Wisdom Energy – co-leading with Padmadrishti – Vajraloka
Our ‘precious human body’ is the first and most important foundation not just of mindfulness, but of meditation and Dharma practice as a whole. The teaching of the Buddha’s ‘Three […]
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Emptiness and the Heart Sutra – Vajraloka
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, United KingdomThe Heart Sutra is one of the most well-known and loved of all Buddhist texts. Inevitably, there are innumerable takes on what it ‘means’. Early western commentators treated it as […]
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Dhyana Through the Body – Vajraloka
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, United KingdomAccessing 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 […]
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Body, Heart, Mind Awake — taking the backward step – Glasgow Buddhist Centre
Body, heart and mind are essential facets of our being. 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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Simply Being – at Dhanakosa
Dhanakosa DHANAKOSA Buddhist Retreat Centre, Balquhidder, Lochearnhead, FK19 8PQ, Scotland, Balquhidder, Scotland, United Kingdom‘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 […]
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Body, Heart, Mind Awake — taking the backward step – Triratna Highland Centre, Inverness
Body, heart and mind are essential facets of our being. 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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Pointing to the Moon of Non-separation
ONLINEA weekend exploring suññatā as non-separation In my online retreat earlier in the year, the ‘moon’ to which I was pointing was the unfindability of a separate self. […]
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Body, Heart, Mind Awake – At Cardiff Buddhist Centre
Cardiff Buddhist Centre 12 St Peter's Street, Cardiff, Wales, United KingdomAbout the Retreat - 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’ – the […]
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Compassion and Emptiness – Vajraloka
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 practices […]
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Deep Emptiness – online retreat
Deep emptiness is nothing other than compassion, leading to the end of suffering. In the retreat on “Compassion and Emptiness” we explore the teachings that Bhikkhu Analayo highlights in his […]
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The Awakening Body – An online weekend of embodied meditation and inquiry with Tejananda and Balajit
ONLINEWe 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, […]
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The Awakening Heart and the Divine Abodes – co-leading 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 of […]