Zoom and Facebook Live.
Translations to be determined
Schedule by Timezone
4:00 AM San Francisco, California
7:00 AM New York, New York
1:00 PM Vienna, Austria
7:00 PM Hong Kong
10:00 PM Melbourne, Australia
Request
By request of many different students, Rinpoche will kindly lead a discussion and debate around the Dharma of food.
Topic
Khentrul Rinpoche always encourages us to see debates from many views and angles. The age old question on what to eat is no different. He will help walk us through all the different intentions and vantage points we may have when looking at the karma of the actions around what we consume.
Please bring your questions and your best points to this interactive event. Some of the questions that often come up and lead to lot of discussion and confusion – Are Buddhist all peaceful people eating vegetables? In Tibet some Monastery areas sell “naturally died” vs “killed” meat. What’s the difference and do the monks eat meat? If I buy meat at a supermarket am I contributing to killing? Am I violating a vow if I eat meat? What if I need to eat meat for my health, am I a failed Buddhist?
This course is by invite only.
If you attended the correct oral transmission or empowerments and received the practice package, you should already have this course on your dashboard in your learning center. If you do not please contact [email protected]
This course is restricted to those who took the Empowerment or Oral Transmission in January at the Drolmi Kazug Puja or in May at the Land of Shambhala consecration and made an offering to receive the blessed item offering package. The practice can not be done without all of these conditions. It took us 6 months just to gather the correct ingredients to make the precious substances and even more for the conditions for the vases. Rinpoche specifically put together these practice packages so that serious practitioners who will do the practice have every item they need to properly do the puja.
If you attended one of the events but did not get a practice package, you can inquire at
[email protected] as a few are still available.
If you did get a practice package please make sure your dashboard in the learning center has this course on it. If it does not contact
[email protected] to let us know it is not there.
Sherab Gyalmo, our Holistic Living talk host, will sit down wth Khentrul Rinpoche and the Land of Shambhala team to learn about the project. Khentrul Rinpoche will give an overview of the project and let us know what has inspired this huge endeavour. Land of Shambhala is a project for the benefit of the whole world with a greater purpose to help us create the Golden Age of peace and harmony.
We will also discuss the vision and the elements of the project from Malaya Grove to the Kalachakra retreat centre and introduce our Shambhala Warriors, the core group of the project who will take us on the journey of the project over the last two years and where we are headed. This is an important opportunity to learn about ways that you can get involved in Rinpoche’s project.
TIMEZONE
12:30 AM San Francisco
3:30 AM New York
9:30 AM Vienna Austria
HOLISTIC LIVING SERIES Dzokden has purchased 40 acres of land in order to build a spiritual paradise for all types of people to experience the life changing qualities of the Kalachakra path. Land of Shambhala will give sentient beings an opportunity to find harmony with our external environment, internal and enlightened reality. This is a space for people to authentically connect and be present in the world while living with greater vitality, love and purpose. The centre will offer a holistic program of Kalachakra medicine, yoga, philosophy, astrology and science.
As part of Rinpoche’s vision, we will bring together the teachings of Kalachakra, the sciences and the various wisdom traditions in one place. The Land of Shambhala Holistic Life Series discussions will introduce experts in the fields of Tibetan Buddhism, Kalachakra Six Yogas, Western Psychology, Astrology, Ayurveda, Tibetan and Chinese Medicine, Herbs, Feng Shui and Sache who will discuss the benefits of these sciences and how the integrate to the vision of creating the Golden Age of Peace and Harmony in our World.
Each month, we will have guest experts talk in their respective areas of expertise in a conversational forum. The talk series will be streamed on Facebook live and also Zoom where audiences will be given the opportunity to ask questions of our expert.
Support the project or volunteer.
This course is optimised for North And South American Timezones.
Spanish
Portuguese
For Europe, Australia and Asia timezones register here.
SCHEDULE
This schedule is based on San Francisco California Timezone. If you are unsure if the time is correct for your timezone please convert it yourself.
San Francisco, California
4:00 PM Septemer 18
3:00 PM October 2
3:00 PM October 9
3:00 PM October 16
3:00 PM October 23
3:00 PM October 30
ABOUT THE 6-Week COURSE
What is real? What does really matter in life? How can we deal with the many ups and downs that we face?
In this 6-week-course, Rinpoche will encourage us to look deeper into the very nature of our experience for developing insight into what is truly meaningful in life. Although the sheer extensiveness and profundity of the Buddhist teachings may easily overwhelm a newcomer, Rinpoche teaches it in a way that is suitable for everyone. With his simplicity and directness, he invites us to focus upon the essence of the teachings and, from that, to step by step expand our understanding further.
INTRODUCTION TO THIS COURSE
Can we live our lives without any problem whatsoever? The answer is no. Unfortunately, this is not possible. Is there then any solution for this limitation? Yes, and the solution is very surprising: it has to do with the fact that actually there is nothing ‘real’. All of what we think is ‘reality’ is not reality at all.
There is no ‘real reality’, neither for me nor for you. And yes, we all have a lot of fixations and neurosis which we think are real. Worse than that, we wrongly think we are actually very sophisticated.
There is no real reality, but we create many temporary realities. In order to get more clarity regarding those, we call them ‘relative reality’. Until we do not break our fixations and bring clarity to our minds, we are not free from anything at all. In this course we will learn how to free ourselves. It is indeed a gradual process, we need to remove our veils of obscurations layer by layer.
SUMMARY OF THE CLASSES:
1 – Schrödinger’s Cat Deceptive Appearances: why and how do things appear?
2 – The Mind Makes the Difference Attitudes, perspectives and emotions: how to make them useful?
3 – Interconnected Realities Understanding the connection between all of our life experiences: how to manage them well? What does interdependent relationship mean?
4 – The Power of Clarity and Decision With clarity in what to rely on, we can learn to take every situation as an opportunity
5 – Body & Mind Relationship Looking in detail at the body and mind relationship: how to make our own minds much more pure and powerful, so that even our bodies rejuvenate?
6 – Death: The Greatest Magic Trick of All Time The so-called death is actually an unusual opportunity to break through our relative reality. How to understand that we actually never die and how to take it as an opportunity?
SUGGESTED TEXTS
Unveiling Your Sacred Truth Book 1
Khentrul Rinpoché explores the external reality of the world that we encounter on a daily basis. Through a wealth of practical advice, he provides us with a variety of methods for working with the many ups and downs that we face. He then encourages us to probe deeper into the very nature of our experience in order to develop insight into what is truly important to us and how to make the most of the precious opportunities that this life has to offer.
HOW DO I ACCESS THE COURSE?
After you register prior to the online course, you will be sent an email containing all of the information to log into learn.dzokden.org and follow along. The course will be held through “Zoom“. In order to access the sessions, you need to download the Zoom App onto the device through which you want to join.
We will provide you with the Zoom link (as well as Zoom Meeting-ID and Password) created by Dzokden. You will need this link (or alternatively Zoom Meeting-ID and Password) to access the online sessions. The Zoom link (as well as Zoom Meeting-ID and Password) will be provided at the latest two days before the online event in your email as well as in the Dzokden learning center.
Access to Video Materials Afterwards
The retreat access and all the prayers will be provided for you in Dzokden’s new online learning center (Khentrul Rinpoche’s International Organization). We encourage everyone to connect to the live-streamed retreat in real time but if that is not possible, you can still log in to the learning center after the retreat and access all of the retreat content. This retreat material will not be accessible online to people outside of the learning center.
PROGRAM FEES
We have many costs to make Khentrul Rinpoche’s teachings available to you. The platforms we use, the center to house volunteers, their food, our servers and many more things are not free. Therefore we can not make our courses free without cost. Because we have students in all areas of the world we have adjusted for the cost of living in various countries. Thank you for understanding our decisions on how 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] to discuss a lower offering amount or a full scholarship. No one is turned away for lack of money.
OFFERING DANA TO RINPOCHE
It’s customary for students to make an offering of Dana to the teacher. As this is an online event, you can make the offering of Dana to Rinpoche
here.ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS?
email [email protected]
This course is optimised for Asian and European Timezones.
To register for the North and South American Timezone version of the course in English, Espanol, or Portuguese.
Australians can attend in person if the Covid restrictions lift.
Registration for other languages:
Italian
Română
Magyar
Deutsch
Francais
Chinese (Mandarin)
Chinese (Traditional)
Vietnamese
Mongolian
Bhutan
South Africa
SCHEDULE
This schedule is based on Melbourne time. If you are unsure if the time is correct for your timezone please convert it yourself.
Melbourne, Australia
7:30 PM Septemer 18
7:30 PM October 2
7:30 PM October 9
7:30 PM October 16
7:30 PM October 23
7:30 PM October 30th
ABOUT THE 6-Week COURSE
What is real? What does really matter in life? How can we deal with the many ups and downs that we face? In this 6-week-course, Rinpoche will encourage us to look deeper into the very nature of our experience for developing insight into what is truly meaningful in life.
Although the sheer extensiveness and profundity of the Buddhist teachings may easily overwhelm a newcomer, Rinpoche teaches it in a way that is suitable for everyone. With his simplicity and directness, he invites us to focus upon the essence of the teachings and, from that, to step by step expand our understanding further.
INTRODUCTION TO THIS COURSE
Can we live our lives without any problem whatsoever? The answer is no. Unfortunately, this is not possible. Is there then any solution for this limitation? Yes, and the solution is very surprising: it has to do with the fact that actually there is nothing ‘real’. All of what we think is ‘reality’ is not reality at all. There is no ‘real reality’, neither for me nor for you. And yes, we all have a lot of fixations and neurosis which we think are real. Worse than that, we wrongly think we are actually very sophisticated.
There is no real reality, but we create many temporary realities. In order to get more clarity regarding those, we call them ‘relative reality’. Until we do not break our fixations and bring clarity to our minds, we are not free from anything at all. In this course we will learn how to free ourselves. It is indeed a gradual process, we need to remove our veils of obscurations layer by layer.
SUMMARY OF THE CLASSES:
1 – Schrödinger’s Cat – Deceptive Appearances: why and how do things appear?
2 – The Mind Makes the Difference – Attitudes, perspectives and emotions: how to make them useful?
3 – Interconnected Realities – Understanding the connection between all of our life experiences: how to manage them well? What does interdependent relationship mean?
4 – The Power of Clarity and Decision – With clarity in what to rely on, we can learn to take every situation as an opportunity
5 – Body & Mind Relationship – Looking in detail at the body and mind relationship: how to make our own minds much more pure and powerful, so that even our bodies rejuvenate?
6 – Death: The Greatest Magic Trick of All Time – The so-called death is actually an unusual opportunity to break through our relative reality. How to understand that we actually never die and how to take it as an opportunity?
SUGGESTED TEXTS
Unveiling Your Sacred Truth Book 1
Khentrul Rinpoché explores the external reality of the world that we encounter on a daily basis. Through a wealth of practical advice, he provides us with a variety of methods for working with the many ups and downs that we face. He then encourages us to probe deeper into the very nature of our experience in order to develop insight into what is truly important to us and how to make the most of the precious opportunities that this life has to offer.
HOW DO I ACCESS THE COURSE?
After you register prior to the online course, you will be sent an email containing all of the information to log into learn.dzokden.org and follow along. The course will be held through “Zoom“. In order to access the sessions, you need to download the Zoom App onto the device through which you want to join.
We will provide you with the Zoom link (as well as Zoom Meeting-ID and Password) created by Dzokden. You will need this link (or alternatively Zoom Meeting-ID and Password) to access the online sessions. The Zoom link (as well as Zoom Meeting-ID and Password) will be provided at the latest two days before the online event in your email as well as in the Dzokden learning center.
Access to Video Materials Afterwards
The retreat access and all the prayers will be provided for you in Dzokden’s new online learning center (Khentrul Rinpoche’s International Organization). We encourage everyone to connect to the live-streamed retreat in real time but if that is not possible, you can still log in to the learning center after the retreat and access all of the retreat content. This retreat material will not be accessible online to people outside of the learning center.
PROGRAM FEES
We have many costs to make Khentrul Rinpoche’s teachings available to you. The platforms we use, the center to house volunteers, their food, our servers and many more things are not free. Therefore we can not make our courses free without cost. Because we have students in all areas of the world we have adjusted for the cost of living in various countries. Thank you for understanding our decisions on how 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] to discuss a lower offering amount or a full scholarship. No one is turned away for lack of money.
OFFERING DANA TO RINPOCHE
It’s customary for students to make an offering of Dana to the teacher. As this is an online event, you can make the offering of Dana to Rinpoche
here.ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS?
email [email protected]
