Eliminating Flaws in Meditation
with Geshe Dangsong Namgyal
SATURDAY, April 4, 11 & 18, 2026 10-11:30 am pacific time
Mexico 11:00 am-12:30 pm; Berlin 6:00 pm-7:30 pm
(K.G friend member included) English with Spanish Translation | Online
For three consecutive weeks, there will be classes and practical training focused on how to eliminate obstacles and defects in meditation in general, and specifically within the Great Perfection (Dzogchen) meditation. Along with group meditation, there will also be opportunities for questions and answers, which everyone is welcome to attend.
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The teachings will directly address how to remedy situations where, despite usually having a good understanding of meditation, the practice is interrupted by mental sinking and agitation, cases where the meditative state is unstable and prone to change—or instances where the state is stable but there is no further progress in understanding. Specifically, the sessions will cover the lack of advancement in experiences such as bliss and emptiness, the weakening of mental capacity such that previous meditative progress seems to dissipate; the arising of indecision and doubt regarding crucial points previously understood; physical ailments that harm the body; and mental interference caused by spirits and obstructive forces. The instructions will provide methods for treating these and other hindrances to meditation that arise due to past karma and karmic debts.
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Registration: $60 full course; $20 per class
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Dzogchen Phowa & Bardo Teaching
with Bön Rimé Geshe Dangsong Namgyal
Friday, April 24th, 2026. 6 - 8 pm pacific
Saturday & Sunday, April 25 & 26, 2026 6- 9 pm pacific
Online only. English with Spanish Translation
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Recordings available.
In Tibetan, the term bar do literally means the "middle" or "interval." Within these instructions, bardo refers to the period between being alive and death, or the interval between death and taking a subsequent rebirth. These teachings provide pith instructions that introduce one’s own pristine awareness, allowing for its swift realization. Practitioners of Secret Mantra and Dzogchen often find that those who struggle to comprehend the nondual nature of reality while alive can easily recognize it during the intermediate state and thereby attain Buddhahood.
This practice is connected to the yoga of luminosity; it is a method where the visions of clear light arise easily, securing one's future path. The practice of transference (phowa), focuses on how consciousness leaves the body. It is a vital method that guides the dying process toward peace and happiness, ensuring a favorable future rebirth. Our human life is not very long. Furthermore, there is no certainty that sudden misfortunes or obstacles will not occur at any moment. Since natural disasters, epidemics, and mechanical accidents happen unpredictably, no one can be sure they will remain unaffected. Thus, the practice of transference is of great importance for everyone.
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These teachings present the essential knowledge of how the five elements of one’s body gradually dissolve at the time of death, showing the relationship between the
external and internal elements. If one gains stability in the practice of transference, being reborn in a sublime pure land is not merely a matter of aspiration, but something that can be accomplished through your own practice.
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Thus, for two days, we will engage in the instructions on the intermediate state and the practice of transference. This particular instruction is the Dzogchen transference, coming from the lineage of the rainbow body seeker, Shardza Rinpoche.
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Standard donation: $108
Low income: $80