Mirror of Light: Trekchö Retreat Livestream
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Traditionally, practicing meditation in a retreat setting is an important way to deepen and stabilize our meditation experience. These in-person retreats serve as a way of supporting students in having the ability to delve more deeply into the practice of Ati Yoga at two crucial points - the first being the special Ati Yoga preliminary practice of rushen the other in helping to foster a solid ground in the experience of trekchö.
These retreats are supplements to the 2024 year-long intensive introduction of Dr. Nida Chenagtsang’s book, Mirror of Light: A Commentary on Yuthok’s Ati Yoga. Volume One focused on helping to foster a closer relationship to Ati Yoga practice as well as to aid in holding students so that they can carve away some useful time for retreat.
ABOUT TREKCHÖ PRACTICE
This retreat focuses on the practice of trekchö, sometimes known as ‘cutting through the hardness’ of our dualistic grasping so that we have the ability to experience and then repeatedly familiarize ourselves with the experience of our primordially pure nature. This practice is refreshingly, and sometimes deceptively, simple and can lead us to directly experiencing the nature mind free from the play of afflictive emotions. Through the practice of trekchö meditation we can begin to familiarize ourselves with the view of the Great Perfection, or Ati Yoga, in a way that increases our understanding of mind and appearance while leading to the practical benefits of more embodied, less anxious, being.
These retreats are supplements to the 2024 year-long intensive introduction of Dr. Nida Chenagtsang’s book, Mirror of Light: A Commentary on Yuthok’s Ati Yoga. Volume One focused on helping to foster a closer relationship to Ati Yoga practice as well as to aid in holding students so that they can carve away some useful time for retreat.
ABOUT TREKCHÖ PRACTICE
This retreat focuses on the practice of trekchö, sometimes known as ‘cutting through the hardness’ of our dualistic grasping so that we have the ability to experience and then repeatedly familiarize ourselves with the experience of our primordially pure nature. This practice is refreshingly, and sometimes deceptively, simple and can lead us to directly experiencing the nature mind free from the play of afflictive emotions. Through the practice of trekchö meditation we can begin to familiarize ourselves with the view of the Great Perfection, or Ati Yoga, in a way that increases our understanding of mind and appearance while leading to the practical benefits of more embodied, less anxious, being.
Lama Justin Von Bujdoss
Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an American Vajrayana Buddhist teacher, writer, and is the co-founder of Bhumisparsha, an experimental Buddhist sangha along with Lama Rod Owens. He is the author of "Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity and Embodiment in Dharma Practice" published by North Atlantic Books, and contributor to "Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections" published by Lexington Books.From 2016 until December 2021, Justin served as the Executive Director of Chaplaincy and Staff Wellness for NYC Department of Correction where he also served as Staff Chaplain supervising over 30 chaplains and guided wellness programming for staff. Justin also has professional experience in home hospice and hospital settings as a pastoral caregiver.Justin was ordained as a repa, a lay tantric yogin in the tradition of Milarepa, by His Eminence Gyaltsab Rinpoche, one of the heart sons of His Holiness the 16th Karmapa. Lama Justin has presented on Buddhist practice at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, University of Chicago, Wellesley, and Columbia University, has been a visiting instructor at Union Theological Seminary, and teaches at Pure Land Farms. Justin is passionate about helping to create the conditions for authentic embodied tantric Buddhist spiritual practice in the West. www.justinvonbudjoss.com
