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Words to Wisdom: Discernment through the Four Reliances

Saturday & Sunday, October 11 - 12

10 am – 12 pm & 2 – 4 pm

Registration coming soon! 

Base Tuition: $120 (Covers the basic costs of offering this event)

Sponsor Tuition: $160 (Allows KSC to offer a reduced price level for those on a limited income)

Reduced Tuition: $80 (For those on a limited income)

The Four Reliances:

Not resting with the individual, rely on the teachings.  

Not resting on the words, rely on the meaning.  

Not resting on provisional meaning, rely on the definitive meaning.  

Not resting on dualistic consciousness, rely on nondual wisdom.

This pithy verse, known as The Four Reliances, presents a profound teaching revealing how the spiritual path moves through increasingly subtle and informed reliance on trustworthy sources, culminating in our own innate wisdom. The progression helps us discern the steps of trustworthy reliance on what is authentic and valuable for our spiritual practice and path.

Lama Karma Yeshe will explore the Four Reliances as guides to refining our discernment through listening, contemplating, and meditating--the Buddha's time-honored method for integrating the teachings. The focus is on learning traditional tools for engaging any teaching confidently. The format is practical and interactive, encouraging individual practice, and dialogue among the participants.

Lama Karma Yeshe Chödrön is a scholar, teacher, and translator in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, and a long-term student of Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche. Before studying Buddhism, she completed graduate degrees in biology and law, and worked as a litigator in Miami and Silicon Valley. 

Since 2005, she has taught and translated Dharma texts and oral teachings from Tibetan to English for the Rigpe Dorje Institute for International Students at Pullahari Monastery in Nepal. Yeshe successfully completed the traditional Kagyu lineage three-year cloistered retreat at Vajra Vidya Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado in 2016, under the auspices of Kyabje Thrangu Rinpoche. She then co-founded Prajna Fire, an online global community aimed at sharing traditional methods for transmitting experiential understanding of Buddhadharma with Western students. Her writings have appeared in Lion's Roar, Buddhadharma, and Tricycle. She is co-host of the Prajna Sparks podcast and two seasons of Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC teachers podcast.