Gesture of Great Love – Study and Practice Program

Practical information and registration

• 20 classes and 1 weekend retreat Januari 7 – June 10 2026
• Classes: Wednesdays 19.00 – 20.30 CET/10.00-11.30 am PDT online via Zoom
• Retreat: Friday May 29 16.00 – Sunday May 31 live in Stupa Retreat Center Winterswijk or online via Zoom
• English spoken
• Cost € 625,- or 5 x € 125,- per month

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Gesture of Great Love Study and Practice Program Overview Module 1-4

Module 1 – 6 classes Jan 7 – Feb 17 ( no class on Feb 4 and Feb 25)
Cultivating Treasures of Peace
based on GoGL Introduction + Chapters 1-3

Module 1, based on chapters 1-3 of the book,  invites you to honestly look at how you are – and what goes well or not well in your life and in the world around you. Simply being honest with ourselves is more difficult then we sometimes think. Rinpoche suggests offering ourselves hugs and kisses and genuine interest to make transformation possible. By examining the three basic approaches that are suggested , this module lays a foundation for further investigation in the following modules.

Module 2 – 6 classes March 4 – April 8
Seeing with Wise Eyes
based on GoGL ch 4 – 7

In this module Seeing with Wise Eyes, you will become clear about the regime of mind and how it dominates your life, controls your reality and limits your possibilities. You learn to see your human situation without frustration, but with wise, compassionate eyes.

The mind of ignorance is the root cause of suffering. In this module you actively inquire into your own experience. You become intimate with the self, investigating how it operates and when, how and why it affirms itself.

You will meet the mind’s gatekeepers! All your problems, or what seem to be problems, appear by how the self manifests – helped by the gatekeepers: I, me, mine and mind. When you begin to see how mind works, these protectors start loosening their hold. Finally you become free; free to choose a more easeful, a more useful, a more joyful way of being.

Module 3 – 4 classes April 15 – May 13 (no class April 29)
Offering Hugs and Kisses
based on GoGL ch 8 – 9

In module 3 we open ourselves for the basic unconditional love for ourselves that is the foundation of a healthy and happy life. By learning to accept and love ourselves the way we are -including all our so-called imperfections- we paradoxically open to the real possibility of transformation and growth. We develop a new relationship with mind, inviting it to be our friend and helper instead of the dictator and eternal critic.

This gesture of hugs and kisses, freely given to ourselves will extend naturally into a loving and compassionate attitude towards others, which will bring new perspectives and joys into your daily life.

Module 4 – 2 classes May 20 and 27 and 1 weekend retreat in Winterswijk May 29-31 live or online.
From Regime Time to the Heart of Time
based on GoGL ch 10 – 12

Once you are really committed to offering hugs and kisses, you will be motivated to examine the nature of time more closely. Looking inward you can ask: Is sameness how things actuually are? Is time really moving at a steady pace? To feel secure, am I ignoring time’s dynamic, with its natural momentum towards freshness and potential? Is the shape of time anything like the face of a clock?

Growing up, we learn to replace the immediacy of the instant with the succession of moments. Linear time as it unwinds from moment to moment tells us what is real and it hides from us the depth of the instant. Yet we can recover the depth of the instant. Without rejecting the realness and logic of the content that time presents, we can release its hold on us, just as we can learn to wake up within the dream.

Module 5 2 classes June 3 and 10
Epiloque and closing session
based on GoGL Epilogue

Let go of ‘I can’t’ or ‘I don’t know how’.
Bring ease to whatever arises, to all of the dream-line bubbles.
Smile.
Enjoy the display!

Silent light is already shining.
The Great Love at the heart of being is already here.

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Instructors

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