On Wednesday March 26 from 5:30 – 7 PM, Tergar Bozeman welcomes Tim Olmsted via Zoom to give a teaching and to host a Q&A session.
Tim is a skilled Senior Tergar International Instructor and co- founder of Tergar International. He spent 11 years in Nepal studying with Tulku Urygen Rinpoche, father of Tergar’s guiding teacher Mingyur Rinpoche. Tim is the spiritual guide of the Buddhist Center of Steamboat Springs, CO. Tim’s teaching style is warm and inviting and very heart felt. Please join us for this wonderful opportunity. In person or online.
Join the Bozeman Tergar group on Saturday January 18 from 8 AM -11 AM at the Bozeman Dharma Center. This is a streaming online event offered by Tergar.org. This event is free and open to everyone, with donations gratefully accepted. We ask that you pre-register so that we can set up the space beforehand. This is a great opportunity to get a taste of Mingyur Rinpoche’s view of meditation from the ancient teachings of the two lineages of which he is a Master: that we are already whole and complete. Through these practices, we recognize our innate love and compassion from a place of self discovery.
This weekend retreat on Welcoming Challenges in Difficult Times occurs June 7-9 and is led by Anam Thubten Rinpoche.
With all the countless blessings of our lives, many of us in the world are finding numerous challenges. Some of them have to do with what is happening in our personal lives and others are have to do with the larger situation, including political instability, cultural change, and the climate crisis. For many, anxiety is on the rise. Yet, there is a way that we can welcome all these challenges and grow from them by discovering wisdom and equilibrium within. In this retreat, Anam Thubten will offer Buddhist wisdom and meditation guidance on meeting these challenges with open hearts and minds. There will be a public talk on Friday, June 7, open to all. More info on the talk and the retreat here.
Dharmata Foundation is happy to invite you to participate in this weekend retreat. Through the essential wisdom of Buddhism and his personal experience on the spiritual path, Anam Thubten brings alive the timeless teachings of the Buddhist tradition and invites everyone to participate.
The retreat will be held at the Triple Tree Owner Center on Triple Tree Rd, Bozeman, on Saturday June 8 and Sunday June 9 from 10-5 each day. To honor the sacred container of this retreat, everyone is asked to attend the entire retreat, concluding Sunday at 5 pm. We expect this retreat to fill to capacity.
Please register early. Sliding scale options and some scholarships available. Participants are asked to commit to attending the entire retreat.
Tergar Bozeman is excited to offer a screening of the film Wandering… But Not Lost detailing the account of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche’s four-and-a-half-year wandering retreat on Friday, May 31 from 7-9 PM.
The Wandering . . . But Not Lost film is an intimate account of Rinpoche’s four-and-a-half-year retreat (June 2011 – November 2015) interspersed with the master’s own guidance in applying Buddhist wisdom to our daily modern lives.
Under cover of darkness and with no word of his plans, much-beloved Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche walked away from his life on the international stage to live that of a wandering yogi. Unheard of among eminent teachers today, such a practice is rife with hardships. For Mingyur Rinpoche, these challenges—begging, finding food and shelter, illness, and all the attendant risks of wandering incognito from place to place with the barest of possessions—present fertile ground for deepening insight into the true nature of the mind.
Layered over this story is exotic footage of ancient and holy places, such as Langtang, Nubri, Dolpo, and Lapchi where Tibet’s most famous yogi and poet Jetsun Milarepa (1052-1135) lived in solitary meditation. Kushinagar, where the Buddha passed away, Varanasi, Rishikesh, Ladakh, and Amritsar are also featured, along with one of the holiest Hindu shrines on the subcontinent: Vaishno Devi, reached by an arduous 14-kilometer hike up a mountain path full of joyous Hindu pilgrims.
About the Directory/Producer
The director and producer of the Wandering But Not Lost film is Paul MacGowan. In the video production business for over 33 years, Paul MacGowan has brought his well-honed skills to a wide range of film and video projects. His credits include award-winning films, such as an editor on Jeff Stimmel’s The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not for Sale (2008), winner of the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Programming in Arts and Culture, and recipient of a New England Emmy in 2001 as producer/director for Lives in Transition, a documentary that aired on Public Television. Paul’s other documentary producer/director work includes Herb Savel Carves the Holocaust in Wood, Speak Out for Understanding I & II, It’s the Numbers Game and A Joyful Mind, a film made with Mingyur Rinpoche about what it means to meditate, on what modern science reveals about its benefits, and on how meditation and mindfulness can be used in workplaces and schools. Paul is a longtime meditator and Buddhist; he attended Naropa University in 1981 and first travelled to Nepal 1983 where he met Mingyur Rinpoche’s brother, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and practiced under his guidance.
No registration necessary. Donations to support Tergar Bozeman are gratefully accepted. Suggested donation $5-$15.
Guest teacher Khenpo Norgay Rinpoche will offer a public talk on Cultivating Compassion using Tonglen Meditation at the Bozeman Dharma Center on Saturday, May 18. This events is hosted by the Palyul Tibetan Buddhist Sangha, No registration necessary. Suggested donation of $10 to support the teacher.
Additional teachings will be given May 16th-19th
For further information please contact: Palyul Montana Email: info@palyulmontana.org Phone: 406-587-2907
Khenpo Tenzin Norgay Rinpoche was born in the Tashigang District of Bhutan in 1965. After completing Jigme Sherubling High School in 1986, he joined Ngagyur Nyingma Institute, the prestigious Buddhist studies and research center, at Namdroling Monastery in Mysore. At the Institute he studied under Khenchen Pema Sherab, Khenpo Namdrol Tsering and Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso and other visiting professors, including Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok and Khenpo Pema Tsewang from Tibet.
He completed the Shedra program at the Institute in 1995 and joined the Institute staff, teaching there for three years. He was formally enthroned as Khenpo by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche in 1998 and was assigned by His Holiness to teach at the Buddhist college at Palyul monastery in Tibet.
He has received all the major empowerments of the Rinchen Terzod, Nam Cho, Nyingthik Yabshi and Nyingma Kama from His Holiness Penor Rinpoche as well as the Mipham Kabum from His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
Because of his knowledge and experience, and fluent command of the English language, His Holiness Penor Rinpoche has assigned him to teach students in the United States in conjunction with the ongoing teaching programs offered by Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche.
This Dharma Thought is brought to you by the Tergar Bozeman: Joy of Living Practice Group which meets Wednesdays at 5:30 PM. This group is currently working with meditations using our senses.
Smells and tastes often go unnoticed in daily life. By bringing awareness to smells and tastes, however, you can transform boring daily routine- like cooking, eating or simply walking down the street or through your office building or home – into practices that calm and strengthen your mind.
Take a moment to notice whatever smells or odors may be present right now. What happens when you pay attention to them? Can you smell them all at the same time:
When you are eating a meal, what are you usually paying attention to? How does this affect you eating habits?
Home Practice:
Daily activities:
When you wake, form the intention to be mindful of your body, of sights, sounds, or whatever sense object you’ve chose for the day.
Remind yourself of this intention as often as you can?
Pick moments to remind yourself, place reminders like sticky notes around your home or office.
From time to time during the day, pause and rest your awareness on the sights, sounds, smells and feelings moving through your awareness.
Sitting:
Start by finding your meditation posture. Renew your motivation. Rest in open awareness. Leave all your sense doors open, don’t block any aspect of experience.
After a few minutes, rest your attention on an object in your visual field, or whatever sense you have chosen to use as support for your meditation.
You don’t need to change or alter your experience in any way, nor do you need to focus intensely or concentrate the mind. Simply know that you are (seeing/hearing/smelling/feeling).
End by resting again in open awareness, not distracted and not meditating. Eyes open for the last 1-2 min.
Apologies to the Tergar Bozeman Joy of Living Group for forgetting to update their topics in the July newsletter! Here they are:
Please join us for the following new practices in July :
July 5th – Meditating with Visual objects and Sounds
July 12 – Meditating with Smell and Taste
July 19 – Integrative practice session on senses
July 26 – We begin a new topic – Essential elements of meditation Practice – Forming a compassionate motivation
Our sense of sight is often the most dominant aspect of our experience. In meditation, all the objects that fill or visual field can be a tremendous support for awareness. Sounds have a naturally soothing quality on the mind. When sounds are experienced with meditative awareness, even those that we ordinarily consider abrasive can elicit a sense of deep stillness and contentment.
Smells and tastes often go unnoticed in daily life. Taking time to bring awareness to them can calm and strengthen your mind.
Those who are subscribed to the Tergar Bozeman weekly newsletter will receive additional information and practice tools related to the topic. You can subscribe to their newsletter here:
We’re excited to announce our next book study group led by Katie Arnold beginning Tuesday, April 4th. Each session of this six-week series will focus on a different portion of Pema Chodron’s book, When Things Fall Apart, Heart Advice for Difficult Times. No need to have read any chapters before the first meeting. Great for beginners or for more experienced practitioners. Please pre-register as in-person space is limited.
From the publisher:
In this most beloved and acclaimed work, Pema shows that moving toward painful situations and becoming intimate with them can open up our hearts in ways we never before imagined. Drawing from traditional Buddhist wisdom, she offers life-changing tools for transforming suffering and negative patterns into habitual ease and boundless joy.
Pema Chodron is an American Buddhist nun in the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa and resident teacher at Campo Abbey in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in North America.
Practice held on the 1st and 3rd Sundays, beginning November 20th
The Palyul Sangha aspires to nurture, strengthen and serve our community through study, practice and living the Buddhadharma. We follow the principle of Bodhicitta- loving kindness and concern for others- which brings happiness and benefit to all living beings. We are under the direction of His Holiness Penor Rinpoche and our spiritual guide Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche. All are warmly welcome to join us!
Newcomers are welcome to come early (10-10:30am) and practice will begin at 10:30am
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