Gendlin's Focusing in Support of Dzogchen Practice - Part 1

October 18, 2025
10:00am-5:30pm Central Time
taught by Lama Namgyal Dorje

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Gendlin's Focusing Application

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During the five decades of my involvement with traditional Dzogchen teachings and practice, I have come to see many issues that arise in myself and other non-ethnic Buddhist practitioners, and I have found that there are occasions when specific insights from a modern psychological method can help. This course is for Dzogchen students who are interested in such insights in support of traditional Dzogchen practice.

This first day of teachings includes body scan meditation as well as an introduction to the psychological practice of Focusing, developed by Eugene Gendlin at the University of Chicago.  I find this to be a simple and useful adjunct to our spiritual practice.  Focusing is a means of being with one's physical experience in a way that can lead to personal openings which, in sometimes surprising ways, help us move along the path.

It turns out that the very process of sharpening our capacity for this kind of discernment, within the context of the blessings of the lineage, can also start weakening the very underpinning of holding to the solidity of self, and the sense of the impermeability of the other.

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