SEMINARS WITH LAMA VAJRANATHA
WINTER-SPRING SCHEDULE   2012

January 14-15, 2012

The Anuyoga Practices of Vajrakilaya:

The Transformation of Bliss and Desire

Sambhala Center, Budapest, Hungary

[Weekend meditation workshop]

The principal meditation practice in the Tantra system of Vajrayana, or Tibetan Buddhism, is that of Sadhana, the process of realization, where, by means of imagination and the power of thought, the practitioner creates and enters into a virtual reality. In the initial visualization process of Mahayoga, higher spiritual energy is invoked to descend and channelled through the archetypal imagery of the Yidam meditation deity and actualized in the sacred space of the Mandala in order to realize concrete results in one’s life. In the perfection process of Anuyoga, the practioner comes to experience what the Yidam in the Mandala is experiencing, that is to say, the Great Bliss of  Mahasukha. Focusing on the the practice of Tummo, the yoga of inner heat, the energy of Anuraga, or sexual passion, as it is experienced by the Yidam, which would normally bind the individual consciousness to rebirth in Samsara, now becomes the very means to the attaining of liberation from Samsara. Relying on the commentaries of the Tantric master Dudjom Rinpoche, in this workshop the previous practices of Anuyoga will be continued and developed further.
Contact: Marti, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , tel. 0036-(0) 70-508-0084.
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January 21-22, 2012

The Practice of Mahakala

as Meditation Deity and as Guardian

Sambhala Center, Budapest, Hungary

[Weekend meditation workshop]

In all the schools of Tibetan Buddhism, Mahakala, “the great black one,”is regarded as among the most impotant of all the Dharmapalas, or Guardian Spirits of the Buddhist Teachings and its practitioners. This terrifying divine figure, who destroys demons and demolishes and dissolves obstacles, may function as a Yidam, or meditation deity, or as a Sungma, a guardian and protective spirit for the teachings and for the practitioner. As a meditation deity, he is regarded as a wrathful emanation of the great Bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokiteshvara, who adopts this ferocious guise when peaceful methods fail to subdue and transform the obstacles and threats emanating from negative energies. Functioning as Guardians, there is a group of Seventy-five Nathas, or Gonpos, many of whom belong to the tenth rank among the Dharmapalas.  In this weekend seminar, we will focus on and engage in the practices of the Six-armed Mahakala and the Four-armed Mahakala for protection practice and the White Mahakala for wealth practice that comes through the lineage of Shavaripa in India and Khyungpo Naljor in Tibet.
Contact: Marti, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , tel. 0036-(0) 70-508-0084.
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March 1-2-3-4, 2012

Tibetan Dream Yoga Practices

Szczecin, Poland

[Evening talks and weekend meditation workshop]

Dreams are something we experience every night, even if we do not remember them in the morning. Therefore, the first task in dream practice is to recall our dreams the next day. Dreams of clarity are most likely to occur in the morning before we awaken for the day. Sometimes such dreams can foretell future events. In this seminar we will look at the methods used by Tibetan Lamas to induce prophetic dreams by way of the practice of Tara. Moreover, we will investigate the Tibetan methods of Sleep Yoga in order to experience the Clear Light and Dream Yoga in order to experience lucid dreaming. There will be an introductory talk on dreams at the Pomeranian library.
Contact: Wojtek and Bartek, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

March 9-10-11, 2012

Practices of the Wrathful Lion-headed Dakini Simhamukha

Rangsher Ling Ngakpahaus, Lahr, South Germany

[Weekend meditation workshop]

Generally, in terms of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dakini represents the autonomous feminine principle that is outside the control of patriarchal society and the rational male ego consciousness. For this reason, the Dakini may be represented as alluring and enchanting, but also as wrathful and terrifying. This seminar will look at the meditations, rituals, and magical practices associated with the wrathful lion-headed Dakini Simhamukha, mistress of enchantments, sorceries, and witchcraft, who brings all those beings who are difficult to subdue under her power, and who also vanquishes and subdues all obstacles, negativities, and evil spirits. Simhamukha was the personal practice of Guhyajnana Dakini, the female Guru of Padmasambhava in the Central Asian country of Uddiyana and he introduce4d the practice into Tibet. She remains a very popular practice in the Nyingmapa school of Tibetan Buddhism. For this purpose, we rely on the profound expositions of Jamgön Kongtrul, Jamyang Khyentse, and Dudjom Rinpoche regarding the practices for this Dakini, who is a manifestation of enlightened awareness.
Contact: Bran and Regina, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

March 16-17-18, 2012

Tibetan Dream Yoga Practices

Bielefeld, Germany

[Evening talk and weekend meditation workshop]

Normally, we human beings spend at least a third of our lifetime in sleep and dreaming. Nevertheless, it is possible to engage in a dialogue with our dreams, receiving portents of the future, and even to become awake and self-aware in them awake and self-aware in our dreams and experience what is generally known as “lucid dreaming.” Becoming conscious in our dreams without awakening from sleep, we may come to find ourselves in control of our dream and be able to transform it, even practice meditation while asleep and journey in a dream-body to explore other worlds and dimensions of existence. Moreover, dream yoga represents an excellent training to prepare us for dying and the after-death-experience known as the Bardo, where, as is the case with the dream state, we are confronted with our karmic visions as virtual realities. In this course, we shall explore some of the methods found in the shamanistic and tantric traditions of Ancient Tibet, including Dzogchen, used by the Lamas of Tibet to realize lucid dreams and bring about their transformation, which in turn will affect the waking state life and the consciousness of the individual.
Contact: Miguel, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

March 23-24-25, 2012

Dzogchen and the Tibetan Book of the Dead

München, South Germany

[Evening lecture and weekend meditation workshop]

Does conscious existence continue after the death of the material body? The ultimate fact of death faces every human being. Whatever is born will eventually die. All things are impermanent. This truth was taught by the Buddha. Nevertheless, according to this teaching, the death of the brain and the material body is not the end of our conscious existence.  Death is only a passage and a gateway, one stage in our transformations along the journey. The relentless energy of karma inevitaby propels our consciousness into a new embodiment, a new life, in which we experience the consequences of the actions we have committed in our previous lives. These actions in past lifetimes not only determine our future rebirths, but directly continue to effect our health and emotional states in this present life. However, the Buddha also taught a way to free ourselves from the dead-weight of past karma and transcend the beginningless cycle of death and rebirth we know as Samsara. The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bar-do thos grol) is one of the most profound books to come out of the Dzogchen tradition of Tibet established in ancient times by Padmasambhava. The Dzogchen teachings of Padmasambhava serve both as the philosophical and the practical basis of the Book of the Dead. In this course, we shall look at the questions of death, dying, reincarnation, and purifying past karma in the light of Dzogchen and Buddhist psychology. Some practices in the Dzogchen tradition that relate to preparation for dying and the Bardo experience after will be taught.
Contact: Reinhold, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it