Spain, 23 Mar 2016 - 05 Apr 2016

Tulku Lobsang offers consultations both in his capacity as a doctor of Tibetan Medicine and as a spiritual advisor. Consultations generally begin with a pulse reading, whereby the state of the organs and blood and life fluids is assessed. In this way, the presence or early manifestation of disease can be sensed. Tulku Lobsang will offer advice on countering imbalance with diet, exercise, breath or meditation techniques. One may also come with specific questions of a psychological or spiritual nature.

Every day we have many possibilities to integrate Buddhist practice in our daily life.

In Tibetan Buddhism there are a variety of practices and teachings that help us to create an equilibrium between body and mind in order to live according to values as compassion and respect. This is the basis to move on from suffering and dissatisfaction; and to be happy!

With the help of the Lu Jong exercises we can support these processes positively, overcome negative emotions and increase our energy. Through the combination of position, movement and breath Lu Jong can open physical and mental channels and blocks in a soft way. 

Without love and happiness we are imprisoned in our problems, in our selfishness and in our suffering. In this teaching, Tulku Lobsang shares methods to connect with love and happiness by removing obstacles. We also learn how to create more space for happiness in our daily life. When you learn to cultivate your happiness in abundance, it doesn't matter what else changes in life.

In this retreat, Tulku Lobsang will explore the practice of compassion using the book The Eight Verses of Thought Transformation. This small book contains massive insights into practical ways we can expand our compassion, open our hearts, and awaken our minds. Its eight verses guide us to train our minds to shift from self-grasping toward love and connection. Then we find that we no longer need to defend the concept of self. Instead, we perceive the other as the greatest gift on the path to our enlightenment.

Practicing compassion is the highest method for awakening our mind.

Tulku Lobsang offers consultations both in his capacity as a doctor of Tibetan Medicine and as a spiritual advisor. Consultations generally begin with a pulse reading, whereby the state of the organs and blood and life fluids is assessed. In this way, the presence or early manifestation of disease can be sensed. Tulku Lobsang will offer advice on countering imbalance with diet, exercise, breath or meditation techniques. One may also come with specific questions of a psychological or spiritual nature.

In the West we are often unaware of the need for and benefits of training the mind. We know that exercising our bodies in particular ways makes us more flexible and more fit. The same is true lor our mind. With the right exercises, we can develop increased focus, concentration. calmness and awareness. This is what it means to have a fit mind. As our mindfulness improves. all aspects of our life improve as well.
In this Education, Tulku Lobsang will share the methods  most effective lor mindfulness training. He will explain the stages that the mind goes through in its development . We will learn about the common obstacles that we will encounter as well as the antidotes. Participants will leave with a solid practice.
Mindfulness enables us to develop the mind's natural and his powers. With these skills we can reach our full potential. accomplish our goals and have quality to improving relationships. By attending this course. you can also give this gift to others.

During our life we pass about 240.000 hours sleeping. By the term dream meditation we understand the practice of lucid dreaming. This means that we aware of what we dreaming while we dream. Through this practice we learn how to use our dreams for spiritual practice.
First we need to recognize during our dreams that we are dreaming - for being then able, in the second step, to control our dream. In this state of mind we can evoke willingly situations which cause us problems in daily life. And then live them with a prior unknown ease. If we dream consciously, we can learn in the dream to evoke difficulties of our daily life and learn how to handle them. Body postures, mantras and visualizations are learned which prepare lucid dreaming.

Tulku Lobsang offers consultations both in his capacity as a doctor of Tibetan Medicine and as a spiritual advisor. Consultations generally begin with a pulse reading, whereby the state of the organs and blood and life fluids is assessed. In this way, the presence or early manifestation of disease can be sensed. Tulku Lobsang will offer advice on countering imbalance with diet, exercise, breath or meditation techniques. One may also come with specific questions of a psychological or spiritual nature.

Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche presentará su Libro Gyulu, ahora traducido al castellano. En nuestra existencia actual tenemos un punto de vista velado. No vemos la verdadera naturaleza de las cosas -y sobretodo la nuestra.

Este libro ofrece métodos para quitar las capas de ilusión, de forma que podamos vernos realmente a nosotros mismos. Podemos liberarnos del enfado y del apego y de todas las emociones que generalmente dictan nuestro comportamiento. Aplicar estos métodos en nuestra vida diaria reduce nuestra ilusión del yo.

El libro estará a la venta en la tienda que Nangten Menlang pondrá durante la presentación.

Rigpa is the opposite of ignorance. Rigpa is a practice to see ourselves.
Rigpa is clear light, the true nature of our mind. It is the state of pure awareness, the wisdom that exists beyond all limitations and through which we can reach the state of omniscience and enlightenment.

What we see now is the reflection of our ignorance. We always miss something, and so we always have a wrong view. This causes us great suffering. We are looking through the lens of the conceptual mind, which always has a shadow and limitation. We can’t see through it, so we can’t see the true nature of ourselves. We need to go deeper, to the deep part of the ocean. When we reach there we can know everything and see everything without thinking. This is direct perception, like with the eyes. The eyes never think. They see all things at the same time.

At the time of sleep and the time of death, we naturally reach this. Normally, we don’t realize it, but through practice and training it is possible to reach this state consciously. It is so powerful! When you reach there, you are free of the wrong view and have no suffering.

When we practice Rigpa, we simply leave everything and look. The mind is like water. When it is still, it naturally becomes clear. When we leave everything alone, without judgment or reaction, and simply perceive what is there, we begin to recognize the nature of mind. To do nothing and to leave everything how it is, is the most difficult thing! In this way, we use our mind to observe our mind. This is how we come to deeply know ourselves.

Tulku Lobsang offers consultations both in his capacity as a doctor of Tibetan Medicine and as a spiritual advisor. Consultations generally begin with a pulse reading, whereby the state of the organs and blood and life fluids is assessed. In this way, the presence or early manifestation of disease can be sensed. Tulku Lobsang will offer advice on countering imbalance with diet, exercise, breath or meditation techniques. One may also come with specific questions of a psychological or spiritual nature.

How many times have you set out to do something and not finished? How  is it that we can know exactly what would be good for us, but then not do it? We don’t do what we know we should do. Why?

The first step in finding our inner balance is to defeat our laziness. If laziness wins, it becomes stronger and stronger. Then the laziness creates fear and expectations. Laziness causes the days of our lives to go by without us ever really living. But if we want the ideas in our head to become clearer and manifest, then we need to make decisions. We often know exactly what would be good for us. We already know what we should eat to feel well and how we should organize our day in order to feel complete. So the first obstacle to finding our inner balance is our laziness. When we don’t overcome our laziness, laziness wins and then we are always at its whim.

Tulku Lobsang will teach us effective mental tools for overcoming our laziness. This is the first step to leading a fulfilled life. Additionally, we will learn the Lu Jong exercises. They enable us to regain the physical and mental balance of the five elements. With a balanced body we can easily balance our mind. The five element Lu Jong exercises are gentle and slow movements of the spine. We stretch and encourage a balanced flow of inner energy.

Another part of the teaching will be meditation instruction. Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche will share with us his deep experience of meditation.  

He will explain a technique that we can use to settle our mind. This is an easy way to achieve a calm mind and maintain it. An easy (and   sometimes also short) meditation practice and regular practice of physical exercises can have an incredible effect on our daily lives.  

Doing these things empowers us to approach our daily lives in a balanced and relaxed way because laziness will no longer hold us back.