Join us for a weekend of Dharma talks and guided practice exploring the “Seven Point Cause-Effect Method,” a time-honored, organic process for nurturing bodhicitta, the Brave Heart of Awakening. The Method is this:
• Opening to kinship
• Honoring kindness
• Returning gratitude
• Touching into affection
• Kindling compassion
• Exceptional resolve
• Brave heart of awakening
Supported by integrative practice, the Buddha’s contemplative technology (comprised of the depth practice of listening, contemplating, and meditating), we will develop an accurate understanding of the method; discuss our doubts and aspirations with respect to its practice and efficacy; and engage in experiential analysis to plumb the depths of the Brave Heart of Awakening as it is, here and now, and yet to be.
Practitioners will receive supplementary resources and will have ample opportunity to listen, contemplate, and meditate throughout our time together. This teaching is open to everyone.
Weekend Schedule: Friday, December 8 (5 – 6:30 p.m.)
Saturday, December 9 (10 a.m. – noon and 2 – 4 p.m.)
Sunday, December 10 (8:30 – 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. – noon)
Karma Yeshe Chödrön and Karma Zöpa Jigme are students of Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, and have been full-time practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism for over twenty years. Since 2005, they have been teaching and translating Dharma texts and oral teachings from Tibetan to English for the Rigpe Dorje Institute for International Students at Pullahari Monastery in Nepal. In 2016, they successfully completed the traditional Kagyu lineage three-year cloistered retreat at Vajra Vidya Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado, under the auspices of Kyabje Thrangu Rinpoche. They are passionate about sharing traditional methods for transmitting experiential understanding of Buddhadharma with Western students through their international Dharma community, Prajna Fire.
