"Breakthrough moments: The psychedelic experience as a moment of shift into freshness and clarity."

In the context of Ati Yoga (Tibetan: Dzogchen), moments of breakthrough are essential means through which one can have insights that challenge the hardness and rigidity of our ideas of self, other, and the world around us. Such moments are powerful ways that allow us to expand our consciousness and offer glimpses of greater interconnectedness, release from ego clinging, and flashes of creative freedom. Join us for a talk on the preciousness of these breakthrough moments as well as their context in the context of meditation, as well as within the context of the use of psychedelics.

Lama Justin von Budjoss is an American Vajrayana Buddhist teacher, writer, and co-founder of Bhumisparsha, an experimental Buddhist sangha along with Lama Rod Owens and Yangti Yoga Retreat Center with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang.

He is the author of "Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity and Embodiment in Dharma Practice", published by North Atlantic

Books, and a contributor to "Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections," published by Lexington Books.

From 2016 until December 2021, Justin served as the Executive Director of Chaplaincy and Staff Wellness for the NYC Department of Corrections, where he also served as Staff Chaplain, supervising over 30 chaplains and guiding wellness programming for staff.

Justin was ordained as a repa, a lay tantric yogin in the tradition of Milarepa, by His Eminence Gyaltsab Rinpoche, one of the heart sons of His Holiness the 16th Karmapa and is a ngakpa in the Yuthok Nyingthik tantric Buddhist lineage. Lama Justin has presented on Buddhist practice at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, the University of Chicago, Wellesley, Columbia University, and has been a visiting instructor at Union Theological Seminary, and teaches at Pure Land Farms.

Recorded live online April 16th, 2024.
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