Dear practitioners,

you are warmly welcomed to join the Teaching and Meditation course - “Most important aspects of the path” -which will take place online via ZOOM.

The retreat will be held by Czech Dzogchen Community with the participation of many great instructors from all around the world:


INSTRUCTORS

Lukáš Chmelík met Chogyal Namkhai Norbu in 1998. Since 2015 he has been SMS basic level instructor.

Igor Legati, born in 1943, graduated at the University of Torino in Biological Sciences in 1967. He met Chogyal Namkhai Norbu in 1983 at Merigar. In 1993 he started a still ongoing collaboration with Shang Shung Publications as editor of Rinpoche’s teachings.
He participated to the Dzogchen Community life as a Merigar Gakyil member and as a Shang Shung Institute Director.
In 2010 he was appointed as a Santi Maha Sangha Base teacher and presently he is giving courses for practitioners in Italy and different countries.
Contact: edizss@tiscali.it

Monica Gentile was born in Venice, Italy and has dedicated to the study and practice of Buddhism since her university years.
In 1983 she took part in her first Vipasyana retreat. That retreat inspired a profound interest in discovering her real condition and she started travelling around Italy, England and India to study and practice more, attending several other Vipasyana retreats and coming in contact with many great teachers of other Buddhist traditions, Mahayana and Vajrayana but also Christian, Sufi and Hindu. She also started to study Sanskrit language and literature at the Orientale University of Venice.
She finished her studies in Venice by writing a thesis comparing the teachings contained in the Diamond Prajnaparamita Sutra with those of Juddu Krishnamuti, a Indian born 'philosopher' who was and remain one of her primary source of inspiration.
In those years she also briefly met Chogyal Namkhai Norbu during his famous first conference on Tibetan Medicine in Venice. Later, around 1988, she visited him in Merigar and realized that her years of search had come to an end and from then on she dedicated intensely to the study and practice of dzogchen under the guide of our master.
After she finished the university she won a grant to go for further studies in India. There she continued studying Sanskrit and started studying Tibetan language too, with private teachers from the Tibetan Institute of Buddhist Studies of Sarnath. She later went to meet one of the greatest scholar and yogi of Dzogchen, Lopon Tenzin Namdak, and remained at his monastery in Nepal for several months to study dzogchen in Bon.
After her grant came to an end she remained in Nepal and started to work in the then booming tourism industry. She travelled frequently to different retreats Chogyal Namkhai Norbu was holding in Merigar and in different parts of the world, while the Dzogchen community was slowly enlarging and different Gars were being established.
She studied the Base and First level of SMS, and became a SMS Instructor for the base level in 2016.

Stofelina Verdonk met Chogyal Namkhai Norbu in 1986, and became member of IDC.
Since then she has been collaborating, practicing and doing her best to apply His teachings In the IDC.  In 1993 she was authorised by maestro to teach the Dance of the Vajra, in 2O15 becoming instructor of Santi Maha Sangha and khaita Joyfull Dances in 2O16.

Alexander Skwara is an authorised Base SMS instructor. He is student of CNNR since 1991.
He started practising Buddhism in Zen tradition in early 80-ties, later also received many important teaching from different Tibetan lamas and Theravada teachers.
In daily life he works as body therapist, mainly using techniques of traditional Thai massage.

The whole course will be in English with the Czech translation.
In case you would like to secure local ZOOM interpretation, please contact blue@dzogchen.cz

PRICE

Voluntary donation - according to your kind generosity and current possibilities.

All instructors gave up their rewards for the benefit of the community.
The whole profit of the retreat will be donated to the international center of Dzogchen Community - Dzamling Gar (Tenerife).

PAYPAL: yellow@dzogchen.cz
Please describe your payment as "Xmas1" with the variable symbol: 2019

Bank transfer for paymants in EURO:

Fio banka, a.s.
V Celnici 1028/10
CZ-11000, Praha 1, Czech Republic
Bank number: 2000283150
Bank Code: 2010
MEZINARODNI KOMUNITA DZOGCHENU KUNKYABLING, z.s.
IBAN Cod: CZ8720100000002000283150
Bic/Swift Cod: FIOBCZPPXXX
variable symbol: 2019
description/note: "Xmas1"

For the payments in CZK:

Fio banka, a.s.
V Celnici 1028/10
CZ-11000, Praha 1, Czech Republic
MEZINARODNI KOMUNITA DZOGCHENU KUNKYABLING, z.s.
Bank number: 2400378087
Bank Code: 2010
IBAN:CZ9220100000002400378087
BIC/SWIFT:FIOBCZPPXXX
variable symbol: 2019
description/note: "Xmas1"

REGISTRATION

To participate in the retreat the registration is necessary. Please fill the form below.
You will receive the ZOOM link a day before the start.


PROGRAM

26th to 29the December 2020 Open retreat
CET – Central European Time (UTC+1)

Morning session - 10.00-12.00, Afternoon Session 15.00-17.00 - Prague time
(In the middle of the session, after one hour, 10 minutes break)

26.12. Saturday  
17.00-17.15 introduction to the retreat
17.15-19.00 Right view and wrong view. The Four noble truths – Igor Legati


27.12. Sunday  
10.00 the Fours seals and the essence of mind-training – Monica Gentile
15.00 Loving kindness and compassion - Stoffelina Verdonk


28.12. Monday
10.00 Joy, equanimity, giving and taking (tonglen), Teachers-student relationship, Monica Gentile
15.00 Refuge, Bodhicitta and Six perfections, Lukas Chmelik


29.12. Tuesday
10.00 Four applications of presence as the base of maintaining awareness and liberating tensions in daily life, Alexander Skwara
15.00 Four applications of presence as the base of maintaining awareness and liberating tensions in daily life, Alexander Skwara


With Love
Czech Blue Gakyil - blue@dzogchen.cz