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Retreats
(Please check the scedule page for
scheduled Geshe Lobsang Tsultrim's Retreats)
VAJRASATTVA RETREAT
Vajrasattva practice is very powerful for beginners and seasoned
practitioners alike, and for observers of all spiritual faiths. There are no
special prerequisites to attend to this retreat. Many students who attend
these courses have little or no experience with Buddhism and meditation.
The practice of Vajrasattva is used to purify obstacles to spiritual
development, negative karma and illness. Vajrasattva may be the most
powerful purification practice in daily life. Purifying these negative and
self-destructive habits allows space for positive experiences and beneficial
states of mind to flourish.
Vajrasattva (Sanskrit:
वज्रसत्त्व,
Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ།
- Short form is "dorsem"
རྡོར་སེམས།) is the buddha of
purification. As the "action" or karma protector, Vajrasattva also manifests
the energies of all Buddhas. Vajrasattva practices are common to all of the
four schools of Tibetan Buddhism and are used both to purify obscurations
and as such, Vajrasattva practice is an essential element of Tibetan
Buddhist practice.
In addition to personal practice, the Vajrasattva mantra is regarded as
having the ability to purify karma, bring peace, and cause enlightened
activity in genera and it is believed that the practive of Vajrasattva
brings dramatic results as a method to purify negative karmas and obstacles
to spiritual development.
In Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand Pabonka Rinpoche explains how the
great practitioner and reformer of Tibetan Buddhism Atisha would purify any
negativity, no matter how small, immediately. Even in public or when riding
his horse, as soon as he noticed a breach of his ethics, he would stop what
he was doing, drop to one knee and then and there, purify it with the four
opponent powers—the powers of dependence, regret, remedy and restraint.
Atisha practiced purification in this way because of his deep realization of
the psycho-mechanics of negative karma, especially its four fundamentals:
negative karma is certain to bring suffering; it multiplies exponentially;
if eradicated, it cannot bring its suffering result; and once created, it
never simply disappears.
Vajrasattva Retreat
Grass Valley, California 2011
Vajrasattva Retreat
South Lake Tahoe, California 2011
Four-Armed Avalokiteshevara Retreat
Mount Shasta, California 2011
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