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‘The Three Doors’: Ligmincha’s 2010 Summer RetreatIn recent years Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche has become renowned for making the esoteric teachings of Bon — one of the world’s most ancient spiritual traditions — highly accessible and relevant to Western audiences. His 2010 Summer Retreat at Serenity Ridge, open to new and longtime students alike, heralds a new level of accessibility. The letter of invitation below from Gabriel Rocco to Rinpoche’s students gives a taste of what’s to come.
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Greetings,
On behalf of Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, I am pleased to invite all members of his worldwide sangha to attend next summer's groundbreaking retreat at Serenity Ridge, Virginia, entitled “The Three Doors,” June 27 through July 17, 2010. The focus of this retreat is transformation: personal, interpersonal, and societal.
Rinpoche's teachings have always engaged the three doors of tsa (the body's chakras and channels), lung (the subtle energy affecting breath, speech, and emotions), and tigle (mind). Opening these three doorways opens the potential for healing and positive change within the individual, in relationships, and in society. The methods for transformation we will explore in depth — the Nine Breathings of Purification, five Tsa Lung exercises, Five Warrior Syllables Practice, and the Fivefold Teachings of Dawa Gyaltsen — while very simple to learn, are profound in their power to heal deep-seated disturbances of body, energy, and mind and to bring about significant changes in one's life. It has long been Tenzin Rinpoche's vision, expressed through his books, CDs, DVDs, YouTube videos, and live Internet teachings, to bring these powerful healing practices out of their religious context and to make them available to a broader audience. A successful pilot program conducted at MD Anderson Medical Center in Houston, Texas, researching the secular presentation and practice of the tsa lung exercises with cancer patients, went on to earn a $2 million grant for further study from the National Cancer Institute. There are so many possible beneficial applications of these simple and profound practices.
Clearly there is a need for change in our world. Rinpoche would like to encourage members of the worldwide sangha to extend this letter of invitation to friends and family members who
might not attend a healing retreat taught within a religious context, but who would certainly benefit from learning these practices and using them to promote desired changes in their personal or professional lives, to enhance their relationships, and to support positive qualities to come into expression in conventional worldly life. In addition, persons who are experiencing illness or are chronically stuck, unhappy, or anxious are also welcome to learn and explore these healing practices this coming summer. Finally, for students who have already received and have been practicing the Nine Breathings of Purification, the Tsa Lung movement/awareness exercises, the Five Warrior Syllables Practice, and the Fivefold Teachings of Dawa Gyaltsen, attending this retreat offers the opportunity to deeply explore these practices in a retreat setting and to learn more about benefiting both self and others.
Ligmincha Institute's 2010 Summer Retreat, “The Three Doors,” held at beautiful Serenity Ridge, will launch a new series of seminars taught by Tenzin Rinpoche and senior students trained by Rinpoche who will present these practices in a secular fashion. Those interested in learning these methods for personal use, those wanting to increase their depth of practice and understanding in order to teach these methods to others and thereby bring these methods to a broader public, and those who wish to undergo further training in order to eventually train future instructors are warmly encouraged to attend this groundbreaking retreat.
Registration for the 2010 Summer Retreat is now open at www.Ligmincha.org.
With warm regards,
Gabriel Rocco
Chairman of the Board, Ligmincha Institute
