Friends from our Diamond Way Buddhist centers are always welcome for courses and other events at Karma Berchen Ling. By tradition, our program spreads over three seasons with three main events: the prostration retreat, the summer course and the 8th Karmapa retreat.

72h Prostration Marathon

27.04. – 30.04. 2024

Dear Friends,

“A wise man may avoid blood and tears on his way to enlightenment, but there is no way around the sweat. Only conscious and one-pointed meditation creates the cracks in the fortifications of our egos that make the mind’s timeless essence shine through. Hard work is unavoidable, especially with prostrations. This practice creates the good impressions necessary for our growth and changes our body from a difficult master to a useful servant.” Lama Ole Nydahl

We would like to invite you to the 72 hours retreat on the practice of Taking Refuge and Developing the Enlighten Attitude occurring every spring in Karma Berchen Ling Retreat Center in south Greece.

Program:

Saturday:
17:00 Explanations on the way we keep the mediation going for 72h, retreat and place rules – Big Gompa 
18:00 Start of the Retreat in the Small Gompa (Lama House)
19:30 Dinner 
Sunday – Tuesday:
09:00 Breakfast
13:00 Lunch
19:00 Dinner
20:00 in the big Gompa Lectures:
Sunday Lecture: Refuge and Q&A on the practice
Monday Lecture: Enlightened attitude and Q&A on the practice
Tuesday: 
18:00 we finish the Retreat together
20:00 Dinner and dancing

Accommodation:

Karma Berchen Ling is located remotely in the mountains of Peloponnese, a place where one can go deep in the practice in the field of the 9 Stupas.

We will be able to squeeze everybody under a roof, so you need to bring a sleeping bag only. At this time of the year, it is possible to sleep in a tent, but can be rather cold during the night.

Registration:*

* Please mind that the course is for students of Lama Ole Nydahl only, practising in his Diamondway Centers.

If you are planning to arrive, please register at the link:

https://registration.dwbn.org/center/kbl_retreat/

Support:

For any questions and support, please write to Yavor.monev@gmail.com.

All the best,

The friends of KBL

72h Prostration Retreat in KBL

Meditation Course

05.05. – 12.05. 2024

Dear Friends,

We invite you for a meditation course/retreat with Artur Przybysławski and Jan Noutsos. We want to focus on meditation, and practice together in one group, meditations which you currently practice (16th Karmapa, Noendro, 8th Karmapa). In the evenings we will find a time for lectures/explanations and Q&A.

5-7 May – intro 2 common sessions a day and individual sessions.

8-12 May – starts from evening session Wednesday 8th and finishes with mourning session Sunday 12th. 3 full days of retreat, 4 sessions a day.

Accommodation:

We will be able to squeeze everybody under a roof, so you need to bring a sleeping bag only. At this time of the year, it is possible to sleep in a tent but can be rather cold during the night.

Registration:*

* Please mind that the course is for students of Lama Ole Nydahl only, practising in his Diamondway Centers.

If you are planning to arrive, please register at the link:

https://registration.dwbn.org/center/kbl_retreat/

Support:

For any questions and support, please write to tomekprzybylski@op.pl

All the best,

The KBL team

72h Prostration Retreat in KBL

Summer Course 

17.08.-25.08.2024

 

Summer course and Kalachakra Stupa’s birthday.

As every year also this summer we will have a week of meditations, every evening lectures (the teacher will be announced soon) and a celebration of Kalachakra Stupa on August 23rd.

Don’t miss this opportunity and come.

See you all in August.

 

 

72h Prostration Retreat in KBL

8th Karmapa Retreat 

05.10-12.10. 2024

Dear friends

It has been a tradition for many years to end the course – year at KBL with an 8° Karmapa Retreat. This year it will be guided by Anna Briscoe. It starts on Saturday, 05.10.2024  evening and ends on Saturday, 12.10.2024  morning. In four sessions per day, there will be enough time for in-depth mediation and will be given explanations on the 8° Karmapa Meditation. The prerequisite for participation is to have completed the first Ngöndro. Please register at: https://registration.dwbn.org/center/kbl_retreat/

8th Karmapa