Introduction to Ngondro
Ngondro practice has been skillfully designed to involve the entire being - body, speech and mind - using meditation, mantra and visualization, to bring about a comprehensive inner transformation. If you are a member of the meditation mandala and have established a meditation practice and are familiar with the unifying practice and you are interested in making Ngondro part of your daily practice focus this Introduction to Ngondro workshop is designed to support and deepen your understanding of the Ngondro practice.
Suitable for students with an established meditation practice.
When: Sat 15 Nov
Time: 7:30am
- 4:00pm
Cost: Full $50 Concession $30 (Subscribers free)
Location: 10
Swan Street, Cooks Hill
Registration: Email - karin@solbrandt.com
These purification practices, called Ngondro in Tibetan, have been skillfully designed to effect a comprehensive inner transformation. They involve the entire being - body, speech and mind- and begin with a series of deep contemplations on.
- the uniqueness of human life
- the ever-presence of impermanence and death
- the infallibilty of the cause and effect of our actions
- the vicious cycle of frustration and suffering that is samsara
These reflections inspire a strong sense of "renunciation", an urgent desire to emerge from samsara and follow the path to liberation, which forms the foundation for the specific practices of
- taking refuge in the Buddha, the truth of his teaching and the example of its practitioners, and so awakening a confidence and trust in our own inner buddha nature
- giving birth to compassion (Bodhicitta - the heart of the enlightened mind) and training the mind to work with ourself and others and the difficulties of life
- removing obscurations and "defilements" through the visualization and mantra practice of purification and healing
- accumulating merit and wisdom by developing universal generosity and creating auspicious circumstances.
All these practices build up to and centre around the Guru Yoga, which is the most crucial, moving and powerful practice of all, indispensable for opening the heart and mind to the realization of the state of Dzogchen.
Excerpt from the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying pp 154 & 155 (Soygal Rinpoche)
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