Online Sangha Video Archive

Retreat logistics are discussed, including prerequisites and scheduling. Geshe-la answers questions on trauma, awakening, and Dzogchen view, emphasising ethics, concentration, wisdom, and trust. The session concludes with reflections on community, non-dual awareness, and a closing meditation led by a group member.

This session includes a reflection on resistance, survival strategies, and subtle effort in practice. Geshe-la encourages staying present with discomfort without trying to fix or escape it, emphasising trust, receptivity, and the natural unfolding of awareness beyond conceptual identity.

Geshé-la shares how guru yoga transforms conceptual mind, cultivates devotion, and matures trust in the natural state. He explores fear, striving, and integrating the view into daily life, emphasising simplicity, openness, and the heart’s role in sustaining recognition.

Geshe speaks of the funeral proceeding for His Eminence Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche who recently passed which becomes the occasion for a wide-ranging reflection on the dying process, Phowa, Thukdam, signs of yogic realisation, and the power of post-death connection. Geshé-la responds to questions on lineage, ancestors, and interfaith, and a meditation on the stages of dissolution closes the session.

Geshé-la responds to questions on the progression from concentration to emptiness in Bön. He describes key distinctions between Sutra, Mahāmudrā, and Dzogchen, explains the nature of projection and reactivity, and guides the group in recognizing awareness without interference, striving, or fabrication.

This session explores how to remain in awareness in the face of distraction, agitation or emotional discomfort. The group discusses subtle identity, spiritual bypassing, and what it means to meet experience without getting caught in distraction and losing the view. The discussion reflects ATRI Session Six, Seven & Eight with emphasis on natural awareness and direct experience along with deepening concentration.

This session explores the nature of mind through the lens of clarity, movement, and perception. The group discusses how subtle forms of grasping and unconscious patterning obscure awareness, and how the view in Dzogchen relates to immediate experience. Themes include the language of Western and Tibetan approaches and the role of direct inquiry…

This session follows a 7-day retreat on the Nine stages of staying using Asangha’s Elephant Path and focuses on integrating concentration into ongoing practice. Participants reflect on the foundational role of stabilising attention as preparation for insight, the connection to view, and the relevance of structured practice when approaching emptiness teachings.

This session explores the Dzogchen view that appearances and mind are inseparable. Using the phrase “vision is mind,” the group discusses how perception can be used to recognise the nature of awareness. The conversation covers conceptual vs. direct experience, integration into daily life, and stabilising recognition beyond intellectual insight.