Lion's Roar

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"Meditation and daily life practice are a path of discovery because there is something to be discovered. It is called the Nature of Mind, Buddha Nature or the Indestructible Heart Essence. But what is it? That is what we each have to discover within ourselves. The path is the awakening process by means of which we come to recognise it."

Rigdzin Shikpo

The Lion's Roar – Gate 1 – Foundation Weekend
The Lion's Roar programme is a structured path of training that introduces the view and teachings of the Longchen tradition with an emphasis on developing and deepening a regular practice of formless meditation.

The programme consists of nine weekends (Gates) over three years that offer increasingly subtle and profound views of the basic formless meditation. The first of these Gates introduces the practice of formless meditation and invites us to work directly with our immediate experience and awareness. It can be taken as a one off foundation weekend and for those who wish to, can be the beginning of further training on the Lion’s Roar. Gate 1 weekends usually fall in late summer and autumn of each year.

Continuing the Lion's Roar - the three year programme

Those who wish to continue on the Lion's Roar programme typically come to one weekend every four months or so, roughly three a year. At each Gate, you will be introduced to a new view with which to work with your experience and a new aspect of the practice of formless meditation. Over the three months between each Gate, you are encouraged to develop a regular daily practice of formless meditation and to stay in regular contact with a Longchen meditation instructor who will support you throughout the programme.

The nine gates of the Lion's Roar are:

Gate 1 - Foundation weekend - The immediacy of awareness

Gate 2 - Letting go

Gate 3 - Going beyond ambition

Gate 4 - Fountain of youth

Gate 5 - The nature of time

Gate 6 - The nature of place

Gate 7 - The heart of awareness

Gate 8 - The great space of immediacy

Gate 9 - The natural space of being