ONLINE 2026 Summer Dzogchen Meditation Retreat: Clear Light, Natural Mind ~ The Direct Path of Dzogchen (Both Weeks)

Dzogchen Meditation Retreat
June 26 – July 11, 2026 

Deepen your Dzogchen practice at a rare summer retreat with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Explore the nature of mind, clear obstacles to meditation, and cultivate lasting clarity, awareness, and compassion in a supportive and immersive retreat environment. New and seasoned meditators are warmly invited.

His Holiness the 34th Menri Trizin Rinpoche, spiritual head of the Bon tradition, will join us online from Menri Monastery in India for two special teachings on the mornings of June 27 & 28. 

To deepen and integrate the Dzogchen teachings offered during the first week of our summer retreat, continue with  a second week held in silence. This silent Dzogchen meditation week offers a chance to rest more fully in the nature of mind through sustained practice, contemplation, and quiet reflection. In the supportive environment of silence, the teachings of week one will naturally deepen from intellectual understanding into direct experience. Guided by teachings from Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, participants are invited to embody the practice, allowing insight, openness and clarity to unfold more fully within the stillness of retreat.

What You Will Learn and Practice:

• Dzogchen – Direct Introduction to Natural Mind: Experience the innate state of awareness and clarity beyond effort or conceptual thinking.
• Clearing Obstacles to Practice: Learn methods to recognize and release inner and outer hindrances that obscure your presence in meditation and daily life.
• Trekchöd (Cutting Through): Instructions to cut through confusion and conceptual thoughts to rest directly in primordial purity.

Benefits of the Retreat:

• Deepened clarity and confidence in meditation practice
• Reduced inner obstacles such as doubt, distraction, and effortful striving
• Strengthened recognition of awareness in everyday life
• Renewed connection to the living, ancient Dzogchen lineage
• A lasting sense of openness, grounding, and integration that will carry into daily life

This is a unique opportunity to receive these special teachings and to have time for integrating and stabilizing one’s meditation. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will offer guidance from the words of accomplished masters and his own experience. Supporting both immediate insight and lasting transformation, this retreat will prove transformative for those new to meditation and for those with more extensive experience with Dzogchen and meditation practice in a retreat setting.

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