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Düntsam 1 – Day 2
Rocket Science: Sentient Beings, Be Prepared to Crash It is on the evening of our second day. Rinpoché starts his talk telling us about mindfulness and how it is basically the ultimate challenge not to be swept away in discursive thought and by feelings, but to ride the wave. In the course of the day he
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Düntsam 1 – Day 1
Playing Ritual Instruments For Chenresig we don’t need any instruments, but on our first morning with the smoke puja one of us starts into what will be an exciting first to quite a handful of us in the next few days: We are requested to take turns playing the big ritual drum for a thün or later
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Düntsam 1 – Day 0
Diary Page: Arrival At 5 p.m. we arrive in Lenzkirch for the Dorje Sempa retreat with Sabchu Rinpoché. It is my first retreat with him and actually the first he is conducting in this format in Europe. At the edge of the village up on the hill we find the house. It looks much like the other
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First Düntsam: Dorje Sempa Retreat
The first Düntsam retreat will be dedicated to Dorje Sempa practice. Dorje Sempa, or Vajrasattva in Sanskrit, is an important practice in the Karma Kagyu lineage and an essential component of Ngondro practice. Considering its importance, Rinpoché determined this to be the practice for Düntsam, 2017. The format of Düntsam retreat will be that of the traditional three years retreat, but in a much smaller scale. Some of the overlapping