Meditation
Retreat Highlights
- Meditate online with a Tibetan Lama
- Connect with community
- Start your week centered in Love
About this Retreat
Your Guides
Details of this retreat
Join Tibetan meditation master, Drupon Lama Dorje, each week on Monday to center your heart in love and compassion.
Strengthening your heart, presence, and calmness is one of the best ways to transform your the way you interact with a world that is fast and unsettling.
Each Monday, Lama shares spontaenous heart teachings filled with joy, inspiration, and practical instructions to transform our lives through inner growth. He pulls from his personal experience and a lifetime of practice to answer questions and guide us back to our innate home in the heart.
Join us (most) Mondays at 7pm Costa Rica time. Please calculate your time zone according to your country, as Costa Rica does not change its time zone.
Occasionally we will skip a Monday due to Lama's schedule. For real time infomation about Meditation Monday (and all events), please join our International Sangha WhatsApp group by clicking this LINK or emailing info@lamadorje.net.
The Practice
Primarily our practice is centered around Tonglen, an ancient meditation method to awaken compassion. Tonglen is a fundamental daily practice for transforming any situation into happiness. Instead of rejecting tough experiences and relationship dynamics, we will practice recycling our struggles into compassion and loving kindness. Every situation becomes an opportunity to cultivate more openness and a deep inner sense of ease.
Why Monday?
Starting your Monday with a meditation can be very supportive practice to set your intention and approach the week with calm clarity.
Is this Practice For Me?
Although this practice comes from the Buddhist tradition, everyone of any and all beliefs and experience levels are encouraged to join us in this healing meditation.
What Language?
This event is bilingual in Spanish with English translation
Schedule
Middle: Meditation on Compassion
Ending: Q&A with Lama
What's Included
- Online meditation with a Tibetan Lama, Question and Answer session to apply compassion to real life situations, Traditional meditation style that is approachable and effective
What's Not Included
- Travel to and from the center
- Additional services like Massage
- Gifts from the gift shop
Customer Reviews
Time is the life
Noble Silence Retreat
The site itself is amazing. It is remote and the last half-hour drive is challenging. The 20 minute walk down from our lodging to the beautiful meditation hall and dining room is beautiful ... I stopped frequently along the way to view pastures of wild flowers, locate a woodpecker high up the trees, admire a cow and its calf resting in the grass, pick ripe guavas, listen to a stream rushing by ... One night, the weather cleared and we were fortunate to have a ceremony outdoors with a full moon and bonfire, celebrating the historical Buddha's birth.
This was my second retreat at Dewachen. I hope to attend many more.
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First online retreat was so beneficial
I particularly loved how attending this online retreat gave me the opportunity to optimize my home meditation set up. Normally, I don't meditate for four hours a day while also attending dharma lectures from my meditation seat. So, doing this retreat made me realize that I could make my meditation seat far more comfortable. Now, I am much more attentive to having my meditation seat be sustainable for my body. And doing so has made my practice much more enjoyable, which means I want to practice more, and I enjoy practicing more and for longer when I do.
Also, typically when you attend a retreat somewhere, there is a difference from your home life before retreat, entering the retreat space, and then returning home to normal life again. I was able to more easily continue my normal practice in addition to the retreat activities. This would have been more challenging to do if I was on site. So, this gave me a greater continuity with bringing my normal practice into a retreat environment.
I also felt a great continuity when the retreat ended and my normal home practice resumed in the context of my daily schedule. The energy of the retreat more seamlessly carried over to my home practice in daily life as I had already been enjoying my home life as a sacred retreat environment.
While entering the retreat environment physically is such a powerful experience, and I'm very much looking forward to attending in-person retreats at Dewachen someday, I'm so glad I got to attend virtually. I look forward to attending more retreats at Dewachen!
Drupon Lama Dorje
Drupon Lama Dorje has shared the teachings of the Buddha and the Eightfold Path with me for seven years now. I feel blessed to have the opportunity to witness the love and dedication the Lama shows as he shares the words of the Buddha. Lama Dorje has a gift of humor and great storytelling. As I hear and watch Lama Dorje speak, I cannot but be reminded of the “laughing”Buddha statue. Lama Dorje’s smile shines out like a beacon of light and love.
I believe one of the most important gifts of my life was given me by Lama Dorje in his discussions, meditations, and teachings. I realize my life is to honor and respect all, and to simply practice love and kindness in all aspects of my life.
Garrison M