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
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- $50.00
Online Annual Phowa Daylong Meditation Retreat
·OnlineOnlineSaturday, January 24th, 2026
Online from 10:00am – 4:00pm Pacific Time
This retreat will be held online only.
Learn more and register:
https://pristinemind.org/programs/1934/online-annual-phowa-daylong-meditation-retreat/
In order to live comfortably and enjoy life, you need to feel comfort with the inevitability of death. Phowa, the meditation practice for transferring consciousness to the enlightened state at the time of death, is the key to living joyfully and dying fearlessly.
In this Annual Phowa Daylong Online Meditation Retreat, Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche will teach on these practices for transferring consciousness to the enlightened state at the time of death and will provide guidance in this meditation practice based on a practice manual from the Longchen Nyingtik tradition that Rinpoche has translated into English.
The Annual Phowa Daylong Meditation Retreat will be held Online on January 24th and will include live streamed video and access to on-demand recordings.1 attendee
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