Mahamudra For Everyone
A Weekend Program With Andy Karr

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Cost
$75 For the Whole Program OR $20 Per Session (four sessions)
(generosity policy)


Schedule:
Both Saturday and Sunday, November 30, December 1
Morning: 9:30am to 12:00pm
Afternoon: 2:00pm - 4:30pm

Sunday 5:00pm - 7:00pm optional Sadhana of Mahamudra Feast

 

I can’t speak for you, but as a Buddhist, I struggle with feeling stuck in samsara, and long for liberation from the delusions and emotions that seem to bind me. 

The Mahamudra teachings stand this attitude on its head. Instead of seeing emotions and delusions as a problem, the Mahamudra method is to see them as the path to liberation. As is said, "Just that which binds, is that which will set you free.”

The practice of Mahamudra is the way to recognize that confusion is wisdom. In mind itself, there is nothing to be taken away, and nothing to be added. But there is something to be realized. Mahamudra is the method for realizing that.

In this weekend program we will study the Mahamudra view, contemplate pith instructions from short texts like Milarepa’s "Song of Mahamudra,” and of course meditate. It should be fun! Open to everyone.

 

Song of Mahamudra
Whenever I'm meditating on mahamudra
I rest without struggle in actual real being
I rest relaxed in a free-from-wandering space
I rest in a clarity-cradled-in-emptiness space
I rest in awareness and this is blissful space
I rest unruffled in non-conceptual space
In variety's space, I rest in equipoise
And resting like this is native mind itself
A wealth of certainty manifests endlessly
Without even trying, self-luminous mind is at work
Not stuck in expecting results, I'm doing OK
No dualism, no hopes and fears, Ho Hey!
Delusion as wisdom, now that's being cheerful and bright!
Delusion transformed into wisdom, now that's all right!

 

About Andy Karr
Andy Karr is a Buddhist teacher within the traditions of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, and the author of Contemplating Reality: A Practitioner’s Guide to the View in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. He is known for teaching the profound view and meditation in a clear and accessible way.

 

For more information email us at halifax@nalandabodi.ca.


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6218 Quinpool Road
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