Presidents’ Weekend Intensive Dharma Retreat—February 12-15, 2016

 

FRIDAY, February 12

5:00 pm Oryioki Training & Orientation

6:00 pm EVENING SNACK

7:00 pm DISCOURSE: “H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Expounds What Is Cultivation” (Provides more detailed commentary to book)  [#75A & #75B-1hour 28 minutes]
8:45pm Evening Chanting and Meditation Practice

10:00 pm LIGHTS OUT

 

SATURDAY, February 13

5:30 am Wake up
6:00 am Walking Meditation
6:30 am Morning Chanting and Meditation (Dharma Practice)

7:30 am BREAKFAST

8:00 am Temple Clean Up/Lunch Preparation
9:00 am DISCOURSE: “Learning Buddhism: Learning the Dharma without Cultivation, One Will Not Attain Accomplishment”  [#236A-41 minutes]
9:45 am DISCOURSE: “Learning Buddhism: One Who Cultivates, but Does Not Learn Dharma Will Not have the Power of Accomplishment”  [#236B-45 minutes]
10:45 am DISCOURSE: “Learning Buddhism: After Listening to Cultivation and the Dharma, If You Do not Put into Practice Immediately, You Are a Most Stupid Idiot and Are Certain to Fall into the Suffering Lower Realms”  [#236C-32 minutes]

11:45 pm LUNCH

1:00 pm DISCOURSE: “The Fifty Verses of Guru Devotion Must Be Abolished to Enable Cultivators Find Good Masters”  [#235-23 minutes]
1:30 pm DISCOURSE: “Twenty-Five Major Dharma Instruments”  [#136-27 minutes]
2:00 pm DISCOURSE: “H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III gives a Discourse on the Practice of Mandala Offering”  [#22-22 minutes]

 

2:30 pm BREAK

 

3:00 pm DISCOURSE: “The Correct Way of Practicing the Dharma of Mandala Rituals” [Optional if we need more time for discussion/rest]  [#224-29 minutes]
3:45 pm DISCOURSE: “Expounding the Absolute Truth of Buddha-Dharma from Truthfulness”  [#221-67 minutes]
5:00 pm DISCOURSE: “There Is No Such Thing as Taking Refuge Again”  [#145-13 minutes]

 

6:00 pm EVENING SNACK

 

7:15 pm DISCOURSE: “Barrier of the Known Is Seed of Devolving; Holding on to It Will Cause You to Lose All Good Fortune and Happiness in Impermanence”  [#129-65 minutes]
8:45 pm Evening Chanting and Meditation Practice (Optional interviews & dharma transmission after chanting)

10:00 pm LIGHTS OUT

 

SUNDAY, February 14 

5:30 am Wake up
6:00 am Walking Meditation

6:30 am Morning Chanting and Meditation (Dharma Practice)

7:30 am BREAKFAST

8:00 am Temple Clean Up/Lunch Preparation
9:00 am DISCOURSE: “The Introductory Guide to, the Concise and Brief Practice of the Preliminary Practice of, and Brief Description of the Formal Practice of the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation”  [#148-71 minutes]
10:30 am DISCOURSE: “One of the More Than 100 Topics in the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation”  [#192-36 minutes]
11:15 am DISCOURSE: ““Relating to the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation”  [#X9-41 minutes]

 

12:15 pm LUNCH

1:30 pm DISCOURSE: “The Dharma of Yoga, the Dharma of Tummo Concentration, and the Qualification for Receiving a Holy Inner-Tantric Initiation”  [#146-19 minutes]
2:00 pm DISCOURSE: “What Is Applying Buddha-Dharma to Daily Life”  [#178-17 minutes]

2:30 pm DISCOURSE: “Stipulation of Dharma That Cannot Be Violated in Teaching Mantra, Mudra, and Initiation”  [#174-18 minutes]”

3:00 pm BREAK

3:30 pm DISCOURSE: ““The Final Serious Ultimatum” [Optional if we need more time for discussion/rest]  [#224-29 minutes]
4:15 pm DISCOURSE: ““The Accomplishment of a Bodhisattva Should Be Quested through Intelligence and Wisdom”  [#139-33 minutes]
5:00 pm DISCOURSE: “Cultivation Is the Mother of Accomplishment; the Nature of Emptiness Is the Foundation of a Holy Person”  [#182-41 minutes]

6:00 pm EVENING SNACK

7:15 pm DISCOURSE: “The Transmission of the Green Tara Dharma and Offerings”  [#38-26 minutes]

DISCOURSE: “H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Gives a Discourse on Dharma Protecting Deities”  [#36-50 minutes]

8:45 pm Evening Chanting and Meditation Practice

10:00 pm LIGHTS OUT

 

MONDAY, February 15

5:30 am Wake up
6:00 am Walking Meditation
6:30 am Morning Chanting and Meditation (Dharma Practice)

7:30 am BREAKFAST

8:00 am Temple Clean Up
9:00 am DISCOURSE: ““Establish Definitive Conclusion Using Correct Views, Thoroughly Understand the Dreaming Nature of Human Life, and Put the Learning of Cultivation in Practice!” [#137-61 minutes]

10:00 am DISCOURSE: “Dharmas Transmitted Verbally, by Ear, and through Consciousness and the Corresponding Initiations”  [#159-19 minutes]

12:30 pm LUNCH