WISDOM CENTER
OF SANTA CRUZ
Drubpon Pema Rigdzin has trained in Tibetan Buddhism for thirty years and completed extensive Vajrayana retreats under Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. Drubpon is a lead ritual chanter (umdze) at the Vajrayna Foundation, and teacher for Drub Nyiy Döjö Gatsal, our Three-Year Retreat Center. He is also a Chaplain with Stanford Health Care and the Hospice of Santa Cruz County, an acupuncturist with a BA in Physical Therapy and a keen researcher of ancestral forms of healing.
Calm Abiding
Daylong Retreat
with Pema Rigdzin
In person at the Wisdom Center and Online
Sunday, November 3rd, 2024
10 am - 12pm; 1:30 - 3:30
This daylong retreat will provide beginners and seasoned practitioners alike the tools to develop and progress on the path of meditation.
With myriad methods ranging from the cultivation of mindfulness, and visualization, all the way beyond the mind itself, one often overlooks the importance of developing the skill of concentration which is the key to stabilizing and progressing on the path of meditation.
Recognizing our afflictive emotions as the engine that moves our experiences of suffering and happiness, the Buddha taught methods to transform our mental state and direct our minds towards producing virtue and benefit.
During this retreat, we will focus on the modality of Calm Abiding or Shamatha, the door that opens all other meditation modalities. We will work with the breath, develop focus, and finally meditate on the five elements—a key practice to prepare oneself for the process of death.
The day will include instructions, actual meditation sessions, and time to reflect and discuss in the group.
REGISTRATION:
FULL TUITION: $80
SUBSIDIZED TUITION: $60
FIXED INCOME: $40
“Once one recognizes that the source of all happiness and all suffering is the mind itself, consequently, training the mind alone allows us to eradicate suffering and discover genuine and lasting happiness…without following thoughts about past or future, one remains in the present, in an open, relaxed and lucid state.”
—Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche