Events for November 8, 2024 - November 8, 2024

Shamatha-Vipashyanā Mahāmudrā intensive (SVMI) Join us for a full day of practice and investigation! Brief description: Shamatha-Vipashyanā Mahāmudrā is one of the three main tracks of KCCL and will therefore be scheduled on a monthly basis. Each SVMI has its own theme and will be introduced by a senior resident teacher or a guest teacher. The [...]

Kagyü ngöndro overview course (2 classes): This beginners evening class is mainly geared towards people who have had for some time a good exposure to shamatha-vipashyanā practice and have a good connection with the Karma Kagyü lineage. The class will give a general overview of the Kagyü preliminary practices (ngöndro) and is geared towards preparing people to receive ngöndro transmission. [...]

Monthly Vajrayoginī feast practice, open to sādhakas who have received the Vajrayoginī abhiṣheka. Bring your liturgy and practice implements. $5 for participants contributing food to the pot-luck; $10 for participants who don’t.

Parinirvāṇa celebration of the Very Venerable Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche Please join us for commemorating the 30th anniversary of the parinirvāṇa of our most beloved root teacher, the Very Venerable Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. We will celebrate by performing the Sadhana of Mahamudra feast practice, starting at 4 pm and ending around 6:30 pm. Free for participants [...]

The Sādhana of Mahāmudrā The purpose of the sādhana: “[The Sādhana’s] purpose was to bring together the two great traditions of the Vajrayāna, as well as to exorcise the materialism which seemed to pervade spiritual disciplines in the modern world. The message that I had received from my supplication was that one must try to [...]

Kagyü ngöndro overview course (2 classes): This beginners evening class is mainly geared towards people who have had for some time a good exposure to shamatha-vipashyanā practice and have a good connection with the Karma Kagyü lineage.The class will give a general overview of the Kagyü preliminary practices (ngöndro) and is geared towards preparing people to receive ngöndro transmission. After [...]

Vajrayoginī & Chakrasaṃvara weekend intensive (VCWI) This VCWI is our first "combo" weekend intensive, starting out with an all day Vajrayoginī day on Saturday and an all day Chakrasaṃvara practice day on Sunday. Both days will be introduced by a talk given by either a resident teacher or a guest teacher (to be announced). While these [...]

Mark your calendar for the weekend of April 15-17 in Halifax! Dzogchen Ponlop will visit Halifax in April 2016 to offer a weekend workshop based on his forthcoming book Emotional Rescue: How to Work with Your Emotions to Transform Hurt and Confusion into Energy that Empowers You. Can you control your emotions—or do your emotions control you? Though [...]

Mindfulness course for beginners (monthly class): This beginners evening class (7 pm to 8:30 pm) is an every month occurring event mainly geared towards completely new beginners to mindfulness (= shamatha-vipashyanā) practice or those with some experience of it or those who feel that it would be good for them to receive a “refresher” of the basic instruction as [...]

Sojong (Poṣhadha): The Meaning of Poṣhadha In Indian Hindu societies, members of the community regularly observe rites for renewing their connection with virtue. The days of the new and full moons are regarded as holy and set aside for purification of non-virtue and re-establishment of virtue. Those days, and the purification rites performed on those [...]

The Sādhana of Mahāmudrā The purpose of the sādhana: “[The Sādhana’s] purpose was to bring together the two great traditions of the Vajrayāna, as well as to exorcise the materialism which seemed to pervade spiritual disciplines in the modern world. The message that I had received from my supplication was that one must try to [...]