Akong Rinpoche Anniversary Retreat

2:30pm 08 October 2024 - 12:00pm 15 October 2024

Cost: £0.00

Venue: Samye Ling

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This year on 8th October it is eleven years since Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche passed away.  Engaging in this week-long practice and study retreat is good for us and potentially good for others too, and it's a meaningful and auspicious way to commemorate Akong Rinpoche.  

Drupon Khen Rinpoche will lead the retreat which will entail a mix of daily meditation sessions and teaching sessions. 

This year the subject of the teaching will be "The Elements of the Path to Achieve Enlightenment”, a text by the First Gyalwang Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa.  Copies of the text will be available for participants.

The Retreat will begin at 2.30pm on 8th October and finish at lunchtime on 15th October.  

All participants must register and must undertake to attend all sessions.

To register and book accommodation please email bookings@samyeling.org. 

There is no fee for this retreat, though donations may be made in the Reception Office.

Click here to read 'A Flower Offering to the Exalted Akong'

Important note: Please be aware that the condition for attending the teaching sessions in this retreat is that all teaching sessions must be attended.  Please be certain you can keep that commitment before coming to those sessions.  If you should decide to leave early, the commitment between teacher and student will be considered to be broken and it will not be possible to attend teachings by this teacher in future, whether in Samye Ling or elsewhere.

Daily Programme:

1st day, 8th October

10.00 – 12.00

Registration for the Meditation Retreat in Reception Office

Please note it is essential to register before joining the retreat – even if you are a resident of Samye Ling or if you are not staying in Samye Ling

14.30 – 16.00

First teaching & practice session  བཤད་ཐུན་དང་བསྒོམ་ཐུན།

16.30 – 17.30

Teaching session  བཤད་ཐུན།

17.30 – 18.00

Mahakala prayers མ་ཧཱ་ཀ་ལ།

18.00

Soup in Dining Hall  དགོང་ཚིགས།

19:00 – 20:00

Practice Session བསྒོམ་ཐུན།

9th to 15th October

05.30 - 07.00

Practice Session བསྒོམ་ཐུན།

07.00

Breakfast    ཞོགས་ཇ།

08:30 – 10.00

Teaching Session བཤད་ཐུན།

10.30 – 12.00

Teaching & Practice Session བཤད་ཐུན་དང་བསྒོམ་ཐུན།

12.30

Lunch    གུང་ཚིགས།

14.30 – 16.00

Teaching & Practice Session བཤད་ཐུན་དང་བསྒོམ་ཐུན།

16.30 – 17.30

Teaching Session བཤད་ཐུན།

17.30 – 18.00

Mahakala prayers མ་ཧཱ་ཀ་ལ།

18.00

Soup  དགོང་ཚིགས།

19.00 – 20.00

Practice Session བསྒོམ་ཐུན།

Retreat finishes at 12.00pm on 15th October

 

Tariff and Charges Guest Info
The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Meditation means simple acceptance.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
Only the impossible is worth doing.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Whenever we see something which could be done to bring benefit to others, no matter how small, we should do it.
Chamgon Khentin Tai Situ Rinpoche
Freedom is not something you look for outside of yourself. Freedom is within you.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Hasten slowly, you will soon arrive.
Jetsun Milarepa
It doesn’t matter whatever comes, stop judging and it won’t bother you.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
Whatever obstacles arise, if you deal with them through kindness without trying to escape then you have real freedom.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
To tame ourselves is the only way we can change and improve the world.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Strive always to be as kind, gentle and caring as possible towards all forms of sentient life.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Every sentient being is equal to the Buddha.
Chamgon Kentin Tai Situ Rinpoche
Wherever and whenever we can, we should develop compassion at once.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Reminding ourselves of how others suffer and mentally putting ourselves in their place, will help awaken our compassion.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche