Fall Yangti Mela | Descent into the Season of Darkness

Join us on the Yangti land in Buckland, Massachusetts for our Fall Mela: a gathering of sangha for practice, connection, and Dzogchen teachings. This long weekend offers an opportunity to come together as a community for group meditation, protector practice, shared meals, and teachings with Lama Justin von Bujdoss.

Drawing on pith instructions from the great 14th-century Tibetan Dzogchen master Longchenpa, Lama Justin will offer guidance on Togal, Longchenpa's darkness-based instructions inviting us to work with the visions and luminosity that arise in practice.

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These teachings are offered in alignment with the seasonal shift. Fall is a time of fading light and increased darkness, of the natural world receding from lightness and solar warmth descending into the fecund lunar coldness and the composted potentiality nurtured by darkness. Longchenpa's Togal instructions meet this moment by pointing us toward the luminous nature of mind and the spontaneous arising of awareness…