Rigpa US Autumn Retreat
November 16 - 23, 2024
Orgyen Dorje Den, Alameda, California
Open to the Rigpa sangha and all who have participated in a Rigpa course, event, or retreat. *If you wish to attend this retreat but do not meet the above criteria, please contact us at events.us@rigpa.org
TIMELESS AWARENESS
Exploring Sogyal Rinpoche’s teachings on the nature of mind
With Rigpa Senior Teacher Sherab Leypoldt
This retreat in Alameda in November 2024 will be a precious opportunity to explore some of Rinpoche’s key teachings on the Dzogchen way of being, and to really take them to heart.
Rinpoche will show us what it means to have Buddha nature and the capacity to bring our minds home to our primordially pure nature. He will also show us how to actually live this way, the enlightened way, abiding in the true nature of our minds and continuously being aware of our awareness.
We will explore Rinpoche’s focus on the clear light nature of mind, and what being aware of awareness actually means. He reveals the pervasiveness of awareness in its most crucial aspect ― how this can become the very way that we can live, that we can function, that we can interact with others and with our own thoughts and emotions.
Sherab Leypoldt
About Sherab Leypoldt
Sherab has studied with Sogyal Rinpoche since the early 1990s. She studied and trained in Lerab Ling, Rigpa’s retreat centre in France, for over 20 years, receiving empowerments, teachings and instructions from great Tibetan Buddhist masters, predominantly in the Dzogchen Longchen Nyingtik lineage. Sherab now lives in beautiful rural Australia where she continues to research, compile and make available Sogyal Rinpoche’s teachings. She helps to develop and run courses, events and retreats for Rigpa’s students and centers around the world, including developing a new international, online based seven-year Home Retreat that provides training in the complete Buddhist path, from the Basic Vehicle right up to Dzogchen.
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PRACTICAL INFO
Location: The in-person location will be Orgyen Dorje Den (ODD), a Tibetan Buddhist center in the Nyingma tradition founded by the Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche under the auspices of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche in Alameda, California. ODD is a meeting space only.
Schedule: Starts Saturday, November 16 – 9:00 AM, ends Saturday, November 23 – 1:00 PM
Airport: The closest airport is Oakland International Airport (OAK).
If you have any questions, please contact events.us@rigpa.org