Austria, 15 Mar 2016 - 20 Mar 2016

We all want to be loved. When we are in a relationship, we assume that our partner loves us because of how we are. We always refer the love to ourselves and expect from our partner that he/she lives up to our expectations and does everything to make us happy. This leads to problems that overshadow the feeling of love. Automatically the question arises why the partner doesn’t fulfill my expectations although he/she loves me.

In this lecture, Tulku Lobsang gives us effective means how we can learn unconditional, encompassing love – how we can love without expecting anything in return. With this kind of love we are no longer imprisoned in negative emotions but can experience deep, long lasting happiness.

Tulku Lobsang teaches in English and will be translated into German.

Tonglen is a Tibetan meditation practice on the art of giving and taking. This practice helps us to develop loving kindness and compassion and to overcome attachment.

In the Tonglen practice of giving and taking we take on everything with compassion and we give everything with love. Taking on everything with compassion also includes the suffering – our own and the suffering around us. We learn to overcome our fear of accepting suffering. Giving everything with love, means we give without expecting anything in return. We don’t even expect that what we give will be accepted by others. When we learn this, the giving no longer has its root in the ego and, therefore, we no longer suffer when our expectations are not fulfilled.

Tonglen helps to reverse our usual pattern of avoiding suffering and giving with expectation. This is how we liberate ourselves from our ego. We begin to feel deep love for ourselves and for others and to take care of ourselves and of others. Tonglen awakens our deep compassion.

In this workshop, Tulku Lobsang lovingly introduces us to this wonderful Tibetan practice which will deeply enrich our lives and our relationships.

Tulku Lobsang teaches in English and will be translated into German.

During our life we spend about 240,000 hours sleeping. By the term dream meditation we understand the practice of lucid dreaming. This means that we are aware of that we are dreaming while we are dreaming. 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 teaches in English and will be translated into German.

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 and does not reach all parts of our body anymore. 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.

In this workshop, Tulku Lobsang will share the basics of this wonderful practice which can then be built upon as one develops more experience.

Tulku Lobsang teaches in English and will be translated into German.

The Heart Sutra is one of the most famous and powerful of the Buddhist teachings. It describes how to plant the seed for enlightenment through the perfection of wisdom. By learning the Heart Sutra we have the chance to develop deep wisdom about the fundamental nature of ourselves and of reality.

The Heart Sutra is literally called “The Heart of the Perfection of Transcendent Wisdom.” It explains how to achieve liberation through meditations by awakening wisdom. The Heart Sutra contains main concepts of Buddhist philosophy. We learn from the Heart Sutra that our conditioned way of thinking—our habits of judging, separating and labeling—prevents us from recognizing the true nature of phenomena as empty of inherent or independent existence. Even our concepts of “birth” and “death” stem from a dualistic and limited perspective.

Once we recognize this through deep meditation it becomes possible to eliminate our suffering and free ourselves from the cycle of samsara. We will become free of concepts and illusions. When we cultivate the perfection of wisdom, we can remain—for the benefit of all sentient beings—for an endless time in the cycle of samsara. Only with these realizations can we move beyond all deluded states of mind and achieve the perfection of wisdom, the state of the complete enlightenment.