Upcoming Retreats

$25 per class/ $108 for 5 week series – $25.00 - $108.00

Everyday Awakening: Tools for Inner Peace

Charok Lama Rinpoche

May 29 - June 26, 2025

Dates: Thursday Evenings, May 29 to June 26, 2025, Ok to join each class individually!

Time: 6:00- 7:30 PM (PT)

Place: Online Only, offered generously through our sister FPMT center in Sante Fe New Mexico, Thubten Norbu Ling. 

 

 

Transform your relationship with life’s challenges through time-tested Buddhist wisdom

In this five-week course, discover how ancient Buddhist principles can bring clarity, purpose, and peace to your modern life. Everyday Awakening offers practical tools for understanding the mind, cultivating awareness, and finding meaning amidst challenges.

 

 

What you’ll Experience:

  • Uncover why outer success doesn’t always lead to inner satisfaction
  • Develop mindfulness practices that fit into your life
  • Learn to recognize habitual patterns that create suffering
  • Explore karma as practical cause-and-effect rather than mystical punishment
  • Transform your understanding of this precious human life
  • Bridge the gap between intellectual knowledge and lived wisdom

 

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Identify the root causes of your own dissatisfaction and stress
  • Apply brief mindfulness practices during everyday activities
  • Set intentional direction for your days and track your progress
  • Respond to challenging emotions with greater awareness
  • Integrate Buddhist perspectives into your work, relationships, and daily decisions
  • Design a sustainable personal practice that aligns with your life circumstances

 

Each session combines conceptual understanding with concrete practices, reflection questions, and take-home exercises designed to make these teachings immediately applicable to your life.

 

 

No prior Buddhist experience is needed—just an open mind and willingness to look within.

 

Join us for one class or for the full series of 5! 

 

 

Course Materials HERE

 

Who is this for?

This retreat is for anyone looking to cultivate practical advice for developing greater compassion, wisdom, and resilience in their daily lives. Whether you are new to Buddhism or an experienced practitioner, this daylong will bring immense benefit to your life. Don’t miss this precious opportunity to engage with one of our lineage’s greatest masters.

 

About Vajrapani Institute

Vajrapani Institute for Wisdom Culture was one of the first Tibetan Buddhist Retreat Centers in America.  Vajrapani aims to provide a friendly and conducive environment for people of all nationalities to learn and put into practice the teachings of the Buddha and connect with other Dharma practitioners.  Located on 70 acres of secluded land within the redwood forests of the Santa Cruz mountains, Vajrapani Institute has been an immersive space for people of all backgrounds to find and deepen their spiritual practices, with the main goal of bridging the gap between the head and heart of practice.

 

 

Teacher

Charok Lama Rinpoche
Charok Sherpa (Charok Lama Rinpoche), initially identified by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery in Kathmandu, was recognized as the reincarnation of a revered lama in the Solu Khumbu region of the Himalayas. Charok Lama studied at Kopan Monastery and graduated in Madyamika, Paramita, Vinaya and Pramana Vatika from Sera Jhe Monastic University with a total of over 20 years of study, in advance buddhist philosophies and having finished leadership training programs, and given numerous public talks around the world, works as a spiritual guide, CBT and as a Counsellor. Rinpoche hosts a well-received radio program on Tibetan Buddhist topics…
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