Discovering the Buddha within

Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa’s new teaching and practice program

INFORMATION on the PROGRAM

This year, level 2 of the program, H. E. Chungpo Gyalton Rinpoche will in addition offer a Guru Rinpoche empowerment August 18th, at 14:00 hrs. It is OPEN to everyone, no matter if they are part of the program or not.

Please come to the Institute at 13:30. It is compulsory to register for the empowerment

This year, registration is Thursday, August 14, at 13:00 hrs, the program starts with the afternoon session!

Who can attend Year 2

Anyone who attended Discovering the Buddha Within 1 WORLDWIDE
Students who completed Joy of Living 1 and 50 hours of practices
Students of Mahamudra Ocean of Definitive Meaning

Contents of the 3 years’ program

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3

Inner Peace

Chöje Lama Palmo’s artwork

The first level focuses on calming the mind and developing insight and wisdom through some simple yet profound study, meditations, and contemplations derived from the Shravakayana teachings of the Buddha. Awareness meditations and precise knowledge will allow students to discover inner peace, accept and let go of worldly concerns without grasping at or rejecting them, and develop a stable aspiration for genuine freedom. Guided meditations and question-and-answer sessions will help students learn how to start a daily meditation practice at home.

In this level students will

1. Learn the essence of meditation and develop and nurture awareness and inner peace using breath, body, feelings, thoughts, emotions, and phenomena as a support for meditation.

2. Learn the basics of Buddhism through knowledge and advanced insight meditation

They understand the shortcomings of one’s life and the world, the origins and cessation of suffering, and the means to reach that cessation, along with understanding refuge-the starting point of the path to an everlasting state of well-being, rich with innate goodness and radiant pure qualities.
They develop advanced insight meditation mainly based on experiential observation of the natural flow of everything as being impermanent.

Awakened Heart

Chöje Lama Palmo’s artwork

Through meditations on loving kindness, compassion, joy, equanimity, and so forth, students will learn to awaken their hearts and discover their innate goodness, further enriching the calm state of mind and deepening their meditation through recognition of emptiness, which is the essence of the Mahayana.

In this level students will

1. Discover their inner goodness

By discovering and cultivating love, compassion, appreciation or joy, and
By developing their potential through six perfect states of mind, the six paramita
By training their mind to transform defilements into love and compassion

2. Widen their motivation and outlook and gain deeper insight

By learning about and meditating on bodhicitta, the awakening mind.
By gaining an advanced insight that understands selflessness through direct experience.

Original Purity

Chöje Lama Palmo’s artwork

Meditations connected with buddha nature, which is the basis of Vajrayana, the last of Buddha’s teachings, will allow students to discover their enlightened nature, the primordial purity of the mind and the universe, and to experience pure perception of everyone and everything.

In this level students will

1. Discover the primordial purity of their own mind and the universe

By discovering through advanced insight their own buddha nature and the original purity of everything.

2. Learn how to reveal that purity

By appreciating and developing gratitude for one’s own enlightened mind, by meditating on guru yoga, and by learning about creation and completion stage meditations according to the Vajrayana.