Avila, CA 93424
JANUARY 1-2, 2022
Saturday
10-12: Teaching about vows/bodhicitta
12-2: Lunch on your own
2-3:30: Teaching about vows/bodhicitta (continued)
3:30: Giving Refuge/Bodhisattva vows
Sunday
10-12: Converting Adversities into the Path
12-2: Lunch on your own
2-3:30: Converting Adversities into the Path (continued)
We must constantly connect with bodhicitta in our practice. Bodhicitta must be the compelling force. In his book, The Path to Awakening, Shamar Rinpoche urges us to always keep in mind, 'I will never separate myself from the precious bodhicitta'. When we take the Bodhisattva vow, we commit to arousing this state of awakened heart/mind that is an innate quality, our true nature. We step onto the path of the bodhisattva and begin the training of our mind that will help us recognize and cultivate this quality.
Karma Trinlay Rinpoche returns to SLO to teach on the Refuge and Bodhisattva vows on Saturday 1 Jan and will offer Refuge and Bodhisattva vows in the afternoon*. On Sunday, Rinpoche will teach on converting adversities to the path. Karma Trinlay Rinpoche is especially skilled and compassionate in his ability to teach and guide us in how to effectively relate with whatever challenges we meet in life. If we can meet them with wisdom and compassion, we can dissipate them, we can truly transform them into causes for activating our innate enlightened qualities.
This program is suitable for students of all levels, newcomers and practitioners alike.
Pandemic allowing, 30 in-person attendees (must be fully vaccinated and free of cold/flu symptoms) will join Rinpoche at the White Heron Sangha Meditation Center. This hybrid program will also be available by Zoom. Zoom link will be sent to registrants a few days before the program. We are monitoring the pandemic. If the program must be all virtual, we will postpone Refuge and Bodhisattva vows.
* Vows will be given in-person only and recipients must meet requirements for in-person attendance and be fully vaccinated. Bodhisattva vow recipients must receive, or must have already received, Refuge vows. It is customary to make an offering to the teacher giving the vows. Email questions to slo@bodhipath.org.
Where: Zoom and the White Heron Sangha Meditation Center has graciously offered their space.
6615 Bay Laurel Place, Avila Village
Parking: Parking is alongside the buildings with overflow parking behind Blue Heron Realty. Do not park in front of Woodstone Marketplace!
Refreshments: Please bring a beverage of your choice in a sealed cup/mug and snacks or lunch. No refreshments will be provided during the program.
Cost (no one turned away for lack of funds):
In-person: $100 standard, $150 supporter ($50 registration deposit is required to hold your space with balance due upon arrival to the teaching; 30 registrant limit, must be fully vaccinated and free of flu/cold symptoms)
Virtual via Zoom: $50 standard, $75 program supporter
Registration fees cover retreat expenses and do not include offerings for the teacher or support for the Bodhi Path or White Heron Sangha Centers. The teacher participating in this retreat is volunteering and offering his time, care, knowledge, and insights. Offerings to Rinpoche and the Centers can be made when you register, via Paypal, or given in person.
Karma Trinlay Rinpoche is a highly accomplished Buddhist teacher born in 1975 to an American mother and a French father. His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa recognized the 13-month-old Rinpoche as the reincarnation of an important Buddhist master.
In 1978 Trinlay Rinpoche started the traditional training of tulkus under the guidance of the Venerable Kalu Rinpoche in India. Rinpoche is trilingual with equal competence in English, French, and Tibetan.
From age ten onward Karma Trinlay Rinpoche mainly lived in France where he received a traditional Western education conjointly with his Buddhist education. He later pursued academic studies in Paris at the Sorbonne, the School of Oriental Languages, and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.
Karma Trinlay Rinpoche holds in particular great reverence the late 14th Shamarpa as his principal root teacher from whom he received: the unparalleled teachings of Mahamudra, and especially, as the sole recipient, the very special and highest oral transmission not written in any text pertaining to the Joining of the Two Rivers of Mahamudra and Mind Training teachings.
A charismatic speaker, Karma Trinlay Rinpoche is respected for his lucid mind and diligence in both study and practice. He has taught in Buddhist centers and universities throughout the world where people widely appreciate his inner calm, sweet disposition, and sharp mind.
Rinpoche lives in France with his American wife, Giselle de Saint Phalle and their two sons.
Karma Trinlay Rinpoche is a genuine bridge between the East and the West, the traditional and the modern.
Hosted By the Bodhi Path Buddhist Center of San Luis Obispo
Tel: 805.594.1388
We all share a desire to be happy and free from suffering, but this goal seems to elude us much of the time. Located in San Luis Obispo, the Bodhi Path Buddhist Center welcomes everyone interested in the Buddhist path to true happiness. We provide opportunities to learn and practice meditation and to study and discuss teachings from a progressive Buddhist curriculum.
JANUARY 1-2, 2022
Saturday
10-12: Teaching about vows/bodhicitta
12-2: Lunch on your own
2-3:30: Teaching about vows/bodhicitta (continued)
3:30: Giving Refuge/Bodhisattva vows
Sunday
10-12: Converting Adversities into the Path
12-2: Lunch on your own
2-3:30: Converting Adversities into the Path (continued)
We must constantly connect with bodhicitta in our practice. Bodhicitta must be the compelling force. In his book, The Path to Awakening, Shamar Rinpoche urges us to always keep in mind, 'I will never separate myself from the precious bodhicitta'. When we take the Bodhisattva vow, we commit to arousing this state of awakened heart/mind that is an innate quality, our true nature. We step onto the path of the bodhisattva and begin the training of our mind that will help us recognize and cultivate this quality.
Karma Trinlay Rinpoche returns to SLO to teach on the Refuge and Bodhisattva vows on Saturday 1 Jan and will offer Refuge and Bodhisattva vows in the afternoon*. On Sunday, Rinpoche will teach on converting adversities to the path. Karma Trinlay Rinpoche is especially skilled and compassionate in his ability to teach and guide us in how to effectively relate with whatever challenges we meet in life. If we can meet them with wisdom and compassion, we can dissipate them, we can truly transform them into causes for activating our innate enlightened qualities.
This program is suitable for students of all levels, newcomers and practitioners alike.
Pandemic allowing, 30 in-person attendees (must be fully vaccinated and free of cold/flu symptoms) will join Rinpoche at the White Heron Sangha Meditation Center. This hybrid program will also be available by Zoom. Zoom link will be sent to registrants a few days before the program. We are monitoring the pandemic. If the program must be all virtual, we will postpone Refuge and Bodhisattva vows.
* Vows will be given in-person only and recipients must meet requirements for in-person attendance and be fully vaccinated. Bodhisattva vow recipients must receive, or must have already received, Refuge vows. It is customary to make an offering to the teacher giving the vows. Email questions to slo@bodhipath.org.
Where: Zoom and the White Heron Sangha Meditation Center has graciously offered their space.
6615 Bay Laurel Place, Avila Village
Parking: Parking is alongside the buildings with overflow parking behind Blue Heron Realty. Do not park in front of Woodstone Marketplace!
Refreshments: Please bring a beverage of your choice in a sealed cup/mug and snacks or lunch. No refreshments will be provided during the program.
Cost (no one turned away for lack of funds):
In-person: $100 standard, $150 supporter ($50 registration deposit is required to hold your space with balance due upon arrival to the teaching; 30 registrant limit, must be fully vaccinated and free of flu/cold symptoms)
Virtual via Zoom: $50 standard, $75 program supporter
Registration fees cover retreat expenses and do not include offerings for the teacher or support for the Bodhi Path or White Heron Sangha Centers. The teacher participating in this retreat is volunteering and offering his time, care, knowledge, and insights. Offerings to Rinpoche and the Centers can be made when you register, via Paypal, or given in person.
Karma Trinlay Rinpoche is a highly accomplished Buddhist teacher born in 1975 to an American mother and a French father. His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa recognized the 13-month-old Rinpoche as the reincarnation of an important Buddhist master.
In 1978 Trinlay Rinpoche started the traditional training of tulkus under the guidance of the Venerable Kalu Rinpoche in India. Rinpoche is trilingual with equal competence in English, French, and Tibetan.
From age ten onward Karma Trinlay Rinpoche mainly lived in France where he received a traditional Western education conjointly with his Buddhist education. He later pursued academic studies in Paris at the Sorbonne, the School of Oriental Languages, and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.
Karma Trinlay Rinpoche holds in particular great reverence the late 14th Shamarpa as his principal root teacher from whom he received: the unparalleled teachings of Mahamudra, and especially, as the sole recipient, the very special and highest oral transmission not written in any text pertaining to the Joining of the Two Rivers of Mahamudra and Mind Training teachings.
A charismatic speaker, Karma Trinlay Rinpoche is respected for his lucid mind and diligence in both study and practice. He has taught in Buddhist centers and universities throughout the world where people widely appreciate his inner calm, sweet disposition, and sharp mind.
Rinpoche lives in France with his American wife, Giselle de Saint Phalle and their two sons.
Karma Trinlay Rinpoche is a genuine bridge between the East and the West, the traditional and the modern.
Hosted By the Bodhi Path Buddhist Center of San Luis Obispo
Tel: 805.594.1388