Dear friends,
We are excited to begin another year of activities at our beautiful Heartland Retreat Center with all of you. Please join us for a weekend of meditation, teachings, and a wonderful time together. Our dear friend Dilia will be our teacher for the weekend.

PROGRAM

Jan 30, Friday 
6 pm Dinner 
8 pm Lecture: Teacher and Student Relationship

Jan 31, Saturday 
8:30 am - Group prostrations
9:00 am - Breakfast
11:00 am - Group 16th Karmapa meditation
11:30pm - Short talk Refuge and the Enlightened Attitude followed by personal practice
1 lunch / walk
2:30-4:00 pm - Short talk The Four Basic Thoughts followed by personal practice
4 pm Karmpa visit conversations
5 pm Personal practice
6 pm - Dinner
8 pm lecture Meditation

Feb 1, Sunday 
(Schedule to be adjusted based on streaming) 

8:30 am - Group prostrations
9:00 am - Breakfast
11:00 am - Group 16th Karmapa meditation
11:30pm - Short talk Enlightened Mind - Bodhicitta followed by personal practice
1 lunch / clean up

About Dilia:
Dilia Navarro is a lay Diamond Way Buddhist teacher from Caracas, Venezuela, where she worked as an electronics engineer. She first came into contact with Buddhism in 1993 and met Lama Ole Nydahl, and his wife Hannah, in 1994. In 1997, along with her brother and sister-in- law, she took responsibility of the Diamond Way Center in Caracas, and since then she has organized courses and helped form all the centers and meditation groups in Venezuela. Since year 1998 she started translating for Lama Ole during his courses in Venezuela, and since then she also started to help with the translations of the meditation booklets. In 2003, Lama Ole asked Navarro to travel and give teachings, and she has been travelling and teaching throughout North, Central and South America and Europe since. Ends of 2016 she moved to Kiel, Germany.