‘Wings to Awakening’ is a poetic rendering of ‘bojjhaṅgā’ - seven ‘limbs’ or factors that support bodhi - awakening. The bojjhaṅgās are highlighted in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta as crucial to the fourth contemplation, that of dhammas. They are experiential qualities that we cultivate and are integral to entering and deepening into the four dhyānas - […]
This four day online solstice retreat will explore the practical implications of a short teaching (one of my favourite retreat readings) by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, “Thoughts and the Mind”. Thinking, reflecting and imagining is inseparable from our human nature. Yet while our exceptional mental capacity as a species has given rise to many wonderful […]
A ‘Buddha’ is one who has realised ‘bodhi’. Both of these words come from budh, ‘to wake’, to know’, ‘to understand’. We already have a sense of what this analogy is getting at - after all, we wake up, often straight out of a dream, every single day! We're asleep, deeply enmeshed in a […]
