Zapraszamy na retrit Zer Nga z Eliasem Caprilesem w Paldenling 2-9 sierpnia 2025.
Poranne sesje z wyjaśnieniami będą transmitowane online przez ZOOM.
Retrit skierowany do osób z przekazem lub szczerą intencją otrzymania przekazu tak szybko jak to możliwe.
Termin: 2-9 sierpnia 2025, 7 pełnych dni (przyjazd: 1 sierpnia)
Miejsce: Paldenling, 168, 38-230 Łysa Góra
Rejestracja: mbachora@gmail.com
Sugerowana darowizna: 850 zł (z noclegiem), 380 zł (online)
Retrit ma charakter praktyczny i będzie prowadzony po angielsku. Niemniej jednak postaramy się zorganizować tłumaczenie sesji z wyjaśnieniami praktyki na język polski.
Wydarzenie skierowane jest dla osób, które otrzymały przekaz Dzogczen.
The meaning of ZER NGA
gzer nga (གཟེར་ལྔ)
Nga means “five” and Zer means “nails,” “pegs” or “seals”—where “nails,” “pegs” or “seals” refer to aids for discovering and stabilizing the Natural State (perhaps because a nail or peg penetrates into something, and then fixates and keeps stable that which had to be stabilized). The practice of ZerNga is the main Ngöndrö practice in the Northern Treasures, which originated through Rigdzin Göden.
Chögyal Namkhai Norbu taught it mainly as preparation for Thögäl, but recently his son Namkhai Yeshi has correctly noted that it works for all levels of practice. It consists in the visualization of the dissolution of the world at the end of a kalpa (cosmic time cycle), when the universe is destroyed by each of the elements.
As described in the Dzogchen teachings, in this practice, after destroying the world through each one of the elements, we may experience strong fear or dread. If this happens, we must discover who or what is it that perceives the fear or dread, in order to immediately switch to perceiving that which seems to perceive it.
This may be explained as “noticing that which notices the fear or dread,” or—in terms of the Base’s simile of the mirror—as “ceasing to perceive the reflections in the mirror by instantly turning toward the mirror itself.” Or, in terms of a particular Dzogchen instruction:
Pointing out primordial gnosis: Look inside, backward, at the essence of your consciousness.
If, when you look, you don’t see anything and find a condition of emptiness,
Yet in this condition there is an immediate Presence involving no distance between a subject and an object— a clarity which shines naturally, vivid, vibrant, clear and fully aware— this is the dharmakāya, empty and beyond thoughts, as revealed by primordial gnosis.
When this manifests, altogether stop doing and simply rest in that condition.
At some point, a thought will arise; when that happens, look in a bare, naked way at the stuff the thought is “made” of. If the dharmakāya manifests and the thought self-liberates, stop doing and just rest in that condition until a new thought grabs your attention…
And so on…
In this retreat, SMS Instructor Elías Capriles will explain the principle of the practice, the way to apply it, and then we’ll do the practice with each of the elements, as well as the encompassing, concluding practice.
Pozdrawiamy,
Gakyil IDC-Namdagling
