She is also considered the proteress of the Sublime Realm of Shambhala. Our center situated in Kalapa is the center of Shambhala. Rinpoche will bestow her Empowerment and transmit a Marichi sadhana written by him which is based on his own visionary experience with this buddhist goddess.

THE BUDDHIST PROTECTRESS MARICHI
In some lineages of the Vajrayana Buddhism, Marichi is considered to be one manifestation of Tara, appearing for example as the 21st Tara. There are other forms from her found also in other spiritual systems. She is the colour of the sunset, a wondrous, glowing orange. She comes with the sun and, as the sun, her blessings pervade everywhere.

This sadhana is also extremely helpful for those working with the Drolmi Kazug Puja. Beyond the empowerment and oral transmission of the Marichi Sadhana, Rinpoche will also give an introductory teaching on her and will join us in a Q&A session during the retreat. The practice sessions on the weekend will be transmitted online as well.

RINPOCHE’S PERSONAL CONNECTION WITH MARICHI
Marichi (also known as Marīcī and Özer Chenma) came to Rinpoche’s life when he was a young boy herding yak cattles in Tibet. Without fences, it was quite difficult to take care of them. Some yaks hide themselves from the boy Rinpoche under rocks, and so used to spend the night in danger of being attacked by wolves. To help protect them, his family shared with him the Marichi mantra and the faith in her when he was still very young.

“I do not know exactly why, perhaps because of having no doubt when doing this or because of a special connection, when I recited her mantra and did the ritual according to the traditional manner of protecting the yaks, I have 100% guarantee that the yaks would be safe during the night. I never had problems with yaks being killed by the wolves since then, really never. So I kept that in mind and I recited innumerable mantras, many times, when I took care of them. So, afterwards, anytime when we had an obstacle I always relied on her.”

“So this is why Tibetan says that praying for Marichi helps. But, of course, it does not help everyone individually, as it depends for example on the individual connection and on the level of faith. You must have no doubt at all. I have indestructible faith in Marichi since my childhood, so this helped me to develop many connections with her during my life.”

WHO IS THIS FOR or HOW TO PREPARE MYSELF?
There are no prerequisites at all. It is suitable for all levels of practitioners.
CEST – Central Europe
FRIDAY 24th JUNE
19:30 – 21:00 – Public Teaching: Marichi and the Realm of Shambhala with RINPOCHE
SATURDAY 25th JUNE
7:00 – 8:30 – Session 1 – Preliminary Practice for the Empowerment
11.00 – 12:30 – Session 2 – Marichi EMPOWERMENT & Marichi Sadhana ORAL TRANSMISSION (only live)
15.00 – 16.30 – Session 3 – Marichi Practice
19.30 – 21.00 – Session 4 – Marichi Practice
SUNDAY 26th JUNE
7:00 – 8:30 – Session 5 – Marichi Practice
11.00 – 12:30 – Session 6 – Marichi Practice
15.00 – 16.30 – Session 7 – Marichi Q&A with RINPOCHE
19.30 – 21.00 – Session 8 – Marichi Practice
MONDAY 27th JUNE
7:00 – 8:30 – Session 9 – Marichi Practice
11.00 – 12:30 – Session 10 – Marichi Practice
15.00 – 16:30 – Session 11 – Marichi Practice
19.30 – 21.00 – Session 12 – Session with RINPOCHE
TUESDAY 28th JUNE 
7:00 – 8:30 – Session 13 – Marichi Practice
11.00 – 12:30 – Session 14 – Marichi Practice
15.00 – 16:30 – Session 15 – Marichi Practice
19.30 – 21.00 – Session 16 – Session with RINPOCHE
WEDNESDAY 29th JUNE 
7:00 – 8:30 – Session 17 – Closing Practice and Dedications

HOW THE ONLINE EMPOWERMENT WILL WORK
1) Register for each attendee that will be receiving the empowerment. You will be added to the course on learn.dzokden.org
2) You must receive the empowerment online in real-time. We do not record the empowerments. Before the empowerment, you will receive information on some simple supplies you should get to help make the experience as authentic as possible. I
3) You will receive access to the zoom for each of the sessions.

OFFERING DANA TO RINPOCHE
It’s customary at the end of empowerment for students to make an offering of Dana to the guru. As this is an online event, you can make the offering of Dana to Rinpoche here.

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