NATURALLY LIBERATING Whatever WEEKEND SEMINAR Khenpo Gangshar Teachings: YOU Meet Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet Location: The Common House at Arcadia Cohousing PUBLIC TALK 134 Circadian Way, Chapel Hill, NC Khenpo Gangshar Teachings: Rinpoche continues the Khenpo Gangshar teachings on the week- The Preliminaries end with the Preliminary Steps of Mind Training, the Main Practice of Location: Unity Center of Peace Pointing Out, and the Key Points of Applying the Profound Advice. It in- 8800 Seawell School Road, Chapel Hill, NC cludes advice on the wisdom of emotions, and how to use everything as In 1957, with Tibet in political turmoil, Khenpo the path. “You must rely on inner awareness. You must take sickness Gangshar foresaw the profound difficulties that as the path, afflictions as the path, the bardo as the path, and delusion Tibetans were about to face. To help dharma as the path. The heart of all these applications is to rest naturally in the practitioners meet these challenges skillfully essence.” (Khenpo Ganshar, The Concise Mind Instructions) he taught on Naturally Liberating Whatever Only a few people who actually received this teaching remain alive; it You Meet to lamas including Thrangu is a rare opportunity for us to host Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, who re- Rinpoche, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, ceived this teaching, and who can and Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche. The transmit to us the wisdom of being teachings shows us how to engage able to work with whatever comes in Dharma practice no matter what to us in life. happens in our lives. We start with The weekend will also include a the preliminary meditations on Refuge Ceremony and Chenrezig our Precious Human Birth, (Bodhisattva of Compassion) Impermanence, Karma, Empowerment. and Samsara. About Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche Cost Schedule Registration Venerable Khenpo Karthar (Suggested donation) PUBLIC TALK: Registration Form avail- Rinpoche was born in 1923 Teachings: Friday, April 26, 7:30pm able at www.piedmontktc. in east Tibet. A master of $10 for the public talk. Session 1 org/KKR_Registration. Tibetan Buddhism, Rinpoche html. Please make check has been a monk since the $30 per 2 hr. session WEEKEND SEMINAR payable to “Piedmont age of twelve, and since 1976 Refuge Ceremony: Saturday, April 27 KTC” and return by mail to has served His Holiness There is no fee for the Session 2: 10am to Noon Piedmont KTC, 110 W. the Gyalwang Karmapa Refuge Ceremony. Refuge and Chenrezig Main St., Suite 2L, Chapel by spreading the authentic Empowerment: Empowerment: 7pm to 9pm Hill, NC 27510, or pay teachings of the Karma Kagyu $35/$30 (members) Sunday, April 28 with paypal on the website, lineage in America. He serves Note: The Empowerment Session 3: 10am to Noon or pay at the door. For as abbot of Karma Triyana requires attendees to have Session 4: 2pm to 4pm more information go to Dharmachakra monastery – taken refuge. www.piedmontktc.org or the North American seat of call 919-968-9426. His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Drodul Trinley Dorje. .