Two Seminars in Collaboration with Dynamic Space of the Elements
We are living in challenging times. One piece of advice from our Master Namkhai Norbu was to work with circumstances. This also means to grow and develop new skills, to create direct and immediate spaces where the Dzogchen Community has the opportunity to manifest, to meet, to grow and create.
Such a space were the two webinars that Merigar East hosted in collaboration with Dynamic Space of Elements, one on the 10th of January, 2021, the other on the 8th of February. Both seminars were led by Migmar Tsering who continued developing the various aspects of traditional Tibetan art and related sciences.
Dynamic Space of Elements, part of the Ati Yoga Foundation is a non-profit organization with the mission to create new work opportunities for enabling young people to live close to the Dzogchen community by organizing courses, events, exhibitions, cultural exchange and promotion of new talented individuals.
Seminar about the Stupa of the Terma of Changchub Dorje
The stupa is the oldest Buddhist monument. As a symbolic representation of the enlightened mind of the Buddha, stupas are of great significance for Buddhist practitioners. Building a stupa is considered extremely beneficial, leaving very positive karmic imprints in the minds of those involved in it and bringing great benefit to the area where they are placed.
Migmar has been helping to build many stupas on the Dzogchen Community grounds. Two of them can be found in Merigar East, supported by practitioners’ generous donations.
The Dynamic Space of the Elements is currently working on the construction of the Changchub Dorje terma. In this terma, there are several stupas, each one different from the other in shape and mantras inside. When Rigdzin Changchub Dorje presented this terma he explained that constructing and placing these stupas in different locations in the world would benefit all beings and is aimed at eliminating obstacles, realizing the teachings, and eliminating conflict, poverty and disease.
Seminar About Lungta
The Tibetan term “Lungta” is used to define the development of the element of fortune. Each individual has a sog (life), lus (body), wang (capacity-charisma), lung (luck) and la (protection of life), and to get maximum functionality from each of them the five elements must be balanced.
During the seminar, we learned what Lungta is from the perspective of Tibetan astrology, how it is connected to our life, and how we can develop it. Dynamic Space of the Elements is now working on the construction of the “lungta castle”, used in an ancient kind of practice to develop our Lungta.
In all Buddhist tantras, all religions and all spiritual paths, we speak of relative reality, and absolute reality. In absolute reality there is no concept of good and evil, help and damage; but in relative reality we are subject to the law of interdependence, and in different circumstances infinite positive or negative things manifest themselves.
Participating in Stupa projects, hanging Lungtas for the New Year can bring benefit into our lives and we can manifest positive circumstances for our practice too!
We would like to thank Migmar and Cecilia for giving us the possibility to connect through those webinars with the worldwide community. More than 100 participants joined the webinars! It was really great to see all of you interconnected. We wish all the best of luck for the Metal Ox year.
We invite you all to meet again, for the seminar with Migmar we will host on the 14th of March 2021 on the Metal Ox year reading of the Mewas!
Dynamic Space of the Elements. Everything is already possible, just let us meet!
Erika Motýľová
