Doing long retreat
Tenzin Chogkyi 
Exploring Monastic Life 2006 
Aug 9, 2006 A talk given during Sravasti Abbey's annual Exploring Monastic Life program in 2006.
Life in retreat
- Significant things that happen
- What the ego does to feed itself
- Handling silence
- Experiencing different levels of the sense of self
- Make friends with yourself
- Using karma and emptiness to deconstruct the view of self
- Value of purification and accumulation of merit
- Trust the process and be patient
- Questions and answers
- Purification practices
- Transformation
- Accommodations
Exploring Monastic Life 2006: Session 5, 1-2 (download)
Questions and answers
- Daily schedule
- Special precepts
- Noticing resistance
- Perception of time
- Relating to others
Tenzin Chogkyi
Tenzin Chogkyi is a teacher of workshops and programs that bridge the worlds of Buddhist thought, contemplative practice, mental and emotional cultivation, and the latest research in the field of positive psychology. She first became interested in meditation in the early 1970s and then started practicing Tibetan Buddhism in early 1991 during a year she spent studying in India and Nepal. She worked in administrative positions in several Buddhist centers in the 1990’s, and also completed several long meditation retreats over a six-year period. Tenzin took monastic ordination in 2004 with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and practiced as a monastic for nearly 20 years. Since 2006 she has been teaching in Buddhist centers around the world and taught in prisons for 15 years.
