WEEKEND RETREAT—February 7th to February 9th, 2003
		Ngak'chang Rinpoche TSOG'KHORLO: THE FEAST OF WISDOM AND COMPASSION Weekend Retreat Friday evening February 7 - Sunday afternoon February 9 Westchester, New York (Bailey Farms) For information and registration please contact Wendy Trefelner (Rig'dzin Lhamo) (914) 238-4662 riglhamo@aroter.org $275 includes room and meals. Advance registration is required, including $100 deposit payable to Aro Gar.
	Tsog, common to all schools of Vajrayana in various forms, is frequently celebrated but not often explained as an essential practice of Tantra. The practice of tsog'khorlo—literally `array of assembled offerings'—is the vajra feast: a vital, vibrant Vajrayana practice of engaged-meditation. Participants create a mandala of physical and visionary offerings that includes the entire realm of phenomena, then partake of this banquet of generosity in order to share and extend the experience into every dimension of being. Tsog'khorlo is an opportunity to enter the visionary dimension in which every aspect of experience is recognised as beginninglessly liberated. Through this means we actualise the sense that enlightenment is feasible for each individual present, and that we reflect the enlightened state for each other. The short text that elucidates the elements of the feast is an inspirational portal through which the spectrum of the sense fields is described, in language that evokes the Vajrayana view of the nature of all experience as self-liberated compassion. The weekend will explore the text and conclude with the celebration of tsog'khorlo. The weekend will include the empowerment of Tsogyel Dzambhala, Wealth Manifestation of Yeshé Tsogyel. "The syllable Hung is the sphere of apparitional manifestation. It is the world of tangible appearances into which we are born as beginninglessly enlightened beings. It embodies the sphere of reality where time and space manifest as the matrix of meaning; where we meet and are separated; where we grow old and die. It is the nondual flickering field in which duality and nonduality describe each other. This is the perfectly implausible juncture in which we become bewildered or discover wonderment." (Ngak'chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen, from the tsog'khorlo text) Ngak'chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen are the lineage-holders of the Aro gTér, a small family lineage of the Nyingma School. For more information please see our website http://www.aroter.org