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SUMMARY:Satipatthana: the Buddha’s teaching on mindfulness - co-leading with Prajnapriya - Vajraloka
DESCRIPTION:The Satipatthana 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 our true nature. This radically transformative teaching is described as a ‘direct path’ to the cessation of suffering. Offering effective approaches that address the alienation and disembodiment which characterise life today\, it can restore a deep integrity of body\, heart\, mind and being. \nIn this retreat\, we’ll explore a number of practice approaches inspired by the original mindfulness teachings attributed to the Buddha that take awareness\, insight and compassion ever deeper. As such\, it will be helpful for all those wishing to deepen their mindfulness practice as well as for those qualified or training as teachers of mindfulness–based approaches such as MBSR\, MBCT and Breathworks. \nThis retreat is suitable for people who have been meditating for at least 3 years
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/satipatthana-the-buddhas-teaching-on-mindfulness-co-leading-with-prajnapriya/
LOCATION:Vajraloka\, Tyn Y Ddol\, Corwen\, Denbighshire\, LL21 0EN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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SUMMARY:Weekend Urban Retreat at Manchester Buddhist Centre
DESCRIPTION:Flagging up these dates for my forthcoming December weekend workshop for Order members and mitras at the Manchester Buddhist Centre. I’ll share full details as soon as the theme is settled. \nBoth days will start at 10.30 am and finish at 4.00 pm. Booking is now available on the website link below. \nWatch this space! \n  \n 
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/weekend-meditation-workshop-at-manchester-buddhist-centre/
LOCATION:Manchester Buddhist Centre\, 16-20 Turner Street\, MANCHESTER\, M4 1DZ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Dhyana Through the Body - residential retreat at Rivendell
DESCRIPTION:  \nAccessing dhyana (jhana)\, or absorption\, seems to be very natural for some people\, and a complete mystery to others. Dhyana is well worth cultivating as a way of deepening shamatha (mental tranquillity) as well as for the sheer psycho-somatic pleasure that some of these states afford. On this retreat\, we’ll be suggesting approaches that people have found to be helpful and effective for entering into dhyana. This may well involve questioning both our own views and approaches\, and some of what the tradition has to say about dhyana. We’ll proceed on the basis of asking ‘What\, in our experience\, is and is not actually helpful?’ \nWe have found that by becoming alive to the immediacy of our sensate experience\, particularly body experience\, resources for entering absorption 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 and between body\, awareness and insight. \nThis retreat is now fully booked but you can join the waiting list
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/dhyana-through-the-body-residential-retreat-at-rivendell/
LOCATION:Rivendell\, Chillies Lane\, High Hurstwood\, East Sussex\, TN22 4AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241129T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241201T173000
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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
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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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SUMMARY:The Awakening Heart and the Divine Abodes - Vajraloka
DESCRIPTION:Co-led with Rijumitra \n \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. \nThis retreat is suitable for people who have been meditating for at least 3 years
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/the-awakening-heart-and-the-divine-abodes/
LOCATION:Vajraloka\, Tyn Y Ddol\, Corwen\, Denbighshire\, LL21 0EN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241025T093000
DTSTAMP:20260503T094115
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SUMMARY:Entering the Mandala of Awakening: The Four Great Stages of the Path - residential Order Retreat - Vajraloka
DESCRIPTION:Co-led with Prakasha  \nThis retreat is for members of the Triratna Buddhist Order only \nThis retreat will introduce the four principal stages of the spiritual path. Firstly\, the contemplation of the three lakshanas. Secondly\, entry into the three liberations. Thirdly\, the exploration of the perceptual situation. Fourthly\, entry into the Mandala of Awakening. Through this approach we gain a deeper understanding of the four levels of Sunyata that Sangharakshita introduces. \nPrakasha will give a series of presentations that clarify the stages of the Path leading to Awakening. Tejananda will introduce a parallel series of integrated\, somatic and meditative inquiry-based approaches to calm and insight based on the principles of the Triratna system of practice. \nThe retreat will mostly be in silence with meditation reviews\, pujas and ritual. \nCurrently full\, but check with Vajraloka in case places become available at short-term notice
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/entering-the-mandala-of-awakening-the-four-great-stages-of-the-path-residential-order-retreat/
LOCATION:Vajraloka\, Tyn Y Ddol\, Corwen\, Denbighshire\, LL21 0EN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240922T163000
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SUMMARY:Meditation and inquiry weekend at Triratna Highland Buddhist Centre\, Inverness
DESCRIPTION:Mind\, Body and the Three Marks \nDistinguishing our mental activities (‘mind’) from immediate sense experience (‘body’) is vital to all kinds of meditation. If we can develop clarity about this\, we can become increasingly embodied and no longer try to ‘think’ ourselves into meditation. \nThis clarity is essential to mindfulness of breathing\, metta bhavana\, and ‘clear-seeing’ (vipashyana) practice\, such as contemplating the first two ‘marks’ of conditioned existence\, impermanence and unsatisfactoriness. On day one\, we’ll explore all of this. \nOn day two\, we’ll focus more on the third ‘mark’ – 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 non-existent! Rather\, it is pointing us back to our essentially undivided nature. \nAs Sangharakshita commented: “delusion may … be there in the form of a belief in a fixed\, unchanging self or essence or soul\, but that … is not there\, it never was and it never will be.” \nOn the basis of unconditional love and calm\, embodied\, aware presence\, we’ll explore our experience to see how we create and sustain the delusion of separation and a self-other divide. \nEach day will run from 10.00 – 4.30
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/meditation-and-inquiry-weekend-at-triratna-highland-buddhist-centre-inverness/
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240913T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240920T093000
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SUMMARY:Simply Being - Dhanakosa
DESCRIPTION:‘Simply being’ points to the aliveness and awakeness that we can recognise at any moment. It’s an openness to full presence\, our full being – in body\, senses and awareness. It points to being what we really are\, beyond conceptual fabrication. In recognising and opening to the steady and spacious aspects of experience here and now\, we may glimpse a timeless awareness-emptiness that is inseparable from loving\, compassionate energy. \nWe’ll explore all this through sitting meditation\, experiential ‘lookings’ and by discovering our own direct experience as awareness\, simplicity\, intimacy and aliveness. These qualities are gateways to the five ‘undivided knowings’ (jnanas) which are the essence of the mandala of the five Buddhas. This offers a very practical ‘map’ of our immediate experience\, pointing to what has been here all along\, unnoticed – simply being.
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/simply-being-in-person-retreat-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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240830T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240906T093000
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SUMMARY:Compassion and Emptiness - Vajraloka
DESCRIPTION:The 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 practices enable us to cultivate these qualities and to engage with our afflictive emotions – craving\, hatred and ‘ignoring’ – in relation to them. In doing so\, we’re already engaging with insightful perspectives. Sooner or later\, we’re likely to start glimpsing the uncultivated\, unlimited\, unconditional nature of these qualities\, free from afflictions. We’ll explore these possibilities in the first part of the retreat from a perspective of deep\, embodied awareness and in a spirit of openness and curiosity. \nThis will provide us with an excellent basis for our contemplations of emptiness. Based on the ‘Shorter Discourse on Emptiness’\, an early Buddhist text\, this approach to emptiness is less analytical and more experiential than many of those developed in later Mahayana schools. Starting with our everyday experience\, it enables us to ‘experience’ emptiness progressively in relation to some subtle states of formless meditation and the liberation of ‘signlessness’. It doesn’t matter how far through this progression we manage to get – emptiness is emptiness and discovering it in relation to our ordinary experience now can be quite profound enough! \nCurrently full\, but check with Vajraloka in case places become available at short-term notice
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/compassion-and-emptiness-residential-retreat-at-vajraloka/
LOCATION:Vajraloka\, Tyn Y Ddol\, Corwen\, Denbighshire\, LL21 0EN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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