Kalachakra Guru Yoga nearest retreat

Réservé aux initiés du tantra de Kalachakra

Guru Yoga is the supreme practice of union with the spiritual teacher.  This is one of the skillful ways the spiritual teacher uses in order for us to transform our mind, and develop our wisdom and compassion. It is a peaceful and beneficial path, for our mind and for our close ones. This retreat will enable us to consolidate our visualisations and to understand the development and the different levels of this unique practice.
Moreover, through practising extensively all four yogas of the Kalacakra generation stage one may further the purification of the body, speech, mind and deep wisdom drops.
The requirement is the initiation of Kalachakra and sufficient grounding in basic buddhist knowledge and practice. The retreat will conclude with fire puja and preparation for continuing one’s practice in daily life.
At the request of Jhado Rinpoche we have organized many nearest retreats of the Kalachakra Six Sessions Guru Yoga. In 2012, Rinpoche requested us to do this, and asked that every third year we organize the nearest retreat of the Kalachakra Mind Mandala Sadhana. These retreats are also to fulfill the wishes of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, who wanted us to make an offering of these retreats to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, theprincipal source of the Kalachakra in the world today.
This retreat is for Kalachakra tantra intiates only. It is guided in French and in English.

It is better to have an experience of the practice but is not a prerequisite as instructions will be given during the retreat. During this retreat we aim at reciting 100,000 Kalachakra mantras 10,000,000 mantras for each shakti. Even though many participants aim at this goal it is not compulsory. What matters most is to deepen one’s practice and achieve correct realizations. There will also be a strong emphasis on the three principle aspects of the path during the retreat and participants can familiarize with these three principles beforehand. Completing the mantra recitation is difficult and one should not stress about that. Most of all, this retreat brings us closer to the guru and the deity and enables us to progress in one’s practice. 
Fichou (Christian) met Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe at Kopan monastery in 1982 for the first time. Since then he has been committed to trying his best to follow the advice Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave him. He is a long-term practitioner who uses his time and practice to listen, reflect and meditate about the teachings of the Buddha.

La retraite de rapprochement offre les moyens traditionnels de consolider sa pratique

et permet d’être qualifié pour d’autres pratiques. La participation au rituel du feu est

particulièrement bénéfique à la fin d’une retraite de rapprochement, mais aussi pour

accroitre l’activité vertueuse en général.

La retraite est ouverte aux initiés du tantra de Kalachakra. Elle est guidée en français et en anglais. Il est préférable d’avoir une expérience de la pratique mais ce n’est pas essentiel, des instructions sur la pratique seront données durant la retraite.

Durant cette retraite nous allons pratiquer quatre sessions par jour, d’environ deux heures chacune, et nous devrons réciter un certain nombre de mantras :

100 000 mantras de la déité principale Kalachakra

Et 10 000 mantras de chacune des shaktis

Ou bien

10 000 mantras de Visvamata

Et 10 000 mantras de purification à la fin

Pour ce mantra on ajoute (OM AH A DZE) au mantra de Kalachakra.

Bien que le décompte du mantra soit le but à atteindre pour beaucoup de participants, ce n’est pas une obligation, ce qui est le plus important c’est l’approfondissement de son expérience de la pratique et l’achèvement de réalisations correctes. Compléter le décompte de mantras prend environ 15 ou 16 jours et c’est difficile. Il est important de ne pas se mettre de pression. Quelque soit le décompte, cette retraite nous permet de nous rapprocher du maître et de la déité et de progresser dans la pratique. Le dernier jour une une puja du feu sera pratiquée pour purifier les erreurs faites durant la retraite. Seules les personnes ayant fini les mantras pourront participer à la puja du feu.

Le matériel nécessaire pour cette retraite :

• Un vajra, une cloche et si possible un damaru

• Un mala, si possible avec 111 perles 

• Un mini compteur électronique (facile à trouver sur internet)

Il est possible de s’inscrire pour une semaine uniquement (pas moins), du 27 juin au 5 juillet. Dans ce cas, les participants devraient avoir la motivation de réciter le mantra de Kalachakra 100 000 fois.

Participants are asked to arrive before 7pm; we invite you to consult the SNCF timetables for the outward and return journeys on the following links:

https://www.sncf-connect.com/train/horaires/paris/la-ferte-bernard

https://www.sncf-connect.com/train/horaires/la-ferte-bernard/paris

Kalachakra tantra initiates only.

Guru Yoga is the supreme practice of union with the spiritual teacher. This is one of the skillful ways the spiritual teacher uses in order for us to transform our mind, and develop our wisdom and compassion. It is a peaceful and beneficial path, for our mind and for our close ones. This retreat will enable us to consolidate our visualisations and to understand the development and the different levels of this unique practice.

This nearest retreat offers traditional means to consolidate one’s practice and to be fully qualified for other practices. Taking part to the fire ritual is especially beneficial at the end of the nearest retreat and also to increase virtuous activity in general.

The retreat will allow to purify channels, winds, aggregates, elements, sensorial bases and their objects, faculties of attention and actions. Moreover, through practising extensively all four yogas of the Kalacakra generation stage one may further the purification of the body, speech, mind and deep wisdom drops.

This retreat is for Kalachakra tantra intiates only. It is guided in French and in English. It is better to have an experience of the practice but is not a prerequisite as instructions will be given during the retreat. 

During this retreat we will do four daily sessions of approximately two hours each and we aim at reciting a set number of mantras :

100,000 mantras of the Kalachakra main deity and 10,000,000 mantras for each shakti

Or 10,000 Visvamata mantras and 10,000 purification mantras at the end. For this mantra, we add (OM AH A DZE) to the Kalacakra mantra.

Even though many participants aim at this goal it is not compulsory. What matters most is to deepen one’s practice and achieve correct realizations. Completing the mantra recitation is difficult and one should not stress about that. Most of all, this retreat brings us closer to the guru and the deity and enables us to progress in one’s practice. The retreat will end with a fire puja to purify mistakes during the retreat. Only people having completed the mantras can take part to the fire puja.

List of the material required :

A vajra, a bell and if possible a damaru

A mala, with 111 beads if possible

An electronic tally counter

It is possible to register for one week only (not less than than) from June 27 to July 5. In that case, participants should have the motivation to recite 100,000 Kalacakra mantras.

Fichou (Christian) met Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe at Kopan monastery in 1982 for the first time. Since then he has been committed to trying his best to follow the advice Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave him. He is a long-term practitioner who uses his time and practice to listen, reflect and meditate about the teachings of the Buddha.