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Buddhist
Buddhist
Meditation
Retreats
at Shambhala Mountain
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The Blissful Pure Lands: The Tantric View
with Andrew Holecek
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April 4 - 6
With proper vision, the Pure Lands unfold before our very eyes—we don’t have to wait to physically die to be reborn in a Pure Land. In this weekend retreat, we will focus on the inner meaning of Pure Land doctrine, discovering how these magical lands are not so much a physical location as a state of mind. We will consider what obstructs our sacred view of reality and how we can purify our perception to discover such a wondrous place right here and now.
During this retreat, we will explore Shambhala, a unique Pure Land with both terrestrial (earthly) and celestial (cosmic) aspects. Shambhala is also connected to "beyul," or hidden lands, magical places where landscape and mindscape overlap. By understanding beyul and the inner Pure Lands, we will get a deeper perspective on the role of pilgrimage on the spiritual path. By going on these seemingly outer journeys, we are actually taking an inner path. Here Pure Land and Pure Mind start to merge, and we can make use of both to accelerate our spiritual path.
Prerequisite: It is recommended that participants listen to the talks from the Death & the Art of Dying: The Blissful Pure Lands program (November 30 – December 2, 2007). The CD of talks from that program can be obtained through the Center's online Gift Store at (866)528-3762.
Andrew Holecek, DDS, has been studying and practicing the meditative traditions since 1975. An adjunct faculty member in the Religious Studies Department at Naropa University, he has completed the traditional three-year retreat and has founded The Forum for Living and Dying, a venue for the exploration of death, dying and rebirth. As cofounder of a charity that provides health care to children in India and Nepal, he spends several months a year in Asia. These travels, which began in 1995, have allowed him to study the bardos directly with some of the greatest masters in Tibetan Buddhism. Andrew writes a column on death and dying for Bodhi Magazine.
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