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Direct Introduction to the State of Atiyoga Vladivostok Retreat THE MIRROR Newspaper of the International Dzogchen Community September/October 2000 • Issue No. 54 VLADIVOSTOK RETREAT WITH CHÖGYAL NAMKHAI NORBU RUSSIA AVCL'ST, 2000 by Irina Pustovit DIRECT INTRODUCTION TO THE STATE OF ATIYOGA Retreat with Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche teaching at Vladivostok with Grisha Mokhin translating Merigar -|- t looked like this endless flight and because it was nine hours dif­ I which took many hours would ference between Riga and Vladi­ July 2000 never come to the end when the vostok we were sleeping in the day by Tuula Saarkoski pleasant voice of a flight attendant time and having fun by night, the informed us: "Ladies and gentle­ same as all the people from Eastern J~\irect Introduction to the State of Atiyoga, the new joined to the electric current. The joining cord in this men, in twenty minutes we'll get to Europe. On the beach a tent camp -Z-X Upadesha text of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, was case is the Master, the Guru. the place of Artems airport..." I had grown up. Fifty to sixty tents the basis of the teachings at the Merigar summer retreat Thinking of all those who live far away and do not looked out the window and thought. sprouted there. About six hundred in July, 2000. This text is an essential teaching concern­ have the possibility to travel to receive teaching and "Will we be able to land with such people took part in the retreat. I ing how to find oneself in the state of Atiyoga, the state transmission. Chögyal Namkhai Norbu has suggested a bad weather?". Or should we go and want to say THANK YOU VERY of Dzogpa Chenpo, and belongs to the cycle of "The solution which is based on the modern technology. It is look for another airport? Outside MUCH to all people who organized Innermost Essence of the Dakinis of the Radiant Clarity not that he thinks transmission can work through videos there was fog, or maybe they were this retreat. It was done very profes­ of the Universe". Chögyal Namkhai Norbu received this or telephone or any mechanical device, but these things low settled clouds, out of which sionally and at the same time every­ teaching through his dreams, the first time in 1972, can be used as a tool. So, he is suggesting that on the hills were sticking out. It seemed one was very kind and tactful. They again in 1978, and again in 1983, when he was finally anniversary days of Adzom Druizpa, Guru Padmasamb- like whipped cream generously found such a beautiful place for the able to write it down without any outside interruption to hava and Garab Dorje. when the entire Dzogchen Com­ covered the hills and nothing would retreat. Astonishing nature that was stop him from remembering. This text consists of the munity joins together in Guruyoga at the same moment be able to get through the barrier. unspoiled by civilization. There essence of the three testaments of Garab Dorje related to according to the international time table, he will give the The most gorgeous out of this world were a lot of huge butterflies, spi­ the state of tregchod and the three series of Semde, transmission and we can receive it practicing according sun rise and burning sun light were ders, sea stars and other creatures. Longde and Mennagde. to a rite on video which is being prepared, (see Mirror penetrating the clouds three times We got a sensation like the whole of Rinpoche started his explanation by speaking of the #53, page 3) In this case, the way to practice and receive before we finally landed on the nature was sounding A and Om A importance of Guruyoga in the Dzogchen practice, and is shown on the video, but the transmission comes from small (and I mean small) airport at Hum. Even in the sound of the sea so each day the teaching began with just that, the him, live, at that moment, in all the world, because dis­ Vladivostok. and scream of the crows we were Guruyoga exactly as he practiced it with his Master, tance is not an obstacle. Thanks to Rinpoche I traveled hearing it. The weather was spoiling Rigdzin Changchub Dorje, in the dream, when receiv­ Seeing that his old students are becoming older peo­ so far from Latvia, otherwise I us. ing this Upadesha teaching. After sounding a very slow ple. Chögyal Namkhai Norbu invited all to spend the would never have so many power­ continued on page 11 and long A, Rinpoche remained like that for some time. rest of their time on the island of Margarita, out in the ful and beautiful experiences which So I indissolubly unified my mind with his State and Caribbean, off the Venezuelan coast. There the climate I'll remember as long as I can. remained in the equanimity of contemplation. After a is pleasant all year round, old people would feel good, There was a short pause to get while my precious Master started singing the Vajra Song and the younger ones could follow after. A wonderful the luggage and our little group CONTENTS beginning with "Etna Kiri Kiri..." and I also joined in and considerate offer. from Riga was speeding ahead to a singing. That is what we all did in and around the Gonpa Every morning there was Yantra Yoga and Vajra boyscout camp called "Yunga". In 2 THE CAMP ON THE HILL at the summer retreat at Merigar. As Rinpoche pointed Dance. After the teaching there was Yantra Yoga and forty minutes the cab driver Chögyal Namkhai Norbu out, one has to be joined to the transmission, otherwise Vajra Dance again for beginners. Merigar was well pre­ dropped us off near a gate of the 4 INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS the teaching is just words. He said to have a lamp is not pared and expected a large number of people, but the camp. In a few more steps we were 5 STORY OF SHAKYA SRI enough, it is just an object, but to give light it has to be final number may have still been a surprise. We were all standing on the beach surrounded Elio Guarisco by an enormous and beloved Vajra continued on page 11 family. Our Vajra brothers and sis­ 5 BOOK REVŒW ters welcomed by us with hugs and 7 Asia NAMKHAI NORBU RINPOCHE'S SCHEDULE 2000-2002 kisses. What was the most impor­ 9 KALACHAKRA IN INDIA tant for me - here in the water of the 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 Sea of Japan, Chögyal Namkhai 11 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF October 6th - 8th SOUTH AMERICA, PERU CHÖGYAL NAMKHAI NORBU Teaching retreat. Taipei.Taiwan February 1st Norbu was swimming and playing October 11th-15th Leave for Peru in the company of a fifty people. 1 13 "THE CAMERA is ALWAYS IN RIGPV Kaohsiung Longde Retreat, Taiwan rushed into a little building on the Interview with Russell Richardson and October 17th USA, WEST COAST Leave for vacation at Taidung Island or elsewhere May 1st beach to put on my swim suit and Dorata Czerner October 27th Public Talk jumped into the water. OK, Norbu 15 INTERNATIONAL Leave for Thailand May 2nd-6th Rinpoche is here and that means West Coast Retreat COMMUNITY CONTACTS Vacation in Sri Lanka May 13th-16th I'm at home. People around me are H.H. the Dalai Lama's teaching, Portland playing the new game - Samsara 16-25 COMMUNITY NEWS November 17th-19th May 18th-20th and Nirvana. It was so great to see 27-28 INTERNATIONAL GAKYIL NEWS Conference on Tibetan Medicine, Rome Portland Retreat the adults jumping and screaming November 21st RUSSIA, KUNSANGAR like their children. My friends Day of Azom Drukpa Santi Maha Sangha swam to welcome me again and SPECIAL ISSUE November 25th-29th May 27th-29th again. Rinpoche got out of the water Cape Town Teaching Retreat. South Africa SMS Base Level Exam THE MIRROR HAS ADDDED 8 December 3rd May 30th-June 5th and the sea got so lonely. So we Buenos Aires, Argentina SMS I Level Training decided to go on and find some MORE PAGES TO June 6th-8th place to stay and rented a room in a ACCOMODATE ALL THE SOUTH AMERICA, TASHIGAR SMS I Level Exam sweet house on a hill. coMMiiNrn-NEws! December 26th - January 1st June 9th-13th SMS Level II Training New Year Retreat, Tashigar Days and night were flying by, continued on page 3 Chögyal Namkhai Norbu aloundra, on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia, choice. But the other places where we started in the beginning Cis now on the Dzogchen Community map since Chögyal are in not such warm places; we are recognizing that we need Namkhai Norbu bought a family house there a few months warm places. ago. Tsegyalgar is very cold in winter, for a long time there is snow Caloundra has always been a combination of a quiet beach and it is very difficult. Also Merigar is not warm in winter, it's place to which many people move in retirement and a family very cold and damp and so we are looking for a place for Meri­ holiday place as it is only an hour north of the State capital, gar. Brisbane, and has both surf and calm water beaches. First we looked in Greece where there were some possibilities Rinpoche chose Little Mountain, an area a few minutes on the islands, but there was something not so comfortable, a from Caloundra. for his family holiday home as it is in view of little difficult for some reason to create something there.
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