The healing power of Meditation
10 day retreat with Sogyal Rinpoche
Dzogchen Beara 2 - 11 July 2010

From 2 to 11 July 2010, 300 people gathered in Dzogchen Beara for a 10-day retreat with Sogyal Rinpoche. Rinpoche taught on "The healing power of meditation" guiding a range of practices to transform our minds and help remove illnesses and obscurations. Rinpoche delivered his teachings with clarity, loving presence and a sense of humour.

Everyday, Vajrasattva and Loving Kindness practices were done in the shrine room and the Spiritual Care Centre (Dechen Shying). The power and benefit of these practices were directed towards retreatants experiencing sickness and other difficulties.

It was very auspicious to receive the planning permission for the new Temple while Sogyal Rinpoche was on site for the summer retreat. Rinpoche shared this news with the sangha - the applause nearly lifted the roof off the Shrine Tent!

Rinpoche visited Dzogchen Beara's new visitor centre which incorporates a bookshop and coffee shop with ocean views and he complimented the design of the building.

At the end of the retreat, Sogyal Rinpoche gave the lung (oral transmission) of all healing and long-life practices done in the Rigpa Sangha. The lung was streamed worldwide to all Rigpa centres and to students at their homes and was received by more than 1700 more students in Rigpa centres and homes worldwide.