The Awakening Warrior with Rob Preece

Co-sponsored by Diamond Light Tibetan Buddhist Group and Vajrapani Institue
4-Day Online Retreat
Friday March 5, 2021-Monday March 8, 2021
8am-4:30pm PST
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.

This retreat will be open to anyone who has a background in the Tibetan tradition and who is interested in deepening their relationship to Arya Tara and the practice of Mahamudra. No specific empowerment is required to attend.

Space is limited so register now!

The term Bodhisattva is sometimes translated as The Awakening Warrior. At this time the qualities of the warrior are needed perhaps more than ever as we find ourselves in a world that is in such turmoil. We need to find the courage, the heartfulness, to transform adversity into the path of awakening. To maintain an open, compassionate heart when there is so much insecurity and fear in the world around requires that we find an inner resource of stillness and clarity that is grounded and unshaken.

The Awakening Warrior discovers a deep relationship to Source, our Buddha-nature, and embodies this in the world to serve the welfare of others. Arya Tara in her various manifestations embodies the awakening warrior in a female aspect that is so significant for these times. She is most familiar in her green aspect as an embodiment of All Accomplishing Wisdom, but she also has manifestations that express the enlightened activities of Peace, Increase, Power and Wrath. If we are to begin to embody our potential Bodhisattva qualities in order to support those suffering at this time, Arya Tara can be our guide and inspiration if we open to her presence.

During this retreat we will begin to explore our relationship to the qualities of the Bodhisattva Tara and her different aspects. Meditation deepening our relationship to Green Tara will be combined with Mahamudra and the embodied practice of Kum Nye.

This retreat will be open to anyone who has a background in the Tibetan tradition and who is interested in deepening their relationship to Arya Tara and the practice of Mahamudra. No specific empowerment is required to attend.

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.