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SUMMARY:Clear Sky's Sweet 16 & Tantric Empowerments
DESCRIPTION:Celebration & Tantric Empowerments\nThree Vajrayana Empowerments\nIt’s time to pull off our masks\, give each other a hug and come together in celebration. \nCountless hands have contributed to building our incredible center. It is with deep gratitude that we invite you to join us in celebration\, connection and growth. \nJoin us for a weekend of Tantric Empowerments and community connection as we celebrate our past\, present and future. \nImportant Note: \nRegistration closes August 3rd for people staying at Clear Sky. \nRegistration closes August 10th for people joining online. \n\n \nThree Ways to Attend\nIn-Person Weekend Celebration \nWe’re open again – join in-person at Clear Sky! \nThe weekend includes: \n\nThree Wong Kur Empowerments at 4pm MT on Friday\, Saturday and Sunday;\nSpecial presentations from Qapel and Sensei on our Past\, Present and Future;\nJapanese cocktail party;\nDance Party;\nQuality time with our Teachers and community.\n\n\n\nIn-Person Registration Closed\n \nOnline Weekend Celebration \nIf you’re unable to travel\, we are using an interactive online platform to help you feel part of the festivities. \nThe weekend includes: \n\nThree Online Wong Kur Empowerments at 4pm MT on Friday\, Saturday and Sunday;\nSpecial presentations from Qapel and Sensei on our Past\, Present and Future;\n24-hour Online Shrine Room to practice with our global community;\nOnline Dance Party and Cocktail Party.\n\n\n\nRegister for Online Weekend\n \nOnline Empowerments Only \n\nRegister for one or all three of the Wong Kur Empowerments held at 4pm MT on Friday\, Saturday and Sunday.\n\n\nGreen Tara Empowerment\n\n\nAmitayus Empowerment\n\n\nVajrapani Hayagriva Garuda Empowerment\n\n \nWeekend Schedule\nThe following activities are available in-person and online.  Note: Some times may be subject to slight changes.  \nFriday\, August 13th \n\nArrival time: 11am Friday August 13th (onsite participants)\n4pm Green Tara Empowerment\n7:30pm Anniversary Opening and Japanese Cocktail Party with the Teachers.\n\nSaturday\, August 14th \n\n9:30am-11:30am MST: Catherine Sensei presenting on the History of Clear Sky\n4pm Amitayus Empowerment\n7:30pm: Community Sharing Open Mic\n8:30pm: Dancing\n\nSunday\, August 15th \n\n9:30-11:00am: Looking to the Future – Community visioning and temple update.\n4pm Vajrapani Hayagriva Garuda Empowerment\nCelebrations officially end with the wongkur on Sunday afternoon. There is also the option to stay for dinner.\n\nOnline Participants Wongkur Orientation \n\n2pm MST (Tentative. Time to be confirmed) before each wongkur on Friday\, Saturday and Sunday.\n24 hour online practice rooms will be available.\n\nParticipants coming onsite for empowerments only \n\nPlease register online and arrive by 3pm MST before each empowerment. Please also call 250-429-3929 to confirm we have received your registration.\n\nWhat is a Wong Kur Empowerment?\n“In the depth of the psyche lie all possibilities in a state of unrealized potential. In every being there exists the possibility of experiencing transcendental consciousness\, which when the student is ready\, the Teacher(s) can make accessible to him or her via empowerment\, initiation\, or wongkur.” -Namgyal Rinpoche \nEmpowerments give you an energetic blessing\, and access to practice mantra and visualisation of different transcendental archetypes from the Himalayan schools of Buddhism. \nThis retreat will empower you to practice: \n\nGreen Tara (Friday\, August 13 at 4pm MT);\nAmitayus (Saturday\, August 14 at 4pm MT);\nVajrapani Hayagriva Garuda (Healing Triad) (Sunday\, August 15 at 4pm MT)\n\nWhat if I Haven’t Attended an Empowerment Before? \nThese are special ceremonies that are best experienced in person\, therefore we welcome new people to join us in person. \nHowever\, if you can only attend online\,  we ask that you have attended events with us in the past\, or have some experience with vajrayana deity practice. \nWe also ask that you read the following text before your arrival: What is Wong Kur?  \n\n \nOur Founding Teachers\nDoug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. Achariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n\n \nFAQs\nDana and In-Person Retreat Pricing \nDana: This course is offered by Doug and Catherine Sensei through the ancient principle of generosity\, or Dāna. The retreat fee covers the cost of food and accommodation\, whereas the Teachings are offered by generosity. Learn more about Dāna here. \nPricing: As a charitable organization\, we strive to provide locally sourced organic meals and comfortable accommodations at an affordable price. Fees vary depending on your accommodation choice and early bird pricing. \nArrival & Departure \nArrival is Friday\, August 13th at 11:30am. \nDeparture is Sunday\, August 15th at 7:30pm. \nBooking a Flight? \nAirport pickups can be booked when you register for the retreat. On the rare chance that this retreat is cancelled\, we highly recommend purchasing travel insurance. \nTravel Restrictions\, COVID-19 Policy: Please contact us – Email michelle@clearskycenter.org or (250) 429-3929 for details/options for local participation. \nDaily Schedule \nDetails coming soon. \nAbout Us\nLocated in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature. Founded by Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. \nHere are some FAQs on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \nTo help you get acquainted with us\, some community members made this short video during our 2019 Buddhas in Action retreat. To learn more about us and our incredible community\, click here!
URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/sweet-sixteen-and-tantric-empowerments/
CATEGORIES:Group Retreats and Courses,Online Courses
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SUMMARY:Dzogchen Meditation Retreat: Online
DESCRIPTION:Opening to the Clear Light of the Mind\n(Online Retreat / In Person At Clear Sky / UK Residential)\nBeneath the confusion and distraction of our minds\, the Mind itself is empty\, spontaneous\, and compassionate. The practice of Dzogchen helps us cut right through the confusion to this original\, pure\, and luminous nature of Mind. \nThis retreat\, with meditation masters Acharya Doug Duncan And Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, is for any meditator looking to go deeper to the essence of practice. \n\n\nRetreat at Home (Online)\n \nThis retreat is a collaboration between the dedicated teams at Planet Dharma\, Dharma Europe\, and Clear Sky. \nOrganiziers Dharma Europe invited our founding teachers Doug and Catherine Sensei to teach\, and due to travel restrictions the retreat became an online offering\, streaming live from Clear Sky. \nYou can also attend in person at Clear Sky and do a residential retreat in the UK\, please see below for more information. \n** See our FAQ section below for more details about our covid policy and requirements for attending online. \nDzogchen –\nThe Natural State\nThe direct teachings of Dzogchen offer a refreshing clarity amidst the confusion of our times\, when a myriad of teachings and techniques surround us. \nThe Core Texts\n\n Three Words that Strike the Vital Point offer one of the principal teachings of the practice of Dzogchen\, the Great Perfection.\nPatrul Rinpoche’s Special Teaching of the Wise and Glorious King\, with commentary\, is treasured as one of the most crucial instructions in the practice of Dzogchen. It’s pith teachings give simple yet deeply profound guidance on directly recognizing the mind’s innate purity and clarity\nFrom daily life to Dzogchen can be a sudden step\, so as well as the teachings of the Three Words\, the Teachers will draw on another key text: the ‘Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness\,’ a treatise by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamsto Rinpoche\, to help gain a deeper understanding.\n\nWhy do a Retreat on Dzogchen?\nRelaxing the mind\, dropping words\, the practice leads us towards an experience of profound openness. New perspectives can arise from this place of clarity and origin. We gain confidence\, founded on our own direct experience that wisdom and compassion are possible\, and in fact an inherent part of our nature. \nAs we learn to rest more and more in this inherent nature of mind\, we bring this experience of openness into every moment\, transforming how we live and act. \nDrawing on decades of personal practice and teaching experience\, Acharya Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei will lead you with practical experiential exercises and humour\, and explore the nature of Mind beyond the surface confusions. \n\n \nAttend the Retreat Online (from home)\, or in Person in Canada or in the UK\n1) Online Attendance\n        Basic requirements to do the retreat online from home:\n\nBlock out the 10 days and be focused on the retreat for this entire period\, using this time and participating in the retreat as if you were at Clear Sky in person.  This includes a rigorous\, full\, daily meditation schedule.\nParticipate in all of the daily classes and group practices via online streaming.\nSet up a quiet space or location where you can focus on the Meditation Retreat\, and not need to engage in conversation or work with others.\nPut away your phone\, digital devices and other distractions.\nIf there are enough people in the same time zone as you\, you could also make a cohort to meet to do a group practice throughout the retreat.\n\n2) Residential Retreat in the UK\n        Attending in person at Maitreya House\n\nMaitreya House is a beautiful retreat centre located in the golden valley\, a remote part of Herefordshire\, near the Welsh border in the United Kingdom.\nLearn more about the retreat location: Maitreya House.\nThere will be appropriate Covid 19 protocols followed on this retreat – with numbers limited to 12 people at Maitreya House.\nThe retreat is hosted by Dharma Europe.\nThe teachers and Dharma Europe operate on the basis of the ancient tradition of dāna or generosity. Please learn more about this profound practice before you register.\n\nFor UK and general enquiries contact Jonathan Clifford\,\ndharmaeurope@outlook.com +44 7891 621865 \n3) In Person at Clear Sky\nIf you are local to Clear Sky in BC\, Canada you may also choose to be onsite in person\, where the teachers are.  We invite you to book a personal retreat cabin for the duration of the retreat.  See here for details.  Or contact us the Clear Sky team to discuss other options. \n \nMeet the Teachers\n \nAchariya Doug Duncan Sensei & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre\, BC\, Canada. \nAchariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. \nCatherine Pawasarat Sensei has trained daily with Achariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n\nRetreat at Home (Online)\n \nWhat can I expect?\nOur teachings and Clear Sky operate based on the ancient tradition of Dāna or generosity. As generosity is the basis upon which all spiritual practice flourishes\, we recommend that you learn more about this profound practice before you register. \nWhat’s Expected of Me?\n\nThis meditation retreat consists of many hours of consecutive practice each day. Therefore some experience\, especially with insight meditation\, is highly recommended.\nAn open mind and heart\, and a spirit of adventure are excellent things to bring!\nIt’s human to have some apprehensions about doing something new.  We try to make this as supportive as possible.\nThis is a silent retreat. To deepen your meditation\, we ask that participants refrain from reading\, using the internet\, phone or listening to music during the course.\n\n\n \nAbout Clear Sky\nLocated in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature. Founded by Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. \nTo help you get acquainted with us\, some community members made this short video during our 2019 Buddhas in Action retreat. To learn more about us and our incredible community\, click here! \n\n\n \nFAQs\nDana and Online Retreat Pricing \nDana: This course is offered by Doug and Catherine Sensei through the ancient principle of generosity\, or Dāna. Learn more about Dāna here. \nPricing: \n\nOnline Retreatant Admin Fee: CA$250\nUK Residential Admin Fee CA$250 (Approx £150) plus\nUK  Residential Fees £550 (Inc. Food & Accommodation)\n\nTeachers receive no income from these administration fees. They offer their teaching on the basis of generosity\, or Dāna\, which you will have an opportunity to give when you register. \nHow Much to Give? A short exercise: \n\nTake a few quiet breaths and center yourself.\nSpend another few moments contacting as best you can a sense of health\, strength and abundance (noticing without judgement if this is hard to contact)\nOffer an aspiration (using the below\, or your own words).May this practice of dāna open up a space inside me to learn and receive.\nMay this gift support the teachers and teachings for the benefit of many other people.\nMay this gift directly support my own awakening through a strong dāna practice.\nThis gift\, myself the giver\, and the teachers are all impermanent – with this in mind I give lightly and generously\, for the benefit of all beings!\nNow check with your heart and mind what amount feels both consistent with your situation\, and expressive of your aspiration. Remember\, you are free to offer whatever amount of dāna feels good for you right now.\nNow simply\, with a joyful abundant heart aspiring for awakening\, and awareness of the preciousness and impermanence of life\, enter the amount you choose to offer.\n\nAbout the administrative fee \nIn a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. \nWe’ve tried to recreate this approach online.\nThe teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \nThe admin fee goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. \nBelow are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: \n\nhigh speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)\nonline class systems (Zoom)\nregistration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)\ncommunication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)\nonline storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)\nquality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.\nonline calendar booking system to allow students to book interviews\nwebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.\n\nMay all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \nWe welcome any questions. Please feel free to contact michelle@clearskycenter.org \nOnline Retreat Requirements \nIf you are taking this retreat online\, we require that you devote your full attention to the retreat for the entire two weeks. \nOnline Retreat Requirements: \n\nBlock out the full period of retreat and be focused on the retreat for this entire time\, participating in the retreat as if you were at Clear Sky in person.  This includes a rigorous\, full\, daily meditation schedule.\nParticipate in all of the daily classes and group practices via online streaming.\nSet up a quiet space or location where you can focus on the Meditation Retreat\, and not need to engage in conversation or work with others.\nPut away your phone\, digital devices and other distractions.\nIf there are enough people in the same time zone as you\, you could also make a cohort to meet to do a group practice throughout the retreat.\n\nCOVID-19 Policy \nPlease note\, we are taking measures to keep us all healthy during this retreat\, including: \n\nYou must have experienced no symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the past 14 days and will be required to take an online assessment prior to your stay.\nYou have not travelled outside of Canada in the past 14 days.\nPhysical distancing (2m) amongst all visiting retreatants will be observed during this retreat.\nPlease bring your own face mask(s) that you will feel comfortable wearing. When physical distancing is not possible during this retreat\, you will be asked to wear a mask.\nSanitation and hand washing procedures will be explained when you come and must be followed.\n\nLearn more about our COVID-19 Policy here. \nBooking a Flight? \nAirport pickups can be booked when you register for the retreat. On the rare chance that this retreat is cancelled\, we highly recommend purchasing travel insurance. \nIn order to give enough time to rest from travel before the retreat starts\, we recommend that domestic travellers arrive one day early\, and long distance international travellers arrive two days early. \nAfter the retreat we also suggest staying for at least another day for integration. \nTravel Restrictions\, COVID-19 Policy: Please contact us – Email michelle@clearskycenter.org or (250) 429-3929 for details/options for local participation. \n\nRetreat at Home (Online)
URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/dzogchen-meditation-retreat-aug-2021/
LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Group Retreats and Courses,Online Courses
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