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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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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/
LOCATION:East Sussex
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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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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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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