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L I S T E N
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Some of what Justin shares today includes:
00:01:40 Introduction to the retreat place and intentions
00:05:56 Visions in dark retreat
00:15:00 Fear, trust, confidence and endless potential
00:21:00 Not being the only doing the work in one’s practice
00:29:00 Having the correct context of deconditioning the mind
00:32:00 Chogyam Trungpa, Dilgo Khyentse and tummo practice
00:36:00 Being a Buddha and distraction of science
00:40:00 Gaining confidence through felt experience and mastering a practice
00:50:00 Following death, experiencing the bardo
00:56:00 Bardo practice suggestion
01:00:00 Justin’s dharma path from age 3 including Egyptian funerary practice, alchemy and wanting to be a monk
01:13:00 Not getting attached to the technique
01:15:00 Tögal and Sowa Rigpa typology
01:19:00 Letting the heart choose your practice
01:21:00 Emerging towards spaciousness as the throughline for Justin’s path
01:25:00 Touring the retreat cabins
01:32:00 The body in dark retreat and practice
01:37:00 Closing intentions for this retreat place
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Pecha of dark retreat visions that Kyabje Pathing Rinpoche gave Justin
Yangti Yoga retreat place
https://www.yangtiyoga.com/
Justin is an American vajrayana Buddhist teacher, writer, and the is a co-founder of Bhumisparsha an experimental Buddhist sangha along with Lama Rod Owens. Justin served as the Executive Director of Chaplaincy and Staff Wellness for NYC Department of Correction where he also served as Staff Chaplain supervising over 30 chaplains and guided wellness programming for staff. Justin also has professional experience in home hospice and hospital settings as a pastoral caregiver. Justin was ordained as a repa, a lay tantric yogin in the tradition of Milarepa, by His Eminence Gyaltsab Rinpoche, one of the heart sons of His Holiness the 16th Karmapa. Lama Justin has presented on Buddhist practice at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, University of Chicago, Wellesley, Columbia University, has been a visiting instructor at Union Theological Seminary, and is a senior teacher at Pure Land Farms. Justin is passionate about helping to create the conditions for authentic embodied tantric Buddhist spiritual practice in the West.
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Previous conversations:
Dark Retreat, Formlessness & Returning to Completion
Resting into the Mind Beyond Time & Being Consumed by Dharma
Ati Yoga, the Becoming of Indigenous Western Tantra & the Ministry of Death