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Natural Liberation into the Nature of Mind:
Core Principles & Practices of Seeing to Being I
September 12-14th 2025
In 2002 Adzom Paylo Rinpoche revealed to Lama Rigzin Drolma an exceptionally brief and profound quintessential instruction on the path of Dzogchen. He later titled this Natural Liberation into the Nature of Mind (Sems nyid rang grol), or Natural Liberation into Evenness (mnyam nyid rang grol). In this retreat we share with you the very practical core principles and practices of this precious revelation.
Following Adzom Rinpoche’s revelation of the core of Natural Liberation into the Nature of Mind, Lama Rigzin unfolded it further based on several meaningful dialogues (2007, 2014) with Adzom Rinpoche aimed at identifying an array of distilled Dzogchen-related principles that apply to the entire spectrum of the path, and that were implicit in Rinpoche’s initial revelation. This endeavor was remarkable and perhaps unheard of – a traditional Treasure Revealer (Terton) working with a contemporary scholar-practitioner to produce a model of practice for modern students, in what can be described as a teaching developed in tandem, something like a co-revealed revelation.
We find this model is proving to be of inestimable value for accessing the profound view of Dzogchen through nuanced steps that are easily digested by mind and body. It is a blessed practice and thus carries the transmitted blessings of Rinpoche and his lineage.
The 2025-2026 series is foundational to our teaching in the next 3-5 years, an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of an exciting sequence of Seeing to Being retreats and sādhanas on various topics. It is highly recommended to everyone seeking a pithy introduction to crucial aspects of the path as a whole, as well as anyone wishing to optimize benefitting from our work together in the next three to five years.
Gendlin’s Focusing in Support of Dzogchen Practice Part One
Oct 18, 2025 10 am -5:30 pm
During the five decades of my involvement with traditional Dzogchen teachings and practice, I have come to see many issues that arise in myself and other non-ethnic Buddhist practitioners, and I have found that there are occasions when specific insights from a modern psychological method can help. This course is for Dzogchen students who are interested in such insights in support of traditional Dzogchen practice.
This first day of teachings includes body scan meditation as well as an introduction to the psychological practice of Focusing, developed by Eugene Gendlin at the University of Chicago.
I find this to be a simple and useful adjunct to our spiritual practice.
Focusing is a means of being with one’s physical experience in a way that can lead to personal openings which, in sometimes surprising ways, help us move us along the path.
It turns out that the very process of sharpening our capacity for this kind of discernment, within the context of the blessings of the lineage, can also start weakening the very underpinning of holding to the solidity of self, and the sense of the impermeability of the other.
Application for Gendlin’s Focusing in Support of Dzogchen Practitioners
If you have attended:
Dzogchen Cycles retreats
Lama Tenzin retreats
Tara retreats
Adzom Paylo Rinpoche retreats
with Dawn Mountain you are cleared to join this Saturday workshop.
If you are affiliated with one of Adzom Paylo Rinpoche’s other communities
or with Gyalse Rinpoche’s communities please write Lama Namgyal (haronson108@gmail.com) what Dzogchen teachings/retreats or practices you have
attended and wait for a response. Please put Gendlin’s Focusing in the subject line of your email, if not it
may get lost.
At this time I am limiting attendance to these communities of students.
Events with Our Lamas in Other Organizations
The events listed below are not hosted by Dawn Mountain. Please reach out to the host organization for any issues with registration.
