19 Jun 2026

Kalachakra: Wheel of Time Nature of Mind Retreat

with Drupon Thinley Ningpo

August 1-3, 2026

This summer, Sunray welcomes Drupon Thinley Ningpo Rinpoche and Virginia Blum from the Drong Ngur Janchubling Buddhist Centre (Tampa, Florida) for a weekend retreat presented by the Drikung Dzogchen Community of Vermont.

Known for his warmth, clarity, and ability to bring profound teachings into everyday experience, Drupon Thinley returns to guide participants in meditation and contemplation rooted in the Drikung Kagyu and Dzogchen traditions. Virginia Blum, is a longtime practitioner and translator in the Drikung Kagyu lineage. Working closely with Drupon Thinley, she plays an essential role in making the teachings accessible through precise translation and embodied understanding.

This year, Drupon-la will offer the rarely given Coemergent Kalachakra empowerment, as well as essence Mahamudra practice instructions from The Vajra Songs of Rinchen Phuntsok.

We hope you will join us for these precious teachings!

Register here at www.DDCV.com

Quotations

Often as people come closer and closer to understanding their true nature, they find themselves distracted and annoyed by things, or deep fears come up that they had not known were there. When these fears and other uncertainties of the mind arise, it is a great opportunity to see them as they are, just thought patterns, and have no attachment to them. (p. 258)

Voices of Our Ancestors

As human beings we have a significant responsibility in this time. It is to relate to those patterns in ourselves that lead to fear, doubt, and aggression in such a way that they are transmuted. You never deny what is, but simply acknowledge, “Oh, that feeling is there.” Is it really you? No, it is feeling arising from emotion. Generate the antidote.

Voices of our Ancestors

Ceremony is the opportunity to say thank you. It is the gift of our life force and our thought to explore the potential. Ceremony honors the cycles of the moon, the sun, and even more subtle cycles that connect our solar system with other galaxies and the very heart of this and all universes.

Learning Cherokee Ways

Each of us is a battery, a resonator, a musical instrument, and we are setting waves of many patterns and many possible futures in the sea of life. Let us be discriminating in the futures that we shape forth. (p. 157)

Voices of Our Ancestors

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