Welcome to the Vajrapani Empowerment and Retreat
VAJRAPANI: Tame Your Demons
Tap into the power of all the Buddhas to tame your internal and external obstacles to realization. Vajrapani, the embodiment of the power of all the Buddhas of the ten directions and the three times, is a fearless Bodhisattva of the tenth level and the guardian of the Buddhist tantras.
Khentrul Rinpoche will bestow an extraordinary empowerment of Vajrapani known as the Demon Destroyer, and the practice that Lama Lutrin may have used in the retreat where he cured himself of Leprosy. This empowerment and retreat will help practitioners embrace their fierce power within to tame the obstacles on their path.
KHENTRUL RINPOCHE PERSONAL CONNECTION WITH VAJRAPANI
“For me Vajrapani is personally special because my root lama, Lama Lobsang Trinley, was considered as the actual Vajrapani. When he practiced it, he could completely heal his leprosy during a long solitary retreat. At the end of his retreat, he achieved the same realization of the great Indian mahasiddhas.
My root Lama’s teachings on Vajrapani were incredibly special. As many high Lamas came to our monastery in order to receive the Vajrapani empowerment from him, I could receive it many times. All these Lamas who came had no doubt about his realization. They said that he himself was the actual Vaprapani, as they were witnessing my Lama taming incredibly powerful demons who wish to bring harm to our regions.”
This practice has a very special connection to our lineage through both Lama Lutrin and the Shambhala Dharma King Suchandra. Suchandra who was an emanation of Vajrapani, requested the Buddha in the form of Deity of Kalachakra, transmit the Kalachakra Tantra Teachings. Suchandra went on to establish these Kalachakra teachings in Shambhala where they flourished and came to us.
TANTRA EMOTIONS AND VAJRAPANI
In this retreat, Rinpoche will also explore further working with Vajrapani in your life as you work to engage on an authentic tantric path, harnessing, directing, and transforming the power of anger and other emotions on the path.
Course Information
This first section will provide you with general information about the course that you will need to participate. This includes:
- Overview: If you ever get lost, you can use this page to remember where everything is and how to access what you need.
- Online Checklist:To join the live practice sessions for this course, you will need to make sure you have all of the necessary technologies installed and ready to use. For this reason, we have compiled a short guidebook for setting up Zoom and how to prepare for the various sessions.
- Live Session Schedule: This page provides all of the links for the live webinar sessions. You can find the schedule in a variety of timezones so that you can be sure not to miss anything. ORAL TRANSMISSIONS AND EMPOWERMENTS ARE NEVER RECORDED.
- Gratitude and Generosity: We take a moment to thank those who have made this event possible and provide details for how to offer Dana or give support so that we can all benefit from future activities.
Schedule by Timezone
Central Europe and South Africa
FRIDAY December 27, 2024
11:00 PM – 12:30 AM (SATURDAY December 28, 2024): Session 1: Online Empowerment Preparation
SATURDAY December 28, 2024
1:00 AM – 2:30 AM: Session 2: Vajrapani Empowerment & Oral Transmission
3:30 AM – 5:00 AM: Session 3: Vajrapani Practice
5:30 AM – 7:00 PM: Session 4: Vajrapani and the Kalachakra Lineage
11:00 PM – 12:30 AM (SUNDAY December 29, 2024): Session 5: Vajrapani Practice
SUNDAY December 29, 2024
1:00 AM – 2:30 AM: Session 6: Tantra and Working with Emotions and Anger
3:30 AM – 5:00 AM: Session 7: Vajrapani Practice
5:30 AM – 7:00 PM: Session 8: Final Session – Vajrapani Practice and Q&A with Rinpoche
Questions?
Please email [email protected]
Durante questo evento, Khentrul Rinpoche, un maestro di Kalachakra Jonang che si concentra sugli insegnamenti della terra pura di Shambhala, imprimerà nel nostro flusso mentale le benedizioni di Manjushri Bianco e Chenrezig; benedizioni che potremo poi attivare attraverso la nostra pratica e la riflessione sui testi.
Manjushri Bianco ci aiuta a coltivare la saggezza, in particolare attraverso metodi gentili che ci aiutano a insegnare agli altri attraverso la parola. Chenrezig è il nome tibetano di Avalokiteshvara, il bodhisattva della compassione.
Per sconfiggere l’oscurità del nostro mondo e manifestare l’Età dell’Oro sulla Terra, dobbiamo coltivare sia la saggezza che la compassione con una mente altruista e orientata all’illuminazione. Saggezza e compassione sono come le due ali di un uccello: per volare, dobbiamo esercitare entrambe le ali in egual misura. Dobbiamo riconoscere che un lavoro profondo deve essere fatto su noi stessi e dobbiamo fare del nostro meglio e lavorare diligentemente per trasformare la nostra mente. Più la nostra mente è radicata in una profonda saggezza e compassione con intenzioni altruistiche, meno contribuiremo alla sofferenza nel mondo e più saremo attrezzati per aiutare gli altri. Non possiamo scoraggiarci e lasciarci sopraffare dalle temporanee condizioni negative del mondo. Possiamo iniziare il nostro percorso per manifestare l’Età dell’Oro proprio da qui. Possiamo diventare la pace che vogliamo vedere nel nostro mondo.
Programma:
Ora italiana – GIOVEDI’ 05 settembre 2024 alle 0:30 – Manjushri Bianco e iniziazione al Chenrezig
DOMANDE?
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Su richiesta del gruppo ungherese, Khentrul Rinpoche parlerà della saggezza divina femminile e di come utilizzarla sul sentiero tantrico. Conferirà il Wang (iniziazione completa) della Dea Rossa Saraswati, consorte di Manjusrhi e incarnazione femminile della saggezza. L’iniziazione proviene dalla tradizione Jonang, sulla base del testo di Jetsun Taranatha. La maggior parte dei tantra che sono popolari in altre tradizioni provengono da lui perché Taranatha è il tesoro del tantra.
Questo insegnamento riguarderà l’utilizzo della saggezza femminile sul sentiero del desiderio per lavorare con le nostre emozioni. Non dobbiamo abbandonare le sfide del nostro mondo moderno. Anzi, possiamo imparare ad affrontarle direttamente e a trasformarle nel nostro percorso verso la liberazione.
Sarasvati Rossa
Viene venerata sia dai buddisti che dai non buddisti. Nella tradizione vedica Brahma creò il mondo e per molto tempo dopo non ci furono né suoni né esseri senzienti. Molti dei andarono da lui e gli dissero: “Hai creato il mondo, ma non ci sono né esseri né suoni”. Allora Brahma rovesciò l’acqua dal suo vaso e, in questo modo, si originò un suono straordinario; questo suono è conosciuto come la dea Sarasvati. Ecco perché è chiamata la figlia di Brahma. Questa è, in generale, una storia basata sugli insegnamenti induisti, ma i tibetani hanno molte, molte versioni diverse di Sarasvati. Alcune forme sono bianche con due braccia. Questa forma è una versione tantrica a quattro braccia ed è potente e magnetizzante.
Sarasvati è una divinità della saggezza, proprio come Manjushri, ma in versione femminile. Molti grandi praticanti la considerano la consorte segreta di Manjushri. Ci sono molti lama che la venerano, soprattutto eruditi, che la venerano al posto di Manjushri.
Incluso nel programma
-Iniziazione di Sarasvati Rossa (Wang)
-Trasmissione orale del testo della pratica
-Insegnamenti sulla Natura Divina Femminile
-Insegnamenti sul Sentiero tantrico del desiderio
Come prepararsi?
Questi insegnamenti non richiedono prerequisiti. Puoi acquistare una copia del libro “Tantric Path of Desire” (Il Sentiero tantrico del desiderio) alla presentazione del libro in Ungheria o ordinarlo online qui.
Programma
SABATO
29 giugno 2024
10:00 – Iniziazione di Sarasvati Rossa
14:00 – Trasmissione orale e insegnamento
Offerta di Dana per Khentrul Rinpoche
Se anche voi desiderate mostrare la vostra generosità ai preziosi insegnamenti di Rinpoché e ai suoi immensi sforzi, potete farlo di persona alla fine del ritiro oppure, se partecipate online, potete offrire Dana per Rinpoche qui. L’offerta è completamente volontaria.
Domande?
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This event will be in English with live Hungarian translation, other languages will be available on Zoom only.
Tap into the power of all the Buddhas to open your heart to liberate all sentient beings. The infinite ultimate Bodhicitta needed to realize enlightenment and liberate beings as limitless as space, may be simple to understand but difficult to cultivate. In our world, it can be hard enough to develop worldly compassion and sympathy for friends and family; never mind those with opposing political views or who you perceived to have wronged you. To develop the heart of enlightenment big enough to genuinely care for the whole world selflessly like the great bodhisattvas of Shambhala takes a huge, continuous effort. Peace is possible for the world, but we need strong motivation and huge strength and dedication to create a Golden Age of Peace.
Khentrul Rinpoche will bestow the Bodhisattva vow and a prayer on Shambhala to help connect us with the power of love and the warrior nature that never gives up like all the Shambhala Kalki Kings such as Pundarika an emanation of Chenrezig. Through this unique connection, we can with sustained effort, open our hearts to truly cultivate the capacity of unconditional love and compassion to create a Golden Age of time on earth. Khentrul Rinpoche will guide us in teaching how the Shambhala Kings are the ultimate compassionate warriors that we can become as well.
INCLUDED IN THIS EVENT
-Bodhisattva vow and booklet,
-Shambhala Prayer Oral transmission
-A preliminary teaching and practice session with a Q&A session.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
There are no prerequisites. It is suitable for all levels of practitioners. Previous Buddhist study and practice are helpful but not mandatory. If you wish for the enlightenment of all sentient beings, want people to know what unconditional love is, and are willing to work for the rest of your lives for this vision, then this vow is for you.
SUGGESTED OFFERINGS
We have created three offering levels to help make this affordable to a range of attendees, as we must raise funds to cover the cost. The cost has been adjusted to cover the cost of living in various countries. Thank you for understanding so we can make this accessible to our global family. If your ability to pay makes it difficult to attend this program, we will make every effort to make attendance possible. Please email [email protected].
SCHEDULE BY TIMEZONE
Central Europe and South Africa
SUNDAY
June 30, 2024
10:00 AM – Teaching on the Compassionate Shambhala Warrior with Bodhisattva Vows
2:00 PM – Be a Golden Age Changemaker and Shambhala Prayer Oral Transmissions
OFFERING DANA TO RINPOCHE
As this is an online event, you can offer Dana to Rinpoche here.
QUESTIONS?
Email [email protected].
While the Buddha taught that life is suffering, he also taught that there is a way to become free from suffering. In this evening’s talk, Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö Rinpoche will teach powerful mind-training techniques from the Sutrayana path of Buddhism to help us learn to cope with life and transform it. While we can’t prevent life’s challenges, we can become skillful in dealing with them.
Suffering can appear in our lives in so many forms, such as the easy-to-do identify suffering of illness, job loss, divorce, or other adverse life circumstances. Or suffering can be subtle and sneaky in the form of passing radiantly joyful emotions that are so wonderful we wish they would never leave. Even the best ice cream will melt in the hot sun if not eaten.
While our feelings and emotions can change momentarily, it does not mean we must be thrown into turmoil by sadness, jealousy, anger, hatred, or frustration. Nor does that mean we must reject our emotions and experiences, hide them, or shame them away. The Buddha taught many precise antidotes that can be learned and used for each emotion to help us work through them as they arise. When this happens we can better achieve all of our life priorities in work, family, or spiritual realization.
These sutra antidotes can help practitioners at all levels. Even a tantric student wishing to work directly with emotion’s energy may find themselves in a moment when reducing the emotion’s intensity is necessary before transforming it.
Schedule by Timezone
Central Europe and South Africa – FRIDAY June 28, 2024 / 6:00 PM
Melbourne, Australia – SATURDAY June 29, 2024 / 2:00 AM
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan – SATURDAY June 29, 2024 / 12:00 AM
Sao Paulo, Brazil – FRIDAY June 28, 2024 / 1:00 PM
East Coast USA, Toronto – FRIDAY June 28, 2024 / 12:00 PM
West Coast USA – FRIDAY June 28, 2024 / 9:00 AM
Offer Dana to Rinpoche
If you would like to offer Dana to Rinpoche virtually, you can do so here on Dzokden’s website. All donations to Dzokden are unrestricted contributions that allow us to direct the funds to Rinpoche’s projects based on their priority.
QUESTIONS?
Email [email protected].
