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<\/strong>USA PST 01:00 | M\u00e9xico 03:00 | USA EST 04:00 | IE & UK 09:00 | Europe CET 10:00 | India 14:30 | Australia AEDT 20.00 | New Zealand NZDT 22.00<\/p>\n Second daily session (1.5 hrs): <\/strong>USA PST 07:30 | M\u00e9xico 09:30 | USA EST 10:30 | IE & UK 15:30 | Europe CET 16:30 | India 21:00 | Australia AEDT 02.30 (next day) | New Zealand NZDT 04.30 (next day)<\/p>\n Third daily session (1.5 hrs): <\/strong>USA PST 11:30 | M\u00e9xico 13:30 | USA EST 14:30 | IE & UK 19:30 | Europe CET 20:30 | India 01:00 (next day) | Australia AEDT 06.30 (next day) | New Zealand NZDT 08.30 (next day) \ud83e\uddd8\u200d\u2640\ufe0f \ud83e\uddd8\u200d\u2642\ufe0f Seven days of meditation, soulful exploration, and strong, supportive friendship: a safe space to go deeper into experience and practice.<\/strong><\/p>\n A Home Retreat led by Paramananda, in collaboration with Melbourne Buddhist Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n Friday July 11th till Thursday July 17th 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n You can access video recordings of all sessions below under each day\u2019s resources.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \ud83d\udcd6 Download a practice diary to use during the retreat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe heal through the imagination, through images and fictions.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n James Hillman, \u2018Healing Fiction\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n At its best, meditation practice and Dharma reflection can be a means to help us gain access to the unseen underlying currents and forces that shape our lives. Yet, as practitioners in day to day life, many of us can still have an experience of somehow being \u2018out of touch\u2019 both with ourselves and with the world in all its fullness.<\/p>\n On this Home Retreat, Paramananda will bring his usual rich blend of meditation, magic, warmth, encouragement, challenge, poetry, authenticity and diamond-sharp clarity to help us contact something deeper that can transform this feeling of loss and restore our sense of agency with the mysterious reaches of our being.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll share the space online together: listening internally; paying attention to what\u2019s arising and passing away; sharing and questioning with a profound curiosity; and activating our imagination to try to connect and engage with whatever truly moves and sustains us. You never know what you\u2019ll find under the surface of things! 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It\u2019s said this position can relax the sense of ego consciousness, a kind of felt memory of being in the womb. 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And the session concludes with a period of just sitting, including David Wagoner\u2019s poem Lost<\/a>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1100907894?share=copy” disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”Caption” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” link_font=”|700|||||||” link_text_color=”#07284D” link_font_size=”20px” link_line_height=”1.7em” custom_margin=”-20px||||false|false” text_font_size_tablet=”18px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” text_line_height_phone=”1.7em” text_line_height_last_edited=”off|phone” link_text_color_tablet=”gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb” link_text_color_phone=”#84B29D” link_text_color_last_edited=”on|desktop” link_font_size_tablet=”20px” link_font_size_phone=”16px” link_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{%22gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb%22:%91%22link_text_color_tablet%22%93}”]<\/p>\n The session begins with a period of meditation in which Paramananda speaks about relating to the heart as a perceptual organ. i.e. That there is some capacity for the heart to let the world in.<\/p>\n He talks about being influenced by the Soto Zen tradition where practitioners meditate with their eyes slightly open with the idea that you should never be fully introverted or extroverted.<\/p>\n The session continues with a familiar tempo as Paramananda evokes images found throughout the body, almost like secret teachings. 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He then draws attention to the two traditional strands of Buddhist meditation practice: samatha<\/em>, the steadying of calm, and vipassan\u0101<\/em>, the cultivation of insight. Posture, he says, can be an expression of kindness, sustained by the ever-present rhythm of the breath.<\/p>\n A period of seated meditation follows, easing into relaxation with soft drumming as participants lie down. 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How the tree is a fitting image for meditation with its roots burrowing down into the earth, while its branches reach up to the sky.<\/p>\n We gradually move into meditation. Paramananda invites us to become aware of the world around us. How have we interacted with the world today? 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Paramananda guides us through the practice, this time evoking images of organic matter like soil and the millions of microorganisms present within our garden soil. This theme evolves to evoke the expansion of our imagination, a sense of awe for world around us.<\/p>\n We then hear Robert Creeley\u2019s poem, ‘If You’<\/a>.<\/p>\n Following our now familiar routine, we are invited to lay down and relax whilst Paramananda does some drumming and lightly chants the White Tara mantra, as well as the Medicine Buddha mantra.<\/p>\n After this we come back into meditation posture and sit for the remaining 20 minutes. There\u2019s also some extra time at the end to ask Paramananda questions and share reflections.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1101219972?share=copy” disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”Caption” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” link_font=”|700|||||||” link_text_color=”#07284D” link_font_size=”20px” custom_margin=”-20px||||false|false” text_font_size_tablet=”18px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” link_text_color_tablet=”gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb” link_text_color_phone=”#84B29D” link_text_color_last_edited=”on|desktop” link_font_size_tablet=”” link_font_size_phone=”16px” link_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{%22gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb%22:%91%22link_text_color_tablet%22%93}”]<\/p>\n We start today’s ritual session with an appeal to support Dharmachakra<\/a>, Paramananda and the Melbourne Buddhist Centre<\/a>!\ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n We’re live again in the Melbourne shrine room for a puja to Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of compassion, with Kabir’s poem “I said to this wanting creature inside me”<\/a> \u2013 which brings to life the mythic element running throughout the retreat. This includes the Avalokiteshvara mantra with drumming, which effortlessly makes the link with the retreat’s overall theme of making space to work on ourselves.<\/p>\n A reading of the Mah\u0101satipa\u1e6d\u1e6dh\u0101na Sutta: The Great Discourse on the Establishing of Awareness<\/a> echoes Paramananda’s emphasis on mindfulness of posture as a way of bringing us into awareness. Then a unique blend of two saxophonists from the Melbourne Sangha creates a hauntingly beautiful end to the second session.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”Videos 3-4″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” collapsed=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1101266186?share=copy” disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”Caption” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” link_font=”|700|||||||” link_text_color=”#07284D” link_font_size=”20px” link_line_height=”1.7em” custom_margin=”-20px||||false|false” text_font_size_tablet=”18px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” text_line_height_phone=”1.7em” text_line_height_last_edited=”off|phone” link_text_color_tablet=”gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb” link_text_color_phone=”#84B29D” link_text_color_last_edited=”on|desktop” link_font_size_tablet=”20px” link_font_size_phone=”16px” link_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{%22gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb%22:%91%22link_text_color_tablet%22%93}”]<\/p>\n The session begins with questions from attendees, including discussion about how we incorporate mett\u0101 (loving kindness) into the practice. Is the practice we\u2019ve been doing enough when it comes to wishing others well and working with people we find difficult?<\/p>\n We then move into a period of meditation, this time with a emphasis on the heart. We hear \u201cWhat the heart is like\u201d<\/a> \u2013 a poem by Miroslav Holub.<\/p>\n Paramananda evokes images of unconditional love, like the love a parent might have for their child, encouraging us to pay attention to that love within us. Can we loosen any views we might have about ourselves as being good or bad?<\/p>\n We then have another period of rest and lying down and drumming. Paramananda once again chants the Medicine Buddha mantra.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1101334183?share=copy” disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”Caption” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” link_font=”|700|||||||” link_text_color=”#07284D” link_font_size=”20px” link_line_height=”1.7em” custom_margin=”-20px||||false|false” text_font_size_tablet=”18px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” text_line_height_phone=”1.7em” text_line_height_last_edited=”off|phone” link_text_color_tablet=”gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb” link_text_color_phone=”#84B29D” link_text_color_last_edited=”on|desktop” link_font_size_tablet=”20px” link_font_size_phone=”16px” link_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{%22gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb%22:%91%22link_text_color_tablet%22%93}”]<\/p>\n In this session we move directly into sitting with Paramananda guiding us in a meditation inspired by the traditional six-element practice. 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By marrying breath with somatic imagery\u2014earth stability, oceanic rhythm, the skin itself \u201cbreathing\u201d\u2014the practice helps softens our ego clinging, opening into a spacious, non-grasping sense of presence.<\/p>\n To frame this experience Paramananda quotes D\u014dgen Zenji (\u201cTo study the self is to forget the self\u2026 to forget the self is to be illumined by the myriad things\u201d<\/em>) and Rumi\u2019s famous meadow verse<\/a> (\u201cOut beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing\u2026\u201d), illustrating how deep calm (samatha<\/em>) allows insight to arise without being co-opted by the thinking mind. 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This is followed by an Invocation to Amitabha, the red Buddha of the west.<\/p>\n Today’s ritual is Vessantara’s Puja to Amitabha<\/a>, with an evocative Amitabha mantra led by Rachael and supported by drumming. Sraddhanaya invites everyone to embody kindness overflowing, represented by Amitabha, through dancing and singing in front of our own shrines while we make offerings\u2014anytime we wish! 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Paramananda playfully references the traditional seven chakras<\/em> or ‘subtle energy centres’, going into detail with each one as we progress in awareness up the body.<\/p>\n The session quietens further as we spend time with these energy centres in imaginative awareness. 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Before this \u00a0Paramananda says a few words to introduce the figure of White Tara, emphasising the fact that she has seven eyes placed around her body.<\/p>\n As with most Buddhist mantra\u2019s as we chant we are calling out the name of the Buddha or Bodhisattva figure, but with the white Tara mantra we are also invoking a long, healthy life, which is somewhat unique to her.<\/p>\n O\u1e43 T\u0101re Tutt\u0101re Ture Mama Ayu\u1e25 Punya J\u00f1\u0101n\u0101 Pu\u015bti\u1e43 Kuru Sv\u0101h\u0101<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n After the 108 recitations of the mantra, we sit for a while in silence, which is then followed by our usual program of lying down to relax whilst Paramananda drums.<\/p>\n The session concludes with a poem by Ryokan, translated by John Stevens<\/a>:<\/p>\n The rain has stopped, the clouds have drifted away, [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1101865470?share=copy” disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”Caption” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” link_font=”|700|||||||” link_text_color=”#07284D” link_font_size=”20px” custom_margin=”-20px||||false|false” text_font_size_tablet=”18px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” link_text_color_tablet=”gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb” link_text_color_phone=”#84B29D” link_text_color_last_edited=”on|desktop” link_font_size_tablet=”” link_font_size_phone=”16px” link_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{%22gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb%22:%91%22link_text_color_tablet%22%93}”]<\/p>\n After a brief introduction by Viryasiddhi of the Melbourne Buddhist Centre<\/a>, he begins today’s puja to Padmasambhava by telling the story of Padmasambhava’s taming of the demons and spirits of Tibet, written by Sangharakshita<\/a>, founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order, in 1972<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s a stirring rendition of this particular ritual by Viryasiddhi intended to rouse our spiritual energies. The puja ends with the reverberating sounds of Anthony Vouliotis on saxophone, calling forth deeper energies for the final days of our retreat together.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”Videos 3-4″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” collapsed=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1101920033?share=copy” disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”Caption” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” link_font=”|700|||||||” link_text_color=”#07284D” link_font_size=”20px” link_line_height=”1.7em” custom_margin=”-20px||||false|false” text_font_size_tablet=”18px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” text_line_height_phone=”1.7em” text_line_height_last_edited=”off|phone” link_text_color_tablet=”gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb” link_text_color_phone=”#84B29D” link_text_color_last_edited=”on|desktop” link_font_size_tablet=”20px” link_font_size_phone=”16px” link_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{%22gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb%22:%91%22link_text_color_tablet%22%93}”]<\/p>\n In this gently spacious session Paramananda begins with a timely reminder to support Dharmachakra, providers of Free Buddhist Audio and The Buddhist Centre Online<\/a>. He then invites questions before guiding an embodied meditation. Through dialogue with participants he explores how upright posture can cradle \u201csoftness,\u201d how mantra alters our very brain-waves, and how imagination and direct felt-sense cooperate in practice. Along the way we hear reflections on evolutionary kinship (from digestive tube to human awareness) and on practising kindness that is both open-hearted and well-grounded in the \u201cguts.\u201d<\/p>\n The guided practice itself moves from sensing the room\u2019s space to rooting in the earth, opening to the sky, and feeling breath as a shared rhythm with the whole planet. Paramananda threads in brief teachings on impermanence, relational being, and the treasure of human consciousness, encouraging us to \u201crelax into what is\u201d beyond the grasp of the conceptual mind.<\/p>\n Readings and references include D\u014dgen Zenji\u2019s line \u201cTo follow the Way is to study the self\u2026,\u201d Rumi\u2019s verses \u201cOut beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing\u201d<\/a>, and Andrea Gibson\u2019s<\/a> tender resolve, \u201cI decided I was too soft to last, then I decided to be softer.\u201d<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1101988384?share=copy” disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”Caption” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” link_font=”|700|||||||” link_text_color=”#07284D” link_font_size=”20px” link_line_height=”1.7em” custom_margin=”-20px||||false|false” text_font_size_tablet=”18px” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” text_line_height_phone=”1.7em” text_line_height_last_edited=”off|phone” link_text_color_tablet=”gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb” link_text_color_phone=”#84B29D” link_text_color_last_edited=”on|desktop” link_font_size_tablet=”20px” link_font_size_phone=”16px” link_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{%22gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb%22:%91%22link_text_color_tablet%22%93}”]<\/p>\n Paramananda wastes no time in getting straight into meditation for this session. We pay attention to the breath and become aware of the legs, seeing if we can let go of any excess energy and tension. We move through the body with awareness and love, being aware that if we loose contact with the breath, we tend to slip into fantasy instead of activating our imaginations.<\/p>\n Paramananda loosely references Alfred Adler<\/a>, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, exploring how ego structure forms to protect us from some kind of bodily vulnerability or preserved weakness in the body. 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one day
while walking through a stand of silver birch at dawn
when a golden light spills over the lip
of the world
or when crossing a swift shallow stream
on stepping stones
or just sitting still in your room
catching the song of a bird
woven into the din of your city
your body might reveal its self to you
as a home for the world
a glimpse that you
are entirely beyond yourself
like the white deer at the beginning of a fable
and if without hesitation you follow
you will find your self gloriously lost
in the rise and fall of your seasons<\/p>\n
Home retreat leader
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\u00a3175 \/ $350 AUD \/ $230 \/ \u20ac205 for the whole retreat, or drop in for \u00a330 \/ $60 AUD \/ $40 \/ \u20ac35 per day.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
INTRODUCTION
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Welcome to the retreat
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\nDay 4<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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\nDay 5<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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\nDay 6<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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and the weather is clear again.
If your heart is pure, then all things in your world are pure.
Abandon this fleeting world, abandon yourself,
Then the moon and flowers will guide you along the way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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