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June 2021
Exploring the Bardo of Now – Meditation Retreat (Online)
Bardos relate to both living and dying, creating and dissolving. In 2020, we collectively had the rug pulled out from underneath us by the COVID-19 virus. During this retreat, we will investigate the bardos and what they can teach us about life and impermanence. *Due to the ever-changing travel restrictions, globally and in Canada, this course is now offered online. Exploring the Bardo of Now During this retreat, we will investigate the bardos and what they can teach us about ordinary life.…
Find out more »August 2021
Clear Sky’s Sweet 16th Anniversary with Tantric Empowerments
In Vajrayana Buddhism, initiations, empowerments or wongkur (Tib. དབང་, wang) are considered the spring from which all blessings flow. Join us for three empowerments, during a weekend of joy to celebrate our retreat centre's 16th anniversary. Celebration & Tantric Empowerments Three Vajrayana Empowerments Celebration time! Covid-19 travel restrictions threw a wrench in our plans for Clear Sky's 15th Anniversary and ten day Tantric Deep Dive in 2020, as well as in 2021. We've adjusted the programming so that community…
Find out more »Opening to the Clear Light of the Mind (Online)
August 21-31, 2021 Beneath the confusion and distraction of our minds, the Mind itself is empty, spontaneous and compassionate. The practice of Dzogchen helps us cut right through the confusion to this original, pure and luminous nature of Mind. This retreat, with meditation masters Acharya Doug Duncan And Catherine Pawasarat Sensei, is for any meditator looking to go deeper to the essence of practice. Opening to the Clear Light of the Mind The Three Words that Strike the Vital Point is…
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Seven Rays of Healing with Medicine Buddha (Online)
**Covid-19 Update: This retreat will now be held in Germany or Online. Further details coming soon. Seven Rays of Healing with Medicine Buddha How can we heal? How can we feel healthy and whole? Every wisdom tradition around the world holds that true healing comes through an understanding of the nature of reality. Part of this entails learning to discern between—and dance together with—both absolute reality and relative reality. The true challenge of a human life is to be able…
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Zen Online Course
Zen-style spiritual realization enters the land of paradoxes. Have you noticed that the ego doesn’t like paradoxes? Join us for the third online course of 2021, on Zen. Zen - An Online Course Spiritual awakening consists of the embodied realization that the ego—our sense of a personal self—is overlaid on top of our direct experience of things as they are. And as such distorts our perception of reality. In fact, with awakening we realize that the ego isn’t necessary for happiness…
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