Looking to deepen your meditation practice or learn new meditation techniques? Join Keith Dowman as he leads us through the principles of the Dzogchen path, a profound and effective tradition of teachings in Tibetan Buddhism enabling us to attain perfect enlightenment for the benefit of ourselves and all living beings.
Considered to be the heart of all Buddhist teachings, Dzogchen has been practiced throughout history by masters of all different schools of Buddhism, including by the current Dalai Lama and his predecessors.
The Dzogchen view and meditation recognize the perfection of the here and now, regardless of one’s emotional or intellectual state of mind, inducing satisfaction in the moment by demonstrating the non-duality of reality. There is no distinction between the goal and the starting point, and each moment achieved is also an achievement of the goal.
This weekend seminar will include teachings and meditations.
Saturday and Sunday October 13 and 14, 10:00am-4:00pm (with a lunch break)
at Diamond Light Meditation Center
2791 24th Street, Room 14 Sacramento CA 95818
[upstairs, ADA accessible, parking lot in the rear]
cost: $100-$150 for full weekend. No one turned away for lack of funds. Scholarships available, please email diamondlight.sac@gmail.com for information.
Please pre-register here: https://goo.gl/forms/1nrSRywgkfrT7tfs2
We encourage attendees commit to the entire weekend.
Keith Dowman, a cultural exile from England, has spent his life since the mid-sixties living in India and Nepal. During this time he has led a renunciate lifestyle within the ethos of Dzogchen which he learned primarily from the first generation of Nyingma Lamas to teach and practice outside of Tibet, in particular Dudjom Rinpoche and Kanjur Rinpoche. He is familiar with the Tibetan Literary Language and has translated a battery of Dzogchen texts which are both manuals and poems of realization. He teaches “Radical Dzogchen” which embodies the essential Dzogchen view and meditation and yet is free of cultural embellishment. Living a nomadic lifestyle, Keith has taught in Asia, Europe, and America’s since the early 1990s.