Gesture of Great Love – Study and Practice Program
Instructor
Ralph McFall is the current Director of Dharma Publishing, runs a printing press for the Yeshe De project, and has lived at Odiyan for over 25 years. Ralph is a former co-director of Nyingma Institute, and Nyingma Centers International, and has taught a wide range of subjects since 1980. He approaches teaching as an opportunity to be together in time and space with openness and curiosity so that fresh knowledge can emerge.
Elske van de Hulst is co-dean and senior instructor at Nyingma Centrum Nederland in Amsterdam.
Between 1969 and 1995, she worked in the theatre as an actress, director and author. She taught at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten and for many years was a member of the Dutch Arts Council. In 1998 she started studying the theatre of the mind, guided by Tarthang Tulku’s books, and has not stopped since.
Elske teaches Meditation, Knowledge of Freedom, Revelations of Mind, Dimensions of Mind, Caring and Lotus Trilogy teachings in Amsterdam and elsewhere.
Four Modules and a Retreat
Module 1 – Oct 5-Nov 23: Cultivating Treasures, Maria Helena Kubrusly
Module 2 – Jan 18-Mar 15: Seeing Mind with Wise Eyes, Caroline van Tuyll
Module 3 – Mar 29-May 3: Offering Hugs and Kisses, Magda Costa
Module 4 – May 17-July 12: From Regime-time to the Heart of Time, Ralph McFall
Workshop – date TBD: Silent Field of Being, all Instructors
Gesture of Great Love
Module 4: From Regime-time to the Heart of Time
Led by Ralph McFall
May 17 – July 12, 2025 (skip July 5)
8 Saturdays, 9:30 – 11 AM PST
Price for course – $220
Rinpoche writes: “We are living within the ‘regime of mind’. As long as mind runs unchecked, we are living in delusion, unable to make sense of what is going on.”
An invitation to transcend suffering now!
The book and program Gesture of Great Love offer a new way of understanding experience through unique approaches and practices.
Both book and program are characterized by a fresh and surprisingly direct tone that invites us to transcend suffering – not some time later but starting now – as we are, where we are and realizing that the Great Love at the heart of being is already here!
“Understanding Time in its fullness can be the key to inner peace and freedom.”
Tarthang Tulku
Though our lives unfold in time, we rarely have a connection to time itself. This course will bring awareness to our unconscious and troubled relationship to Regime-Time, and introduce a new model for understanding our lived time: The infinitesimal instant.
We will do close readings from Gesture of Great Love, opening up each word; experiential exercises to shift our orientation to time, and meditative practice to invite the shift from Regime-Time to the depth available in each arising instant.
