This program will focus on knowing your own mind honestly and bravely. We are never separate from our minds 24/7, so we have ample opportunity to practice the Buddha’s liberating teachings whether we are in the shrine room or not.
It is important to see our imperfections, confusion, delusion and understand it is not who we are. According to Buddhist teachings, our confusion is temporary and workable. Beyond everything is our Buddha nature.
Directional guidance GPS doesn’t work unless you enter your present location. So we have to know where we are to be able to travel the path to liberation.
Friday Schedule:
7-7:30 PM – Session 1
Saturday Schedule:
10-11:30 AM – Session 2
1 PM to 2:30 PM – Session 3
All levels of meditation students are welcome.
The event is by donation; those who wish to give at the $108 sponsorship level will receive gifts of a small clip-on turquoise counter bead for their prayer beads and rice blessed by His Holiness Karmapa.
About Lama Tsultrim Yeshe
Lama Tsultrim Yeshe (John Samuelson) has been a student of Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, Abbot of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Monastery, Woodstock, NY, since 1989. He completed the first traditional Tibetan three-year retreat held at the Karme Ling Retreat Center, Delhi, NY, led by Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche. Upon finishing retreat in 1996, he received the title ‘Lama’ meaning teacher. He received novice monk vows from H. E. Tai Situ Rinpoche in 1994 and full ordination from Thrangu Rinpoche in 2008. Lama Yeshe is a retired prison chaplain and also taught Sociology at the university level. He lives in Wisconsin, where he is the director of a meditation center, and teaches at dharma centers throughout North America. He is especially known for workshops in which participants use Tibetan Buddhist practices to explore and to learn how to heal old wounds. He guides participants with an approachable and open style.
