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Zen Mindfulness Meditation

There will now be weekly ongoing Zen Mindful Meditation offered through Enso Meditation in San Diego. Please check calendar for times and locations This ongoing class will give time for meditation instruction and practice with the opportunity for group support. Each week will also focus on different aspects of ‘life-practice’ as well, with time to […]

Mission

The mission of Enso is to provide both place and curriculum for engaging in the practices of Mindfulness and Presencing, opening us to the discovery our genuine core of being. This practice is one that clarifies our inner world, resolves emotional dissonance and opens us to what Robet Bly termed ‘enthusiasm for the vertical dimension’. […]

Khenpo Paljor

Khenpo Paljor engaged for many years in intensive study and practice with the great Dzogchen teacher Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche ( http://en.wikipedia.o… ) at the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy in Eastern Tibet, certainly one of the greatest and all encompassing Buddhist and Dzogchen teaching centers of recent times. Since coming to the West six years […]

Zen Mindfulness Meditation Practice

Join us for a day of Mindful Meditation practice with sitting meditation, walking and mindful movement. A day of silence and inner awareness through Mindfulness practice brings to us the opportunity for engaging in our more calm, centered and deeper awareness, releasing accumulated layers of stress and distraction. Please check calendar for times and locations […]

Zen Mindfulness

ONE EMPTINESS An Incantation to Benefit Others …… (Hsin Hsin Ming) Entrusting the Essential ‘Heart-Mind’ 1 The Way (Tao) is without resistance, Hence negates (your) preferences 2 Giving up craving and aversion It clearly manifests 3 The smallest measuring Splits apart earth and sky 4 Should you come to see, Give up affirming and negating […]

Tibetan Buddhism

BEING PRESENT – THE EVERYDAY PRACTICE – Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche The everyday practice of Dzogchen is simply to develop a complete carefree acceptance, an openness to all situations without limit. We should realize openness as the playground of our emotions and relate to people without artificiality, manipulation or strategy. We should experience everything totally, never […]

Khenpo Paljor’s San Diego Teaching and Retreat Schedule

Feb. 16-19 2012 Feb. 16 –  6:30 – 8 pm Meditation – Introduction to Tranquil abiding and Insight at Eye of the Buddha (4247 Park Blvd. (at corner of El Cajon Blvd.) San Diego 92103   Feb. 17 – The Way of Compassion 10:30 am – noon Solana Beach Unitarian Buddhist Study Group   Feb. […]

Khenpo Paljor – Manjusri, Sacred Wisdom Practice – Feb. 17-19 2012

Enso Meditation Retreat Khenpo Paljor  engaged for many years in intensive study and practice with the great Dzogchen teacher Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche ( http://en.wikipedia.o… ) at the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy in Eastern Tibet, certainly one of the greatest and all encompassing Buddhist and Dzogchen teaching centers of recent times. Since coming to the […]

Perennial Philosophy / Wisdom Tradition

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The Eight Medicine Buddhas Teachings

Saturday, April 9, 2011 10:30 AM Khenpo Choga Rinpoche will give teaching, instruction and empowerment of the eight Medicine Buddhas. There will be practice sessions of this Dzogchen Eight Medicine Buddha practice and Rinpoche’s special Buddha Path practice. A rare opportunity to receive Medicine Buddha Dzogchen teachings. Khenpo teaches with joy, wisdom and compassion guiding […]

Enso

In Zen culture that developed in Japan the use of the Enso in art and calligraphy is pervasive. The Enso Circle is the most popular of calligraphies. The historical roots go back to India, where the initial concept of zero was represented by the bindu or dot, the intrinsic seed within all reality. This later evolved into the circle or Sunya and then to the Buddhist idea of Emptiness or Sunyata – the ‘empty’ (sunya) that is completely ‘full’ (ta). The prajna paramita heart sutra describes the paradoxical view:

Form is emptiness (sunyata), emptiness is form;
Form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form;
That which is form is emptiness, and that which is emptiness is form.
The same is true for all the skandas: feeling ,thought ,volition ,discernment

Later, in the Hsin Hsin Ming authored by the 3rd Ch’an Patriarch Seng ts’an in the 6th century, would use the image in speaking of the ultimate completion of great space:

Round and perfect like great space.
Nothing lacking, nothing in excess