đ§ââď¸ đ§ââď¸ Seven days of meditation, soulful exploration, and strong, supportive friendship: a safe space to go deeper into experience and practice.
Friday January 19th till Thursday January 25th 2024
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In many human cultures white deer hold a place of deep significance, being often met at the edges or boundaries of personal or communal land and experience. Sometimes they appear as messengers from the otherworld, as in Celtic mythology; in some North American...
This week weâre opening portals to awareness and the wonders that can arise when we really start to pay attention to everything thatâs going on in the world around us. What would it be like...
Our deepest and truest nature, right now, is the Dharma. We can imagine â and ultimately experience â this as the total openness of the âDharma bodyâ, which is pure emptiness: empty of any divided-ness whatsoever.
Our world is literally made up from this total openness, together with the illuminating clarity of awareness and unlimited, spontaneous âcompassionate energyâ. Traditionally, the union of these is referred to as...
What if all emotions, including those we sometimes find challenging, had something important to tell us about ourselves, others, and the world? This retreat invites us to collectively flip the script on how we may habitually relate to some emotions as more valuable than others in our process of getting to know ourselves. What if we could break out of any thinking...
Our yearly journey with the elements takes us through the forest in 2023. Our relationship to the trees that we depend on and share our world with is special â and often unseen. Our exploration takes us from the soil and mycelium up to the leaves and...
Itâs only five days till our new Home Retreat begins! Thereâs still time to join Paramananda and Bodhilila for a week of meditation, poetry and deep engagement with the Dharma life as it manifests day by day. With over 100 bookings already itâs sure to be a wonderful community event, offering encouragement and support for your practice from two of Triratnaâs best-loved meditation teachers.
đ§đ˝ââď¸ đ§đ˝ââď¸Â Seven days of meditation, lively exploration, and strong, supportive friendship: a space to explore why the wisdom of emptiness is, precisely, compassion.
The Heart Sutra is one of the most familiar of all Buddhist texts and, inevitably, there are innumerable takes on âwhat it meansâ. How do we square the opening statement that the skandhas (our psychoâphysical constituents) are âemptyâ with the following one that âin emptinessâ there are no skandhas,...
