Mirror of Light: Yuthok’s Ati Yoga
Free Introduction with Lama Justin von Bujdoss
Join Lama Justin von Bujdoss for an introduction to Yuthok Nyingthig Ati Yoga and his new year long 2022 dharma immersion into the practice as taught in Mirror of Light: A Commentary on Yuthok’s Ati Yoga by Dr. Nida Chenagtsang.
Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an American Vajrayana Buddhist teacher, writer, and the is a co-founder of Bhumisparsha an experimental Buddhist sangha along with Lama Rod Owens. He is the author of Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity and Embodiment in Dharma Practice published by North Atlantic Books, and contributor to Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections published by Lexington Books. Justin serves as the Executive Director of Chaplaincy and Staff Wellness for NYC Department of Correction where he also serves as Staff Chaplain supervising over 30 chaplains and guides wellness programming for staff. Justin professional experience in home hospice and hospital settings as a pastoral caregiver.
Justin was ordained as a repa, a lay tantric yogin in the tradition of Milarepa, by His Eminence Gyaltsab Rinpoche. Lama Justin has presented on Buddhist practice at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, University of Chicago, Wellesley, Columbia University, has been a visiting instructor at Union Theological Seminary and has led retreats at a variety of dharma centers. Justin is passionate about helping to create the conditions for authentic embodied tantric Buddhist spiritual practice in the West.
You can purchase Modern Tantric Buddhism here.
More of his work can be seen at: justinvonbujdoss.com and https://bhumisparsha.org
About the 2022 Year Long Dharma Immersion
MIRROR OF LIGHT
One Year Dharma Immersion in Yuthok Nyingthig Ati Yoga
With Lama Justin Von Bujdoss
SUNDAYS JANUARY 23 - DECEMBER 18 2022
9 - 10:30 (Los Angeles Time Zone)
12pm New York | 5pm London | 6pm Rome
In this year long meditation-focused immersion, students will be guided through the steps of Ati Yoga practice as taught by Yuthok Yönten Gönpo, the 12th Century father of Tibetan Medicine and explained in the text Mirror of Light: A Commentary on Yuthok's Ati Yoga by Dr. Nida Chenagtsang.
Each week students will be given instruction on the practices, beginning with Guru Yoga, progressing through the Dzogchen special preliminaries (Inner and Outer Rushen) and the actual preliminaries of training body, speech, and mind with Vajra Posture, the Hung Syllable, and mind investigation. The year will finish instructions on Kadak (Primordial Purity) and Trekchöd (Cutting Through Hardness).
Guided practice sessions will be an integral part of this program, providing students with the the time to familiarize themselves with and deepen the connection to the practices in a supported group online setting with regular opportunities for questions and discussion.
Select portions of the final section of the course will be guided by Dr. Nida Chenagtsang
This program is open to practitioners of any lineage, both new and experienced and it is highly recommended for all students who participated in Yuthok's Heart Teachings course.
About Mirror of Light
Mirror of Light brings into the English language for the very first time the great physician and meditation adept Yuthok Yönten Gönpo’s teachings on Ati Yoga (Tib: Dzogchen). Ati Yoga, literally meaning the ‘utmost yoga,’ is the pinnacle of Buddhist Vajrayana practice. It is the most simple, direct, and profound path to experientially realize the primordial wisdom which is one’s basic nature. In his remarkably clear and accessible commentary which seamlessly weaves in verses from Yuthok’s own root text and quotations from Tibet’s great masters of meditation, Dr Nida Chenagtsang skillfully points us to the sky-like nature of our own mind which is clear, vast, and unobstructed by the clouds of afflictive emotions. Much more than a theoretical exposition, Volume One of Mirror of Light contains precise instruction on Ati Yoga’s preliminary practices and trekchod (‘cutting through hardness’) -- ancient proven techniques that reveal the present fresh awareness that is free from all confusion and beyond the 'hardness' of dualistic thinking.
Mirror of Light is available in print, digital, and audio formats from Sky Press Books.