Teachings, Courses, & Retreats

Awakening the Compassionate Heart: Mind Training (Lojong) for Our Times

Date & Time Details: This retreat begins with a mandatory registration period from 2pm to 4pm on the first day and ends after lunch on the last day.

Awakening the Compassionate Heart: Mind Training (Lojong) for Our Times

With Drubpön Lama Karma

August 31 - September 2, 2018

With Drubpön Lama Karma

A Meditation Retreat. Mind Training (Lojong) offers practical and inspiring teachings for cultivating compassion, patience, and perspective. With a particular focus on integrating all of your life’s experiences onto the path of awakening, these pithy teachings help you to bring your practice into your life and develop a greater capacity to feel compassion for yourself and others. In this retreat, you will learn mindfulness meditation and the compassion practice called Tonglen (Sending & Receiving). The retreat will include teachings, guided meditations, and discussion. This retreat is open to everyone. No prior meditation experience required.

“When the world is filled with misery, 
transform all adversity onto the path of awakening.”
– Slogan 11 of The Seven Point Mind Training by Chekawa Yeshe Dorje
Suggested Dana: $90 – $120

Date & Time Details: This retreat begins with a mandatory registration period from 2pm to 4pm on the first day and ends after lunch on the last day.

About the Teacher

Drubpön Lama Karma
Drubpön Lama Karma Venerable retreat master (Drubpön) Lama Karma was born in eastern Bhutan and joined the Long-Nying Chöling Monastery at a young age. His root teacher was Lama Naljorpa, the great yogi of Mahamudra and Dzogchen, from whom he received numerous vows, empowerments, instructions and oral transmissions, including the Chöd Rinchen Trengwa…