7 April 2021 (Wednesday) - 11 April 2021 (Sunday)
Teachings and Trainings on The Buddha Path
The Dzogchen Shri Singha Foundation is pleased to announce our annual Dzogchen Buddha Path Hawaii Internet Teaching Program. This program will be taught by Eminent Bodhi Lama Master, Dr. Shannon Young under the guidance of His Eminence Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche.
The 2021 Hawaii Internet Teaching Program will commence on Wednesday , April 7and conclude on Sunday, April 11, 2021. The training will include in-depth and direct teachings on the sacred text The Buddha Path, the Buddhist fundamentals, and will include many practices including mantra recitation, reciting sacred text, visualizations, music making, light offerings, and food offerings.
Please register here.
About the Teacher
Bodhi Lama, Dr. Shannon Young, Pema Shiwa Tso, is an authorized Lama and Dharma Teacher in the Dzogchen Lineage of Buddhism. Shannon received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2001 and has been a practicing Pharmacist for over 19 years. She first studied with her root teacher His Eminence Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche in 2003 and for over 17 years has studied and practiced with Rinpoche while helping establish the Dzogchen Retreat Center, USA, the Dzogchen Shri Singha Foundation USA, and One Path Outreach, a humanitarian project.
Bodhi Lama Shannon’s compassionate and relatable teaching style will help you calm your mind, expand your heart, and increase your knowledge through the Dzogchen Buddha Path. Bodhi Lama Shannon will guide us through the practices included in The Buddha Path with an immersive program developed according to the guidance of His Eminence Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche.
About the Program
What to Expect at the Dzogchen Buddha Path Teaching Program
“Retreat” means withdrawing your body, speech, and mind away from busy, meaningless, and negative activities, freeing yourself to focus on helping all beings. Away from worldly distractions, you can wholeheartedly train your mind in the Way of True Happiness. In retreat you will practice Dharma with more joy, depth, and intensity than you have likely experienced before and the results may surprise you. By training your mind using the skillful means of the Dzogchen Lineage you will take steps toward your own awakening.
“Dzogchen” translates as “the Great Perfection” or “the Great Inclusion” because it contains all of Buddha’s teachings, including both sutra and tantra. The nature of mind is pure, luminous, and blissful, yet until we rid ourselves of negative thinking, we will generate suffering for ourselves and provide the conditions of others’ suffering. Through the practice of Dzogchen one can become Buddha in a single lifetime and never again be a negative condition for any being.
The Dzogchen Hawaii Internet Teaching Program is one week of diligent learning, contemplation, meditation, prayer, and discussion surrounded by precious sangha and experienced Dharma teachers. It is a unique opportunity to increase your love, compassion, and wisdom. During this week you will learn how to increase your happiness, causes of happiness, and the happiness of all beings, while decreasing the suffering and causes of suffering of all beings. By committing to spend a week practicing to this end, your mind will be transformed and you will have a more positive effect on your loved ones and all beings.
Please register here.
Program Pricing
The fee for this remote-learning program is $250.
As always the teachings and ceremonies themselves are offered free of charge, but it is traditional in Buddhism for the student to make an individual offering to the teacher during the program. You may voluntarily make an offering to the teacher at anytime during the program. It is most auspicious to do this at the beginning of the program at the end of the opening ceremony.
Attendance
To accumulate group power, students – without exception – will be required to attend all sessions in order to participate in the program. In other words, participants cannot miss any of the sessions and then continue to participate in the remainder of the retreat without special permission.
Daily Program Schedule and Sessions
There will be a published schedule before the start of the program, which will include:
- Personal Preliminary Practice
- Morning Teaching by Bodhi Lama Shannon Young
- Personal Practice Sessions (thuns)
- Afternoon Tutoring and Q&A Sessions
- Concluding Practice
Participants will be given ample time to cook, eat, exercise and maintain their precious human bodies. As part of your daily practice, from about 10:30 PM to 6:30 AM, you will be required to maintain a vow of silence and not engage in any normal waking activities except using the bathroom. These times may vary from day to day, but the idea is that you will be laying down resting your body for 8 hours every night and not unnecessarily disturbing other people.
Please register here.
About the Lineage
It is extremely precious to study under an authentic master, one whose lineage can be traced all the way back to Buddha Shakyamuni. Our precious Vajra Master, H.E. Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche, is a thirty-third generation lineage holder of the Dzogchen Longchen Nyingthig and the Dzogchen Khadro Nyingthig lineages, selected by previous Dzogchen Lineage Masters in Tibet because of his profound knowledge and realization. With more than seven years of solitary cave meditation experience in the high Tibetan holy mountains, Rinpoche truly embodies the qualities of a realized practitioner and yogi. Also a vibrant and dynamic teacher and scholar, Rinpoche is a lama of the Dzogchen Monastery and professor of the Dzogchen Shri Singha University. He is a published author of numerous books in both Tibetan and English, including The Buddha Path, a practice book that encompasses all of Buddha’s teachings. The Buddha Path is available in English, Chinese, Russian, and German, and is soon to be released in Nepali, Japanese, and Spanish.
Just as great master of the past, Atisha, was revered for always teaching refuge, Khenpo Choga Rinpoche is revered for always training teachers. His heartfelt effort to train knowledgeable, wise and compassionate teachers has reached a critical juncture, and he has authorized authentically trained and certified Dharma Teachers of The Buddha Path to teach under his guidance. Rinpoche has requested that Bodhi Lama, Dr. Shannon Young, Pema Shiwa Tso lead this Teaching Program.
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Q&A
If you have any questions, or are just wondering if this event is for you, you should contact us in advance to discuss. This page will be updated with some of the answers to questions posed, so questions are very much welcomed.
If you have any questions about anything, don’t hesitate to contact the program director, via 2021.Hawaii.Internet.Program@thebuddhapath.org.
The Great Merit of Supporting Retreats
Even if you will not be able to attend this retreat, you or anyone else you know may earn tremendous merit by providing facilities for those on retreat. If you would like to contribute financially or with labor, contact us immediately. If you would like to help or would like more information, please contact the retreat director.
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