Dharma Online: Tergar Announces Live Teaching with Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche: “Mahamudra: Transforming Obstacles into Opportunities”

The Tergar Meditation Community, founded by revered Dharma teacher and master of the Karma Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, has announced that the renowned Tibetan tulku and Dzogchen meditation master Ponlop Rinpoche will give a live teaching on May 19 on the theme “Mahamudra: Transforming Obstacles into Opportunities.”

“The path of Mahamudra is a profound way of transforming obstacles into opportunities,” Tergar explained in an announcement shared with BDG. “As Mahamudra practitioners, we begin to understand that the antidote or solution to our obstacles is found in the obstacles themselves – nowhere else. This leads to a deep sense of openness and confidence in our ability to remain unfazed in the face of life's challenges. At this event, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche will explain how obstacles in life and the meditator's journey can become opportunities for awakening and how the freedom we seek is already present in our hearts and minds.

The event will feature live teaching from Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, including a Q&A session, which will encompass the practice of Mahamudra as a path to finding inner freedom, how our obstacles represent opportunities for awakening, and how to deepen our own meditation practice.

“Do you want to find a long-term solution to the obstacles in your life? Do you want to find freedom in your heart and mind? If so, we invite you to join us in this teaching from the revered Dzogchen lineage holder Ponlop Rinpoche,” Tergar noted. (Tergar)

“Mahamudra: Revealing Our True Nature” will be held in English, with translations in Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish, and will be broadcast live at the following times:

Auckland: 5 a.m., Monday May 20
Canberra: 3 a.m., Monday May 20
Seoul, Tokyo: 2 a.m., Monday May 20
Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei: 1 a.m., Monday May 20
Bangkok, Jakarta: 00 a.m., Monday May 20
New Delhi: 22:30 p.m., Sunday May 19
Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm: 19 p.m., Sunday May 19
London: 18 p.m., Sunday May 19
Montreal, New York: 13 p.m., Sunday May 19
Los Angeles, Vancouver: 10 p.m., Sunday May 19

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Born Karma Sungrap Ngedon Tenpa Gyaltsen in 1965 at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim, northeast India, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche is the seventh Dzogchen Ponlop and abbot of Dzogchen Monastery in what is now the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garzê in the Chinese province of Sichuan. A senior tulku A member of the Nyingma lineage of Vajrayana Buddhism and an accomplished holder of the Karma Kagyu lineage, he gained renown as a Dharma teacher, Tibetan Buddhist scholar and meditation master.

Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual director of Nalandabodhi, an international community of Buddhist centers, and the founder of the Nitartha Institute of Higher Buddhist Studies. He is known as a poet, calligrapher, visual artist and author of several books, including Emotional rescue (Pengouin Edition 2017) and Rebel Buddha: A Guide to a Revolution of Mind (2011 Shambhala).

The nature of the mind is free, but we bind it every minute. That's the problem: we want it to be free, but we won't let it be free. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

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