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Reflections on Mudita - Being Divine Online home retreat

By Maitrisiddhi on Mon, 27 Apr, 2020 - 11:04

Reflections on Mudita - Being Divine Online home retreat

By Maitrisiddhi on Mon, 27 Apr, 2020 - 11:04

Hi everyone, hope you’re enjoying your explorations of the Brahma Viharas - I am!  Here’s a few of my reflections on Mudita.  Somehow I feel like this is the Brahma Vihara I always forget about, and every time I rediscover it, I find it so delightful I wonder why! 

Ratnavandana and I would have been running ’Living in the Mandala: The Brahma Viharas’ retreat at Taraloka this very week (April 2020) - I’m so pleased it can happen in another...

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Additional Resources - Being Divine Online Day 4: Mudita and Amoghasiddhi's All-Accomplishing Wisdom

By Sadayasihi on Mon, 27 Apr, 2020 - 09:46

Mudita is often translated as “sympathetic joy” but here Maitrisiddhi uses “gladness”, and sets out the benefits of cultivating this state, particularly needed if we tend towards the negative. She explains how Amoghasiddhi - the green Buddha known as “unobstructed success” - can help us transform the poison of envy (the enemy of gladness) and release our energy into vibrant life.

A talk brimming full of delight and laughter, Maitrisiddhi demonstrates the importance of Mudita in the...

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A Day So Happy - Being Divine Online Home Retreat: Day 4

By Sadayasihi on Mon, 27 Apr, 2020 - 08:31

A Day So Happy - Being Divine Online Home Retreat: Day 4

By Sadayasihi on Mon, 27 Apr, 2020 - 08:31

A good few years ago I remember watching a film on TV with my sister. We generally don’t like the same type of films - and this one was a dance movie, not my favourite genre - so my attention was phasing in and out. But somewhere in the midst of the seeming silliness of the plot (a middle aged lawyer, played by Richard Gere, finds a dance teacher, Jennifer Lopez, and his life turns around for the better) something caught my...