Update: Audio recordings of the teachings will be made available soon after the teaching has taken place. See the “mp3” links within the timetable below.
We have the pleasure to announce that Lama Mark will give teachings and meditations by Zoom from Canada on the weekends of March 20-21, April 10-11, April 17-18 and May 1-2, 2021, starting at 10am, New Zealand time. The teachings will be hosted at the Dharma Centre, and anyone wishing to join from other places should contact the Lama directly.
The announcement below from Lama Mark gives more details. The schedule includes question and answer sessions and Lama Mark would like questions to be submitted in advance. Please send questions to Ian (programme@dharmacentre.org.nz) for collation, and specify if you want to remain anonymous. There will also be a guided practice at the centre after each class. Please also download and print a copy of the text if possible.
Entry by dana (donation), which will all go to Lama Mark.
2021 Teachings in Queenstown
Lama Mark Webber
Zoom Teachings and Meditations
March 20-21, April 10-11
April 17-18, May 1-2
Unfolding Confidence in Dharma:
the Path of Freedom
Since everything we experience and think about is formed in our mind, if we want lasting freedom, we need to come to know mind: innate freedom and luminous compassion. This is the Dharma. Over a two month period, Lama Mark will be giving teachings and directing meditations for practitioners at the Queenstown Dharma Centre. He will begin with exploring what is Buddha Dharma and how we generally unfold through many paths, levels, understandings and liberative experiences. The Dharma has over two thousand years of tradition, including the Buddha and hundreds of thousands of practitioner’s awakening experiences, teachings and meditations for every type of person. That can be confusing! Here, we are going to explore the essential threads or the core of the Dharma, both through understanding, then meditative practice. Lama Mark will use as a guide, one of the most extraordinary and authoritative texts; Nagarjuna’s Bodhicittavivarana* – A commentary on the Awakening Mind. The sessions are for all levels of understanding and meditative experience. There will be an opportunity for live questions and answers each week.
- Saturday March 20, 10 am NZ. (mp3)
- What is the Dharma?
- What are the differences between tranquility, insight, meditative experiences and realization?
- How to relax our mind but be awake, bright and compassionate?
- What is liberation and awakening?
- Why we need to combine study, contemplation and meditation?
- How and why we move through levels and paths?
- Guided group meditation session (assisted by Annette Macalister)
- Sunday March 21, 10 am NZ. (mp3)
- Question and answer session
- Guided group meditation session (assisted by Annette Macalister)
- Sat/Sun April 10-11, April 17-18 and May 1-2, 10am NZ. (mp3: 10, 11, 17, 18, 1, 2)
- Teachings and Meditations on Emptiness, Bodhicitta & the whole Path: Bodhicittavivarana
- The importance of understanding emptiness and unfolding compassion: bodhicitta
- What is essential to gather and accomplish to awaken? Merit and Wisdom
- We will continue to use Nagarjuna’s famous text: the Bodhicittavivarana* – A commentary on the Awakening Mind
- Guided group meditation session (assisted by Annette Macalister) or Q&A session
- Lama Mark will be available during the week for short sessions of personal advice: questions regarding study and meditation only. Please contact the Queenstown Dharma Centre for scheduling.
*The text is available here. Please print a copy.
Lama Mark Webber (Lama Yongdu Chokyi Gyaltsen) has been studying and teaching Buddha-dharma for forty-five years. For thirty years his main root teacher was the great Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche who taught all three cycles of the Buddha’s teachings, including Abhidhamma, and Vipassana in the lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw, generation and completion stage practices of the Tantrayana and Mahamudra/Dzogchen of many lineages, especially of the Karma Kagyu and Sakya. More recently under the guidance and request of Drikung Lho Ontul Rinpoche, Lama Mark has been principally teaching the richness of the Drikung Mahamudra and Drikung Yangzab Dzogchen traditions.
Lama Mark has a deep and long term interest and collaboration in a number of scientific fields and the arts which he integrates with the teaching of Buddhism.
His compassionate activities demonstrate a profound commitment to freeing beings from innumerable suffering states. Through clarity, joy and humour Lama Mark’s emphasis with practitioners and students is on uncovering pure Dharma to reveal its extraordinary benefits and share the great love of its deep study, meditative practices and integration into all aspects of our lives.
For more information about Lama Mark:
www.markwebber.org
www.facebook.com/lamamarkwebber/
crystalmountain.org
www.facebook.com/NamgyalYangzab/
www.dharmacentre.org