Troma: The Wrathful Black Mother
Troma Nagmo Empowerment - June 4
Troma Ngondro, Four Feasts and Concise Sadhana Practice - June 5-8
Troma Ngondro, Four Feasts and Intermediate Sadhana Practice - June 9-13
By Streaming and In Person
Make auspicious connections with offerings for Tsok, Butter Lamps or Smoke Offerings
Masks are currently optional in our shrine room.
For Oral Transmissions (Lungs) and Empowerment (Wang):
You can receive the full lung and empowerment by live streaming, but they must be received in real time (live). Since streaming links are send automatically upon registration, there will be no refund of streaming fees.
Participants will receive teachings and practice instruction for the Troma Ngondro (Preliminary Practices), the concise and intermediate-length sadhanas, and the Four Feasts. In the evenings we will do Troma Sadhana practice with tsok.
While Troma Ngondro is generally undertaken only after completion of the Dudjom Tersar or another general Ngondro, students who have an interest in the Troma Cycle, or in Dzogchen in general, are urged to attend the retreat. There is no specific practice commitment for students who receive the Oral Transmission and teachings during this Troma Retreat.
Lama Sonam Rinpoche gives this background about our Troma Retreat:
"This year during Summer Retreat we will practice Tröma Nagmo from Traktung Dudjom Lingpa’s pure vision treasure revelation Chönyi Namkhay Longdzö, The Treasury of the Expanse of the Sky of Dharmata: The Profound Heart-Essence of Mahasiddha Saraha, Pith Instructions for Severing Attachment and Expectations and Recognizing the Natural State of One’s Own Mind.
"In the vajra speech of the root text it says,
I, Saraha, the Lord of Siddhas,
Keeper of the secret treasury of the dakinis,
Entrust this most essential heart essence,
Which is only for a few fortunate disciples,
To you, Great Traktung.
"Thus, the Great Treasure Revealer himself, in the all-encompassing completely pure wisdom display of his own phenomena, saw that the embodiment of the hundred Mahasiddhas, Glorious Saraha, and the Lake-Born Vajra Samantabhadra, Guru Rinpoche, were but different illusory dance expressions of one single wisdom. He saw them directly and actually received their blessings, and they gave him teachings through symbolic indications. Through that, the treasure box of the profound expanse of the sky-treasury of the nature of phenomena was opened through the magic of self-manifesting wisdom-awareness, and great treasure revelations welled forth inexhaustibly from his wisdom mind.
"This is the distilled essence of all of them; it is deceitless in its teachings on how to accomplish all activities and siddhis, and it is complete with all the key points of the paths of the teachings on the transcendent perfections and the practices of severance (Tib. gcod) found in Guru Padmasambhava’s treasures. Through this practice we can accomplish the Great Transference Rainbow Body in this very lifetime, just as thirteen of Dudjom Lingpa’s disciples did, and just as followers of this lineage continue to do up until now.
I, Saraha, the Lord of Siddhas,
Have placed this condensed heart essence
As a glorious protection for sentient beings in the degenerate age.
Those who have the karma to reach for the state of lasting happiness
Will receive the blessings of the profound wisdom mind lineage.
There is no doubt that they will accomplish Buddhahood in one lifetime.
"Dudjom Lingpa said, 'I practiced diligently for one lifetime and actually reached the supreme state of Buddha Vajradhara. This is my final advice for my beloved lineage holders: practice correctly, my fortunate sons.'”
We want to thank the Light of Berotsana for the gracious use of their texts for our Troma Nagmo Retreat. You can learn more about them here: https://www.berotsana.org/
Please register to attend in person or to receive the live streaming links. All donations help support Pema Osel Ling. If you are not able to pay at one of the suggested levels, please contact office@vajrayana.org. No one will be turned away from streaming the retreat for lack of funds. *You can find our payment and cancellation policies here.
*Please Note: Schedule Times May Be Subject to Change
If you are unable to register at one of the suggested levels, please contact office@vajrayana.org
