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SUMMARY:Simply Being - at Vajraloka
DESCRIPTION:At any moment we can recognise\, directly and viscerally\, that we are alive and awake. With a settled and embodied awareness\, this may open into an intuitive glimpse of what we truly are\, beyond concepts. This might be evoked as a spacious yet embodied presence\, a timeless awareness-emptiness\, or unconditional love\, compassion and pure energy. \nWe’ll explore this by way of a somatic approach to just sitting meditation together with experiential inquiries – discovering aliveness\, sensitivity\, simplicity and clarity in our immediate experience. These subtle yet accessible qualities of our ordinary mind and being can act as gateways to the five wisdoms or ‘undivided awarenesses’ (jnanas)\, which are the essence of the five Buddhas. The mandala of the five Buddhas and their wisdoms offers a very practical map of our immediate experience\, pointing to what has simply been here all along\, unnoticed.
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/simply-being-at-vajraloka-2/
LOCATION:Vajraloka\, Tyn Y Ddol\, Corwen\, Denbighshire\, LL21 0EN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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SUMMARY:Dhyana and Insight 2026 - at Dhanakosa
DESCRIPTION:  \nOn this retreat\, I will 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\, as well as some 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 dhyana was the key to the Buddha’s own awakening and he taught dhyāna as inseparable from insight. Only later did the tradition come to regard the dhyānas as ‘just’ states of concentration. \nThe dhyānas are\, rather\, states of deep\, embodied mental unity\, integrated with awareness of the foundations of mindfulness (satipatthana) and the factors of awakening (bojjhanga). Dhyāna is where insight takes place. \nIn practice\, we’ll ask\, ‘what\, in our experience\, is actually helpful?’ By becoming alive to the energetic immediacy of body experience\, resources for entering dhyāna can be discovered as already present – just waiting to be noticed. We’ll explore this in direct experience and delve into the relationship between body\, dhyāna and liberative insight. \nThis retreat is suitable for people with at least six months regular meditation practice and who have attended at least one full week retreat before.
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/dhyana-and-insight-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:The Awakening Heart and the Divine Abodes - co-led with Rijumitra - Vajraloka
DESCRIPTION:  \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.
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/the-awakening-heart-and-the-divine-abodes-co-led-with-rijumitra-vajraloka/
LOCATION:Vajraloka\, Tyn Y Ddol\, Corwen\, Denbighshire\, LL21 0EN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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SUMMARY:Dhyana Through the Body — Reevaluating Dhyana — at Rivendell
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \n“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 dhyana (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 dhyana. \nDhyana is far more than samatha\, or mental calm. Recognising the liberative potential of the first dhyana was the key to the Buddha’s own awakening and he taught dhyana as inseparable from insight. Only later tradition came to regard the dhyanas as ‘just’ states of concentration. \nThe dhyanas are\, rather\, states of deep\, embodied mental unity\, integrated with awareness of the foundations of mindfulness (satipatthana) and the factors of awakening (bojjhanga). \nIn practice\, the leading 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. \nAbout the retreat:  \nEach day\, there will be two main input and practice sessions led by Tejananda. These will include opportunities for making observations on your practice and asking questions. There will also be plenty of time for ‘open practice’\, where you can use the shrine room\, do walking meditation or whatever else feels appropriate. Ten-minute practice reviews will be offered to everyone. From Saturday evening to Thursday after lunch we’ll observe complete silence\, excepting reviews and any discussion in the input sessions. \nEach day will end with some devotional activity – chanting\, recitation or puja – and then open practice. \nSUMMARY \nThis retreat explores embodied approaches to dhyana\, encouraging participants to question some traditional interpretations and personal assumptions. Rather than viewing dhyana as merely concentrated calm (samatha)\, we’ll explore it as a deeply unified\, embodied state integrated with mindfulness and the factors of awakening. Through experiential practices involving body\, breath\, and awareness\, participants will discover resources for dhyana already within their experience. \nThis retreat is now bookable on the Rivendell website\, link below \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/emptiness-and-the-heart-sutra-rivendell/
LOCATION:Rivendell\, Chillies Lane\, High Hurstwood\, East Sussex\, TN22 4AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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