Welcome to all who wish to join this new Dzogchen practice group!

Start: Wed, Sept 24, 2025 → July 1, 2026 · Every Wednesday 7:15–8:30 pm (Paris time) · Taught in French with English translation by Geshe Lhundup

Duration: The total retreat duration is approximately 40 sessions, with 1 hour and 15 minutes of online instruction each week

Language: Geshe Lhundup will teach in French and English

During 2025–2026, study and practice will focus on the Four Naldjor of Thögal. Each session includes: teachings, guided practice, transmission from Sharza’s text, and Q&A.

1. 1st Naldjor – stability in the formless, natural clarity of the mind
2. 2nd Naldjor – direct recognition of mind through the Four Visions
3. 3rd Naldjor – Samadhi of the Luminous Appearance of the Sky
4. 4th Naldjor – Samadhi of the Self-Illuminating Lamp

 During the 2025–2026 year, study and practice will focus on the Four Naldjor of Thögal.

Each session will provide progressive training through essential instructions, supporting a regular and in-depth practice.

Transmission of Sharza’s Thögal text, teachings, guided practices, Q&A, and exercises.

This year, the practice will center on the Four Naldjor of Thögal:

1. The First Darkness Naldjor

   Training the stream of the Formless Śamatha practice through the Three Instructions and the Three Releasings.

   Here, stability in the formless state is cultivated, allowing the natural clarity of mind free from grasping to appear.

2. The Second Darkness Naldjor

   The practice of the Four Visions of Breakthrough, through the four key points, is the instruction to clarify the obscure, striking at the essential point.

   This stage emphasizes the direct recognition of the nature of mind, illuminating what was previously concealed.

3. The Third Naldjor

   Training in the Samadhi of the Luminous Appearance of the Sky.

   The vast expanse of the sky becomes the support for vision and clarity, where light and awareness are revealed as inseparable.

4. The Fourth Naldjor

   Training in the Samadhi of the Self-Illuminating Lamp.

   The mind recognizes its own innate luminosity, a self-radiant clarity that requires no external support.

Core Principles of Dzogchen

1. Primordial Purity (Kadak): Dzogchen emphasizes that the nature of all phenomena, including the mind, is inherently pure from the beginning. This purity is not something to be attained or cultivated but is the intrinsic quality of the mind itself, which is obscured by ignorance and conditioned thoughts.

2. Spontaneous Presence (Lhundrup): While the mind is fundamentally pure, it also has the capacity for spontaneous manifestation. This principle acknowledges that all experiences, thoughts, and perceptions arise naturally from the mind's luminous nature, without effort or deliberate creation.

3. Self-Liberation: In Dzogchen practice, thoughts and emotions are not suppressed or altered but are allowed to liberate themselves. This means that, by recognizing the true nature of thoughts as they arise, they dissolve on their own, leaving no trace.

The Practice of Dzogchen

Dzogchen practice involves two main stages:

1. Trekchod (Cutting Through): This stage focuses on cutting through the layers of mental obscurations to reveal the mind's natural state. It involves direct insight into the nature of reality, often facilitated by instructions from a qualified master.

2. Togal (Leap Over): This advanced stage involves the direct experience of the mind's luminous nature, often accompanied by visionary experiences. It is considered the culmination of Dzogchen practice, leading to the realization of the rainbow body, a state in which the physical body dissolves into light at death. 

Why Practice Dzogchen?

Dzogchen is unique in its emphasis on direct, experiential understanding rather than theoretical knowledge. It offers a profound and transformative path that can be integrated into daily life.

Practitioners learn to rest in the natural state of awareness, leading to deep inner peace, clarity, and ultimately, liberation from the cycles of suffering (samsara).

For those who wish to explore the depths of their own consciousness and experience the ultimate nature of reality, Dzogchen provides a powerful and direct method for achieving spiritual awakening.

• Registration for the year will give you access to all the recordings of the weekly sessions: you will be able to watch your recorded session as many times as you want thanks to online access to the videos page.
• If you are absent, you will be able to watch your session of the week.
• Registration is possible throughout 2025_2026
• For 2 Months: 1 Online Session/Week (i.e. a total of 8 Classes for 2 months): Participation €120
• For the year* - For 10 Months - from September 2025 to the end of June 2026 _Monthly payment possible
• For 1 Online Session / Week : Participation: €400/year* or €10/Session  

• Monthly payment with PayPal if needed : https://www.paypal.com/webapps/billing/plans/subscribe?plan_id=P-9CH28479P5023633GM3IKQAI
• Reduced Rate: on conditions for people in financial difficulties, contact us by email: contact.sagessedutibet@gmail.com

By Chèques send to this address please :

Association Sagesse du Tibet 

23 rue Montbauron

78000 Versailles 

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