Daylong Retreat with Ken Bradford (In Person Only)
Topic: Just This: The Luminating Nature of the Mind
Location: Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Date: Sunday, December 8, 2024
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Cost: Sliding Scale $60 - $90. Limited scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds. For scholarship requests, email juanita@mtstream.org
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What to bring: Please bring a bag lunch.
Daylong Description:
This day honors the birthday of Dzogchen master, Chogyal Namkhai Norbu (Ken’s root teacher), by practicing together a remarkably easy and direct nondual meditation technique of another highly realized Dzogchen master: Tulku Orgyen Rinpoche. In the sweeping array of gradual and non-gradual meditation practices, few are as simple and to-the-point as this pith practice.
For those having already recognized - if only in a glimpse - the undivided nature of mind, this is a day for refreshing attunement to mind’s empty-open luminating nature (bodhi). For those who have not yet clearly recognized this most intimate, astonishing and liberating truth, this day offers such introduction, or at least a glide path toward it.
Dana: During the daylong, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Ken as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. Ken Bradford Dana
Bio- Ken Bradford is a contemplative yogin, author and Dharma teacher integrating a wide arc of Buddhist, Dzogchen and psychological thought and practice. His heart teachers include Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, Joseph Goldstein, Ruth Denison and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, among others. Formerly, he maintained a psychotherapy practice in the San Francisco Bay area and was Adjunct Professor at John F. Kennedy University and CIIS. His publications include Opening Yourself: The Psychology and Yoga of Self-liberation (2021); The I of the Other: Mindfulness-Based Diagnosis & the Question of Sanity (2013); and Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, Vol. 2 (2007, with John Prendergast); as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles intertwining psychology and spirituality. Website: www.authenticpresence.net