Year 7: Personal Instruction

The Seventh Year will include personal instruction by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche. It is likely this will include two meetings with His Holiness during the course of the retreat with direct guidance the retreatant should take for their practice after this examination. This may include the Purification of the Five Senses or His Holienss may determine to lead the practitioner into the actual practical transmission union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen. At this point, the instructions the individual needs are received from through examination and personal instruction.

Through this thorough process, retreatants have the chance to become naturally self-realizing. At death, practitioners with realization manifest as clear light filling the pristine sky while their bodies transform into a rainbow, a phenomenon known as "Jalu," or achieving the rainbow body. Thus the significance of practicing the non-dual Mahamudra and Dzogchen has helped hundreds of thousands of beings attain the state of enlightenment.

To these days the transmission and lineage still exist unbroken in Palyul tradition and thus this is a tremendous opportunity to learn these practices.