with Ven. René Feusi
Saturday, May 11 – Sunday, May 12, 2024 10:00am – 4:30pm PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) In person and online (Zoom) Please register below to receive your online access information. By registering for this event, you understand that the sessions may be recorded and published in the public domain (such as YouTube), and consent to this process. |
Join us for a transformative weekend with Venerable René Feusi as we explore the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination — a fundamental Buddhist teaching that delves into the interconnectedness of life and the cyclical nature of existence in samsara.
Retreat Overview
The Twelve Links of Dependent Origination illustrate a chain of causes and effects, beginning with ignorance, which leads to mental formation and consciousness, and progresses through name and form, the six senses, contact, feeling, craving, grasping, becoming, birth, and finally aging and death. This retreat offers a unique opportunity to understand these links and how contemplation of them can provide a pathway to liberation from the cycle of suffering. Venerable René will guide participants through a series of meditations, each building upon the last, to foster a deeper understanding of each link and its implications for our lives. This retreat welcomes everyone, whether you are new to Buddhism or looking to deepen your practice. Join us for a weekend of insight. Retreat Schedule
Recommended Reading
To enhance your retreat experience, we recommend the following texts:
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Venerable René Feusi was born in Switzerland in 1959. He trained as a florist for the purpose of taking over the family business of flower shops in Geneva, as he first encountered Buddhism at the age of 20. He attended the annual November course at Kopan Monastery in Nepal. There he met Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, who were to become his main teachers. When he was 26, he took getsul (novice) ordination in Dharamsala, India and the full ordination (gelong) the following year.
After two years of study and retreats in India and Nepal, Venerable René entered the Nalanda Monastery in France, where he studied under Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Tegchok. After completing his studies and the traditional nine preliminary practices, he entered a two-and-a-half-year solitary retreat at O Sel Ling Retreat Center in Spain. |
Since then, he has spent his time teaching and leading retreats in Dharma centers around Europe and the United States and doing solitary retreats. Venerable René was the resident teacher at Vajrapani Institute in the Santa Cruz mountains from 2001 to 2007. Presently he lives in Tonasket, Washington and splits his time between teaching and personal retreat. Venerable René is the author of The Beautiful Way of Life: A Meditation on Shantideva’s Bodhisattva Path.
Those who have had the pleasure and good fortune to attend Venerable René’s teachings, immediately realize that his knowledge is deeply experiential, based on profound meditative insights. He helps his students gain an intuition of their own inner potential and inspires and guides them to become meditators themselves. |