Looking ahead… we will try a new format which is more like a book group, but with plenty of practice time. We will meditate from 6:30 to 7:00, perhaps with a selection from our text to contemplate. Discussion of the text will follow. Here are the details:

The text: A Trackless Path: A Commentary on the Great Completion (Dzogchen Teaching of Jigme Lingpa’s Revelations of Ever-present Good) by Ken McLeod. Here is the  Amazon link. The e-book is also available.
When: 6 Sessions on Tuesdays, January 14 through February 18 (and beyond if needed).  Exception! Tues Jan 21 meeting will be held on Wednesday January 22, same time, same location.
Suggested Donation: $10 per meeting or $50 advance payment – no need to bring money each time!
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First Session Jan 14: We will discuss the Introduction, P 3-14. We may get to Verses 1.1 and 1.2 as well. Go to the Harbor Dharma website to see the future reading assignments and to RSVP.

The text: A Trackless Path: A Commentary on the Great Completion (Dzogchen Teaching of Jigme Lingpa’s Revelations of Ever-present Good) by Ken McLeod. Here is the  Amazon link. The e-book is also available.

Register by replying to this email.  Here is a link to PayPal where you can prepay.

About the text: Jigme Lingpa is an eighteenth century Tibetan mystic. He lived as a mountain hermit most of his life. He practiced in the Nyingma tradition (one of the 4 main lineages of Tibetan Buddhism). He was considered to be an incarnation of the great fourteenth-century teacher Longchenpa. This poem is regarded as a mind treasure – a text that arises spontaneously in the mind of the treasure-revealer. The “Ever-Present Good” represents both the potential for awakening and the expression of full awakening. The verses of this poem take us directly to the nature of our mind and how it works – how it fools us into dualistic notions of good/bad, me/you, hope/fear, and how it(we) has the capacity to be pure awareness – beyond all dualistic concepts to the vast and spacious love and compassion that is pure awareness itself, the “Ever-Present Good”.

The text: A Trackless Path: A Commentary on the Great Completion (Dzogchen Teaching of Jigme Lingpa’s Revelations of Ever-present Good) by Ken McLeod. Here is the  Amazon link. The e-book is also available.

Register by replying to this email.  Here is a link to PayPal where you can prepay.

About the text: Jigme Lingpa is an eighteenth century Tibetan mystic. He lived as a mountain hermit most of his life. He practiced in the Nyingma tradition (one of the 4 main lineages of Tibetan Buddhism). He was considered to be an incarnation of the great fourteenth-century teacher Longchenpa. This poem is regarded as a mind treasure – a text that arises spontaneously in the mind of the treasure-revealer. The “Ever-Present Good” represents both the potential for awakening and the expression of full awakening. The verses of this poem take us directly to the nature of our mind and how it works – how it fools us into dualistic notions of good/bad, me/you, hope/fear, and how it(we) has the capacity to be pure awareness – beyond all dualistic concepts to the vast and spacious love and compassion that is pure awareness itself, the “Ever-Present Good”.