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SUMMARY:Emptiness and the Heart Sutra - at Rivendell
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Heart Sutra is one of the most well-known and loved of all Buddhist texts.\nInevitably\, there are innumerable takes on what it ‘means’. Early western\ncommentators treated it as philosophy or even poetry. But what if it actually points us\ntowards our own immediate experience as the way to “sunder the bonds that cause\nus suffering”? \nWhatever could practising this involve? \nFirst\, there are questions that need to be addressed. What is ‘emptiness’? What\ndoes it mean to say that our psycho-physical constituents – the skandhas – are\n‘empty’? And how can it be that ‘in emptiness’ there are no skandhas\, no senses\,\neven no conditioned arising? \nGoing deeper\, we’ll open to our direct experience of the body\, senses and skandhas.\nWe’ll explore whether an intrinsic\, substantial\, separate ‘me’ can be found in “form\,\nfeeling\, thought\, choice and consciousness”\, Does this “me” have any basis in\nexperience? Or is experience ‘empty’ of such an entity? \nIn this way\, we’ll begin to discover how the emptiness teaching of the Heart Sutra\ncan compassionately awaken us to our deepest nature\, Prajñāpāramitā\, from which\nwe are never truly apart. \n  \nThis retreat is now available for booking on the Rivendell Website – link below
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/emptiness-and-the-heart-sutra-at-rivendell/
LOCATION:Rivendell\, Chillies Lane\, High Hurstwood\, East Sussex\, TN22 4AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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SUMMARY:Dhyana Through The Body - Re-evaluating Dhyana
DESCRIPTION:“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 no part of one’s whole body that is not pervaded by it.” AN 5.28 \nOn this retreat\, we’ll be offering embodied approaches to dhyāna (jhāna) that people have found to be helpful and effective. This may well involve questioning both our own views and approaches\, and a good deal of what the tradition has to say about dhyāna. \nDhyāna is far more than samatha\, or mental calm. Recognising the liberative potential of the first dhyāna was the key to the Buddhas own awakening and he taught dhyana as inseparable from insight. Only later tradition came to regard the dhyānas as ‘just’ highly concentrated states. \nThe dhyānas are\, rather\, states of deep\, embodied mental unity\, integrated with awareness of the foundations of mindfulness (satipaṭṭhāna) and the factors of awakening (bojjhaṅgā). \nIn practice\, the most useful question is: ‘what\, in our experience\, is actually helpful?’ We have found that by becoming alive to the energetic immediacy of body experience\, resources for entering dhyana 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 as well as between body\, awareness and insight.
URL:https://www.tejananda.net/retreat/dhyana-through-the-body-re-evaluating-dhyana/
LOCATION:Vajraloka\, Tyn Y Ddol\, Corwen\, Denbighshire\, LL21 0EN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In Person Retreat
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