Embodying Compassionate Presence: A Chenrezig Retreat with Rob Preece

Embodying Compassionate Presence – A Chenrezig Retreat

4-Day Online Retreat
Friday April 14, 2023-Monday April 17, 2023
7am-5pm PDT
Please plan to attend all days, no partial retreat available

Sliding scale $200-$300
Scholarships available, please email diamondlight.sac@gmail.com to request a scholarship.
Space is limited so register now!

This retreat will be open to anyone who has a background in the Tibetan tradition, no specific empowerment is required to attend.

The practice of Chenrezig gives us the opportunity to receive and attune to a deep quality of compassionate presence. As we become increasingly familiar with this in ourselves, we are then more able to offer this to others as an expression of Bodhichitta. Perhaps the most meaningful way we can be of benefit to another when they are suffering is to offer compassionate presence. This is a quality that can be totally present and open in a way that allows both ourselves and others to be as we are, free of agendas and expectations.

When we experience this, it enables our suffering to begin to move through because it is held safely with compassion. We have all needed this at different times in our life. Can we be this for ourselves as well as for others? Chenrezig is the Buddha of compassionate presence. He enables us to begin to discover and embody that quality in a way that can inform all of our relationships including to ourselves.

During this retreat the practice of Chenrezig will be combined with Mahamudra meditation and Kum Nye.

This retreat is for those who have some experience of Buddhist meditation.

Rob Preece
Rob has been a practicing Tibetan Buddhist since 1973. In 1980 he went to India and was in retreat for around five years exploring in depth the practice of tantra, meditating under the guidance of his teachers Lama Thubten Yeshe, Gen Jhampa Wangdu and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Returning to the West, in 1985 he began a Jungian based psychotherapy training, gradually developing a synthesis of Jungian and Buddhist understanding. He worked as a psychotherapist for around 28 years and then began to focus upon spiritual mentoring. Since 1985 he has been leading meditation retreats, following the influence of Lama Yeshe who particularly encouraged his integration of a more Western approach to tantric practice. He is an experienced Tangkha painter as well as the author of The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra; The Wisdom of Imperfection; and most recently Tasting the Essence of Tantra. Today he teaches retreats in the UK with his wife Anna and also in Europe and the US.