**Please be aware that this retreat starts on a Thursday**

‘In this state which is without meditation and without any distraction, you observe everything with a naked awareness. Your own awareness is inherently knowing, inherently clear, and luminously brilliant… At this time you will actually behold Vajrasattva.’ (Self-LIberation)

The purpose of the Vajrasattva Sadhana is to purify the mind, and at the same time, to realize that mind is primordially pure – pure from the very beginning.
Vajrasattva embodies the Dharmakaya, the ‘nature of mind’ as well as the essence of the Sambhogakaya, the radiant luminosity.
This Sadhana is so profound it is one of the five Mula Yogas or foundation practices that everyone should practice.
I will give a full introduction to the Sadhana and place it in the context of its traditional teachings. We will practice it on the basis of the power of the four reliance’s: refuge, regret, remedy, and resolution; this makes it particularly effective.
I will introduce the teachings from ‘Self-Liberation through seeing with naked awareness’ that are about the direct recognition of the inherently pure, clear, luminous nature of mind.
I will also relate Vajrasattva to the teachings of the Bardo Thodol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead. He is considered the essence of the 100 peaceful and wrathful Deities appearing in the Bardo and the 100 syllables of his mantra relate to them. The recitation of his mantra purifies unskillful Karma.

The retreat will be conducted mainly in silence with devotional puja and chanting invoking Vajrasattva and the Bardo Deities. It is an opportunity to engage in collective practice with a Sadhana that is profoundly initiatory.

**Please be aware that this retreat starts on a Thursday**