What we’re about
Pristine Mind meditation is a simple and powerful style of meditation that helps people live life more fully and find unconditional happiness.
Founded by Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche, our warm and welcoming organization, Pristine Mind Foundation, has a vibrant community in the Bay Area. We encourage people of all levels of meditation experience – from beginners to advanced – to join us. You will benefit from becoming more mindful and creating new connections with like-minded people.
Rinpoche teaches programs to help start or strengthen your meditation practice, including:
· Regularly held meditation programs in San Rafael.
· Weekend long programs and retreats in the Bay Area and throughout the world.
· Online workshops and live streaming events.
A highly-trained meditation master, Rinpoche is also the author of Our Pristine Mind: A Practical Guide to Unconditional Happiness (2016). This book has helped thousands of people attain peace and inner happiness and is a great way to learn about Pristine Mind meditation more deeply.
If you would like to join us or learn more about our organization, programs and events, please visit www.pristinemind.org.
Upcoming events (2)
See all- 3-Day Annual Summer Meditation Retreat | Online and In-PersonNeeds location$150.00
3-Day Spring Meditation Retreat: How to Create Great Bliss and Enlightened Experience
Friday, July 18th – Sunday, July 20th
Available Online or In-Person in Petaluma, CARegistration Link: https://pristinemind.org/programs/1890/3-day-annual-summer-retreat-the-5-dakinis-of-green-tara-meditation-practice/
In this retreat, Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche will present The 5 Dakinis of Green Tara meditation practice. Rinpoche will provide teachings and guided meditation and we will engage in this profound practice together as a group.
This practice frees your mind from ordinary thoughts, emotions, unhappiness, and stress, and transforms all five mental poisons into enlightened awareness. It creates a clear mind and life and ultimately leads to completely perfect enlightenment.
- 5-Day Pure Awareness Meditation Retreat Intensive | Online and In-PersonLink visible for attendees$150.00
5-Day Pure Awareness Meditation Retreat Intensive
Friday, August 29 - Tuesday, September 2
Online or In-Person in Petaluma, CARegistration Link: https://pristinemind.org/programs/1897/5-day-pure-awareness-meditation-retreat-intensive/
These intensive meditation retreats provide an opportunity for people to experience the transformative benefits of longer periods of meditation. Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche often talks about these benefits and has explained that to deepen and gain confidence in meditation so that our practice can affect our lives in the most positive ways, it is important to meditate for longer periods of time.
This 5-day retreat will allow participants to deepen and develop their experience by meditating together with Rinpoche in this special more intensive retreat format. Rinpoche may choose to have participants remain in silence for some portions of the retreat.
Participants must attend the entire 5 days of the retreat.
This is a multi-day intensive meditation retreat. Prior experience with meditation is highly recommended.
