Visiting Teachers
Dr. Alan Wallace
Vipashyana Retreat: The Four Applications of Mindfulness
29 june -1 july 2012
Copenhagen
Full price: 1700*
Reduced price for students, unemployed and retirees: 1400*
Registration: before June 20th.
Schedule: Friday 18.00-21.00, Saturday 9.30-18, Sunday 9.30-17.00
Location: To be determined space in the city of Copenhagen.
The Four Applications of Mindfulness
A central message of the Buddha’s teachings is that the mind is purified of its afflictions through the integrated cultivation of meditative quiescence (shamatha) and contemplative insight (vipashyana). During this retreat, we will focus on the four applications of mindfulness, which form the foundation of Buddhist insight practice. These include mindfulness of the body, feelings, mental states, and mental objects. As we investigate the nature of these features of our existence, we will probe the very nature of human identity and the possibility of freedom. A central theme will be the cultivation of pure mindfulness, in which we will increasingly distinguish between phenomena presented to our senses and the conceptual projections that we impose on reality. The retreat will consist of lectures, guided meditations, and discussions led by Alan Wallace.
This will be a non-residential retreat. Accomodations can be reserved at:
DanHostel Copenhagen City
DanHostel Copenhagen Downtown
Visit Copenhagen has hotel listings as well as other information about planning your stay in Copenhagen.
Details about the schedule and location in Copenhagen are still being determined, and will be updated here as soon as possible.
Dr. Wallace was a student of the Dalai Lama, has a doctorate from Stanford, and has practiced and taught Buddhism and meditation for over 35 years.
Read more about Alan here and about his work with the Santa Barbara Institute for Conciousness Studies here.
Listen to the teachings from Alan’s Shamata Retreat hosted by CVM in 2011 here:
Alan Wallace: Shamata Retreat, 1 of 6, CVM, August 2011
Alan Wallace: Shamata Retreat, 2 of 6, CVM, August 2011
Alan Wallace: Shamata Retreat, 3 of 6, CVM, August 2011
Alan Wallace: Shamata Retreat, 4 of 6, CVM, August 2011
Alan Wallace: Shamata Retreat, 5 of 6, CVM, August 2011
Alan Wallace: Shamata Retreat, 6 of 6, CVM, August 2011
*The 20% discount available to Full & Extended Members for courses does not apply to retreats.The price covers room, board and donations to support our teachers. Any funds in excess will support the center’s operational costs. Transport is not included in the price.
If you have questions, please feel free to contact us at: kursus-cvm@fpmt.dk.
We hope to see you on the retreat!
Venerable Rita Riniker (Lobsang Palmo)
12-18 june 2012
more information about Venerable Rita’s upcoming visit is on the way!
Born in 1950, Ven Rita grew up in Switzerland. She ran her own restaurant business for many years, then traveled to Nepal where she met Buddhism at Kopan Monastery in 1990.
Ven Rita has been ordained for over 12 years – she took ordination in 1991 with her main teacher, Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche. Since then she has been based primarily in India at Tushita Meditation Centre, Dharamsala, initially studying at the Tibetan Library of Works and Archives for 6 years and more recently offering service as one of the centre’s primary teachers of Tushita’s famous “Introduction to Buddhism” courses.
Ven Rita has led and guided many retreats including five 3-month Vajrasattva retreats, Green Tara retreats and a 2-month Lam Rim Chen Mo retreat with teachings by Yangsi Rinpoche in 2000. Ven Rita is especially well known for leading Nyung Naes, having completed more than 80 consecutive Nyung Naes over a period of 6 months in 1998.
Rita has also been teaching in Europe for many years and has made several teaching tours to Israel and more recently the USA, Australia and New Zealand.
Listen to some of her teachings here.
Venerable Robina Courtin
1-9 august 2012
more information about Venerable Robina’s upcoming visit is on the way!
Ordained since the late 1970s, Robina Courtin has worked full time since then for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s FPMT. Over the years she has served as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala magazine, executive director of Liberation Prison Project, and as a touring teacher of Buddhism. Her life and work with prisoners have been featured in the documentary films Chasing Buddha and Key to Freedom.
Venerable Robina’s teachings are unrelentingly challenging, hard-hitting, serious, funny, visceral, inspiring and empowering. She specialises in applying the wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism to contemporary city life, using examples from TV, magazines and film. She has taught meditation to prisoners all over the world, developing a particularly close connection with people with life sentences in the USA. She is founder and director of the Liberation Prison Project, and the subject of an award-winning Australian documentary called Chasing the Buddha.
You can read more about Venerable Robina here and hear some of her teachings here