Open Sitting: Immediacy Over Templates

The Practice of Meditation. This Retreat will focus on The Mahamudra Instructions of Tipun Pema Chogyal. This short text shows us how to identify and respond to the many kinds of obstacles that can occur in practice. The aim of the retreat is to enable us to maintain calm, clear awareness whatever occurs.

Dates: 7-14 July 2024

Martin Breuger and Robert are organising. Waldemar did the audio recordings. Reiner Steiner did the video recordings.

Index

"(00:00:00) Embodies participation - Tsatsa"

"(00:08:35) Participating - for the other"

"(00:19:23) About Guru yoga"

"(00:35:24) Question - why meditation with eyes open"

"(00:41:25) Question - shamatha with closed eyes"

"(00:43:13) Guru yoga practice"

"(00:44:56) Practice in hot weather"

"(00:45:32) Text - pure support of body speech mind"

"(01:01:16) Useful for you - Dharma paths and vows"

"(01:09:58) Text - imagine Buddhas body - moon disk - sphere"

"(01:14:17) Tantra - imagination"

"(01:18:27) Imagine a moon disk"

"(01:18:50) Dissolving identification"

"(01:22:59) Imagining a sphere"

"(01:24:25) Everything is imagined"

"(01:28:59) Text - using the breath as support"

"(01:31:08) The vajra breath"

"(01:33:12) The characteristics of your breath"

"(01:38:45) Merge your mind with your breath"

"(01:43:03) Attention to the five elements"

"(01:50:06) Breath using Om Hung Aa"

"(01:55:57) Using the support of the base"

"(02:05:24) Involvement with sudden arisings - death - the bardo"

"(02:20:14) Question - clear light moment after"

"(02:21:43) Question - mantra recitation while dying"

"(02:25:25) Question - what kind of I in the dying process"

"(02:27:07) Living with conditions"

"(02:36:17) Not entering into involvement"

"(02:42:38) Question - willfully establishing non-involvement"

"(02:47:34) Sitting relaxed and open"

"(02:48:28) Something better than nothing"

"(02:54:19) Question - gaze in open sitting"

"(02:57:00) Text - not even a single thought"

"(02:58:21) Not making something of it"

The Mahamudra Instructions of Tipun Pema Chogyal

Text in English at https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mahamudra-Instructions-Tipun-Pema-Chogyal-BT-31-01-2024.pdf

Text in German by Robert Jaroslawski at https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mahamudra_Tipun_Deutsch_V.1.5_Final-1-06-02-2024.pdf

Notes on Mahamudra by Padma Karpo

in English at https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Notes-on-Mahamudra-Padma-Karpo-JLow-27-02-2024.pdf

in German at https://simplybeing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Notes_on_Mahamudra_Padma-Karpo_German_RJ_V.1.11_Final.pdf

Again, Jonathan (Jon) Lever has usefully prepared the topics on each day of the retreat in separate recording snippets.

For a better understanding of the retreat, each day is separate so that you can follow the flow of the teaching in the correct chronological order.

Content also available at https://simplybeing.co.uk/audio-records/the-practice-of-meditation-audio-berghof-july-2024/