Germany, 14 Mar 2019 - 24 Mar 2019

Feeling compassion for one oneself and for others in times of deep personal grief and pain will transform your life. We all need love and the moment we start to understand love in all its dimensions, we begin to cultivate it from within ourselves.
Self-care and self-compassion are the first steps to gradually become more compassionate and self-confident.  In contrast perhaps to our belief that self-care and compassion can make us weak and vulnerable, they generate a very firm and stable inner base. Compassion is by nature gentle and peaceful but at the same time also very powerful. It helps to remove all fears and insecurities.  It gives us the courage to cope with any kind of obstacle we encounter.
In this workshop you will receive a series of guided meditation for the cultivation of the “Four Immeasurables”: loving-kindness, compassion,  joy, and equanimity.  The practice of the Four Immeasurables opens your heart step by step and cultivates a deep warmhearted feeling. You will also learn how to bring this experience into your daily life through the practice of Tibetan Mind training. If you develop a sincere and open heart, you will naturally feel more self- worth and self-confidence. This will change your world! Through the  cultivation of compassion you will be more relaxed, you will overcome depression and loneliness. You will be healthier and you will have better relationships. It is the key to a happier world!

Our life is full of beautiful things, occurrences and encounters. Too often, however, we only see the negative aspects - what doesn't work, what we don't achieve - instead of being happy and grateful for everything beautiful in our daily live. Also and especially for the little things.

Thankfulness is an incredibly powerful force. When we are consciously thankful, our life becomes easier, more relaxed and happier. If we complain about everything that happens to us, we become negative-thinking, frustrated and embittered people.

In this workshop we will learn from Tulku Lobsang about the deep impact thankfulness has on our live and how we can practice thankfulness in a simple way. To make our live easier - and make us more contented.

With a special combination of physical movements, breathing exercises and visualization we awaken our inner fire, which burns the blockages of our karmic imprints.

Tummo is our wisdom fire. It is something that we naturally have within our bodies. This fire, this inner warmth, can be found in the area below the navel chakra. On a physical level it is responsible for the temperature of our body—the heat of digestion and metabolism, the heat that powers chemical reactions and builds hormones. But Tummo is much more than this! On an energetic level, the Tummo fire blazes through the channels, melting away the subtlest blockages and surging energy throughout the body. On the level of mind, Tummo is the source of love, joy, happiness and bliss.

Unfortunately, as we become older we start to lose this natural warmth. Then, our hormones and essences automatically reduce. But it doesn’t have to be this way! The Tummo practice will reignite our inner fire. Through a combination of movements, breathing techniques and visualizations we generate the Tummo flame and spread it throughout the body. The flame grows, starting from below the navel and rising higher and higher. It softly penetrates each of the main chakras, spreading to all the branches and every pore of our body.

The chakras are secret doors to our being. Opening them and connecting with our Tummo fire brings us great realizations. In this way, we tap into our inner wisdom. From this great presence we can realize the true nature of our mind, fundamental wisdom, and unconditional love and compassion.

Tulku Lobsang has a very special connection to Tummo. This is his specialty and he can teach it like no other. An amazing opportunity!

Death is one of the most important happenings in our life. We will all face death, no matter who we are. We know this and yet somehow we forget. Perhaps it is because of our fear of the unknown that we often pretend that death does not exist. But, according to the Buddhist teachings, death is an opportunity. It is the moment when we can be in our true nature—the clear light state of mind.

Death is not only something that happens on the outside (people see us as dead), but it is also something that happens on the inside. It is an experience of the body and mind. Buddhism explains this experience exactly. The elements that compose our body and mind dissolve into each other one by one. Each dissolution produces a particular mental state. This may seem very foreign, but in fact we experience this every 24 hours. This is called the “little death” and it happens when we fall asleep. The way that we fall asleep is exactly the way that we will die. We can use the little death to train ourselves and learn to navigate this experience. This is how we prepare for a fearless death.

If we can learn how to recognize and abide in the clear light state of mind that happens at death, it will have a profound impact on our next life. In the state between life and death, called Bardo, all kinds of things can appear and provoke our emotions. This is exactly like a dream. It is not real, but it feels real and it creates real reactions in us. We must learn to recognize this dream and maintain a calm, clear mind, for this is when it matters most.

The discovery of sexual energy is a process of transformation. The practice of selfless, unconditional love is the basis for reaching complete, deep, pure happiness.  Because only through the existence of sexual energy we can exist. Sexual energy enables us for example to see something as beautiful. Often we confuse love with desire and sexual satisfaction. Through physical abstinence we can concentrate completely on our spiritual practice. When we are more advanced in our spiritual practice, we can include our own sexuality in our practice. Because sexual energy can be used to overcome negative emotions as attachment and desire.

Mindfulness is of fundamental importance. It has a positive effect on all aspects of our life. Mindfulness helps us to not constantly dwell on our thoughts about the past but to return to the present moment and thereby find deep happiness in the here and now. When we are more mindful, all aspects of our life improve automatically.

Whether we experience a lack of joy in our life or have difficulties in our relationships, with our health or at work - mindfulness is the key to a deep change in our life.
In the west, we are often not aware of the necessity and the benefits of mindfulness. The same way as our body gets stronger, more flexible and fitter when we train it in a certain way, we can also train our mind.

In this workshop, Tulku Lobsang teaches us methods for daily use that help us to train our mind in order to develop more and more mindfulness. With this skill we can increasingly unfold our potential and have more loving relationships.

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.

Die wahre Natur unseres Geistes ist tiefe Ruhe. Sie ist Frieden und Klarheit. Sie ist die Weisheit, die jenseits aller Grenzen existiert und durch die wir den Zustand der Allwissenheit erlangen können. Wenn es uns gelingt, unsere Unwissenheit zu überwinden, werden wir alles wissen, alles sehen – ohne zu denken.
 
Im Schlaf und zum Zeitpunkt des Todes erreichen wir diesen Zustand auf natürliche Weise, jedoch realisieren wir dies gewöhnlich nicht. Durch regelmäßiges Üben können wir lernen, diesen kraftvollen Zustand bewusst zu erreichen; dann sind wir frei von falschen Sichtweisen und Leiden.
 
In diesem Workshop zeigt uns Tulku Lobsang Methoden auf, wie wir unseren Geist nutzen können, um uns selbst tief kennen zu lernen. Wenn wir unseren Geist (er)kennen, wissen wir alles.

Our life is full of beautiful things, occurrences and encounters. Too often, however, we only see the negative aspects - what doesn't work, what we don't achieve - instead of being happy and grateful for everything beautiful in our daily live. Also and especially for the little things.

Thankfulness is an incredibly powerful force. When we are consciously thankful, our life becomes easier, more relaxed and happier. If we complain about everything that happens to us, we become negative-thinking, frustrated and embittered people.

In this lecture we will learn from Tulku Lobsang about the deep impact thankfulness has on our live and how we can practice thankfulness in a simple way. To make our live easier - and make us more contented.

Forgive and trust are important skills: for one's own inner peace as well as for peace within a community. People who overcome grudge, who can forgive, are in harmony with themselves and their environment - and they are happier. If we learn to forgive, we can prevent long lasting suffering.

Forgiving and trusting others, but especially oneself, can fundamentally change our life: we become free from the shadows of the past, can let go of fears and doubts and learn to trust - our fellow human beings, life and ourselves.

When we forgive ourselves and others, when we trust, our own thoughts and feelings change and we can become happy people.

In this seminar Tulku Lobsang shows us simple ways how we can learn to forgive and to trust.

Everything changes, whether we like it or not. We cannot stop the change but we can influence it. We can use the power of change so that our life develops into a direction that we wish for and dream of. However, often we stand in our own way because we grasp the past and constantly worry about the future. We do not recognize that everything in life can only happen today and with the power of the present moment. Because the now is the result of the past and the cause of the future. If we want to shape our tomorrow we have to change our today. If we change one single moment we change our whole life.

The basic cause of diseases are negative emotions. Often we have heard that every human being has the power for elf healing. But mostly we are quite skeptical with those statements. Tulku Lobsang gives an explanation how we can reach our happiness by overcoming the negative emotions. For this we have to learn how to use our innate healing energies, to overcome diseases or to remain healthy. The power of our mind and our thoughts can change the well-being of our body fundamentally. In daily life we continuously worry, have fears and expectations which are not fulfilled. These negative emotions have a direct influence on our body. We learn how to evoke positive emotions for reaching mental and physical health. In Traditional Tibetan Medicine we assume that there is medicine which supports the body to become healthy. But at the end it is the self healing power which has to be activated. Because it is only the body which can heal itself.

Everything changes, whether we like it or not. We cannot stop the change but we can influence it. We can use the power of change so that our life develops into a direction that we wish for and dream of. However, often we stand in our own way because we grasp the past and constantly worry about the future. We do not recognize that everything in life can only happen today and with the power of the present moment. Because the now is the result of the past and the cause of the future. If we want to shape our tomorrow we have to change our today. If we change one single moment we change our whole life.

Water is the oldest healing substance of the world. we can drink water or have a bath in it and therefore experience purification, which strengthens our energy. Water can be applied hot or cold for different diseases. Water has the particular characteristic for blessing it with a mantra, which fortifies the healing energy of the water. Tulku Lobsang gives us an introduction on the modes of operation which water has and how we can use this healing energy in different medical conditions.

We all come to turning points in our lives every now and again. These can be marked by grief, despair and fear, but also by hope and joy for a new beginning. In such critical life stages, it is helpful to ask oneself the following questions: Where am I right now? How did I get here? Where do I want to go? How do I get there? Buddha has found an answer to these important questions of life and called them "the four noble truths." They form the basis of Buddhist teachings and are the core of Buddha's first discourse.

In this workshop, Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche introduces us to these basic teachings of Buddhism and points out to us how to integrate the deep wisdom of “the four noble truths" into our daily lives, helping us to better deal with difficult situations and to experience more happiness.

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.