Buddhist Beach Center to offer mini retreat March 28 in Rehoboth

The Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist Beach Center of Delaware will offer The Bodhichitta Path of Wisdom and Compassion with Dharma talk and a transmission given from the Treatise of an Enlightened Society, a mini daylong meditation retreat from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, March 28, at All Saints' Episcopal Church, 18 Olive Ave., Rehoboth.

Khandro Sherab Drolma will give the basic instructions and transmission for the practice of Shamatha meditation and practice supports for the path. Practitioners will be able to utilize the meditation technique enabling them to be able to see the true, unconditional nature of mind. The course will be focusing on the beginning of opening with a certain gentleness and appreciation for people's humanness and capacity in developing compassion and wisdom in practice and in everyday practical life and situations.

The retreat is a sitting and walking meditation broken down to increments of variable time changes, usually 20 minutes sitting and 10 walking or 25 minutes sitting and 15 walking. There will be a break for lunch from 12 to 1:30 p.m. From 1:30 to 3 p.m., attendees will resume sitting and walking meditation. From 3 to 3:30 p.m., there will be a Dharma reading transmission. After a tea break, the reading transmission will continue from 3:50 to 5 p.m.

Khandro Sherab Drolma has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1996 and has studied with various Buddhist masters of Tibet and India. She has received various high teachings and tantric transmissions from some of the greatest Dzogchen masters of modern time. She started Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist Beach Center of Delaware, Bodhichitta Way Foundation in August 2010 and has invited many masters of the Dharma to teach. Her first studies began when she was 24 years old with attending student and Acharya Sherab Chonga of the late Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Her studies with Venerable Chonga were for a continuous period of three and a half years, while in continuous retreat with her early teacher.

Currently, she is in studies with His Holiness Grudrag Khentrul Rinpoche, heart son of the late HH Penor Rinpoche and longtime student of the 14th Dalai lama.

Khandro has been studying the 11 yogic practices of Vajra Yogini and has transitioned her life in becoming a Buddhist lama and hopes to serve her community in offering meditation, Buddhist philosophy courses, retreats, contemplative art practices in painting, writing, photo journaling, illness, death and grieving. Her plans are to begin the implementation and introduction for meditation for children in the future for Sussex County and continue to bring meditation practices in the lives of those wherever needed.

She has attended well over the course of her studies, 18 retreats in various lengths and durations, and has accomplished many courses of training on Buddhist psychology and philosophy. Currently she is enrolled in various courses of learning the online Shedra studies and has practiced various methods of study and application of the various Vajrayana teachings and sutras and has taught Buddhist philosophy and meditation training.

There will be an Introduction and overview of the meditation practices, along with supports for the path including basic principles of intensive concentration meditation, technique, posture, breath and focus.

There is a suggested donation/dana of $25 but no one one will be turned away for lack thereof. For more information, go to www.meetup.com/TibetanVajrayanaBuddhistBeachCenter or www.tibetanbuddhistproject.com.