Dhyana and Insight – at Dhanakosa
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 […]
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Dhanakosa DHANAKOSA Buddhist Retreat Centre, Balquhidder, Lochearnhead, FK19 8PQ, Scotland, Balquhidder, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Dhyāna and the Wings to Awakening
ONLINE‘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 […]
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Body, Heart, Mind Awake – taking the backward step – at Vajraloka
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, United KingdomBody Heart Mind Awake – taking the backward step Mind is usually taken to mean all kinds of mental activity, but what we’re interested in here is ‘mind itself’ […]
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The Awakening Heart and the Divine Abodes – co-led with Rijumitra – Vajraloka
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, United KingdomBodhicitta – 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 […]
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Dhyana Through the Body — Reevaluating Dhyana — at Rivendell
Rivendell Chillies Lane, High Hurstwood, East Sussex, United Kingdom“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 […]
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Thoughts and the Mind
ONLINEThis 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”. […]
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Realising the Heart Sutra
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, United KingdomRetreats evolve, and I’ve been leading ‘Emptiness and the Heart Sutra’ for many years now. I love the Heart Sutra as a chant, a text to study and as […]
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Waking from the dream – Online retreat
ONLINEA ‘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 […]
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Satipaṭṭhāna – the Direct Path – Led by Tejananda and Prajnapriya
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, United KingdomThe Satipaṭṭhāna 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 […]
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Uncontrived Mindfulness & the Unreliable Witness – With Vajradevi and Tejananda
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, United KingdomCentral to our dharma life is a simple yet profound distinction; between our direct experience mediated through the senses, and the thoughts and ideas we have about those experiences. […]
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Compassion and Emptiness
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, United KingdomThe 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 […]
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Dhyāna as Insight
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, United KingdomDhyāna (jhāna) 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 […]
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