Meditation Retreat Three:

Inner Fire Practices of Tibetan Bön Dzogchen

Key Information:

Location & Date:

Location: East Melbourne, Victoria, 3002, Australia

Date: 24th^ - 28th April 2024

^Denotes 5:00pm evening start time

Attendance Requirements:

This in-person course requires application.

Applications & Bookings:

For applications and booking please select ‘Apply Now’ below.

Participant Contribution:

Your support, financially and through practice, directly influence the preservation and integration of these precious teachings in the indigenous Tibetan regions of Nepal and in Australia. It is your sincere support that builds an equitable and sustainable pathway between the Mustang Region of Nepal and the West.

This retreat is 100% volunteer based and all donations go directly to support, preserve and revitalise the precious Bön traditions and lineage teachings of the Mustang Region.

Suggested donations for this retreat (Australian Dollars)*:

  • $750 for a supporting participant

    • For those willing and able to support those less financially able

  • $550 for a standard participant

    • For those with reasonable access to financial resources

*Please note: if the above suggested donations will result in a state of financial distress, please reach out to our Support Team for alternative payment options as no individual will be turned away due to financial hardship.

Retreat Description:

Meditation Retreat Three | Inner Fire Practices of Tibetan Bön Dzogchen

The Tibetan Bön model of Dzogchen presented in this retreat provides a comprehensive introduction into the Inner Fire (Tummo) practice of the inner channels and the chakras as outlined in the Tibetan Bön Dzogchen tradition. In this retreat, students will be presented with a detailed set of Dzogchen instructions designed to clear energetic obscurations of the body in order to increase the clarity and luminosity of awakened mind and develop skills to regulate energy flow. 

This practice builds on the foundations developed in Retreat Two: Core Practices of Tibetan Bön Dzogchen designed to refine and stabilise concentration without external or internal support

The intention of Inner Fire (Tummo) practice is to clear physiological blockages that interfere with clarity of Mind, the goal of Bön practice.  By intending the mind on the energy channels, chakras and winds, a clearer alignment between mind and body is established.  This is an advanced energy practice and requires students to be suitably prepared to receive the full benefit. Students should have familiarity and an established practice in the Core Practices of Dzogchen (Trekchö) as well as in the Preliminary and Concentration Practices and concentration skills presented in Retreat One and Retreat Two.  

It should be noted that Core Practices of Dzogchen (Trekchö) serve as the foundation designed to cut through mental obscurations and set up the conditions for realisation of the nature of the mind as being pointed out. It is this capacity to rest the mind, concentrated in non-dual awareness, that serves as an important foundation for Inner Fire (Tummo) practice to avoid approaching this energy work from a conceptual view which invites a subject-object differentiation. It is intended for these practices to be the experience of a singular living system.

This retreat shares a complete set of teachings from the A Khrid (Atri) Lineage of Tibetan Bön Dzogchen; a one-thousand-year-old compendium of the middle path to liberation in Bön. This text is the gateway to a series of expanded texts that refine the skills that ultimately lead to full awareness of mind.

Chapter 8 is covered from the text: ‘The Pith Instructions for the Stages of the Practice Sessions of the A-Tri (A Khrid) System of Bön Dzogchen Meditation’.

Book 8 is covered from the text: ‘Self-Arising Three-fold Embodiment of Enlightenment of Bön Dzogchen Meditation’. This text is a very extensive commentary on the A Khrid Bön Great Completion practice of the Bru rGyal ba tradition.

These texts are available for purchase here and will be available for pick up at the commencement of the next retreat.

Applications and Bookings

April 2024 | Retreats

Tibetan Bön Dzogchen Meditation Retreats.

The Australia Bön Mustang Foundation are pleased to announce the Tibetan Bön Dzogchen Meditation Retreats held live and in-person with Geshe Sonam Gurung in Melbourne this coming April 2024.

Retreat 1

Preliminary Practices of Bön Dzogchen

  • Retreat Start: 5:00PM, Friday, April 12, 2024

    Retreat End: 5:00PM, Tuesday, April 16, 2024

  • This retreat is based on the ancient Tibetan Bön Atri teachings of Dzogchen and gives an authentic transmission in the teacher student tradition from the Lama to the participants. It provides an overview of the entire path to full liberation as well as instruction in the essential aspects of Tibetan Buddhist meditation.

  • This in-person course is open to all applicants who wish to participate.

Retreat 2

Core Practices of Bön Dzogchen

  • Retreat Start: 5:00PM, Wednesday, April 17, 2024

    Retreat End: 5:00PM, Sunday, April 21, 2024

  • This retreat extends on the practices presented in Retreat One: Preliminary Practices of Tibetan Bön Dzogchen and introduces students, who have developed the fundamentals of concentration, to meditation beyond the ordinary mind.

  • This in-person course is open to all applicants who wish to participate.

Retreat 3

Inner Fire Practices of Bön Dzogchen

  • Retreat Start: 5:00PM, Wednesday, April 24, 2024

    Retreat End: 5:00PM, Sunday, April 28, 2024

  • This retreat provides a comprehensive introduction into the practice of the inner channels and the chakras as outlined in the Tibetan Bön Dzogchen tradition. This practice builds on the foundations developed in Retreat Two: Core Practices of Tibetan Bön Dzogchen and is designed to clear energetic obscurations of the body in order to increase the clarity and luminosity of awakened mind and develop skills to regulate energy flow.

  • This in-person course requires application. Due to the advanced nature of these practices, some previous meditation experience is required.

Make a donation.

The Bön Mustang Foundation Australia has been established with the primary intent to support, preserve and revitalise the precious Bön traditions and lineage teachings of the Mustang Region. This organisation is 100% funded on a volunteer and donation basis with all funds going to the direct support of The Children’s Hostel in Mustang, Nepal and for the continued development of The Shenten Thagye Ling Monastery at the request of H.H the 33rd Abbot of Menri Monastery.