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Tonglen Retreat Day 2 - "Creating a Bigger Container" by Saddhanandi

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Sun, 23 Mar, 2014 - 14:49
Earlier today Saddhanandi talked about creating a bigger container to engage with the suffering in the world. She mentioned the support of spacious, open awareness, connecting with your heart-wish and your relationship with the Buddha. Saddhanandi speaks about how to create a broader perspective, to give us the capacity to turn towards whatever is happening.

Click to download the talk from Free Buddhist Audio: http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=LOC1949

You can also download the meditation she led afterwards...
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Tonglen Retreat: Sunday

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Sun, 23 Mar, 2014 - 13:06

Tonglen Retreat: Sunday

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Sun, 23 Mar, 2014 - 13:06The day started with two meditations, held within the silence of early morning - dawn rises quietly in front of the large shrine room windows at Taraloka.

At 11am, I focused on the teaching of the Absolute Bodhicitta. In Tonglen it is sometimes called the stage of ‘Flashing Bodhicitta’. It’s taken me a few years to relate to this aspect of the practice as I’m such a practical sort-of-girl and I need things to be concrete and tangible! But...
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what's going on...

From Akashavana on Sun, 23 Mar, 2014 - 09:35
  • and more concrete
  • new terrace on water storage tank
  • lunch with Samata Vassika and Acalavajri
  • samata's morning ritual
  • cleaning at the retreat centre
  • she was here!!

what's going on...

From Akashavana on Sun, 23 Mar, 2014 - 09:35It’s almost two weeks since we picked up our volunteers for this year’s work month, and so far we are establishing a very harmonious community with Vassika, Padmalila and Samata, who is here for the second time. We are delighted to have Samata staying with us till July. Vassika will be with us for the whole month and Padmalila now regrets that she will be here for only two weeks. All three are a delight to work alongside with! So...
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Tonglen Retreat Led Meditation Day 2

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Sun, 23 Mar, 2014 - 00:00
Saddhanandi leads us into a heart space of open awareness.
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Tonglen Retreat Day 2, Creating a Bigger Container

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Sun, 23 Mar, 2014 - 00:00
Saddhanandi speaks about how to create a broader perspective, to give us the capacity to turn towards whatever is happening. She talks about spacious awareness, engaging with the power of the Buddha and connecting with our heart-wish.
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Tonglen: personal connection, history and overview

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Sat, 22 Mar, 2014 - 14:48
In her first presentation on the Tonglen retreat, Saddhanandi tells us about her personal connection to the practice. She also goes into some history of the practice, places it in the context of the seven point mind training and gives an overview.

You can also download this talk on Free Buddhist Audio: http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=LOC1947
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Introduction to Tonglen retreat

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Sat, 22 Mar, 2014 - 14:35
Yesterday evening Saddhanandi introduced her vision for the retreat that will be held here at Taraloka over the next week. The topic is a meditation practice called tonglen, which is a Tibetan word for receiving and sending. In this practice the breath is used to connect to one’s heart wish for the happiness of all beings.

Some highlights: Saddhanandi tells us what happened after she had been reading Doris Lessing’s novel ‘The Marriages between zones three, four and five’...
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Introduction to Tonglen Retreat

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Sat, 22 Mar, 2014 - 00:00
Saddhanandi beautifully and skilfully presents her vision for the Tonglen retreat held in March 2014 at Taraloka.
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Tonglen Retreat

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Sat, 22 Mar, 2014 - 00:00
Saddhanandi introduces the tonglen practice, its history and her personal connection to it. She also gives an overview of the practice.
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A Dhamma revolutionary wedding in India

From Triratna News on Wed, 19 Mar, 2014 - 00:20
  • Daya and Tarun

A Dhamma revolutionary wedding in India

From Triratna News on Wed, 19 Mar, 2014 - 00:20Shakyajata writes: “Dr B.R. Ambedkar, the great leader of the ‘outcaste’ (or ‘Dalit’) people of India, recommended in many of his writings a very specific way to put an end to the ‘hell of caste’ from which so many people still suffer in modern India. This ‘infallible’ method, he said, was exogamy: inter-caste marriage.

On 13th February, a Triratna marriage took place in India which was inter-cultural, even inter-racial, as well as inter-caste.

Tarun and Daya had...

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