Germany, 17 Jun 2016 - 26 Jun 2016

The practice of mindfulness plays an important role in Buddhism. To be mindful means to be present in this moment. In the here and now we are aware of our emotions, thoughts and actions. Our mind is awake in every single moment and knows what impact our actions will have on our fellow human beings and our environment. There are four aspects of mindfulness: The mindfulness for my body, my feelings, my mind and my speech. Who practices mindfulness, is aware of Samsara, the perpetual cycle of being, in every single moment; and therefore creates his life for the benefit of all sentient beings.

Wir leben in ständiger Erwartung, dass das Leben uns nur positive Veränderungen bringt. Wir verdrängen scheinbar Negatives wie Krankheit und Tod - und wissen doch, dass sie ein Teil des Lebens sind. Wie können wir unser Leben ohne Angst davor gestalten, wie können wir damit umgehen, wenn Krankheiten und Tod uns oder unsere Lieben betreffen?

Tulku Lobsang wird uns Möglichkeiten aufzeigen, uns mit unserer Endlichkeit zu beschäftigen – und genau dadurch mehr Lebensqualität zu erfahren. Je mehr wir im jetzigen Augenblick leben, desto mehr können wir uns auf das Wesentliche konzentrieren. Und desto weniger lassen wir uns in die Strudel an Gedanken und Gefühlen hineinziehen. Dies ermöglicht uns, auch schwierige Situationen wie Krankheit oder Tod näher zu betrachten, uns vorzubereiten und auch dann einen klaren und entspannten Geist zu bewahren.

Gang Gyok is a powerful method for running and walking with endless energy and vitality. It is one of the many Tibetan Movement practices taught by Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche that can improve our physical and mental well-being. Gang Gyok improves health and happiness and reduces disease and depression. It only takes 10 minutes to run or walk for better health and happiness.

It only takes 10 minutes to run or walk to create a better future for the world.

Let's move our bodies to make a healthier and happier world!

Join Tulku Lobsang and the thousands of people from all over the world who will be Gang Gyok running and walking on June 18, 2016 to spread this powerful message! Together we can create a better Future World!

This Tibetan technique for fast feet can be used while running or walking. Its benefits include generating energy, practicing mindfulness, greater speed, better performance, more power and a healthier lifestyle, all of which contribute to a longer life. The preliminary exercises of Gang Gyok can be divided into three parts. The first part addresses food and diet, the second part addresses the inner wind (breath) and the third part addresses the body. Body positions, visualizations and breathing exercises are also included in the full practice. It is the special combination of these aspects that is so powerful in this technique. We also learn to use the mind, specifically the mental power of visualization, to increase the body’s energy. Practicing Gang Gyok improves your stamina, endurance, power and the overall health of both body and mind.

Tsa Lung works with the body and the breath. It is a technique that combines movements with breath retention in order to release blockages in the subtle body.

The health of our subtle body is of primary importance to the health of our physical body and the happiness of our mind. The subtle body is composed of channels (tsa) and the wind-energy (lung) and essence that flow through them. Blockages in the channels cause imbalances in our body systems as vital nutrients, oxygen and blood don’t flow properly. These blockages also cause energetic and mental blockages. Unless we actively nurture our subtle body, every day we lose some channels. Fortunately, Tantrayana Buddhism has developed powerful methods to open our channels and make them clear and supple. 

Tsa Lung is a practice that works intensively with our subtle body. By combining special breath retention techniques with physical movements and visualizations, we move our wind-energy throughout the body, allowing it to reach deep places and open more and more subtle channels. When the wind flows freely, this energy can be used for self-healing or can be given to others.

This physical practice is very dynamic and powerful. And breath retention makes it even more challenging. However, it is very important that we train the breath. As we become older our breathing becomes more and more shallow. Therefore, we need to relearn how to breathe deeply. And when the breath flows, the mind flows. This is a method for coming into a deep stillness of the mind. 

Lu Jong is an old Tibetan practice of the tradition of  Tantrayana and Bön. The body exercises have been developed in order to activate our self-healing-energies. With the help of the exercises we can support healing processes positively, overcome negative emotions and increase our energy. Lu Jong is based on Tibetan medicine, which assumes that diseases are the consequence of an imbalance of the elements or humours. Through the combination of position, movement and breath Lu Jong can open physical channels and blocks in a soft way and mobilize misdirected energy. In this way our physical health, mental clarity and vitality are improved. These characteristics are the base for spiritual practice.

In this seminar Tulku Lobsang not only teaches us the movenems of the five elements from Lu Jong, but as well the practice of mindfulness. To be mindful means to be present in this moment. In the here and now we are aware of our emotions, thoughts and actions. Our mind is awake in every single moment and knows what impact our actions will have on our fellow human beings and our environment. 

With Lu Jong it is easier to be mindful and meditate.

Body and mind are deeply connected. They influence each other and can be used for our own spiritual development. We call our mind the king of our body because we can use the happiness of our mind to create a healthy body.

In this lecture Tulku Lobsang explains us how our happiness and our health are connected. We also learn how to create more space for happiness in our daily life. Too often we simply do not make the decision to be happy and so do not make time for it. Then, we cannot see that happiness is already there. We can learn to cultivate your happiness so that no matter what happens in life, your happiness is abundant. 

The principle of emptiness is the basis of Buddhism. The term emptiness means that everything is free from permanence and that its ultimate nature is non-existence. This means that all phenomena, due to their dependence on conditional factors, are free of substance and therefore empty. Emptiness consequently describes the absence of a constant existence. One example: Until today science did not find an answer to the question what was first; the chicken or the egg. In the Buddhist view all phenomena result from a sequence of cause and effect. We can trace this principle back until the arising of our planet and back until the big bang. But when we try to explain the big bang, then, at a certain point, we are unable to find explanations. That, what in science is inexplicable, is called emptiness in Buddhism. Because emptiness is the explanation for the existence of all phenomena.

To feel and experience love is the most important thing in our life. This is how we become happy. Without love and happiness we are imprisoned in our problems, in our selfishness and in our suffering. We find the sense in life when we feel love for ourselves and give love to our fellow beings. When we are able to let our love flow freely, then we will receive love from our environment and, in this way, experience happiness. 

In this teaching, Tulku Lobsang shares methods for connecting with love and removing obstacles to our love so that it can flow freely. We also learn how to create more space for happiness in our daily life. Too often we simply do not make the decision to be happy and so do not make time for it. Then, we cannot see that happiness is already there. Learn to cultivate your happiness so that no matter what else changes in life, your happiness is abundant. Because happiness is there; we just need to open the door and welcome it. 

Tsor Gom is a Tantrayana technique, which is used to adjust an imbalance in between the humours and elements as well as in between our body and our mind.  Practicing Tsor Gom we can establish a balance and dissolve blocks, by visualizations, breath techniques and meditation exercises.

We assume that through the training of our mind, we can heal diseases. Regular practice helps as well to prevent the development of diseases.

For being able to remain in a deep and peaceful mental state during meditation, one needs a lot of practice. Mostly during our meditation practice we are distracted by continuous thoughts. We try not to pay too much attention to those thoughts and to calm our brains. But it causes us a lot of work to remain in a peaceful, meditative state of mind without pursuing out thoughts. Body exercises ease the practice of meditation. This is because physical activities help us to get out of eternal thoughts - and enable us to be mentally in the here and now without our thoughts divagating.

For being able to remain in a deep and peaceful mental state during meditation, one needs a lot of practice. Mostly during our meditation practice we are distracted by continuous thoughts. We try not to pay too much attention to those thoughts and to calm our brains. But it causes us a lot of work to remain in a peaceful, meditative state of mind without pursuing out thoughts. Body exercises ease the practice of meditation. This is because physical activities help us to get out of eternal thoughts - and enable us to be mentally in the here and now without our thoughts divagating.

All beings give us the opportunity to practice compassion, and therefore they are the greatest treasure on our path. We must deeply say “thank you” to all beings for the opportunity to practice compassion, open our hearts, and awaken to our true nature.

With the help of others we can teach our mind how to attain love and connection and to stop self-grasping.

In the end only Self-grasping causes separation and suffering. When we think too much about the self, we do not have room for others. Self- grasping closes our hearts. Compassion is the best way to change this. It means completely opening our minds and hearts to others.

In this lecture, Tulku Lobsang will explore the practice of compassion using the book The Eight Verses of Thought Transformation, that gives us powerful keys to open ourselves and to become enlightened.

When we study Buddhist Psychology, we study the nature of the mind and how the mind functions. Once we understand this, then we can study how the mind interacts with the external world—the relationship between subject and object. The relationship between the mind and the object creates 80 different emotions. It is these emotions that make the mind unstable, uncontrollable and nonfunctional. Right now, our mind is very nonfunctional and very fixed. It is not doing what we want; it is doing what we don’t want. Therefore, it is important to understand these emotions, where they come from and how they affect the character of the mind. When we understand this, we can begin to apply tools to make the mind more balanced, more functional, more useful and more perfect.

Tulku Lobsang will give tools for participants to use themselves and also to help other people. The basis of these tools is the 108 Secret Questions. Through the right question, we can find the solution. We help people to find the solution within themselves.

All beings try to overcome suffering and reach happiness. For reaching this goal we take on a lot of effort. But all our methods cannot satisfy our ego on the long term. In Tibetan philosophy's  view happiness is based on the ability to share happiness and joy with others. The only way to reach that, is the practice of Tonglen, the principle of giving and taking. Only after learning to give without expecting something in return, giving does not have its root in our ego. This is the only way to experience permanent happiness.

Often our lifes seem complicated. This happens because we feel stressed in our daily life. During work as during our spare time - we are always stressed because we have to handle so many things; or because we think we have to handle so much. Because of this stress we feel not well, have little energy, suffer from sleep disorders and some even from burnout syndrome or depression.

Often we cannot cope with the situations and are over-challenged. One possible explanation is that it is ourselves who create the problems and waste our time with unimportant things. For example we try to change others. But how can we change our friends, family and fellow beings? It is far easier if we change ourselves. We have to learn to take decisions and to differentiate between unimportant and important things. Only this can help us to gain time, despite the supposed lack of time.

Lu Jong is an old Tibetan practice of the tradition of  Tantrayana and Bön. The body exercises have been developed in order to activate our self-healing-energies. With the help of the exercises we can support healing processes positively, overcome negative emotions and increase our energy. Lu Jong is based on Tibetan medicine, which assumes that diseases are the consequence of an imbalance of the elements or humours. Through the combination of position, movement and breath Lu Jong can open physical channels and blocks in a soft way and mobilize misdirected energy. In this way our physical health, mental clarity and vitality are improved. These characteristics are the base for spiritual practice.

All beings give us the opportunity to practice compassion, and therefore they are the greatest treasure on our path. We must deeply say “thank you” to all beings for the opportunity to practice compassion, open our hearts, and awaken to our true nature.

With the help of others we can teach our mind how to attain love and connection and to stop self-grasping.

In the end only Self-grasping causes separation and suffering. When we think too much about the self, we do not have room for others. Self- grasping closes our hearts. Compassion is the best way to change this. It means completely opening our minds and hearts to others.

In this retreat, Tulku Lobsang will explore the practice of compassion using the book The Eight Verses of Thought Transformation, that gives us powerful keys to open ourselves and to become enlightened.