No Livestream. This is In-person Only in New York City.
October 18, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
James Chapel
3041 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
USA
During this evening talk, Khentrul Rinpoché will explore how we can cultivate inner stability while navigating the responsibilities of our daily lives when meditation doesn’t feel like enough.
This event is hosted by the Thích Nhất Hạnh Program for Engaged Buddhism.
Khentrul Rinpoché Jamphel Lodrö is the founder and spiritual director of Dzokden. Rinpoche is the author of Unveiling Your Sacred Truth, The Great Middle Way: Clarifying the Jonang View of Other-Emptiness, A Happier Life, and The Hidden Treasure of the Profound Path.
Rinpoche spent the first 20 years of his life herding yak and chanting mantras on the plateaus of Tibet. Inspired by the bodhisattvas, he left his family to study in a variety of monasteries under the guidance of over twenty-five masters in all the Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Due to his non-sectarian approach, he earned himself the title of Rimé (unbiased) Master and was identified as the reincarnation of the famous Kalachakra Master Ngawang Chözin Gyatso. While at the core of his teachings is the recognition that there is great value in the diversity of all spiritual traditions found in this world; he focuses on the Jonang-Shambhala tradition. Kalachakra (wheel of time) teachings contain profound methods to harmonize our external environment with the inner world of body and mind, ultimately bringing about the golden age of peace and harmony (Dzokden).
“Our most essential need is ultimate peace and harmony. The source of this perfection is the Sublime Realm of Shambhala.”
~Shar Khentrul Rinpoche
Each of us is an extraordinary potential for love and compassion, capable of completely transforming the way we experience our world. Through the ancient wisdom of the Kalachakra teachings, this potential can be unlocked to manifest a sublime realm of experience, free from all forms of suffering and conflict. This state of eternal bliss is known by some as Shambhala.
Khentrul Rinpoché will help us unveil the hidden meaning of Shambhala and why it is so important for overcoming the problems of this world, especially in turbulent times of disagreement. The Kalachakra Tantra prophesizes a coming Golden age on earth.
From Genghis Khan to the hippie movement, the realm of Shambhala has captured the hearts and imagination of spiritual seekers and warriors throughout time. With great precision and clarity, Rinpoche will dispel the many layers of confusion that have surrounded this often-misunderstood subject and introduce a profound method for spiritual development, grounded in an unbiased and expansive approach transcending any one tradition. During this evening, he will also give the transmission for his new prayer for Shambhala to help us usher in an age of global peace and harmony.
Schedule by Timezone
November 4th – 4:00 PM San Francisco, CA USA
November 4th – 5:00 PM Mexico City, Mexico
November 4th – 7:00 PM New York, USA
November 5th – 12:00 AM Midnight Vienna, Austria
November 5th – 7 am Shanghai, Mongolia, Hong Kong
November 5th – 10 am Australia
Zoom Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86295366266?pwd=Yk1TVGl0ZTVncEVFYUJndjA3Z3dFZz09
Webinar ID: 862 9536 6266
Passcode: 108108
In-Person Location
- Casa Julio
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Huicoyan 6, 62525 Tepoztlán, Mor., Mexico
Dzokden Brazil’s Invitation to Rinpoche
Khentrul Rinpoche will visit Brazil for the first time to bestow the Innate Kalachakra Jenang Empowerment and give its precious teachings. This is the realization of an invitation made by Brazilian practitioners before the start of the pandemic. This also celebrates the release of 2 of Rinpoche’s books in the Portuguese language.
This event is available in-person in Sao Paulo Brazil. Local registration is available on the Portuguese Page.
This page is for registration in Australia, Western Europe, New Zealand, UK, Asia, America, and Canada.
By receiving the Innate Kalachakra Jenang Empowerment, you will have Khentrul Rinpoche’s blessing and permission to engage in the preliminary practices of the Highest Yoga Tantra, Kalachakra, including self-visualization as the Deity. This concise Empowerment helps us to connect with the essence of the Kalachakra deity.
Innate Kalachakra (Sahaja Kalachakra) is the main deity practice emphasized by the Jonang Lineage and the gateway to the completion stage. This lineage emphasizes the completion stage practice of the profound 6 Vajra yogas. As such, they choose to keep this deity practice simple and accessible in order to guide people towards their non-conceptual state as swiftly as possible.
This indestructible Vajra yoga Path can lead practitioners to achieve enlightenment in a single lifetime or to attain a rebirth in the Bodhisattva pure realm of Shambhala. Just connecting with this empowerment plants the seed for your future enlightenment whether you choose to activate them in this life or the next.
Roadmap to Enlightenment
Rinpoche will give teachings to clarify the vajra yoga path from the Jonang lineage which has rarely been taught in this world outside of Tibet. We can not reach enlightenment if we do not know where we are going and how we can get there. He will illuminate the special karmic connection our earth has with Shambhala and Kalachakra which prophesize the coming of a 2nd Golden Age in our world.
Included Oral Transmissions & Empowerment
- rlung Oral transmission of the Practice Connecting with shambhala
- rlung Oral Transmission of 2 Shambhala Prayers
- Innate Kalachakra Jenang Empowerment
DETAILED SCHEDULE BY TIMEZONE
Melbourne, Australia
13th November
01:00 am – 2:30 am – Session 1 – Understanding the Kalachakra Vajrayoga Path
4:30 am – 6:00 am – Session 2 – Teaching about Shambhala and the 2nd Golden Age + Oral Transmission of 2 Shambhala Prayers and of the short sadhana “Connecting with Shambhala”
6:30 am – 7:30 am – Session 3 – Practice Session “Connecting with Shambhala” + Shambhala Prayers
14th November
01:00 am – 2:30 am – Session 4 – INNATE KALACHAKRA JENANG EMPOWERMENT + Q&A
4:30 am – 6:00 am – Session 5 – Innate Kalachakra Practice Session
HKT - Mongolia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore
Shanghai, Mongolia, Singapore and Taiwan|
Saturday 12th November
10:00 pm – 11:30 pm – Session 1 – Understanding the Kalachakra Vajrayoga Path
Sunday 13th November
01:30 am – 03:00 am – Session 2 – Teaching about Shambhala and the 2nd Golden Age + Oral Transmission of 2 Shambhala Prayers and of the short sadhana “Connecting with Shambhala”
03:30 am – 04:30 am – Session 3 – Practice “Connecting with Shambhala” + Shambhala Prayers
Sunday 13th November
10:00 pm – 11:30 pm – Session 4 – INNATE KALACHAKRA JENANG EMPOWERMENT + Q&A
Monday 14th November
01:30 am – 03:00 am – Session 5 – Innate Kalachakra Practice
Central Europe
Saturday 12th November
03:00 pm – 04:30 pm – Session 1 – Understanding the Kalachakra Vajrayoga Path
06:30 pm – 08:00 pm – Session 2 – Teaching about Shambhala and the 2nd Golden Age + Oral Transmission of 2 Shambhala Prayers and of the short sadhana “Connecting with Shambhala”
08:30 pm – 09:30 pm – Session 3 – Practice: “Connecting with Shambhala” + Shambhala Prayers
Sunday 13th November
03:00 pm – 04:30 pm – Session 4 – INNATE KALACHAKRA JENANG EMPOWERMENT + Q&A
06:30 pm – 08:00 pm – Session 5 – Innate Kalachakra Practice Session
BRT - São Paulo, Brazil
UTC -3 / BRT – São Paulo, Brazil
Saturday 12th November
11:00 am – 12.30 pm – Session 1 – Understanding the Kalachakra Vajrayoga Path
02:30 pm – 04:00 pm- Session 2 – Teaching about Shambhala and the 2nd Golden Age + Oral Transmission of 2 Shambhala Prayers and of the short sadhana “Connecting with Shambhala”
04:30 pm – 05:30 pm- Session 3 – Practice “Connecting with Shambhala” + Shambhala Prayers
Sunday 13th November
11:00 am – 12:30 pm – Session 4 – INNATE KALACHAKRA JENANG EMPOWERMENT + Q&A
02:30 pm – 04:00 pm – Session 5 – Innate Kalachakra Practice
EDT USA & Toronto
UTC -5 / EST / AST – East Coast USA, Toronto
Saturday 12th November
09:00 am – 10:30 am – Session 1 – Understanding the Kalachakra Vajrayoga Path
12:30 pm – 02:00 pm – Session 2 – Teaching about Shambhala and the 2nd Golden Age + Oral Transmission of 2 Shambhala Prayers and of the short sadhana “Connecting with Shambhala”
02:30 pm – 03:30 pm – Session 3 – Practice Session with senior students: “Connecting with Shambhala” + Shambhala Prayers
Sunday 13th November
09:00 am – 10:30 am – Session 4 – INNATE KALACHAKRA JENANG EMPOWERMENT + Q&A
12:30 pm – 02:00 pm – Session 5 – Innate Kalachakra Practice Session with senior students
West Coast, USA
UTC-7 / PT – West Coast
Saturday 12th November
06:00 am – 7:30 am – Session 1 – Understanding the Kalachakra Vajrayoga Path
09:30 am – 11:00 am – Session 2 – Teaching about Shambhala and the 2nd Golden Age + Oral Transmission of 2 Shambhala Prayers and of the short sadhana “Connecting with Shambhala”
11:30 am – 12:30 pm – Session 3 – Practice: “Connecting with Shambhala” + Shambhala Prayers
Sunday 13th November
06:00 am – 7:30 am – Session 4 – INNATE KALACHAKRA JENANG EMPOWERMENT + Q&A
09:30 am – 11:00 am – Session 5 – Innate Kalachakra Practice Session
FOR WHOM IS THIS FOR?
We welcome everyone to participate in this teaching for various reasons such as:
1 – You do not have any previous tantric Buddhist practice or any spiritual practice in general. You want to learn about and explore this path.
2 – You have been studying and practicing a spiritual path or Buddhism, doing preliminary practice, meditations etc. and you feel the time is ripe to shift the direction or to go deeper.
3 – You just took the extensive Kalachakra Empowerment with Rinpoche or other Vajra Master and want to strengthen your connection with the Innate Kalachakra Deity.
4 – You have been following Rinpoche since long and want to reinforce your connection with him, the Kalachakra lineage and the Yidam deity.
HOW TO PREPARE MYSELF?
There is no preparation that is required for these teachings. Please just show up and that is enough. If you would like to do more preparation there are many options below.
If you are new to the teachings of Shar Khentrul Rinpoche or to the Jonang School of Tibetan Buddhism, you can use the following as a guideline for preparing yourself before or after the teachings for this path:
*Online Course: Jonang Kalachakra Ngöndro
* Books: “The Hidden Treasure of the Profound Path” “Unveiling Your Sacred Truth”
The practice book “The Profound Path of Vajra Yoga” is recommended as a support for your practice during the retreat.
OFFERING for KHENTRUL RINPOCHE
If you wish to show your generosity to Rinpoche’s precious teachings and to his immense effort into spreading the Kalachakra Path worldwide, you can offer Dana to Rinpoche at the Dzokden website here.
Unveil your sacred truth through the profound Kalachakra Tantra path. Through the ancient wisdom of the Kalachakra teachings it is possible to unlock this potential and manifest a sublime realm of experience, free from all forms of suffering and conflict.The Kalachakra Tantra is the most comprehensive and effective system within Tibetan Buddhism, valued by all schools as ‘ the King of Tantras’ . While many schools may practice the teachings and give initiations into the teachings, the Jonang, however, is the tradition that has the specific focus of Kalachakra practice. Jonang is the only tradition that holds the entire Kalachakra system, with the higher stages of the profound and unique completion practice known as the “Six Vajra Yogas”.In this introductory talk, Khentrul Rinpoche explains the profound and powerful aspects of the completion stage practices of Kalachakra — the Six Vajra Yogas.
Schedule by Timezone
November 12 6:00 AM West Coast USA
November 12 11:00 AM Sao Paulo Brazil
November 12 3:00 PM Central Europe
November 12 10:00 PM Hong Kong, Mongolia, Shaghai
November 13 1:00 AM Melbourne
Zoom Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89941025427?pwd=b21QYXdtM2pVYndpcGNITTBHcjFOQT09
Webinar ID: 899 4102 5427
Passcode: 108108
The long life offering is an incredibly moving devotional offering of praises, symbolic items and prayers to our beloved spiritual guide, our Guru, Khentrul Rinpoche. In order to help Khentrul Rinpoche achieve his vision of the Golden Age, we offer this puja to help increase his health and life and to remove our obstacles that may prevent that.
Long life offerings purify mistakes and disharmonies between the students and teacher (broken samayas) and creates the conditions to continue to receive teachings from our teacher for a long time. The Gurus stay and teach students that have the merit for them to teach them. When there is not enough merit amongst the students, the Dakinis call the Guru away to another realm to teach. This offering practice helps the students accumulate vast amounts of merit and create the karmic conditions for the teacher to remain and teach them .
People are often confused in modern times wishing to die when it is convenient or feels good before they lose any of their abilities and become weak and dependent on others. This completely forgets the rarity and value of this precious human birth. They also ask why the Guru would want to live long thinking it may be also nice to die when it is most comfortable, mistaking this for compassion.
In order to practice and live a long and healthy life as students, we need our teacher to remain and teach for the benefit of beings. The Guru is the Buddha. The Guru is the Dharma. The Guru is the Sangha. Our efforts to increase the health and lifespan of the Guru also affect the longevity of our Sangha. As we are not yet enlightened, we need all the opportunity to accumulate merit in this life.
As part of the offering 1000s of offerings are set up to accumulate merit, usually water, incense, tormas etc. Precious objects are gathered representing the victory of the Dharma and Guru in various ways and a heartfelt request is made to the Dakini to let our teacher remain and stay.
Accumulate and Dedicate White Tara Mantras to Khentrul Rinpoche
For Rinpoche’s long life we are accumulating the White Tara Mantras, you can offer them here
https://airtable.com/shr9ie87dewcT9wqa
Sponsor the Long Life Offering
There are a lot of items involved that need to be offered and costs related to putting on this long life puja. Traditionally thousands of offerings are made along with all of the traditional item such a monks, robes, statues, items representing the Dharma, medicines etc. We appreciate your donation to help sponsor this.
https://dzokden.org/donations/long-life-offering-fund-to-khentrul-rinpoche/
Zoom Information
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87606440022?pwd=aGlMNk9nb3NlZlJwVVRwTlpWM1VNUT09
Passcode: 108108
Webinar ID: 876 0644 0022
Passcode: 108108
