| Opening talk of retreat |
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| Mt. Baldy, CA, October 1, 2004 |
Duration: 00h 39m |
Retreat structure and intention, comments on the Vajrayana path – how it is different and the same, how it is based on compassion and emptiness, which naturally evolve into mindfulness and presence
| Opening talk continued |
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| Mt. Baldy, CA, October 1, 2004 |
Duration: 00h 39m |
Are you suitable for Vajrayana? two dangers, review of prayers used in the retreat, questions regarding the retreat structure
| Guru, part 1a |
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| Mt. Baldy, CA, October 2, 2004 |
Duration: 00h 36m |
Comments on the teacher-student relationship, the responsibilities of the teacher and student, methods that teachers use to reveal presence, provide instruction, and point out student’s internal material
| Guru, part 1b |
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| Mt. Baldy, CA, October 2, 2004 |
Duration: 00h 43m |
Devotion reveals student’s internal material, difference between faith and belief, three types of faith and how they transform the three poisons, commentary on guru yoga and related prayer (text available on the website), questions from participants
| Guru, part 2 |
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| Mt. Baldy, CA, October 3, 2004 |
Duration: 00h 50m |
Questions regarding faith and compassion, balance in a guru-student relationship, the three types of faith and the three doors of freedom, questions from participants regarding this practice
| Deity, part 1 |
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| Mt. Baldy, CA, October 4, 2004 |
Duration: 00h 56m |
Comments on the Buddhist concept of ‘no self’. Yidams or deities as expressions of awakened mind, deity meditation instruction, questions about this how to do this practice
| Deity, part 2 |
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| Mt. Baldy, CA, October 5, 2004 |
Duration: 00h 59m |
Practice questions regarding pride and compassion, the three classes of deities: peaceful, semi-wrathful, wrathful, review of Tsulak Trengwa’s poem How I Live The Practice (text available on website) which describes the flavor of deity practice, questions regarding deity practice
| Protector, part 1 |
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| Mt. Baldy, CA, October 6, 2004 |
Duration: 1h 04m |
Discussion on enchantment with dakini and protector practices and how that connects with the origin of these practices, protector meditation instruction and questions
| Protector, part 2 |
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| Mt. Baldy, CA, October 7, 2004 |
Duration: 00h 58m |
Description of protectors and commentary on related text, importance of moderation in protector practices, connection between the three roots (guru, deity, and protector) and the three marks of existence (suffering, non-self, impermanence), questions on above
| Conclusion, part 1 |
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| Mt. Baldy, CA, October 8, 2004 |
Duration: 1h 09m |
Questions and comments on prayer text, magnetization, taking refuge in mind itself, the continual process of meeting what arises in experience, reactive emotions like desire, the eight concerns, working with the type of practice that best engages your internal material
| Conclusion, part 2 |
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| Mt. Baldy, CA, October 9, 2004 |
Duration: 1h 03m |
Questions regarding sky gazing and protectors, a story about yidams, a story about protectors, review of various lines of transmissions and lineages
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