50 Introduction to the Transitional Process of Dreaming

This eight-week retreat will focus on three of the six transitional processes, namely:

• the Transitional Process of Living, with teachings on śamatha and vipaśyanā,
• the Transitional Process of Dreaming, with teachings on dream yoga, and
• the Transitional Process of Meditation with teachings on Dzogchen meditation.

All these teachings will be based on the text The Profound Dharma of The Natural Emergence of the Peaceful and Wrathful from Enlightened Awareness Stage of Completion Instructions on the Six Transitional Processes, an “earth terma” of teachings by Padmasambhava, revealed by Karma Lingpa in the fourteen century.

The English translation of this text has been published under the title Natural Liberation: Padmasambhava’s Teachings on the Six Bardos, with commentary by Gyatrul Rinpoche and translated by B. Alan Wallace.