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SUMMARY:Dhyāna and Insight - Online\, with The Buddhist Centre [Live]
DESCRIPTION:On 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 dhyāna 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. \nNOW AVAILABLE FOR BOOKING – Click on Website link below
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/dhyana-and-insight/
LOCATION:ONLINE
CATEGORIES:Online Retreats
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SUMMARY:The Awakening Body - An online weekend of embodied meditation and inquiry with Tejananda and Balajit
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nWe will start by clarifying a crucial distinction – that between mind and body. Mental contents\, such as thoughts and images\, cannot awaken. Our conceptual mind is not what\, or who\, we truly are. It is the immediate experience of our sensate body and the other ‘body senses’ that are our gateways to awakening. \nThis will lead us into an exploration of embodiment – literally\, coming to our senses. Embodiment can take us deep into the experiential truths about our nature to which Buddhist teachings are pointing. \nWe can also discover subtler dimensions of embodiment in our experience\, including the energy body and even the mentally unfabricated dharma body. \nWhile our body is potentially a source of wisdom\, we also have a ‘pain body’. This holds all the tensions\, contractions and emotional avoidance patterns that have built up. These patterns\, and the suffering associated with them\, can gradually release through turning towards them. \nWe will be exploring how to deepen into this vital transforming work. \nJoin us from 4pm on Friday the 14th November to 5.30pm on Sunday 16th. \nPlease note this retreat is only open to people who have been practising within the context of the Triratna Buddhist Community for at least three years. \nAfter you have reserved a space (click on ‘website’ below) you will be sent a confirmation email. Closer to the event\, you will be sent an email with a Zoom link\, where the event will be hosted. \nDana \nThis retreat is offered on a dana (donation) basis. Donations can be made either before\, during or after the event. A link for dana will be sent closer to the start of the event. The dana is to support the retreat leaders in meeting their living costs and being able to organise and run these events. \nSuggested donation: \n£50-90 | $65-120 | €60-105 \nNo one is turned away for lack of funds. \n  \nSession Timings \nThe session timings (UK) will be: \nFriday 14th November \n16.00 – 17.30 \n19.30 – 21.00 \nSaturday 15th November \n9.30 – 12.00 \n16.00 – 17.30 \n19.30 – 21.00 \nSunday 16th November \n9.30 – 12.00 \n16.00 – 17.30
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/the-awakening-body-an-online-weekend-of-embodied-meditation-and-inquiry-with-tejananda-and-balajit/
LOCATION:ONLINE
CATEGORIES:Online Retreats
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251101T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T170000
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SUMMARY:Deep Emptiness – online retreat
DESCRIPTION:Deep emptiness is nothing other than compassion\, leading to the end of suffering. \nIn the retreat on “Compassion and Emptiness” we explore the teachings that Bhikkhu Analayo highlights in his book of the same name. These combine the divine abodes with the emptiness teachings found in the Shorter Suññata Sutta. In this sutta\, the Buddha shows us how to establish emptiness in a very direct and experiential way\, by noticing that experience is empty of whatever isn’t right here in experience now. This may seem obvious\, but we delude ourselves into thinking that although something isn’t ‘here’\, it’s still really ‘out there’ even when we don’t experience it. We miss the main point – what we think we’re experiencing is just a mental fabrication. What we’re actually experiencing is empty of those fabrications. \nThe sutta outlines a progressive series of perspectives on emptiness. But there’s a slight problem with the Compassion and Emptiness retreats which is that we rarely have enough time to adequately explore them all. It may seem audacious to suppose that we can even approach these ‘elevated’ levels of emptiness. But they are all pointing to ways in which we fabricate ‘self’ and ‘world’ and\, though subtle\, they relate to aspects of our everyday\, moment to moment experience. \nWe believe we’re experiencing separate forms ‘out there’\, arising in space (and time)\, that there is a quality that experiences\, namely ‘consciousness\,’ in which really-existing ‘things’ arise\, including ‘my-self’\, and that what we perceive objectively exists along with ‘me’ the perceiver. All of these are mental fabrications and the sutta shows us the way to liberation by seeing and knowing directly that they are fabrications. \nAll of these contemplations will proceed from a heartfelt kindness and compassion\, but the main focus will be on exploring the empty nature of space\, consciousness and the sense of an independent\, lasting and potentially satisfactory self. We’ll follow this through to signlessness\, in which there are no reference points at all. \nIdeally this would be a follow-up for anyone who has already attended a Compassion and Emptiness retreat\, but it will stand in its own right\, especially for those who wish to plunge more directly into these emptiness teachings. \nSuitable for people with at least three years of regular meditation practice. \n———— \nThe programme on each day will be (UK times): \n8.00 – 10.00 practice\, teaching and inquiry \n15.00 – 16.30 ritual\, chanting\, meditation and the opportunity to join a breakout group to discuss your practice \n19.00 – 20.30 – practice\, teaching and inquiry \nI won’t be able to offer one to one reviews during the retreat but if you would like to have one or more follow-up reviews (10 to 20 minutes)\, I’ll offer that possibility. \n———— \nThis retreat and subsequent reviews or mentoring are offered on the principle of reciprocal generosity (dana). There is no charge\, but your generosity in supporting my livelihood and work is greatly appreciated. If you are unable to afford anything at present\, I would much prefer that you attend nevertheless. \nTo register interest in this online retreat\, please email me at tejananda.online@yahoo.com. I will acknowledge your booking and send out full details including zoom link a week or so before the retreat starts. \n 
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/deep-emptiness-online-retreat/
CATEGORIES:Online Retreats
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SUMMARY:Pointing to the Moon of Non-separation
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nA weekend exploring suññatā as non-separation  \nIn my online retreat earlier in the year\, the ‘moon’ to which I was pointing was the unfindability of a separate self. The kind of self that we think we are – persisting\, potentially satisfactory and somehow ‘who and what I really am’ – is nothing but a mental fabrication. Our fabricating of this leads to suffering. \nThis weekend retreat explores the other ‘side’ of the equation: if there is ‘self’\, there must be a separate ‘other’. And indeed\, the sense of separation is a further\, deep cause of unnecessary suffering. \nOur nature is\, in reality\, whole and undivided. This non-separation is what we will be exploring\, by becoming inquisitive about the question: what is the actual nature of our immediate sense experience? \nIt is not what we think. \nThese explorations stand in their own right and people who were not on the earlier retreat are welcome. \nTo view full details and book\, click on Website link under ‘Details’ below\, rather than ‘View Organiser Website’
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/pointing-to-the-moon-of-non-separation/
LOCATION:ONLINE
CATEGORIES:Online Retreats
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250502T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250508T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T173311
CREATED:20240830T121729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T102538Z
UID:1975-1746172800-1746723600@www.tejananda.net
SUMMARY:Pointing to the Moon - Online retreat with The Buddhist Centre (Live)
DESCRIPTION:The well-known metaphor of ‘a finger pointing at the moon’ is itself a pointer to something essential in dharma practice. It suggests ‘don’t mistake the finger for the moon’.  But what is the moon\, and what is the finger? The finger could be taken as whatever gets us looking and going in the ‘right’ direction. For example\, the eight ‘right’ perspectives on dharma practice that the Buddha taught. \nBut neither these nor any other dharma practices are ‘right’ (or ‘wise’) if we’re relating to them literally\, as ends in themselves. That would be ‘attachment to rules and religious practices’ – believing that it’s enough to do our practices by rote\, and losing touch with that to which they are pointing us. \nWhat they are pointing us to is ‘waking up’ – bodhi. Waking up from the delusions that give rise to suffering. Bodhi is the ‘moon’ of our true nature\, which is always here\, even when obscured by clouds. \nIn this retreat\, we’ll focus on the ‘moon’ by addressing a core delusion – 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 somehow non-existent! Rather\, it is pointing us back to our essential non-dividedness. \nWe’ll approach this by first cultivating calm\, embodied\, aware presence and opening to unconditional love. With that as our ground\, we’ll explore our experience directly and interactively\, using pointers as to how we create and sustain the delusion of separation and a self-other dichotomy. Seeing through such delusions wakes us up from our self-view and to an essential truth of the dharma\, the  ‘moon’ of our undivided nature here and now. \nLink for booking below \n  \n 
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/pointing-to-the-moon-online-retreat-with-the-buddhist-centre-live/
LOCATION:ONLINE
CATEGORIES:Online Retreats
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250314T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250319T210000
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SUMMARY:Body\, heart\, mind awake; taking the backward step - Online retreat
DESCRIPTION:  \nBody Heart Mind Awake – taking the  backward step \nThis is my first ‘personal’ online retreat\, exploring the title I’ve given to my website. \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. \nSuitable for people with at least three years of regular meditation practice. \n\nThe programme on each day will be (UK times): \n8.00 – 10.00 practice\, teaching and inquiry \n15.00 – 16.30 ritual\, chanting\, meditation and the opportunity to join a breakout group to discuss your practice \n19.00 – 20.30 – practice\, teaching and inquiry \nI won’t be able to offer one to one reviews during the retreat but if you would like to have one or more follow-up reviews (10 to 20 minutes) then check out details [to be posted]. \n———— \nThis retreat and subsequent reviews or mentoring are offered on the principle of reciprocal generosity (dana). There is no charge\, but your generosity in supporting my livelihood and work is greatly appreciated. If you are unable to afford anything at present\, I would much prefer that you attend nevertheless. \nTo register interest in this online retreat\, please email me at tejananda.online@yahoo.com. I will acknowledge your booking and send out full details including zoom link a week or so before the retreat starts.
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/body-heart-mind-awake-online-retreat/
CATEGORIES:Online Retreats
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241129T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241201T173000
DTSTAMP:20260502T173311
CREATED:20240906T143219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241006T113403Z
UID:2003-1732906800-1733074200@www.tejananda.net
SUMMARY:Form is empty - is it? - Online retreat
DESCRIPTION:Online weekend retreat with The Buddhist Centre (Live)\n\nEarlier 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 isn’t ‘here’\, it’s still ‘there’ in some way\, even when we don’t experience it.\n\nSay you’ve been somewhere away from home (even just out shopping) – where is that place in experience now? Quite simply\, it’s nowhere\, other than in our imagination. This is not suggesting that the place ‘doesn’t exist’\, it’s about directly knowing the distinction between what is experienced and what is imagined or mentally constructed. Once we gain clarity around this\, the liberating path of insight (prajñā) can unfold.\n\nWe’ll use the Buddha’s method to explore areas of our experience of bodily form\, space and consciousness – gaining clarity about what is actual experience\, what is imagined or constructed and what the emptiness teachings are actually pointing to.\n\n\nClick here for the booking details
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/form-is-empty-is-it/
LOCATION:ONLINE
CATEGORIES:Online Retreats
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241122T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241124T173000
DTSTAMP:20260502T173311
CREATED:20240823T112956Z
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UID:1901-1732291200-1732469400@www.tejananda.net
SUMMARY:The Awakening Body - Online weekend co-led with Balajit
DESCRIPTION:The Awakening Body – Online Retreat! \nAn online weekend of embodied meditation and inquiry with Tejananda and Balajit \nOur mind – all our conceptual faculties – is not what\, or who\, we truly are. It cannot awaken. \nIt is our sensate body and the other ‘body senses’ that are our gateways to awakening. \nOn this weekend we’ll start by clarifying the distinction between mind and body. This will lead us into an exploration of embodiment – literally\, coming to our senses. Embodiment can take us deep into the experiential truths about our nature to which Buddhist teachings are pointing. \nWe can also discover subtler dimensions of embodiment in our experience\, including the energy body and even the mentally unfabricated dharma body. \nOur body is potentially a source of wisdom. At the same time\, we have a ‘pain body’. This holds all the tensions\, contractions and emotional avoidance patterns that have built up. These patterns\, and the suffering associated with them\, can gradually release through turning towards them. We will be exploring how to deepen into this vital transforming work. \nJoin us from 4pm on Friday the 22nd November to 5.30pm on Sunday 24th. \nPlease note this retreat is only open to people who have been practising within the context of the Triratna Community for at least three years. \nAfter you have reserved a space you will be sent a confirmation email. Closer to the event\, you will be sent an email with a Zoom link\, where the event will be hosted. \nDana \nThis retreat is offered on a dana (donation) basis. Donations can be made either before\, during or after the event. A link for dana will be sent closer to the start of the event. The dana is to support the retreat leaders in meeting their living costs and being able to organise and run these events. \nNo one is turned away for lack of funds. \nSession Timings \nThe session timings (UK) will be: \nFriday \n16.00 – 17.30 \n19.30 – 21.00 \nSaturday \n9.30 – 12.00 \n16.00 – 17.30 \n19.30 – 21.00 \nSunday \n9.30 – 12.00 \n16.00 – 17.30 \nClick on ‘website’ below for booking details \n 
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/the-awakening-body-online-weekend-co-led-with-balajit/
CATEGORIES:Online Retreats
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