ONLINE: 2024 Fall Retreat: Cutting Fear and Attachment: The Practice of Chöd

Cutting Fear and Attachment: The Practice of Chöd
October 9-13, 2024
NEW! Online via Zoom

If you are unable to travel to Kathmandu for this special retreat with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, join us online! We have only just worked out the details to make this possible, and hope you will be able to join us!

Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche in Nepal! For the first time in 25 years, Rinpoche returns to offer a retreat in Kathmandu, a city steeped in many ancient spiritual traditions and cultures, including Yungdrung Bön.

Chöd is a skillful method for transforming the fear, aversion and attachment that obscure our true nature, and with it the qualities of love, compassion, joy and equanimity that exist in all sentient beings. These afflictions give rise to illness, depression, anxiety, addiction, self-recrimination and become our “demons”, driving us toward suffering after suffering. When we nurture the sources of our pain with compassion, we discover the empty nature of our inner enemies and transform them into wisdom. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will teach us to meet our challenging emotions and experiences, not with anger and judgment, but with a warm embrace, and reconnect to the natural state: open, awake, and fearless. 

The retreat will present the chöd text composed by the famous Bönpo dzogchen master Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen Rinpoche, who attained the rainbow body in 1934 at the age of 75. Traditionally, parts of the text are sung by the practitioner and accompanied by the chöd drum and bell.  Tenzin Rinpoche will emphasize the core understanding of the principles and practice.

Along with his wonderful sense of humor, Rinpoche has a gift for making ancient wisdom accessible and relevant today. This retreat is open to everyone and has no prerequisites.

Simultaneous Live Translation

Simultaneous live translation will be available in the following languages:

• Hungarian
• Polish
• Russian
• Spanish

Audio and Video Recordings

Audio will be available to downloand, and video recordings to view, for 2 months after the retreat.

Online Retreat Schedule (tentative)

Note: Times are in Kathmandu time (GMT+5:45). Click here to find the time in your time zone. 

Wednesday, October 9
10:00 a.m.–11:15 a.m.  Teachings
12:00 p.m.–12:45 p.m.  Practice
2:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.     Teachings
4:45 p.m.–5:45 p.m.     Practice

Thursday, October 10–Saturday, October 12
8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.:   Practice
9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.   Teachings
11:45 p.m.–12:45 p.m.  Practice
2:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.     Teachings
4:45 p.m.–5:45 p.m.     Practice

Sunday,  October 13
8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.  Practice
9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.  Teachings
11:45 p.m.–12:45 p.m. Practice
2:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.  Teachings & Conclusion