The Awakening Body - Online Retreat! An online weekend of embodied meditation and inquiry with Tejananda and Balajit Our mind - all our conceptual faculties - is not what, or who, we truly are. It cannot awaken. It is our sensate body and the other ‘body senses’ that are our gateways to awakening. On this […]
Online weekend retreat with The Buddhist Centre (Live) Earlier this year we explored how the Buddha's teaching in the Shorter Suññata Sutta establishes emptiness in a very direct and experiential way, by noticing absence. Experience is empty of whatever isn't right here in experience now. This seems obvious, but we delude ourselves into thinking that although something […]
Body Heart Mind Awake – taking the backward step This is my first 'personal' online retreat, exploring the title I've given to my website. Mind 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. Awakeness is here […]
