Meeting with the Dzogchen Community
Elettra Cousins \u200b\u200bsent to our blog 's invitation to all of us to participate in the' inter-faith meeting Dzochen with the community that closes this year, the series of events aimed at developing knowledge and mutual understanding between practitioners of different religious traditions.
The next inter-religious meeting, the last before the summer, will be held on June 6 at 18:30 at the Rome headquarters of the Dzogchen Community, Via Giovanni Miani 5, where we were kindly invited to listen to and deal with their teachings.
I therefore useful to report some preliminary information about it.
Dzogchen or "Great Perfection" is a Tibetan spiritual teaching of very ancient origin, in both its Buddhist traditions and in those Bonpos or pre-Buddhist Tibet.
This teaching, which is not the exclusive patrimony of a school or a religious system, but a knowledge that the Tibetan masters have transmitted over the centuries, with no sectarian limits, is considered the pinnacle of all vehicles, the highest tradition and essential of all the Tibetan schools.
Dzogchen can be defined as a system that leads to self-knowledge, relying primarily on inner awareness and attention to themselves and to others. In this sense, is not a religion but a practice of spiritual progress, aimed at the acquisition of inner freedom and peace.
Chogyal Namkhai Norbu is one of the first teachers to have begun to spread this teaching in the West. Born in Derghe in eastern Tibet in 1938, is considered one of the top living masters of Tibetan Buddhism. He was invited in 1960 in Italy and was professor of Tibetan and Mongolian Language and Literature from 1963 to 1992 at the Istituto Universitario Orientale of Naples, starting to transmit the Dzogchen teaching in Italy and in many other countries. In the 70s he founded the Dzogchen Community, giving rise to different centers around the world, called Gar. In 2000, he established the Roman section, which the Master gave the name Zhenphenling, or "place that brings benefits."
The rapporteur Maria Costantino Albini is a disciple of the master Chogyal Namkhai Norbu and practicing Buddhist for many years. E 'was authorized by the Master to teach courses on meditation, seminars and a course of study and practice in nine steps for practitioners concerned, based on the Santi Maha Sangha.
Thanks for the kind invitation and ... ... we are all in their head!! Elettra
M. Cousins \u200b\u200b