Entering the Stream of Lineage Blessings

Working Basis for Chö

 

Featuring

 

 Ear-Whispered Chö 

Five-Dakini Retreat

&

Guru Yoga

 

 

This first annual residential retreat held in conjunction with the Five-Year Program is devoted to the gateway of the Ear-Whispered Chö lineage, a repository of blessings.  The retreat is rich in content and is a well-balanced program supporting personal exploration and full immersion in the traditional lineage practice.

 

This Five Dakini Retreat entails taking this first step deep into the stunning river of blessings, the essential working basis for Vajrayana and Chö. It includes the Tantric practice of visualization and mantra recitation while embodying the awakening energies of Chö Deities – Prajnaparamita and the Five Dakinis.  This retreat is called “the Preliminary to the Sacred Chö Practice,” a prerequisite to further Chö practices. Retreatants are required to complete a certain number of mantra recitation with visualization, which can be continued as a daily practice after the retreat. Then we will perform fire puja together upon the completion during the 2nd annual retreat in Spring, 2020. (The cost of the practice text bounded in a Pecha format is $45.)

 

Each annual residential retreat in the Five Year Chö Mastery Training is interwoven with teaching on the Vajrayana techniques based on Vajrayana classics such as A Book of Three Inspirations (A Treatise on the Stages of Training In the Profound Path of Naro’s Six Dharmas),  and A Commentary to the Six Yogas of Naropa by Lama Tsongkhapa.

 

This retreat features the most misunderstood and most important practice in Vajrayana - “Guru Yoga: Entering the Stream of Blessing through Guru Yoga”. The guru yoga is the source of blessings and is the entryway to the Vajrayana path. A strong foundation with a correct understanding and skill in this method is key to success in all of the subsequent practices.