Ngöndro Group Practice: Refuge

Following on from the teachings with our precious guru Geshe Tenzin Zopa, this regular monthly practice helps maintain the momentum of the teachings, and our enthusiasm for practice. With especially prepared resource materials and the support of the group we will be able to fulfill our first Ngöndro commitment, to offer to Geshe-la in 2025.

We understand the challenges of long-term practice and are committed to supporting you every step of the way. Guided meditations, group discussions, and the company and experience of your fellow Ngöndro participants will help you stay motivated to complete this first of the uncommon preliminaries.

Meditation Materials
Extracted from Geshe-la’s own teachings, with summaries, reflection questions, and short pithy meditations on:
1. Four Common Ngondros (perfect human rebirth, karma, death and impermanence, unstisfactoriness of samsara)
2. Causes of Refuge (worldly, lower scope, hearers and solitary realisers, bodhisattvas, and the tantric perspective
3. Purifying Meditations (on Guru, Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, including Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya and Nirmanakaya)

Each month we embark on a new section of the Refuge practice, spending about a week on each meditation, and traversing the topics in an intuitive and relaxed manner. In this way the practice becomes very do-able, rich, and rewarding, rather than overwhelming or a burden.

Practice Support
– Transcripts of Geshe-la’s teachings
– Practice advice, setting up a retreat
– Soundfiles of the meditations
– Soundfiles of previous classes
– Various Refuge prayers
– Integrating into a daily practice
– Methods of counting
– Links to images of the refuge field
and…. Crossword puzzles!

When Geshe Zopa returns in August 2025, we will be able to collectively offer our first Ngondro, and be prepared for the next one, Vajrasattva purification.