Nine-Day Ashe Mahamudra and Vajrayana Practices Retreat
With Acharya Susan Chapman and Shastri Russell Rodgers
April 9 - 17, 2018
This will be our sixth annual mahamudra retreat, and the fifth featuring the unique combination of the formless investigations of mahamudra vipashyana and the form practices of shambhala ngondro, werma and scorpion seal. As such, it will count towards the practice requirement for an Acharya-led weekthun for werma or ngondro. Mahamudra illuminates and stabilizes the nature of mind transmission. We will also be using mahamudra investigations to increase our understanding of the mind that visualizes, and thus increase its power and effectiveness.
As you may know, mahamudra is not about discovering the truth once and for all. It’s something that we work on every time we lose connection to the nature of mind, and we do this until our discoveries become second nature. This year Acharya Chapman will include a retreat day of Extraordinary Perception to introduce us to Sacred World, Shambhala Ritual, a text by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. This text explores the rituals of kyerim as they relate to drala, jnanasattva and samayasattva.
Retreat Structure:
- One day for the lung and practice of Sacred World
- Two days of Mahamudra and Shambhala Meditation
- Seven days that combine sessions of kyerim, or generation stage, practices with sessions of dzokrim, or completion stage practice (Ashe Mahamudra).
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Prerequisites:
This retreat is open to all Shambhala vajrayana students who have attended a Vajradhatu Vajrayana Seminary or a Sacred World Assembly. This is a wonderful opportunity for the entire vajra sangha to gather and be of one mind, one heart. If you are doing something other than Rigden ngondro, Werma or Scorpion Seal practice , please contact us directly at [email protected] so that together we can plan to accommodate you.
If you’re interested in attending this retreat, please click here for more information.
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Teachers
Acharya Susan Chapman completed three year retreat at Gampo Abbey, and another six years retreat master. She has lead many mahamudra retreats at various centres in North America. Susan is the author of The Five Keys to Mindful Communication and she presently works as a part time consultant, leads workshops in mindful communication and is a senior teacher in the Shambhala Community.
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Shastri Russell Rodgers became a student of Chögyam Trungpa in 1975. Shortly after that, he moved to the Kootenay region of British Columbia, where he has resided since. During that time he has occupied many administrative and teaching positions. He helped to create the Shambhala Centre’s retreat land, and had a large part in buying and renovating the new building for the Nelson Shambhala Centre. Before he retired, he managed a drop-in centre for people with mental illnesses. He has a wife and three grown children, two of whom live with their families in Asia. He was appointed Shastri (senior teacher)…
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