What to expect

This online retreat offers a great opportunity to receive and apply in one’s practice extremely precious meditation instructions shared by a student of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, one of the greatest masters of meditation of the 20th century.

The retreat will take place on the weekend of September 19-20, so that working people, who usually cannot make time on weekdays, can join. Participants will receive teachings online during the morning sessions, and then put these instructions into practice during individual offline sessions after lunch.

Erik Pema Kunsang

An outstanding translator of Dharma, Erik Pema is also a practicing yogi, a teacher of meditation, therefore Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche has encouraged him to share his knowledge and experience. When teaching meditation, Erik focuses on a simple and natural presence that helps people to explore their mind and its intrinsic freedom. The simple way of being present can be opened up to allow such qualities as compassion, love, and wisdom to unfold in a most natural way. 

Here is an archive of Erik Pema Kunsang’s articles: http://levekunst.com/author/admin/

Who can participate

This retreat is for everyone who already has some meditation practice experience, while including beginners interested in exploring meditation more deeply. To take part in this retreat, one needs to register and commit to attend the teaching sessions, and practice all the individual offline sessions.

Schedule

September 19	Time
	CET, GMT+2	EET, GMT+3
Technical preparation: join this session to check your internet connection, Zoom settings etc.	8:30-9:00	9:30-10:00
Teaching session with Erik Pema Kunsang online	10:00-12:00	11:00-13:00
Individual session 1 (practicing offline)	15:00-16:00	16:00-17:00
Individual session 2 (practicing offline)	16:30-17:30	17:30-18:30
September 20
Teaching session with Erik Pema Kunsang online	10:00-12:00	11:00-13:00
Individual session 3 (practicing offline)	15:00-16:00	16:00-17:00
Individual session 4 (practicing offline)	16:30-17:30	17:30-18:30

We will send out the Zoom link to join the teaching sessions to all the registered participants as well as instructions how to use Zoom via email a few days before the retreat.

If you would like to watch the recordings of the teaching sessions

For those who would like to download and watch the recordings of the teaching sessions, for participants from America and Asia, we will provide access to view and download the videos of the teaching sessions for personal use only. The link to watch / download the videos will be sent to all registered participants via email. The videos will be uploaded to the linked folder a few hours after the session. These recordings will be accessible online until September 30, 2020.

Registration and how you get ready

Please, register by September 13, 2020 by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/2Gd1GyQJTYs2fzDM8

By submitting this form, you commit to participate in all retreat sessions. To get well prepared for the retreat the organizers would recommend to read and contemplate on Erik’s article http://levekunst.com/how-to-grow-a-bigger-heart/?fbclid=IwAR23yJBk9fDPFrAnmuyRHX2IbD222LutECkvykHMCAPO-7o7F7X75TPLzUw

Zoom instructions and links to join the teaching sessions will be shared with the registered participants via email, a few days before the retreat starts. You will need to install Zoom on your computer or smartphone: https://zoom.us/download

Q&A

You have great opportunity to send your questions related to the topic of this retreat, meditation and instructions received. Questions should be submitted in a written form in advance, either before or right after the teaching session on September 19.

Please send your questions to one of the following email addresses: gomdeua@gmail.com

Erik Pema Kunsang will review the questions before the teaching session on September 20, and give answers to some of them.

Registration fee

It’s Erik’s wish that all donations for the teaching, and the costs of hosting this retreat, this time goes to building materials for the new temple hall at Gomde Ukraine (to learn more about this project https://gomdeua.org/jangchub-choling-en.php). You are welcome to donate any amount you wish.

Gomde Ukraine Partner’s PayPal in Europe https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GN2A95KYMXX5Q&source=url

or Gomde Ukraine account for donations in any currency:  https://www.liqpay.ua/en/checkout/card/i74404396394 

for SWIFT transfers:

for euros: NGO “Rangjung Yeshe Ukraine”, IBAN Code UA703052990000026000026217074, JSC CB “Privatbank”, 1d  Hrushevskoho St., Kyiv, 01001, Ukraine, SWIFT code PBANUA2X, Company address Ukraine, UA 1015, Kyiv, Ivan Kavaleridze St. 7, 19 app. Account in the correspondent bank 400886700401, SWIFT Code of the correspondent bank COBADEFF, Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Or 6231605145, CHASDEFX, J.P.MORGAN AG, FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY

for USD: NGO “Rangjung Yeshe Ukraine”, IBAN Code UA493052990000026005026224169, JSC CB “Privatbank”, 1d Hrushevskoho St., Kyiv, 01001, Ukraine, SWIFT code PBANUA2X, Company address Ukraine, UA 1015, Kyiv, Ivan Kavaleridze St. 7, 19 app. Account in the correspondent bank 001-1-000080, SWIFT Code of the correspondent bank CHASUS33, JP Morgan Chase Bank, New York ,USA. Or 890-0085-754, IRVT US 3N, The Bank of New York Mellon, New York, USA

To learn more about Ukrainian project https://gomdeua.org/jangchub-choling-en.php

In case you have any questions, please do not hesitate and contact us via info@gomdeua.org