Experience heart essence teachings on awakening the enlightened nature of mind. Each week live courses and recorded classes led by Lama Michael Gregory offer an insightful and compassionate journey to transcend suffering and bring your path and purpose to one of complete enlightenment.
Clear and transformational teachings, contemplations and meditations from the ancient wisdom tradition of Dzogchen will be shared in modern and practical terms.
These teachings are offered on our live Tuesday classes, available for watching later on online courses.
".This community is the most amazing, compassionate, loving group of people that have appeared in this life. The teachings are clear, concise, and all directed at stopping suffering. The retreat center location is full of life, plants, blooming flowers and a small pond all in a peaceful setting. This community has changed my life in ways I couldn't have even imagined and I wish it to benefit you.
- Carl Johnson
Transformative Video Courses, Class Notes and Quizzes
We offer crystal clear Buddhist teachings that offer video, class notes and quizzes.
We also offer course support from expert teachers, that can help you understand the teachings and meditations with greater insight
Stages on The Path
to Enlightenment
Vajragharba Community you can access to These Four Paths have been developed from the ancient lineage of Lam Rim, Stages of The Path to Enlightenment. Each stage developed to support the heart and mind of the practitioner as they progress along the path of ever deepening inner wisdom and compassion. Classes and courses are offered in clear and easy to understand lessons with supporting notes and quizzes.
Retreat in San Diego
Pemako Retreat Center was created to assist contemplatives and meditators as a place to practice with with ongoing instruction from among the very best of living yogis and scholars. We focus on on providing the most supportive solo retreat and group retreat experience with Crystal clear teaching and meditation.
Lama Michael is a former Buddhist Monk, Teacher and Executive Director of Vajragharba Dzogchen Teachings. Lama Michael has shared that there can never be enough gratitude to repay the debt of kindness that others have shown [him], in particular the XIV Dalai Lama, the XVII Karmapa--Orgyen Trinley Dorje, Gyaltsab Rinpoche, Bokar Rinpoche, Thrangu Rinpoche, HH Dodrupchen Rinpoche and Penor Rinpoche who have offered the empowerment cycles of Rinchen Terzo and Dam Ngak Dzod. Lama Michael’s direct, powerful and often humorous teaching style is clean and insightful and makes ancient buddhist teachings crystal clear and accessible to a western audience. Lama Michael teaches all courses in this program.
For more than twenty-five years Lama Michael has joyfully instructed a continuous stream of educated and experienced practitioners of all levels and backgrounds in Thailand, India, Hong Kong, Europe and the United States. He has led hundreds of meditation retreats on almost every subject matter related to Buddhism, in addition to leading meditative pilgrimages throughout Thailand, Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, and India. Michael currently directs the practicing and teaching schedule at Vajragharba community of practitioners.
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Current Live Course
Lama Michael will lead a 12 Week Course offering rare teachings and meditations on the nature of the subtle body and subtle most nature of mind, the cause of delusion, what delusion creates, and how delusion is corrected.
Explanations and meditations will be offered of the Vajrayana niruttara tantras, with a special focus on the structure and functioning of the body. Just as sugatagarbha, or buddha nature, is the nature of our mind, the potential for awakening lies within our body.
