{"id":1698,"date":"2011-10-28T15:51:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T14:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2013-07-01T17:24:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T16:24:48","slug":"vajrasattva-retreat-with-ringu-tulku-rinpoche-at-bodhicharya-retreat-centre-sikkim-by-mary-heneghan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/vajrasattva-retreat-with-ringu-tulku-rinpoche-at-bodhicharya-retreat-centre-sikkim-by-mary-heneghan\/","title":{"rendered":"Vajrasattva Retreat with Ringu Tulku Rinpoche at Bodhicharya Retreat Centre, Sikkim by Mary Heneghan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Years ago I was sent a short video taken by a student visiting Bodhicharya Retreat Centre in Sikkim with Ringu Tulku.\u00a0\u00a0 It was on the Bodhicharya email list – maybe you saw it too?\u00a0 The filming followed Rinpoche\u2019s footsteps as he walked down the winding forest trail to the retreat centre.\u00a0 As I watched the video it looked a little bit magical but I felt quite sick because, although I felt drawn there, I was sure I would not have the chance to visit this place for many years, if ever.\u00a0 As a mother of younger children, I felt I had left my travelling days behind with the old backpack I had swapped for a Volvo and holidays in Cornwall (also very lovely I have to say).\u00a0 India had passed out of my league.<\/p>\n

But then life turned rather challenging, demanding more of me than I would usually be able to come up with.\u00a0 I received another email notifying of spaces on the October Vajrasattva retreat at Bodhicharya Retreat Centre.\u00a0 I found myself starting to pretend quietly that I could go on this retreat if I needed to.\u00a0 Vajrasattva is my main practice and 2 weeks, the length of this retreat, was how long I had decided I should give to retreat, weighing up my various responsibilities to practice and to other people.\u00a0 At the beginning it was just pretend.\u00a0 I could not really see myself travelling to India at this stage of my life. \u00a0But, not being entirely stupid, if I was going to continue to believe I could go I had to put things into place to make it possible, at least in theory.\u00a0\u00a0 So I found myself getting an Indian visa, flight details, a room reserved, should I by some miracle make it.\u00a0 And I started wondering to family members if they might like to come and stay while I was away to help look after my two daughters.<\/p>\n

As the retreat drew nearer, the problems I had sought the support of practice for, had become manageable.\u00a0 Knowing a retreat is coming up is magic for me and it had worked this time.\u00a0 Obviously nothing really changes except my attitude, but it gave me strength and I could support those around me again.\u00a0 And things turned alright again.\u00a0 Maybe Vajrasattva was shining through the stuff of life a little, albeit dimly sometimes.\u00a0 But in a way he was already starting to show me more how I can be.\u00a0 By now everything was in place to go on the retreat – the old traveller side of me, who knew how to organise \u2018travelling\u2019 things, was quite handy to have inside me somewhere.\u00a0 It would have been rude not to go after all.<\/p>\n

This was how I found myself following fellow retreatants down the winding forest path that descends the hillside to BRC.\u00a0 It was Oct 29th<\/sup> – Lhabab Duchen, celebrating the day the Buddha descended from one of the heavens to teach.\u00a0 It was<\/em> a bit magical: the forest steaming away on either side with insects galore and massive spiders – with massive webs to match.\u00a0 Orchids trailed through the trees and panoramic views stretched out at turns in the path.\u00a0 I took a photo nearly every step to show the family back home.\u00a0 There is no road to BRC, only this single-track foot pathway.\u00a0 Everything that built this special place was carried down this path.\u00a0 Having laboured taking only our small packs down with us, we heard the stories from Pema, Rinpoche\u2019s brother, and marvelled at this feat.<\/p>\n

We passed through the gate and were regaled with row upon row of prayer flags.\u00a0 Great swathes of white billowing flags followed by rows of lapis blue, all the colours singing out their prayers on the breeze.\u00a0 The centre itself has a genius and quirky design.\u00a0 To the thinking mind, one keeps getting confused what level one is on, what wing of bedrooms one has walked into.\u00a0\u00a0 Everything is square on but the squares never join to make a whole square.\u00a0 But to the heart it all makes perfect sense.\u00a0 The shrine room is right at the heart of the centre, double floored with a balcony around the edges upstairs.\u00a0 This balcony also houses a small library area and gives way to far-reaching views on all sides.\u00a0 Below the shrine room the little kitchen leads to a dining area and on further to a terrace.\u00a0 We had our breakfast usually on this terrace, looking out to the mountains with no words to disturb the wholeness. \u00a0\u00a0Later on there were jolly lunches with Rinpoche here too, a big long table laid out in celebration of the days he would come and teach.\u00a0 The bedrooms are arranged in wings of four rooms with a bathroom.\u00a0 I know it is not your priority on retreat, but it was very nice to have hot water to shower with and clean bathrooms.\u00a0 And even the toilets here must have some of the best views in the world.<\/p>\n

Rinpoche would come and go, as his schedule allowed.\u00a0 We would never know for sure when he was coming back next but we had all we needed and got on with our practice.\u00a0 Every two or three days he would arrive and teach.\u00a0\u00a0 This balance was precious.\u00a0 Then, during our afternoon practice on the second to last day, I was practising in my room.\u00a0 My gaze had fallen on the movement of the greyish clouds out of the window – swirling slowly in a rhythm of their own, free to float and drift and form and re-form.\u00a0 Slowly it dawned on me that they were no longer being entirely grey.\u00a0 Colours were forming in the grey.\u00a0 A rainbow was materialising before my eyes.\u00a0 It felt auspicious and hopeful and happy.<\/p>\n

A great big rainbow spanned the whole valley before the retreat centre.\u00a0 It arched over Gangtok, the other side of the valley from us, where Rinpoche\u2019s family home lies.\u00a0 It was glorious.\u00a0 A few retreatants were pacing the various rooftops at different levels, but many were locked in practice in the shrine room or their own rooms.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure what the etiquette of these situations is but this was a rainbow to be shared.\u00a0 I went very quietly into the shrine room, asking the Lama\u2019s permission via Ani Wangmo at the front, and was given the go-ahead to tell everyone what was going on outside.\u00a0 We all emerged to view this majestic example of nature being nature, our eyes looking through the practice of Vajrasattva.<\/p>\n

This is what is, for me, the message of retreat.\u00a0 The grosser ways of living are pared away for a while and allow us to see life afresh, a little more lightly, a little more as it is.\u00a0 We no longer have \u2018To Do\u2019 lists.\u00a0 We only really have a \u2018Be\u2019 list.\u00a0 In that state the simple magic of life\u2019s subtle, but continuous, affirmation is found.\u00a0 We find ourselves with it and remember again it is everywhere: \u00a0all of life is \u2018OK\u2019.\u00a0 It is all magical in its unending arising and disappearing.\u00a0 There is nothing in life that cannot be OK.\u00a0 Because it all<\/em> hangs together in this light, ever-changing way.\u00a0 Just like the rainbow materialising and hanging there while it did.\u00a0 The great potential of life is held in everything.<\/p>\n

I am one of those people who loves to be on retreat.\u00a0 But I have found, for me, it is not the whole answer.\u00a0 Retreat can become your prison and everyday life your soaring freedom, just as easy as the other way round.\u00a0 There is a great wisdom in life that seems to balance everything out, isn\u2019t there?\u00a0 If we do too much of one or the other (retreat or putting it into practice with the rest of life), we get the signals to lead us back to more of the other.\u00a0 If we stay true to our heart and the present moment expression of life \u2013 and the principles of dharma we have learnt \u2013 reality unfolds itself and dharma unfolds through us.\u00a0 Well, this is my clearest experience.\u00a0 And I think<\/em> there is something infallible in the process.<\/p>\n

Now at home, every time I open up my computer this picture (above)\u00a0greets me.\u00a0 It was the view out of my retreat room in Sikkim for those two weeks.\u00a0 It reminds me; it gives me a little extra space to work in somehow: Tibet is just the other side of that far ridge of mountains.<\/p>\n

About the Author: \"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mary Heneghan has worked as an acupuncturist for the last 10 years or so.\u00a0 She lives in the multi-cultural area of East Oxford with her husband, who is a doctor, and her two daughters, aged 9 and 11.\u00a0 She studied medicine and psychology before training in acupuncture and now balances her clinical acupuncture practice with dharma: following the teachings of Ringu Tulku, contributing editing work to the Bodhicharya publishing team and teaching kum nye yoga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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