R97X Solitary Retreat-Xiuxing Practice Program

This program is a more precise guide for those who want to focus on and start or develop a serious Dharma practice. It is based on a special Retreat Dharma that H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III transmitted to Zhaxi Zhuoma in 2010 after the Holy Vajrasana Temple and Retreat Center erected a yurt and dedicated that yurt to the Dharma Protectors. The Buddha Master told Zhaxi Zhuoma was that even though this Retreat Dharma is considered a Protector Dharma, “This is a ‘helping’ dharma, not a “protecting” dharma. It augments or increases the effectiveness of any Dharma that is practiced with it. This is an aspect of the Dharma Protectors. They make things work.” He also told the rinpoche that it was from the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation.

The program provides a few optional courses you may want to take to help you understand who H.H. Dorje Chang III is and how we know that to be true and gives context to the practice oriented courses that are needed to benefit from the Solitary Retreat Dharma. You can just focus on these core courses to help develop your practice or use them as the prerequisites to be able to take a seven or thirty -day retreat where you can receive and practice the Solitary Retreat Dharma. We know that we must “diligently devote ourselves to studying and wholeheartedly practicing the teachings” of our great Buddha Master.

The Solitary Retreat can help you enhance your practice in two ways: 1-It provides a methodology for doing your practice that can increase the effectiveness of what you are already doing and can enable you to integrate all the dharmas you have learned from the Buddha Master. It may also identify Dharmas that you do not yet have so that you can seek them and others. Once you learn this secret technique you can do your own retreats in your own home or other retreat facility. 2-It provides a special safe space where you can be free from outside distractions and responsibilities. WARNING! Too often we hide from ever knowing who we are by these very distractions and always being busy–even busy doing good things, Buddha work.

Your success in this program and the Dharma depends on your readiness and your purity of intention and practice. It depends on your state of mind and openness to whatever happens. Your experience will be unique as is your karma. CLICK for link to article that includes testimonials by participants in this program. In addition to G02-Spiritual Autobiography required for all Xiuxing Seminary students, you will need to listen to or read 22 Dharma Discourses or texts by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III; have received certain practice Dharmas,  and take at least one 7-day retreat to be able to take a 30-day or longer Solitary Retreat at the temple. A detailed check list to enable you to plan for the retreat will be provided upon request of the course facilitator.

You will also need to make arrangements on how you want to receive your meals while on retreat. The options have changed and you will need to agree on an appropriate plan with the course facilitator prior to confirming your retreat. CLICK for article on the Holy Vajrasana temple site and video of how and why it was recognized as a “Vajra Throne” or Bodimanda.

Click on the “Curriculum” tab to review this course. If you have not registered for a membership, please click on “Membership” on the top munu bar to select your membership and enroll in this course. You are also required to complete the application form provided in course “G02-Spiritual Autobiography” prior to being admitted to either the BUDDHIST STUDIES or the XIUXING SEMINARY PROGRAMS. Click for detailed Users Guide under the “STUDENT MANUAL” in the wevsite’s top menu bar for more information.

Prior to viewing this course, you are required to complete “P01-Introduction to the Supreme & Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation (SAUMOL)”  and all its prerequisites as well as D06-Main & Preliminary Practices.

Anyone can read the “Courses and Requirements for the Xiuxing Practice Program” and “Dharma Practice Check List” without becoming a member by clicking the PREVIEW button under curriculum.