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'Visualisation' From a Shin Perspective

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Tue, 16 Mar, 2021 - 00:00
How to engage with ‘visualisation’ practices from a Shin self-surrender perspective. (Maitrisiddhi went on to lead through a visualisation of Vairocana, but this is only available to Order Members and those who attended the retreat.) From 'True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante' Taraloka online retreat.
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'It Is Impossible to Help Another As We Truly Wish': Bodhicitta and Compassion

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Tue, 16 Mar, 2021 - 00:00
Sixth talk from 'True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante' Taraloka retreat. What's Shinran's approach to compassion?
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'Grasped Never to Be Abandoned': Irreversibility

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Tue, 16 Mar, 2021 - 00:00
Final talk from 'True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante' Taraloka retreat. Maitrisiddhi unpacks what 'The Tannisho' has to say about irreversibility - and how does that relate to Stream Entry? Then, how to 'live the nembutsu' in our everyday lives.
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Sitting In Relation - Guided Meditation

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Tue, 16 Mar, 2021 - 00:00
Introducing and leading through the foundation to Shin practice: ourselves, finite and conditioned beings, just as we are, coming into relation with the Buddha, the limitless. First of five meditations led by Maitrisiddhi during 'True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante' Taraloka online retreat. Talks from that retreat also available.
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'I Have Nothing to Regret': True Entrusting and Going For Refuge

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Tue, 16 Mar, 2021 - 00:00
Fourth talk from 'True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante' Taraloka retreat. With enthusiasm and passion, Maitrisiddhi continues to explore Shinran’s approach using his classic text The Tannisho, and makes connections and contrasts with teachings more familiar to us.
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'When We Think Good Thoughts, We Think We Are Good': Ethics

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Tue, 16 Mar, 2021 - 00:00
Fifth talk from 'True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante' Taraloka retreat. With his radical teaching of entrusting to Other Power, Shinran overturns conventional tenets of Buddhism, including ethics – and blows wide open our assumptions about how to live the Dharma life. Maitrisiddhi looks at how we can approach this controversial area.
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'When the Thought of Saying the Nembutsu Erupts From Deep Within'

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Tue, 16 Mar, 2021 - 00:00
Second talk from 'True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante' Taraloka retreat. Other Power and the Three Myths of the spiritual life. With enthusiasm and passion, Maitrisiddhi explores Shinran’s approach using his classic text The Tannisho, and makes connections and contrasts with teachings more familiar to us.
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Shinjin: 'Beyond Description, Explanation and Conception'

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Tue, 16 Mar, 2021 - 00:00
Third talk from 'True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante' Taraloka retreat. What does Shinran mean by'shinjin', and how does this relate to how we might think of faith or shraddha? Maitrisiddhi explores more of 'The Tannisho'.
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30 Years On - A Review of 'A Survey of Buddhism: Chapter 1'

From Shabda Articles on Mon, 15 Mar, 2021 - 17:47

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In November 2020, as the UK headed into Covid 19 Lockdown 2.0 I decided to embark on a little project that I had been wanting to undertake for a while.

I had realised that it had been nearly 30 years since I had last read ‘The Survey’ in detail. As it still seems to be one of the principle ‘root texts’ for Triratna and the contents have been the subject of critique from some quarters - suggesting that it is...

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Moon of the Mind: Bodhicitta - The Great Gathering ONLINE

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Mon, 15 Mar, 2021 - 10:20

Moon of the Mind: Bodhicitta - The Great Gathering ONLINE

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Mon, 15 Mar, 2021 - 10:20

What is the mystery of bodhicitta?  And how can we relate to it?  Join Taraloka and Tiratanaloka for an online weekend of talks, ritual, meditation and discussion as we collectively evoke and dwell upon the ‘the dawning moon of the mind’, the compassion and wisdom that is bodhicitta.   Find out more or book here.   

For Dharmacharinis and women training for ordination.  
23 - 25 April

What is the mystery of bodhicitta?   It’s ‘the dawning moon of the mind, whose light banishes...

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