In this talk Ratnavandana explores uppekha - equanimity - and the importance of it for our practice and dharma life. This talk is from an intensive meditation retreat for mitras held at Taraloka in 2021.

Maitrisiddhi begins a full day of practice focussing on the Brahma Vihara of Metta by evoking Akshobhya. This talk is from an intensive meditation retreat held at Taraloka in 2021 for mitras.

This is the first of 17 talks taken from the Brahma Viharas retreat led by Ratnavandana, Maitrisiddhi and Maitrisambhava at Taraloka in 2021. Here Maitrisiddhi leads us in a grounding earthing arriving meditation.

With precise reference to three poems by Sangharakshita, Samantabhadri explores the haiku at its best. Speaking on a Silent Retreat at Taraloka, she focuses on the evocation of the moment, on compassion and other implicit emotion, on the unworldliness of the poet and on the haiku as a communication of an insight experience.

On a Silent Retreat at Taraloka, Samantabhadri honours silence as significant spiritual practice where we dwell more deeply with ourselves, with others, with nature and the objective world, and within a developing atmosphere. All this opens a vision of experiencing 'Reality as it is' (Sangharakshita). Samantabhadri also offers guidance on how to keep and respect the silence.