652 Berghof 2024 Retreat - Session 1 of 8

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) About Mahamudra and the focus of the retreat"

"(00:44:28) The ground - how are you"

"(00:53:01) Refuge"

"(01:07:55) Reciting the refuge"

"(01:11:48) Human birth - Bodhicitta"

"(01:19:27) Emptiness"

"(01:53:17) Connectivity - limits and non-duality"

"(02:05:03) Text - Notes on Mahamudra - Padma Karpo"

"(02:08:27) Ordinary consciousness - original knowing"

"(02:50:10) Text - Co-emergent yoga - the world and you"

"(03:01:38) Death and impermanence"

"(03:06:54) Precious human birth"

"(03:08:08) Suffering"

"(03:22:48) Karma"

"(03:27:19) Your assumptions about who you are"

"(03:33:36) Nine round breathing"

"(03:35:24) Polarities and dialog"

"(03:47:36) Meditation posture"

"(03:49:16) Uninvolved open available"

"(04:10:48) The Vajra posture"

"(04:33:13) Inserting the five winds into the central channel"

"(04:46:56) Regarding speech the residual winds are expelled"

"(04:57:27) Thoughts of the past and future"

"(05:05:59) Meditating on concepts"

"(05:12:28) Whatever arises in the present - mind flows as it will"

"(05:28:56) Tilopa - rest with how it is"

"(05:43:39) Non-distraction - mind isolated"

"(05:58:18) Quiet sitting"

"(05:58:54) Distracted in an ocean of clarity"

"(06:03:25) Caught in delusion"

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/