March 29-31, 2019 10AM-4:30PM
Join us for the second installment of Chaphur Rinpoche’s teaching on the 21 Nails.
About the 21 Nails:
One of the innermost secret teachings from the Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyud (Aural Transmission of Zhang Zhung). Each of the 21 nails describes an essential point of Dzogchen practice – Directly cutting through doubts about one’s Natural State by tracing the Nature of Mind back to its Source.
The teaching of the Twenty-One Nails is a direct expression of Enlightenment – our Natural Mind. Each Nail describes this Natural State from a different point of view. The views are called “Nails” or “Seals” because they stabilize ones experiential understanding of the Natural State. These teachings are said to have come directly from the Primordial Buddha, Küntu Zangpo, who then passed them down by direct mind-to-mind Transmission to eight successive Buddhas. It was then transmitted orally to 24 human Bön Lineage Holders, all of whom were yogis and siddhas who achieved the Rainbow Light Body.
In the 7th century Gyerpung Nangzher Lodpo set down the teachings in writing for the first time in the Zhang Zhung language after receiving them from Tapihritsa, the 25th Zhang Zhung Master, during their third and final encounter.
This Teaching has been transmitted in an unbroken succession of Lineage Holders down to our Teachers of the present day.
LOCATION:
1608 Bonita Road, San Pablo, CA 94806
Lunch will be provided
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A few words about this Gyalshen event:
As many of you are aware, Gyalshen Institute has invited His Holiness 34th Menri Trizin Rinpoche to give Dzogchen teachings at our summer residential retreat Click Here. For this reason Chaphur Rinpoche will be giving the second part of the 21 Nails in March as a weekend teaching. This teaching will not replace our summer (non-residential) retreat which will run from August 28th to September 1st on the Heart Drops of Kuntu Zangpo.
We will briefly review the nails that were covered in our 2018 summer retreat, and then continue through the rest of the text. Previous attendance of Gyalshen’s 2018 summer retreat is NOT required – this retreat is open to anyone who is interested in Dzogchen practice.
We look forward to seeing you there this March!
