This phenomenological seminar focuses on the practice of meditation as the art of becoming aware of the nature of one's own awareness. The object of awareness becomes awareness itself. In the meditation sessions one learns to hold the field, enter the field, rest deeply in the field and at times, may become the field itself. Through meditation practice one can begin to experience and embody the qualities of this innate immediate field of consciousness.

The qualities of the field are spaciousness, energy, light and compassion. The field of awareness itself becomes the base and the medium through which we experience our self and the world. Once established in the awareness state we practice the method of extension in order to expand the field of ongoing Being; the field which is infinite in its horizon and so multidimensional. The experience of the state of awareness is entered into through many different methods and in a sense every experience is method.

We are artfully eclectic and practices from many traditions are utilized, including: Dzogchen Tibetan Buddhism, Hindu Kashmir Shavism, Western Phenomenology, Christian Mystic traditions as well as Sufism and Taoistic Qi Gong understanding.

This seminar is intensely experiential and everyone enters and holds the primordial field of awareness together, thus learning to generate and sustain this view both for one's self and the other.

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This seminar is both on site at the Center as well as broadcast live on the internet through video streaming.

Every Saturday after the morning meditation there will be a Dakini practice for 20 to 30 minutes. One week the practice will be the Troma Nagmo invocation which the dark mother; that aspect of primordial awareness that is personalized and symbolized as the dissolver of all experience.

The following week the practice will focus on the invocation of the Kurukulle which is that aspect of primordial awareness which is personified and symbolized as the power of resonance. which is the power of oneness. The practice will consist of the chanting of a text that both invokes and deepens the experience that the Dakini symbolizes within oneself.

This practice is limited to those who have received the Dakini empowerments. On selected mornings there will be the readings of other texts that are dedicated to the luminosity of the Divine Mother.

To participate in this practice click the link below and we will give you the necessary password to practice. Lama Ridzin Dorge Rinpoche and the monks and nuns of Zangdokaplri have so kindly chanted the Dakini text specifically for the use of these practices within the Washington Center. The Center has also sponsored a new translation of these most wonderful and mysterious text that were given by the great Dzogchen Master Kunzang Dechen Lingpa.

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This is a daily meditation session that lasts 75 minutes. Please join us in experiencing the primordial field of awareness. There is an meditation induction at 6:30 and another induction at 7:15. Everyone who participates describes feeling the field of energy and light.

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This is a three hour course in the practice of meditation. Participants will learn how to utilize a variety of techniques to enter meditation states. This course elaborates the psychology of meditation from both a western and eastern viewpoint.

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This experiential seminar facilitates both mind and body strength via the subtle energy. In this hour long seminar, we have the good fortune of practicing Empty Force QiGong with Mr. Shuren Ma; a QiGong Master and martial arts expert of the Empty Force tradition. In this tradition, the Qi is used for healing and defense.

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This seminar is both on site at the Center as well as broadcast live on the internet through video streaming.

Only on site at the Center