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SUMMARY:Dhyana Through The Body - Re-evaluating Dhyana
DESCRIPTION:“Quite secluded from sensual pleasures\, secluded from unwholesome states… one suffuses\, fills\, and permeates one’s entire body with rapture and pleasure born of seclusion\, so that there is no part of one’s whole body that is not pervaded by it.” AN 5.28 \nOn this retreat\, we’ll be offering embodied approaches to dhyāna (jhāna) that people have found to be helpful and effective. This may well involve questioning both our own views and approaches\, and a good deal of what the tradition has to say about dhyāna. \nDhyāna is far more than samatha\, or mental calm. Recognising the liberative potential of the first dhyāna was the key to the Buddhas own awakening and he taught dhyana as inseparable from insight. Only later tradition came to regard the dhyānas as ‘just’ highly concentrated states. \nThe dhyānas are\, rather\, states of deep\, embodied mental unity\, integrated with awareness of the foundations of mindfulness (satipaṭṭhāna) and the factors of awakening (bojjhaṅgā). \nIn practice\, the most useful question is: ‘what\, in our experience\, is actually helpful?’ We have found that by becoming alive to the energetic immediacy of body experience\, resources for entering dhyana can be discovered as already present – just waiting to be noticed. We’ll explore this in direct experience by delving into the relation between body and breath as well as between body\, awareness and insight.
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/dhyana-through-the-body-re-evaluating-dhyana/
LOCATION:Vajraloka\, Tyn Y Ddol\, Corwen\, Denbighshire\, LL21 0EN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260206T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260213T100000
DTSTAMP:20260502T173309
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SUMMARY:Emptiness and the Heart Sutra - at Rivendell
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Heart Sutra is one of the most well-known and loved of all Buddhist texts.\nInevitably\, there are innumerable takes on what it ‘means’. Early western\ncommentators treated it as philosophy or even poetry. But what if it actually points us\ntowards our own immediate experience as the way to “sunder the bonds that cause\nus suffering”? \nWhatever could practising this involve? \nFirst\, there are questions that need to be addressed. What is ‘emptiness’? What\ndoes it mean to say that our psycho-physical constituents – the skandhas – are\n‘empty’? And how can it be that ‘in emptiness’ there are no skandhas\, no senses\,\neven no conditioned arising? \nGoing deeper\, we’ll open to our direct experience of the body\, senses and skandhas.\nWe’ll explore whether an intrinsic\, substantial\, separate ‘me’ can be found in “form\,\nfeeling\, thought\, choice and consciousness”\, Does this “me” have any basis in\nexperience? Or is experience ‘empty’ of such an entity? \nIn this way\, we’ll begin to discover how the emptiness teaching of the Heart Sutra\ncan compassionately awaken us to our deepest nature\, Prajñāpāramitā\, from which\nwe are never truly apart. \n  \nThis retreat is now available for booking on the Rivendell Website – link below
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/emptiness-and-the-heart-sutra-at-rivendell/
LOCATION:Rivendell\, Chillies Lane\, High Hurstwood\, East Sussex\, TN22 4AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260109T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260118T100000
DTSTAMP:20260502T173309
CREATED:20250821T100025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250821T100025Z
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SUMMARY:Satipatthana: the Buddha’s teaching on mindfulness - co-leading with Prajnapriya - Vajraloka
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Satipatthana Sutta\, one of the most influential of the Buddha’s discourses\, shows how wakeful\, insightful attention to body\, feelings and mind can enable us to wake up to our true nature. This radically transformative teaching is described as a ‘direct path’ to the cessation of suffering. Offering effective approaches that address the alienation and disembodiment which characterise life today\, it can restore a deep integrity of body\, heart\, mind and being. \nIn this retreat\, we’ll explore a number of practice approaches inspired by the original mindfulness teachings attributed to the Buddha that take awareness\, insight and compassion ever deeper. As such\, it will be helpful for all those wishing to deepen their mindfulness practice as well as for those qualified or training as teachers of mindfulness–based approaches such as MBSR\, MBCT and Breathworks. \nThis retreat is suitable for people who have been meditating for at least 3 years
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/satipatthana-the-buddhas-teaching-on-mindfulness-co-leading-with-prajnapriya-vajraloka/
LOCATION:Vajraloka\, Tyn Y Ddol\, Corwen\, Denbighshire\, LL21 0EN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251205T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251212T103000
DTSTAMP:20260502T173309
CREATED:20251001T103841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251030T165634Z
UID:2408-1764954000-1765535400@www.tejananda.net
SUMMARY:Dhyana Through the Body - at Rivendell
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nAccessing dhyana (jhana)\, or absorption\, seems to be very natural for some people\, and a complete mystery to others. Dhyana is well worth cultivating as a way of deepening shamatha (mental tranquillity) as well as for the sheer psycho-somatic pleasure that some of these states afford. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn this retreat\, we’ll be suggesting approaches that people have found to be helpful and effective for getting an experience of dhyana\, especially cultivating body awareness. This may well involve holding lightly to both our own views and some of what the tradition has to say about dhyana. We’ll proceed on the basis of asking ‘What\, in our experience\, is and is not actually helpful’? We will also explore\, in experience\, the relationship between dhyana and insight. \nTo attend this retreat you will need to have been regularly meditating for at least two years and regularly attend retreats\, a centre or a group within the context of the Triratna Buddhist Community. You must also be comfortable with extended periods of sitting meditation\, Buddhist devotional practice and spending most of the retreat in silence.
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/dhyana-through-the-body-at-rivendell/
LOCATION:Rivendell\, Chillies Lane\, High Hurstwood\, East Sussex\, TN22 4AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251121T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T173309
CREATED:20240906T155906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T104132Z
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SUMMARY:The Awakening Heart and the Divine Abodes - co-leading with Rijumitra - Vajraloka
DESCRIPTION:Bodhicitta – the awakening heart – is both the heart–response of wisdom to the suffering of living beings everywhere and the urge to realise full awakening for the benefit of all. This retreat will focus on love\, compassion\, joy and equanimity – the four ‘divine abodes’ or brahmaviharas – in the context of cultivating bodhicitta. \nTo support this\, we’ll also introduce tonglen\, the ‘sending and receiving’ practice which opens the heart to universal compassion. \nThe divine abodes are also known as the ‘boundless states’\,¬ because they are inclusive of all living beings without exception. The practices that we’ll explore together on this retreat are all ways of opening our hearts and responding to the joys and sufferings of living beings – opening to the inseparable wisdom and compassion of the awakening heart itself.
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/the-awakening-heart-and-the-divine-abodes-co-leading-with-rijumitra-vajraloka/
LOCATION:Vajraloka\, Tyn Y Ddol\, Corwen\, Denbighshire\, LL21 0EN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251017T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251024T093000
DTSTAMP:20260502T173309
CREATED:20240906T152409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T104343Z
UID:2034-1760718600-1761298200@www.tejananda.net
SUMMARY:Compassion and Emptiness - Vajraloka
DESCRIPTION:The Buddha taught the divine abodes – unconditional love\, compassion\, joy and equanimity – not just as states of calm\, but as ways to liberate the mind. The Brahmavihara practices enable us to cultivate these qualities and to engage with our afflictive emotions – craving\, hatred and ‘ignoring’ – in relation to them. In doing so\, we’re already engaging with insightful perspectives. Sooner or later\, we’re likely to start glimpsing the uncultivated\, unlimited\, unconditional nature of these qualities\, free from afflictions. We’ll explore these possibilities in the first part of the retreat from a perspective of deep\, embodied awareness and in a spirit of openness and curiosity. \nThis will provide us with an excellent basis for our contemplations of emptiness. Based on the ‘Shorter Discourse on Emptiness’\, an early Buddhist text\, this approach to emptiness is less analytical and more experiential than many of those developed in later Mahayana schools. Starting with our everyday experience\, it enables us to ‘experience’ emptiness progressively in relation to some subtle states of formless meditation and the liberation of ‘signlessness’. It doesn’t matter how far through this progression we manage to get – emptiness is emptiness and discovering it in relation to our ordinary experience now can be quite profound enough!
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/compassion-and-emptiness-vajraloka/
LOCATION:Vajraloka\, Tyn Y Ddol\, Corwen\, Denbighshire\, LL21 0EN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251011T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251012T163000
DTSTAMP:20260502T173309
CREATED:20250930T110308Z
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SUMMARY:Body\, Heart\, Mind Awake – At Cardiff Buddhist Centre
DESCRIPTION:About the Retreat – Taking the Backward Step \nMind is usually taken to mean all kinds of mental activity\, but what we’re interested in here is ‘mind itself’ – the awake\, aware quality of mind. \nAwakeness is here even when we feel sleepy and dull. How do we know that we’re sleepy and dull? We are awake to it. We’re even awake to our dreams\, despite the body being asleep. \nThis quality of wakefulness\, knowingness or clarity is intrinsic to all of our experience and yet it is mysteriously ungraspable and unfindable. To know it\, we need to discover what Zen Master Dogen was pointing to when he spoke of ‘taking the backward step’. \nThis is essentially a step ‘back’\, from identification with our everyday mind of thoughts and imaginings\, into the immediacy and presence of our body senses\, just as they are. \nOur body is not what we think it is – not at all! When we take the backward step\, body is not the rather solid\, rather weighty object we imagine it is. It’s more an unbounded\, living\, vibrating cloud of sensate energy. \nThis also opens the heart to rest in its own nature – limitless and boundless. Here\, the stream of love and compassion which is already implicitly active becomes boundless and all-inclusive. Body\, heart and mind are naturally and undividedly awake. \nTejananda will be exploring the connection between the mind\, the body and the heart over two days of meditation and discussion.
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/body-heart-mind-awake-at-cardiff-buddhist-centre/
LOCATION:Cardiff Buddhist Centre\, 12 St Peter's Street\, Cardiff\, Wales\, CF24 3BA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
ORGANIZER;CN="Cardiff Buddhist Centre":MAILTO:connect@cardiffbuddhistcentre.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250920T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250921T163000
DTSTAMP:20260502T173309
CREATED:20250904T154023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T104407Z
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SUMMARY:Body\, Heart\, Mind Awake — taking the backward step -  Triratna Highland Centre\, Inverness
DESCRIPTION:Body\, heart and mind are essential facets of our being. \nMind is usually taken to mean all kinds of mental activity\, but what we’re interested in here is ‘mind itself’ – the awake\, aware quality of mind. \nAwakeness is here even when we feel sleepy and dull. How do we know that we’re sleepy and dull? We are awake to it. We’re even awake to our dreams\, despite the body being asleep. \nThis quality of wakefulness\, knowingness or clarity is intrinsic to all of our experience and yet it is mysteriously ungraspable and unfindable. To know it\, we need to discover what Zen Master Dogen was pointing to when he spoke of ‘taking the backward step’. \nThis is essentially a step ‘back’\, from identification with our everyday mind of thoughts and imaginings\, into the immediacy and presence of our body senses\, just as they are. \nOur body is not what we think it is – not at all! When we take the backward step\, body is not the rather solid\, rather weighty object we imagine it is. It’s an unbounded\, living\, vibrating cloud of sensate energy. \nThis also opens the heart to rest in its own nature – limitless and boundless. Here\, the stream of love and compassion which is already implicitly active becomes boundless and all-inclusive. Body\, heart and mind are naturally and undividedly awake.
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/body-heart-mind-awake-taking-the-backward-step-triratna-highland-centre-inverness/
LOCATION:East Sussex
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250912T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250919T100000
DTSTAMP:20260502T173309
CREATED:20240906T145328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240906T150710Z
UID:2013-1757696400-1758276000@www.tejananda.net
SUMMARY:Simply Being - at Dhanakosa
DESCRIPTION:  \n‘Simply being’ points to the aliveness and awakeness that we can recognise at any moment. It’s an openness to full presence\, our full being – in body\, senses and awareness. It points to being what we really are\, beyond conceptual fabrication. In recognising and opening to the steady and spacious aspects of experience here and now\, we may glimpse a timeless awareness-emptiness that is inseparable from loving\, compassionate energy. \nWe’ll explore all this through sitting meditation\, experiential ‘lookings’ and by discovering our own direct experience as awareness\, simplicity\, intimacy and aliveness. These qualities are gateways to the five ‘undivided knowings’ (jnanas) which are the essence of the mandala of the five Buddhas. This offers a very practical ‘map’ of our immediate experience\, pointing to what has been here all along\, unnoticed – simply being
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/simply-being-2/
LOCATION:Dhanakosa\, DHANAKOSA Buddhist Retreat Centre\, Balquhidder\, Lochearnhead\, FK19 8PQ\, Scotland\, Balquhidder\, Scotland\, FK19 8PQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
ORGANIZER;CN="Dhanakosa":MAILTO:info@dhanakosa.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250906T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250907T163000
DTSTAMP:20260502T173309
CREATED:20250904T152923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T104430Z
UID:2365-1757154600-1757262600@www.tejananda.net
SUMMARY:Body\, Heart\, Mind Awake — taking the backward step -  Glasgow Buddhist Centre
DESCRIPTION:Body\, heart and mind are essential facets of our being. \nMind is usually taken to mean all kinds of mental activity\, but what we’re interested in here is ‘mind itself’ – the awake\, aware quality of mind. \nAwakeness is here even when we feel sleepy and dull. How do we know that we’re sleepy and dull? We are awake to it. We’re even awake to our dreams\, despite the body being asleep. \nThis quality of wakefulness\, knowingness or clarity is intrinsic to all of our experience and yet it is mysteriously ungraspable and unfindable. To know it\, we need to discover what Zen Master Dogen was pointing to when he spoke of ‘taking the backward step’. \nThis is essentially a step ‘back’\, from identification with our everyday mind of thoughts and imaginings\, into the immediacy and presence of our body senses\, just as they are. \nOur body is not what we think it is – not at all! When we take the backward step\, body is not the rather solid\, rather weighty object we imagine it is. It’s an unbounded\, living\, vibrating cloud of sensate energy. \nThis also opens the heart to rest in its own nature – limitless and boundless. Here\, the stream of love and compassion which is already implicitly active becomes boundless and all-inclusive. Body\, heart and mind are naturally and undividedly awake.
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/body-heart-mind-awake-taking-the-backward-step-glasgow-buddhist-centre/
LOCATION:East Sussex
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250110T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250119T093000
DTSTAMP:20260502T173309
CREATED:20240827T152943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240906T151051Z
UID:1931-1736526600-1737279000@www.tejananda.net
SUMMARY:Satipatthana: the Buddha’s teaching on mindfulness - co-leading with Prajnapriya - Vajraloka
DESCRIPTION:The Satipatthana Sutta\, one of the most influential of the Buddha’s discourses\, shows how wakeful\, insightful attention to body\, feelings and mind can enable us to wake up to our true nature. This radically transformative teaching is described as a ‘direct path’ to the cessation of suffering. Offering effective approaches that address the alienation and disembodiment which characterise life today\, it can restore a deep integrity of body\, heart\, mind and being. \nIn this retreat\, we’ll explore a number of practice approaches inspired by the original mindfulness teachings attributed to the Buddha that take awareness\, insight and compassion ever deeper. As such\, it will be helpful for all those wishing to deepen their mindfulness practice as well as for those qualified or training as teachers of mindfulness–based approaches such as MBSR\, MBCT and Breathworks. \nThis retreat is suitable for people who have been meditating for at least 3 years
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/satipatthana-the-buddhas-teaching-on-mindfulness-co-leading-with-prajnapriya/
LOCATION:Vajraloka\, Tyn Y Ddol\, Corwen\, Denbighshire\, LL21 0EN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241206T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241213T100000
DTSTAMP:20260502T173309
CREATED:20240823T115730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240823T115730Z
UID:1907-1733502600-1734084000@www.tejananda.net
SUMMARY:Dhyana Through the Body - residential retreat at Rivendell
DESCRIPTION:  \nAccessing dhyana (jhana)\, or absorption\, seems to be very natural for some people\, and a complete mystery to others. Dhyana is well worth cultivating as a way of deepening shamatha (mental tranquillity) as well as for the sheer psycho-somatic pleasure that some of these states afford. On this retreat\, we’ll be suggesting approaches that people have found to be helpful and effective for entering into dhyana. This may well involve questioning both our own views and approaches\, and some of what the tradition has to say about dhyana. We’ll proceed on the basis of asking ‘What\, in our experience\, is and is not actually helpful?’ \nWe have found that by becoming alive to the immediacy of our sensate experience\, particularly body experience\, resources for entering absorption can be discovered as already present – just waiting to be noticed. We’ll explore this in direct experience by delving into the relation between body and breath and between body\, awareness and insight. \nThis retreat is now fully booked but you can join the waiting list
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/dhyana-through-the-body-residential-retreat-at-rivendell/
LOCATION:Rivendell\, Chillies Lane\, High Hurstwood\, East Sussex\, TN22 4AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241108T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241117T093000
DTSTAMP:20260502T173309
CREATED:20240823T111226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240906T151413Z
UID:1897-1731083400-1731835800@www.tejananda.net
SUMMARY:The Awakening Heart and the Divine Abodes - Vajraloka
DESCRIPTION:Co-led with Rijumitra \n \nBodhicitta – the awakening heart – is both the heart–response of wisdom to the suffering of living beings everywhere and the urge to realise full awakening for the benefit of all. This retreat will focus on love\, compassion\, joy and equanimity – the four ‘divine abodes’ or brahmaviharas – in the context of cultivating bodhicitta. \nTo support this\, we’ll also introduce tonglen\, the ‘sending and receiving’ practice which opens the heart to universal compassion. \nThe divine abodes are also known as the ‘boundless states’\,¬ because they are inclusive of all living beings without exception. The practices that we’ll explore together on this retreat are all ways of opening our hearts and responding to the joys and sufferings of living beings – opening to the inseparable wisdom and compassion of the awakening heart itself. \nThis retreat is suitable for people who have been meditating for at least 3 years
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/the-awakening-heart-and-the-divine-abodes/
LOCATION:Vajraloka\, Tyn Y Ddol\, Corwen\, Denbighshire\, LL21 0EN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241004T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241025T093000
DTSTAMP:20260502T173309
CREATED:20240823T102601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240906T151430Z
UID:1884-1728059400-1729848600@www.tejananda.net
SUMMARY:Entering the Mandala of Awakening: The Four Great Stages of the Path - residential Order Retreat - Vajraloka
DESCRIPTION:Co-led with Prakasha  \nThis retreat is for members of the Triratna Buddhist Order only \nThis retreat will introduce the four principal stages of the spiritual path. Firstly\, the contemplation of the three lakshanas. Secondly\, entry into the three liberations. Thirdly\, the exploration of the perceptual situation. Fourthly\, entry into the Mandala of Awakening. Through this approach we gain a deeper understanding of the four levels of Sunyata that Sangharakshita introduces. \nPrakasha will give a series of presentations that clarify the stages of the Path leading to Awakening. Tejananda will introduce a parallel series of integrated\, somatic and meditative inquiry-based approaches to calm and insight based on the principles of the Triratna system of practice. \nThe retreat will mostly be in silence with meditation reviews\, pujas and ritual. \nCurrently full\, but check with Vajraloka in case places become available at short-term notice
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/entering-the-mandala-of-awakening-the-four-great-stages-of-the-path-residential-order-retreat/
LOCATION:Vajraloka\, Tyn Y Ddol\, Corwen\, Denbighshire\, LL21 0EN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240921T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240922T163000
DTSTAMP:20260502T173309
CREATED:20240823T105508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240823T112018Z
UID:1892-1726912800-1727022600@www.tejananda.net
SUMMARY:Meditation and inquiry weekend at Triratna Highland Buddhist Centre\, Inverness
DESCRIPTION:Mind\, Body and the Three Marks \nDistinguishing our mental activities (‘mind’) from immediate sense experience (‘body’) is vital to all kinds of meditation. If we can develop clarity about this\, we can become increasingly embodied and no longer try to ‘think’ ourselves into meditation. \nThis clarity is essential to mindfulness of breathing\, metta bhavana\, and ‘clear-seeing’ (vipashyana) practice\, such as contemplating the first two ‘marks’ of conditioned existence\, impermanence and unsatisfactoriness. On day one\, we’ll explore all of this. \nOn day two\, we’ll focus more on the third ‘mark’ – that “I am separate”. This is better known as anatta\, ‘not-self’\, but this core pointing-out on the Buddha’s part isn’t suggesting that we’re non-existent! Rather\, it is pointing us back to our essentially undivided nature. \nAs Sangharakshita commented: “delusion may … be there in the form of a belief in a fixed\, unchanging self or essence or soul\, but that … is not there\, it never was and it never will be.” \nOn the basis of unconditional love and calm\, embodied\, aware presence\, we’ll explore our experience to see how we create and sustain the delusion of separation and a self-other divide. \nEach day will run from 10.00 – 4.30
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/meditation-and-inquiry-weekend-at-triratna-highland-buddhist-centre-inverness/
LOCATION:East Sussex
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240913T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240920T093000
DTSTAMP:20260502T173309
CREATED:20240823T093113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240906T151504Z
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SUMMARY:Simply Being - Dhanakosa
DESCRIPTION:‘Simply being’ points to the aliveness and awakeness that we can recognise at any moment. It’s an openness to full presence\, our full being – in body\, senses and awareness. It points to being what we really are\, beyond conceptual fabrication. In recognising and opening to the steady and spacious aspects of experience here and now\, we may glimpse a timeless awareness-emptiness that is inseparable from loving\, compassionate energy. \nWe’ll explore all this through sitting meditation\, experiential ‘lookings’ and by discovering our own direct experience as awareness\, simplicity\, intimacy and aliveness. These qualities are gateways to the five ‘undivided knowings’ (jnanas) which are the essence of the mandala of the five Buddhas. This offers a very practical ‘map’ of our immediate experience\, pointing to what has been here all along\, unnoticed – simply being.
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/simply-being-in-person-retreat-at-dhanakosa/
LOCATION:Dhanakosa\, DHANAKOSA Buddhist Retreat Centre\, Balquhidder\, Lochearnhead\, FK19 8PQ\, Scotland\, Balquhidder\, Scotland\, FK19 8PQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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SUMMARY:Compassion and Emptiness - Vajraloka
DESCRIPTION:The Buddha taught the divine abodes – unconditional love\, compassion\, joy and equanimity – not just as states of calm\, but as ways to liberate the mind. The Brahmavihara practices enable us to cultivate these qualities and to engage with our afflictive emotions – craving\, hatred and ‘ignoring’ – in relation to them. In doing so\, we’re already engaging with insightful perspectives. Sooner or later\, we’re likely to start glimpsing the uncultivated\, unlimited\, unconditional nature of these qualities\, free from afflictions. We’ll explore these possibilities in the first part of the retreat from a perspective of deep\, embodied awareness and in a spirit of openness and curiosity. \nThis will provide us with an excellent basis for our contemplations of emptiness. Based on the ‘Shorter Discourse on Emptiness’\, an early Buddhist text\, this approach to emptiness is less analytical and more experiential than many of those developed in later Mahayana schools. Starting with our everyday experience\, it enables us to ‘experience’ emptiness progressively in relation to some subtle states of formless meditation and the liberation of ‘signlessness’. It doesn’t matter how far through this progression we manage to get – emptiness is emptiness and discovering it in relation to our ordinary experience now can be quite profound enough! \nCurrently full\, but check with Vajraloka in case places become available at short-term notice
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/compassion-and-emptiness-residential-retreat-at-vajraloka/
LOCATION:Vajraloka\, Tyn Y Ddol\, Corwen\, Denbighshire\, LL21 0EN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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