Crying to the Guru from Afar: Jinlap, Devotion and Crazy Wisdom

Crying to the Guru from Afar:

Jinlap,Devotion and Crazy Wisdom

This weekend is meant for both beginners and advanced students.  In fact, the purpose of this weekend is to create a retreat that both beginners and advanced attend together.

We will be engaging practices which are readily available to everyone but have profound implications especially if they are engaged with the proper view.  The purpose of this retreat is to engage these practices with the proper view and so experience what is called jinlap. 

The Vajrayana path places tremendous empahasis on receiving "the blessings" of your guru and lineage.  This is said to depend solely on the devotion of the student..  We will be exploring all of these themes in this retreat.  Jinlap means blessings-- the path of vajrayana is the path of blessings.  They are completely available and provide the basis for our path.