After reading The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying in 2001, Rob van Willegen found a Rigpa centre near his student flat in Groningen (the Netherlands) and enrolled in the first available meditation course. He was encouraged by the advice to examine the Buddha’s teachings to see if they relate to our personal experience and discovered the profundity of the Buddha’s teachings. He has studied and practised Tibetan Buddhism ever since. Rob first visited Dzogchen Beara in 2008 and joined the Dzogchen Beara team in 2023.