Eight Medicine Buddha

with Tibetan Elements and Chakras

༄༅།།    སངས་རྒྱས་སྨན་ལྷ་དང་སངས་རྒྱས་སྨན་ལྷ་ཆེ་བརྒྱད་སྒྲུབས་ཐབས་ཉམས་ལེན་སྐོར་ཟབ་སྦྱོང།།

The Sangye Menlha transmission is revered as one of the most powerful blessings for healing. In this two-day workshop Geshe Chongtul Rinpoche will present an introduction to the complex art of Tibetan Medicine and will give the Sangye Menlha empowerment.

The retreat is open to everyone. There are no pre-requisites. Participants will learn about the energy body, chakras, and practices to generate Menlha energy. The Sangye Menlha practice brings a deep connection with the five elements (earth, water, fire, air, and space),  which are the energetic undercurrent that form and affect the physical world, including our own bodies. The ancient Tibetan practice of Sangye Menlha is one of many techniques that can help us awaken our innate healing powers. This is a powerful healing practice for harmonizing imbalances as well as purifying negative karma and past deeds. It is not only an extremely potent practice for individuals, but also offers assistance to those who are dying or have already passed.

For more information and to register, please contact retreat manager:

Stewart Senatore

E-mail:  wohlgang@live.it

Phone:  (+39) 340 6595902

Venue: Bonshen Retreat Center Dol Zon’

Vocabolo Sambuco n. 12

Frazione Coccorano

Valfabbrica (Perugia), Italy

Cost:  Early registration fee (until February 29, 2012):  € 150

Registration fee (beginning March 1, 2012): € 160

Sangye Menlha

(Medicine Buddha)

with Tibetan Elements, Chakras and Pulses

༄༅།། རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བ་སངས་རྒྱས་སྨན་ལྷའི་སྒྲུབས་པ་ཉམས་ལེན།

The Sangye Menlha transmission is revered as one of the most powerful blessings for healing. In this two-day workshop Geshe Chongtul Rinpoche will present an introduction to the complex art of Tibetan Medicine and will give the Sangye Menlha empowerment.

The retreat is open to everyone. There are no pre-requisites. Participants will learn about the energy body, chakras, pulses, and practices to generate Menlha energy. The Sangye Menlha practice brings a deep connection with the five elements (earth, water, fire, air, and space),  which are the energetic undercurrent that form and affect the physical world, including our own bodies. The ancient Tibetan practice of Sangye Menlha is one of many techniques that can help us awaken our innate healing powers. This is a powerful healing practice for harmonizing imbalances as well as purifying negative karma and past deeds. It is not only an extremely potent practice for individuals, but also offers assistance to those who are dying or have already passed.

SANGYE MENLHA, MEDICINE BUDDHA

༄༅།། རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བ་སངས་རྒྱས་སྨན་ལྷའི་སྒྲུབས་པ་ཉམས་ལེན།

TWO-DAY WORKSHOP, MARCH 3-4, 2012, LONG ISLAND, NY

with GESHE CHONGTUL RINPOCHE

During this workshop, Geshe Chongtul Rinpoche will teach the participants how to deeply meditate with The Medicine Buddha, learning the appropriate healing Mantra and how the Sangye Menlha practice brings a deep connection with the five elements (earth, water, fire, air and space).  The five elements are the energetic undercurrent that form and affect the physical world, including our own bodies.  This ancient Tibetan practice is one of the many techniques that can help us awaken our innate healing powers.  This is a powerful healing practice for harmonizing imbalances as well as purifying negative karma and past deeds.  It is not only beneficial  for the individual but also offers assistance to those who are dying or have already passed. This retreat is open to everyone.  There are no pre-requisites.

LOSAR

TIBETAN NEW YEAR

༈ རབ་རྒྱལ་འབྲུག་གི་གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ་ཞུ།།

Happy New Year & Happy Losar

Losar is the Tibetan New Year.  In Tibetan, “Lo” means year and “Sar” means new.  Tibetan Bon and Buddhists around the world celebrate during the first month of the lunar year, from new moon to full moon.  During this period, Bonpos commemorate the birthdays of Bon’s founder, Tonpa Shenrab Mi Wo Che, on the fifteenth day of the month, and the second Bon Tonpa (fully enlightened teacher), Nyame Sherab Gyaltsen, on the fifth day of the month.

Bon Shen Ling will host the annual Losar celebration in honor of Nyame Sherab Gyaltsen’s birthday on February 25, 2012 in New York City.

Rinpoche will present a Prosperity (Zambala) teaching on Zambala meditation, chanting the Zambala mantra and maintaining a healthy life.  The first month of the lunar year is the traditional time to worship Zambala, the deity of prosperity, in order to bring about continued prosperity and good fortune.  Rinpoche wants to extend a special invitation to those who would like a blessing to cleanse their obstacles. The Zambala teaching is appropriate for newcomers as well as experienced Bon practitioners.

10:45am                       Doors open

11am-12pm                 Zambala teaching

1-2pm                           Complimentary lunch

2-3:30pm                    Wind Horse Prayer (Lung Ta) & Nyame Sherab Gyaltsen prayer

3:30-4pm                     Khata birthday offering to statue of Nyame Sherab Gyaltsen & blessing from Chongtul Rinpoche

Offering a khata is a way to accumulate merit through the practice of generosity.  The traditional practice is to present the khata with an envelope containing a monetary offering on the table in front of the statue of Nyame Sherab Gyalsten.

You may bring your Bön items such as mala beads, prayer flags, shangs, nagani bells (small cymbals), etc. to be blessed by Rinpoche Chongtul.  If you have items to be blessed, please label each item with your name and plan to arrive 15 minutes early to place them on the table.

We warmly welcome you to join us for Rinpoche’s special teaching and a delicious meal during our joyous Losar celebration with the Tibetan Bon community.

༄༅།།     ཨ་རི་དང་ཁེ་ན་ཌའི་གཡུང་དྲུང་བོན་གྱི་མཆེད་གྲོགས་དང་བོད་རིགས་སྤུན་ཟླ་ཡོངས་ལ།

               ༧ དཔལ་ བོན་གཤེན་གླིང་ནས་ ཕྱི་ཟླའི་ཚེས་ 2012-02-25   རེ་བཟའ་སྤེན་པ་ཉིན་  བོད་གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ཀྱི་དགའ་སྟོན་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་དང་ཆབས་གཅིག་

               ༧ རྣམ་འདྲེན་གཉིས་པ་ ༧ རྒྱལ་བ་མཉམ་མེད་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་དུས་ཆེན་དགའ་སྟོན་ཆེན་མོ་རུ་ངེས་ཕེབས་ཡོང་བའི་སྙན་སྒྲོན་དུ།

                  ཚོགས་ཁང་ཆེན་མོའི་ཞལ་བྱང།༔  Subud Center, 230 West 29th St, New York, NY 10001, USA

                  འབྲེལ་པོ་:   སྐུ་ངོ་ཀུན་དགའ་ལགས། 352.804.0693

              ཚོགས་ཕེབས་མཁན་རྣམས་པར་བོན་གཤེན་གླིང་དྲ་རྒྱ་རྒྱུད་  ཕེབས་ངེས་གྱི་གནས་ཚུལ་འགེངས་ཤོག་མ་ལུས་པ་བསྐང་མཛད་ཞུ།

Bon Heart

Mantra, Chanting & Meditation with Blessing

༄༅།།    བཟླས་མཆོག་རིན་ཆེན་སྒྲོན་མའི་འཁོར་བ་དོང་སྤྲུགས་མ་ཏྲི་སྙིང་པོའི་འཆད་ཉན།

Three Paths to Enlightenment

༄༅།།    འོད་ལྔའི་འཁོར་ལོའི་ འཆད་ཉན་དང་ཉམས་ལེན་ཟབ་སྦྱོང།

An Evening of Tibetan Bon Teaching

Everyone is searching for truth and happiness. According to old teachings, truth, wisdom, and happiness are the result of compassion, and are called Enlightenment or Buddha. The fundamental practice of compassion consists of three ways or paths to gain happiness through compassion.

The first is the Sutra practice, which is the renunciation path. This is how to deal with your misery mind in daily life in order to reduce suffering and recognize your truth mind based on emptiness. All daily life and the experience of life are based on emptiness, so we must meditate on emptiness wisdom.

The second is Tantric practice, which is the transformation path. This is a way to deal with our mind and our experiences of daily life. All of our suffering in life, our busy, stressful, painful life is the reflection of our mind. As a result, our experience of daily life depends on how we turn our mind. Because all of our experiences are manifestations of our mind, we should learn how to transform our painful mind into a wisdom mind. Our painful mind comes from the truth mind, so it can be transformed back into peaceful and happiness mind.

The third is Dzogchen, which is the path of self liberation. All of pain and stress in daily life are dependent on our mind, so we should just simply try to recognize our pure truth mind itself. Dzogchen is also called the self awareness path. All will dissolve into the truth mind and luminate into light. All phenomena and any struggling in the mind will liberate into a rainbow or light, which are then liberated into truth light, and no pain or suffering of the mind remain because of the power of recognition of the truth mind and self awareness. All are guests of the mind. All of our pain and suffering arise in the mind, stay in the mind, and finally, dissolve into mind.

These three paths to Enlightenment depend on your own experience, and are very excellent foundation teachings for new students, for those who wish to learn how to turn their minds into light through meditation, and for those who want to experience the rainbow body. Only the third path offers us the opportunity to attain Enlightenment in this very life, so that in this single lifetime, we can each become Buddha.

Geshe Chongtul Rinpoche presents an ancient Tibetan Bon teaching, Five Chakras. He will explain how diseases, obstacles, and imbalances in one’s life are related to five essential chakras. This practice cleanses the chakras and enhances the practitioner’s life force. Rinpoche will explain how to remove obstacles through the five principal yogic movements and principal mantras. Learn to generate the five energies and develop the five wisdoms to enhance your body’s vital energy.

Sipi Gyalmo protects all sentient beings from harm and is the embodiment of the complete wisdom and love that brings everlasting peace. She is the most important protector of Bon and is regarded as the Queen of the Universe. The healing practice of Sipi Gyalmo enables one to bring balance to one’s health by clearing physical illness as well as mental and emotional disturbances. In this very special teaching, Chongtul Rinpoche will teach the healing meditation and mantra of Sipi Gyalmo that opens us to our innate potential to heal ourselves, others, and the environment.