6th TSK summer retreat Europe‘LOVE OF KNOWLEDGE’

Dates: Tuesday August 11 at 11 am through Sunday August 16 at 4 pm (16 hrs)

Teachers: Joleen Vries, assisted by Klaus Noldes

Language: English.

Price: 390 euro including all board and classes

Location: Nyingma Centrum Nederland Reguliersgracht 25 Amsterdam (Amsterdam Historic City Center)

Accommodation: A limited number of free beds is available in very basic shared rooms in the Center.

Registration and Information: nyingmacentrum@nyingma.nl

6th TSK Retreat Europe

LOVE OF KNOWLEDGETime, Space and Knowledge Vision

August 11-16 2015Nyingma Centrum Nederland

Amsterdam

coproduced by Nyingma Zentrum Deutschland

Nyingma Centrum NederlandReguliersgracht 25 Amsterdam

**31 20 6205207 www.nyingma.nl

AccommodationThe retreat will take place in the Amsterdam Nyingma Center situated in the heart of the his-toric City Center on one of the canals. You are in the middle of a busy metropole, yet the meditation room and roof terrace are in the back and offer a quiet invitation for group and solo practice and reflection. Price includes all classes, vegetarian meals and coffee and tea. Free in-house lodging is available in very basic shared rooms (2-4 persons). Please let us know soon if you want to make use of this because the number of beds is limited.

The European Nyingma Centers of Cologne (D) and Amsterdam (NL) are extremely pleased to announce the 6th jointly organized Time Space Knowledge Summer Retreat Europe. This retreat will be taught by Joleen Vries, senior Nyingma teacher, assisted by Klaus Noldes, TSK teacher in training from Cologne. They chose as the retreat’s theme ‘Love of Knowledge’ -named after one of Tarthang Tulku’s TSK books.This book is available in english or in dutch translation in our shop or webshop: www. lotusdesignshop.nl

Love of Knowledge6th European TSK Summer Retreat 2015August 11-16 Amsterdam The Netherlands

What happens to experience when conventional structures of time and space dissolve into new possibilities? In the Time, Space, Knowledge Vision, Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku – one of this century’s most profound masters – explores this question in playful, surprising ways.

The goal of this retreat is to find ways to break free of our conditioning and awaken our creativity. When we live fully in each arising moment (TIME), with no distance between ourselves and the world we inhabit (SPACE), joy and intuitive insight (KNOWLEDGE) well up spontaneously. The secret to this transformation is a form of inquiry that is at once free, open, and embodied.

Time Space Knowledge VisionThe Time Space Knowledge Vision was introduced to the West by Tibetan Lama Tarthang Tulku in 1977 as an invitation to freely explore our own assumptions about ‘reality’ and who we are. Especially suited for the adventurous Western mind, it forms part of the curriculum of all the Nyingma Centers worldwide. The TSK series of publications contains a vast treasure of insights and exercises that open up our minds and hearts to unexpected and alternative dimensions of experience.

Joleen Vries is member of the board and co-dean of Nyingma Centrum Nederland. Trained at The University of Amsterdam she graduated in Psychology; Methods of Investigation.Joleen has been a student of Tarthang Tulku’s teachings since she fell in love with his TSK teachings in 1984. Since then she was a student in many Nyingma Retreats and courses. She is currently active not only in Amsterdam but also abroad as a Nyingma Centers international teacher of Buddhist Studies and Practices and Nyingma Psychology and Meditation.

“We have been taught to insist on our own existence, on the foreordained conclusion, “I am.” Since we accept that claim as basic, we have a re-sponsibility to investigate its consequences fully; to know who we are and what is possible for us. “

Tarthang Tulku in ‘Visions of Knowledge’

Tarthang Tulku, formally educated in Tibet in the Buddhist tradition, is renowned as an innovative teacher and as a visionary, independent thinker. He has lived in America since the late sixties of the 20th century where he has directed major educational and publishing projects worldwide. His books on Kum Nye Relaxation, Skillful Means, Buddhist Psychology and Time Space Knowledge Vision have been translated in many western languages.

Klaus Noldes is a student of TSK since 1987. From 1992-2001 he worked fulltime for the Nyingma Center in Germany, helping setting up and running a commercial printing company. In the end of the nineties he taught classes in Kum Nye, Mantra, Visualisation and other Nyingma topics. In the following years he worked as a gardener again. In 2007 he founded and led for several years a studygroup based on “Joy of Being” by Tarthang Tulku. Klaus currently lives at the Nyingma Center in Cologne where he leads a TSK study group. In autumn 2015 he will have completed a formal TSK-teacher training led by Jack Petranker, founder of Center for Creative Inquiry.

“Fresh and alive, the Time, Space, Knowledge Vision invites us to discover deeper knowledge within daily life. We do not need to seek out special experiences. We only need to explore with caring, insight, and imagination the events, conditions, and structures that we use to make sense of our reality. “