Hybrid: Commemorating the Completion of the Sadhana of Mahamudra on September 6, 1968
September 6 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Hybrid: Commemorating the Completion of the Sadhana of Mahamudra on September 6, 1968
Hosted by OCEAN and KCCL, HSC and San Francisco Shambhala Center
Time: September 6, 2024, 5pm Atlantic Time
This sadhana was written in 1968 by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche at Taktsang in Bhutan, where, about eleven hundred years ago, Guru Rinpoche meditated and manifested the wrathful form known as Dorje Trolö. The sadhana was completed on the auspicious full-moon day of September 6, 1968.
In his 1975 The Embodiment of all the Siddhas seminar in Karme Chöling, Vermont, Rinpoche comments:
One night … I felt such immense frustration that I actually yelled. … it was an internal yell, or shout. It created some kind of breakthrough, … That was a particular point of realization, very quick, although I had no visions of any kind. Nothing extraordinary happened to me at all; the headlines of this sadhana just came up in my head, flashed in my mind. The whole headline flashed in my mind. … I wrote down the title of the sadhana that night. The next day I woke up quite clear, … my whole mood had completely changed. …
I began to write the sadhana on that day, and I completed almost the whole thing. I wrote just a few words the following day. So altogether it took me about six hours to write the whole thing. I didn’t have to think about what I was doing; the whole thing came out very fresh. After a while, the words began to churn in my mind and my hands began to ache. I tried to relax a little bit and rest my fingers. After that, I picked up my pen and just wrote spontaneously. That is how the sadhana was written.
After some introductory comments we will be practicing the Sadhana of Mahamudra together.
Who can attend: Everyone is welcome. You can either join “in person” at KCCL or online via OCEAN. To attend online go to the link below and click on Main Shrine Room:
https://ocean.chronicleproject.com/shrine-room/
Time: Friday, September 6: 1:00 PM Pacific; 2:00 PM Mountain; 3:00 PM Central; 4:00 PM Eastern; 5:00 PM Atlantic; 9:00 PM London; 10:00 PM CEST
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