Hi
I mu st say after some browsing I am a little confused. I simply don't know what to choose, maybe you can help me somehow. I am interested in the retreat, or the place where I can learn AND practice. I am not interested in more theory than neccessary. I am not Buddhist, I would rather consider myself agnostic. I am not going to be the monk. I use the meditation "just" for better well-being, and better counciousness, awareness, self-development. building empathy, calmness, stillness etc... Whereas some of Rinpoche that you all mentioned seem to be teaching with a lot of theory and religion-oriented. Or maybe I am wrong...
I initially had in mind, that I need a kind of "course"/retreat, and that's what I am still searching for. From several to max 15 days of techings and practice.
For now I found these retreats, that seem to be suitable:
- Alan Wallace retreat in Spain in March: Meditation retreat on “The Way of Śamatha: Soothing the Body, Stilling the Mind, and Illuminating Awareness”. I started the discussion in another thread, but there seem to be not much people experienced with his teachings
- I found some retreats with Anam Thubten, mostly USA, these seem to be Dzogchen (like this:
https://www.zendust.org/event-anam-thubten-2016
- I found workshops like this also:
https://www.zendust.org/event/keith-dowman-apr-2016
- Tsoknyi saminars, like this one
http://www.tsoknyirinpoche.org/retreat/ ... s-on-fire/
- on this page
http://shenten.org/index.php?option=com ... 06&lang=en there are some potentially interesting retreats (August 21th until August 26th "Practice retreat on Dzogchen meditation practice with Yongdzin Rinpoche and Khenpo Tenpa Yungdrung Rinpoche" AND "May 1st until May 6th Teaching retreat on Kusum Rangshar" - but this seems to be more theoretic one)
- Minguyr Rinpoche retreat France (
http://tergar.org/events/tergar-europea ... reat-2016/)
...and more... I am still browsing...
I also looked at
http://melong.com/ as I thought there may be something like global retreat schedule on the site which is called International Dzogchen communicaty", but I didn't find anything.
So - questions that are now in my mind:
- if you've heard by any chance about a retreat/course, which would potentially fulfill my needs specified above, please let me know. The thing is that I don't feel competent to choose. That's why I would need your suggestion based on my needs listed.
- if you have another idea, how I can make progress as a Dzogchen beginner, suggestions welcome!
thank you again
And I am sorry for my lack of competence (traditions, shcools, lineages), I am learning the basics now
Lukasz