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Our attention often identifies with and clings to our inner dialogue, which accompanies us – invited or not – throughout our everyday experiences. This inner speech and reactive commentary separates us from the spacious awareness and warmth of our authentic Being. This 3 Doors course will support you to recognize patterns of inner and outer speech and how to use precision of attention to rest in powerful, transformative inner silence.
This 6-part, self-guided, pre-recorded audio course will support you to:
- Listen and respond to others from a place of open awareness.
- Fine-tune your precision of attention and deepen experiences with core 3 Doors practices: Door of Silence (the 3 Doors), 9 Breathings, Tsa Lung, and Warrior Seed Syllables.
- Recognize and release reactive speech patterns.
- Free your mind from the trance of inner dialogue and unhealthy internal chatter.
- Practice how to receive the gift of silence off-the-cushion, even during the busiest work or social schedules.
- Discover the rich fullness of your authentic speech and how it can transform your life.
Program Design
This course was designed to be followed over six weeks. In total, there are 12 teaching modules and 13 guided meditations. Each week has approximately 30 minutes of teaching and one hour of guided practice. As a self-guided course, students can progress through the material at their own pace.
Week 1 – Welcome to Exploring the Door of Silence
Teaching: Understanding the 3 Doors and the benefits of Stillness, Silence, and Spaciousness. Learning and reviewing what it is to rest in the Inner Refuge.
Guided Practice: Focus on the 3 Doors practice with precision of attention.
Teaching: The Door of Silence, Pain Speech, and the 3 Poisons.
Guided Practice: 9 Breathings of Purification with precision of attention.
Week 2 – Door of Silence to Enter Inner Refuge
Teaching: Reflecting on habitual patterns of pain speech that can block the throat chakra and prevent natural expressions of clarity and warmth. Recognizing a pain identity and learning how to transform and heal it.
Guided Practice:Upward MovingTsa Lung. Focusing on the Door of Silence to enter the Inner Refuge and hosting a pain identity.
Teaching: Liberation in the moment. How to apply the Door of Silence informally as you go about your day and use awareness to illuminate the suffering of reactivity on the spot.
Guided Practice:Precious Pill of Silence.
Week 3 – Recognizing Pain Speech Part 1
Teaching: Reflecting on habitual pain identities associated with judging, complaining, inability to listen to others, conflict, suppression, or elaboration. Breaking free from the trance of inner dialogue.
Guided Practice: Enter Inner Refuge through the Door of Silence, host a habitual inner dialogue pain identity, rest in the emergence of non-conceptual awareness to Illuminate and dissolve impermanent reactive identity structure.
Teaching: Noticing one’s ability to articulate and express from the warmth of refuge and the difference when communicating a “frozen” pain identity. Noticing “losing the point” in discussion due to reactivity.
Guided Practice: 9-Breathings/Secret Tsa Lung/Door of Silence into refuge, hosting pain identity.
Week 4 – Recognizing Pain Speech Part 2
Teaching: Reflecting on the use of negative, non-virtuous, pain speech: Lying, Maliciousness/Slander, Harshness/Abusive, Idle Gossip.
Guided Practice: Door of Silence into refuge: reflect on and clear negative habits of pain speech, Outer/Inner Upward Moving Tsa Lung.
Teaching: Further exploring the connection between pain speech and pain identities.
Guided Practice: Door of Silence into refuge/hosting a recent pain identity created by expression of pain speech.
Week 5 – Silence as the Door to Completeness
Teaching: Abiding in refuge, we connect to our inherent positive qualities: our spacious nature is not empty but full and rich; it is the source of limitless possibilities and potential; we discover fearlessness and confidence. Discovering these inherent immeasurable qualities, we recognize our natural completeness and capacity to respond to whatever we meet.
Guided Practice: Steady focus on Silence with a precision of attention: no agenda, not creating a result. Resting in awareness of unbounded space: limitless possibilities, confident, and complete.
Teaching: Development of authentic speech: gentle, peaceful, effective, and harmonious (brings people together).
Guided Practice: Outer/Inner/Secret Tsa Lung – Door of Silence: abiding in the openness of the throat chakra, experiencing the result.
Week 6 – Receiving Silence as a Gift
Teaching: Exploring Silence as a door to connect to and know oneself, to express oneself, and to experience Silence as a Gift of Freedom.
Guided Practice: Full practice of 9 Breathings, Upward Moving Tsa Lung, Focus on Door of Silence – all with a precision of attention. Less guided instructions and more quiet practice time to support deepening into the experience of Silence as a Gift.
Teaching: Appreciation for the path of the 3 Doors. Appreciation for the gifts of spaciousness, awareness, and warmth, with a focus on second refuge, the Body of Light.
Guided Practice: A, Om, Hung – singing sacred syllables with the melody composed by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.
Program Details:
TEACHER: Gabriel Rocco
COST: $125
We are grateful for donations made during registration. These help us offer lower-priced options and scholarships.
Upon purchasing this program, you will receive a confirmation email containing a link to the program materials.
WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE: This program contains 10 hours of audio teaching and guided practices. In addition, each week includes a brief support video and visual handouts outlining the practices covered. All materials are available to access anytime and may be streamed or downloaded.
PREREQUISITES: None – no meditation experience is necessary.
CONTACT: Please contact info@the3doors.org if you have any questions.
Continue Your Practice in Community
Those who have completed this course will be invited to join live Healing Power of Silence programs with Gabriel Rocco a few times a year. Come together with a community of practitioners on a similar journey and find support in live guidings, practice, and sharing of experience. Look for an email invitation in your inbox the next time one of these retreats is scheduled.
