Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Mahamudra Meditation-Level 3 Intensive Retreat
Rahob Tulku, Thupten Kalsang Rinpoche
Daniel Brown, Ph.D.
Dan Brown and Rahob Tulku Rinpoche teaching
The level 3 retreat is restricted to meditators who previously have taken the level 1 and/or level 2 Pointing Out
retreat directly with Daniel Brown and least one time, who have had direct experience of awakened awareness, however unstable.
Entry into the level 3 course is restricted to those students who have established an on-going relationship with one of the four teachers,
and wherein the teacher has nominated the student for the level 3 course, based on level of realization. Do not sign up without a
teacher?s permission. The level 3 course is designed specifically for students who have some degree of awakening, who wish to stabilize
this awakening at all times in all situations, and who wish to then develop the positive qualities, conduct, and levels of awareness of
a Buddha for the benefit of others. There are two transmissions of teachings in the level 3 retreat. The level 3a course will focus
on Great Completion (Dzogs chen) meditations, mainly a transmission of Garab rDorje?s Three Golden Letters, and the
Patrul Rinpoche commentary on it as found in Lion's Gaze. Additional teachings come from Longchen Ramjam?s
Self-Liberated Mind, and Padma Sambhava?s Self-Liberation Through Seeing with Naked Awareness. The main
emphasis is on stabilizing awakened awareness through:
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1. Re-establishing the conditions which set up awakening via non-meditation and thoroughly cutting through instructions;
2. Identifying conditions that cloud over awakened awareness in everyday life, such as thought, emotional states, self, and external appearance; and
3. Developing meta-cognitive skills that sustain awakening.