Sam Bercholz

Ngondro Online Retreat with Lama Sonam Tsering and Sam Bercholz

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

April 4-5 with Sam Bercholz
April 6-12 with Lama Sonam Tsering

The first weekend will feature teachings by Sam Bercholz, senior student of Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, who personally authorized him to teach. Sam has called the weekend, Meditation and the Development of Faith: Essential Teachings from H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche and Thinley Norbu Rinpoche. The weekend will be a combination of teachings from Dungse Rinpoche’s The Cascading Waterfall Of Nectar and also Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche’s teachings on meditation, The Play of Thought. Sam requests that each participant have a copy of The Cascading Waterfall of Nectar, available at Dharma Treasures. The Play of Thought can be downloaded for free here.

Sam has said, “The Play of Thought by Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche is one of the best teachings you can study to help stabilize your mind. It is an important aspect of dharma that sometimes is easily forgotten, especially for Ngondro and Vajrayana practice. It gives a necessary foundation for preliminary practices and advanced practices alike.”

The two days with Sam will also include teachings and practice on Shinay (calm abiding) and Lhakthong (penetrating insight) meditation. Participants will be able to submit questions that Sam will answer during one of the sessions on the second day. Sam is also giving participants the opportunity for a personal interview by Facetime or Zoom for up to one week after the teachings.

The retreat will continue with Lama Sonam Tsering Rinpoche, who will teach on “How Ngondro Can Support You in This Difficult Time”. Lama Sonam will give a series of one-hour teachings each day from April 6-12.

To receive the links for streaming, please make your offering through PayPal according to your circumstances. All donations will cover not only the cost of streaming, but will help support the ongoing expenses of Pema Osel Ling. If you are not able to offer at one of the suggested levels, please contact office@vajrayana.org. The links are not currently posted; please mark the URL (web address) of the page PayPal directs you to; we will also send the links to all participants in the days before the event. Thanks for your patience, Vajrayana Foundation

The recorded teachings will be available for at least one month after the conclusion of the weekend, so participants can review or access the teachings at their convenience.

A Guided Tour of Hell

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

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Take a trip through the realms of hell with a man whose temporary visitor’s pass gave him a horrifying—and enlightening—preview of its torments.

This true account of Sam Bercholz’s near-death experience has more in common with Dante’s Inferno than it does with any of the popular feel-good stories of what happens when we die. In the aftermath of heart surgery, Sam, a longtime Buddhist practitioner and teacher, is surprised to find himself in the lowest realms of karmic rebirth, where he is sent to gain insight into human suffering. Under the guidance of a luminous being, Sam’s encounters with a series of hell-beings trapped in repetitious rounds of misery and delusion reveal to him how an individual’s own habits of fiery hatred and icy disdain, of grasping desire and nihilistic ennui, are the source of horrific agonies that pound consciousness for seemingly endless cycles of time. Comforted by the compassion of a winged goddess and sustained by the kindness of his Buddhist teachers, Sam eventually emerges from his ordeal with renewed faith that even the worst hell contains the seed of wakefulness. His story is offered, along with the modernist illustrations of a master of Tibetan sacred arts, in order to share what can be learned about awakening from our own self-created hells and helping others to find relief and liberation from theirs. Purchase Sam’s book from Dharma Treasures.

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Sam Bercholz is a senior teacher in the Nyingma and Kagyu lineages of Tibetan Buddhism and the founder of Shambhala Publications.  He has been a close disciple of Kyabje Thinley Norbu Rinpoche and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and was empowered by them to teach.  He has taught extensively in North America, Europe, and Australasia.  He was particularly empowered by Kyabje Thinley Norbu Rinpoche to teach from A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar.
Mp3 Ngondro Teachings by Sam are available at Dharma Treasures.

Sam is scheduled to give lectures at the Annual
Vajrayana Foundation Ngondro Retreat March 25 – April 3, 2017
Led by Lama Sonam Rinpoche, Sam Bercholtz and Ivan Bercholz

More information to follow, please sign up for email updates!

 

 

Acharya Sam Bercholz

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

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Sam is back again this year to inaugurate the
Annual Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Practice Retreat
at Pema Osel Ling starting on ~~~>
MARCH 19TH – 27TH, 2016

Acharya Sam Bercholz, the founder of Shambala Publications, is a senior student and teacher in the Nyingma traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. He is an accomplished student of both Trungpa and Thinly Norbu Rinpoches from whom he has received the title of Acharya. He has taught extensively in North America, Europe, and Australasia.

Sam is co-editor with Sherab Chödzin Kohn of the best-selling book
Entering the Stream: An Introduction to the Buddha and his Teachings
(originally titled The Buddha and His Teachings ), which has been translated into numerous languages. He is also author of the forthcoming book – Guided Tour of Hell: A Graphic Memoir  with illustrations by Pema Namdol Thaye.

Lectures with Acharya Sam Bercholz will begin on Saturday at 10:30 and given twice a day on Saturday and Sunday.  

Pre-register ~~~> here. 

Registration at the event begins @10:00am