Why Compassion and Bodhisattva Vows Matter

The Practice of Meditation. This Retreat will focus on The Mahamudra Instructions of Tipun Pema Chogyal. This short text shows us how to identify and respond to the many kinds of obstacles that can occur in practice. The aim of the retreat is to enable us to maintain calm, clear awareness whatever occurs.

Dates: 7-14 July 2024

Martin Breuger and Robert are organising. Waldemar did the audio recordings. Reiner Steiner did the video recordings.

Index

"(00:00:00) Learning and preparation"

"(00:12:02) Reflections on Dharma - ordinary life"

"(00:24:18) Agency and inspiration"

"(00:37:37) Question - non-sensical as refreshing"

"(00:44:12) Comment - it is hard not to do"

"(00:44:45) Text - three realms - single great desire"

"(00:49:18) Appearance and emptiness - water and ice"

"(01:00:54) Comment - warmth connection compassion"

"(01:01:39) Awakening to the one taste of many"

"(01:22:49) Equal in taste - water and waves"

"(01:28:24) Question - the bodhisattva vow"

"(01:30:54) Text - all have the guardians nature"

"(01:39:31) The manifold arising with one taste"

"(01:50:23) Can the policeman get enlightened"

"(01:53:14) Comment - anything possible - Trungpa Rinpoche"

"(02:02:23) Text - emptiness pervades all that occurs"

"(02:09:41) Emptiness"

"(02:18:21) Text - the yoga of non-meditation"

"(02:38:07) This is the end of the path"

"(02:55:00) The quality of here and now"

"(03:05:28) Dissolving your conceptual mind"

"(03:21:48) Question - compassion at the end of the path"

"(03:43:55) Question - the six yogas of Naropa"

"(03:47:14) Question - one taste - meditating sky to sky"

"(03:50:13) Question - compassion - goal or tool"

"(03:56:58) Question - mahamudra dzogchen differences"

"(04:02:06) Question - what is the endgame"

"(04:06:29) Question - no border between self and the world"

"(04:19:32) Question - the tilt of the face"

"(04:25:23) Question - maintaining the enquiry"

"(04:34:14) Discussion - back to compassion"

"(04:38:48) Question - who is balancing"

The Mahamudra Instructions of Tipun Pema Chogyal

Text in English at https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mahamudra-Instructions-Tipun-Pema-Chogyal-BT-31-01-2024.pdf

Text in German by Robert Jaroslawski at https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mahamudra_Tipun_Deutsch_V.1.5_Final-1-06-02-2024.pdf

Notes on Mahamudra by Padma Karpo

in English at https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Notes-on-Mahamudra-Padma-Karpo-JLow-27-02-2024.pdf

in German at https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Notes_on_Mahamudra_Padma-Karpo_German_RJ_V.1.11_Final.pdf

Again, Jonathan (Jon) Lever has usefully prepared the topics on each day of the retreat in separate recording snippets.

For a better understanding of the retreat, each day is separate so that you can follow the flow of the teaching in the correct chronological order.

Content also available at https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-records/the-practice-of-meditation-audio-berghof-july-2024/