Level 2 Retreat with Dustin DiPerna

The Level 2 course utilizes the same relationally-based Pointing Out style of teaching as in the Level 1 course. More emphasis is given to mastery of the last three stages of concentration—automatic concentration, one-pointed orderly flow, and equanimity. However, this advanced course introduces Mahamudra concentration, in contrast to the sutra concentration of the Level 1 course, wherein the natural state of the mind is established as the view concurrent to concentrating on the concentration object. This course covers the same stages of emptiness practice as in the Level 1 course, but does so with Mahamudra as compared to sutra instructions for each of the specific emptiness practices. This course also covers a wider range of compassion practices than in the Level 1 course, namely the practice of the Mahayana version of the Four Immeasurables and the Six Perfections.