Tantra: Vajragarbha – The Womb of Non-Duality
May 15, 2020 @ 8:00 am - June 14, 2020 @ 5:00 pm
Tantra: Vajragarbha -
The Womb of Non-Duality
May 15th - June 14th, 2020
By: Michael Gregory
Quiet Mind Mountain Retreat Center
Julian, California
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Dear MMC Community,
We would like to invite our Sangha to come together and practice deeply during this time of seclusion, for this years 30-Day Retreat: Vajragarbha The Womb of Non Duality. Due to our concern for the health of our community and along with indeterminate state wide shut down of businesses by the California governor due to C19, our 30 Day 2020 Retreat will be offered online through our interactive zoom classroom. We invite you to transform this time of self isolation into one self exploration and compassionate awakening. We will be offering the special opportunity to Path 2 Members to participate in this rare and precious retreat. This immersive retreat offers completion stage practices from the Dzogchen Lineage, that lead to direct enlightenment when practiced as instructed. Please read to the end of the email to see necessary requirements. |
| Vajra indicates an adamantine hardness, diamond-like, and signifies the power of illumination. Invoking Bodhisattva Vajragarbha empowers one to breakthrough any forms of avidya, or ignorance. Garbha indicates “womb” or spiritual receptacle. Thus, the invocation also keeps one safe within the Dharma-womb of the Sugata. The invincible and irresistible Diamond Storehouse is the source of great spiritual satisfaction and protection—a vast reservoir housing the very best of what the Tathatic-Spirit can offer. |
Within the Vajrayana this Bodhisattva is known as the “thunderbolt-matrix”, a most wrathful form as the great destroyer of all illusion:
Only when all manifestation has been negated
Will the clear light truly dawn
Only when attachments have been blasted
Can we see what lies behind illusion
Only when experience and personality become irrelevant
Can we know what we really are
I may be both savior and destroyer, tyrant and servant.
I open the gates to liberation
If you cling to nothing, and wish only release from the traps of Maya
Call upon me, and my power may crash you open
That you may become Truth
And freedom unending.
In such vein, in this sutra thus invoking adamantine bodhipower restores the innate knowlege and capacity of the original essence----
going back to the fundamental, primordial-principle; returning to the root-Mind-Source.
The Source of Vajragarbha
This 30 Day Retreat is a rare and precious opportunity to immerse oneself in the heart of spiritual exploration and meditation practices of enlightenment. These timeless teachings come to us from the Tibetan Buddhist wisdom tradition of Dzogchen and have been passed down in an unbroken lineage for over 14 centuries. Experiential instructions nakedly reveal the innate freedom of being, allowing us to bask in the radiant, spacious expanse of Awareness, fully present in every moment, through every circumstance.
Led by Michael Gregory, instructions will be given to practice the inner heat of the 6 Yogas of Naropa. Inner heat meditation serves as the basis for sacred sexual union (karmamudra), Clear Light, Illusory Body, Dream Yoga, Bardo Yoga and Consciousness Transference (Phowa) which are the final Completion Stage Meditations that are necessary for complete Enlightenment
Prerequisites:
The 2019 30 day All Creating Sovereign Retreat, must be completed before attending this retreat. This includes daily practice of the instructions given.
Zoom Only:
• Dana for teachers is not included in the registration fee.
**To access the retreat on Zoom, please sign up with retreat coordinator
(listed above), who will send you the login information.
For those who would like financial assistance, you
may contact: rosecostello2216@gmail.com
“Retreat Registration: 30-Day Tantra Vajragarbha Retreat, Julian CA, May 15th – June 14th 2020”
If you are unable to donate the suggested amount, please do not let that keep you from attending; contact us to make arrangements.