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 […]
'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. […]
Mind, Body and the Three Marks Distinguishing our mental activities ('mind') from immediate sense experience ('body') is vital to all kinds of meditation. If we can develop clarity about this, […]
Co-led with Prakasha This retreat is for members of the Triratna Buddhist Order only This retreat will introduce the four principal stages of the spiritual path. Firstly, the contemplation of […]
Co-led with Rijumitra Bodhicitta – 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 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 […]
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 […]
Accessing 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In essence, ‘simply being’ evokes the effortless flow of embodied presence. Presence is this ‘timeless moment’, where there is no observer nor observed, no subject or object. It is […]
Seven days of meditation, lively exploration, and strong, supportive friendship: a space to explore why the wisdom of emptiness is, precisely, compassion. Led by Tejananda, with Kusalacitta leading ritual […]
