Happy Birthday, Phuntsok!

Support Phuntsok’s One Month Solitary Retreat

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Dear Friends,

Our dear teacher, mentor, and beloved dharma brother, Phuntsok will go into solitary retreat for one month starting at the end of this year. Solitary retreats of at least three months and longer have always been a routine and significant part of Phuntsok’s practice for the past 30 years. Worldly duties and responsibilities kept him from doing an extended retreat for several years, but recently the wish to dive deep into uninterrupted practice grew louder and more urgent. We’re so grateful that circumstances aligned to give him this month of mental and physical space.

Phuntsok has always led a very active and busy life of service, but despite all his responsibilities, he always engages with each of us with his undivided attention and warm, inviting energy.

Throughout his monastic years to present-day, Phuntsok balanced his own rigorous study and practice with a full-time job working with a non-profit organization for the past 20 years while fulfilling requests for teachings, rituals, and blessings, regularly commuting and devoting many hours all year round to centers and individuals on a volunteer basis.


During the pandemic as many of us had the opportunity for quietude, stillness, and personal retreats of our own, Phuntsok juggled an increasingly demanding schedule with his full-time job in addition to quickly adapting his teaching engagements and community offerings to online platforms, and privately counseling those who struggled with negative effects brought on by the pandemic.

For those of us who personally know Phuntsok, we know well that taking time and space for himself is something he rarely does. Through all his years of service and devotion to the Dharma, he never holds back in generously and boundlessly giving himself for our benefit and happiness.

This retreat will allow him to take time for himself, and return refreshed and with revived energy to continue sharing his wisdom.

Please join in giving Phuntsok an unforgettable and meaningful birthday gift by contributing to his retreat. Knowing this retreat was sponsored by loved ones will light up his heart, and our collective love and support will fuel him all month long.

Your contribution will help cover Phuntsok’s retreat expenses (travel and meals), and living expenses from his time missed at his job to help ease worldly burdens.

No amount is too small, and any contribution is immensely appreciated and valued.

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Sponsoring Phuntsok’s retreat accumulates beautiful merit for your own practice. Together, let’s cultivate our perfection of dāna for the benefit and aim of our fully awakened potential. 


Celebrating your merit with deep gratitude,
Liz Sung

Gratitude

  • All Contributions

    All donors will be gifted an audio recording of Phuntsok’s guided Vajrasattva purification meditation to enter the new year

  • SAMAYA samaya.life

    Contributions of $100

    Donors of $100+ will be gifted a general retreat outline by Phuntsok to adapt to your own practice and structure your own retreat

  • Contributions of $250

    Donors of $250+ will be gifted from SAMAYA a $50 gift card and embroidered tote bag inspired by one of Phuntsok’s teachings

Thank You for Your Generosity

Adam Brownstein
Bryan Hogan
Christiana Polites
Christopher Delisle
Curtis Macdonald
Danielle Kayembe
Diego Rodriguez
Dionne Toussaint
Emmett Farley
Eugenie Trott
Ferenz Kallos
Helen Mangano
Jade Michaels
Jane Rose
Jeremy Lehrer

Kiana McCourt
Kirat Randhawa
Leonardo Bianchi
Leonard Washington
Liz Sung
Lorella Mainero
Lorena Meneses
Maria Tan
Matt Bradley
Nezam Ardalan
Rohit Reddy
Sheryl Uss
Susan Altabet
Todd Nelson

Contact

Questions? Write to liz.sung@gmail.com