The Way of the Great Perfection
A program of the All-Encompassing Path to Enlightenment
Awakening immeasurable love within ourselves with Jan van der Breggen
The Mahayana path of love and compassion takes our basic longing for connection, infuses it with wisdom, and expands it into a deep kinship with all living beings. Inviting us to view our relationships afresh, this path is at once practical and profound.
It is practical in that it is grounded in straightforward kindness toward everyone we meet. It is profound in that it shows us how all beings are equally worthy of a love that goes beyond mere affection to include a deeply felt responsibility for their immediate well-being and ultimate enlightenment.
We are all capable of this profound and healing love, and in this Live Sangha Day, we will explore the contemplative path to awakening it within ourselves.
About Jan van der Breggen
Jan began his path of meditation at 17 years old, touched by the tenderness of the human experience and filled with questions about what reality was all about. Forty years later, Jan continues to be moved by the vast profundity of the Buddhist path and its vision of the inherent wisdom, loving kindness and strength that lies in the minds of each and every one of us.
Jan completed Rigpa’s three-year retreat under the guidance of Sogyal Rinpoche. He was entrusted as one of Rigpa’s Senior teachers by Khenchen Namdrol Rinpoche and Mindroling Jetsun Khandro in 2022. Jan has been a participant in the Milinda program since 2017. Milinda is a 10-year, international Buddhist teacher training program under the guidance of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, with a three month per year intensive and immersive in-person learning and reflection program.
Jan grew up in the Netherlands where he obtained a Masters Degree in Social and Historical Anthropology. He has lived in Brisbane, Australia, since 1998, and was instrumental in founding Rigpa Brisbane in 1999, where he has served as a Dharma instructor for over 20 years.
