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Wabi-sabi and the Three Doorways to Freedom with Vajradarshini

By dayaketu on Sat, 4 Oct, 2025 - 17:02

Wabi-sabi and the Three Doorways to Freedom with Vajradarshini

By dayaketu on Sat, 4 Oct, 2025 - 17:02

Wabi-sabi and the 3 Doorways to Freedom with Vajradarshini
A meditation and reflection home retreat
21-25 November

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The Buddha taught that there are three doorways to freedom. These doorways open when we turn towards our experiences of impermanence, insubstantiality, and suffering. Known as the lakshanas—the marks of conditioned existence—they can seem uninviting. After all, who wants to look closely at the more painful aspects of life?

Back in the 90s, Vajradarshini came across Leonard Koren’s Wabi-sabi for Artists,...

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Pointing to the Moon of Non-Separation

By dayaketu on Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 15:00

Pointing to the Moon of Non-Separation

By dayaketu on Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 15:00

Pointing to the Moon of Non-Separation
A weekend exploring suññatā as non-separation with Tejananda
3-5 Oct

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In our online retreat earlier in the year, the ‘moon’ to which I was pointing was the unfindability of a separate self. The kind of self that we think we are - persisting, potentially satisfactory and somehow ‘who and what I really am’ - is nothing but a mental fabrication. Our fabricating of this leads to suffering.

This weekend retreat explores the other ‘side’...

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Crossing the Stream: The Life and Legacy of Sangharakshita

By Candradasa on Tue, 24 Jun, 2025 - 14:32

Crossing the Stream: The Life and Legacy of Sangharakshita

By Candradasa on Tue, 24 Jun, 2025 - 14:32

DISCOVERING THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF TRIRATNA’S FOUNDER
SATURDAY 6TH – WEDNESDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER

Get to know the man at the heart of Triratna!

Join us for five days of practice, dialogue, storytelling and contemplation as we explore the life and teachings of Sangharakshita, the founding teacher of the Triratna Buddhist Community. Through talks, meditation and discussion we will trace how one man’s journey—from post-war Britain to...

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The River Underground: A Meditation Home Retreat

By dayaketu on Wed, 4 Jun, 2025 - 07:00

The River Underground: A Meditation Home Retreat

By dayaketu on Wed, 4 Jun, 2025 - 07:00

The River Underground: A Meditation Home Retreat
with Paramananda & Melbourne Buddhist Centre

11-17 July

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“We heal through the imagination, through images and fictions.”
James Hillman, ‘Healing Fiction’

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 ‘out of touch’ both with ourselves and...

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The Call of Anxiety: Developing a Fearless Compassionate Heart

By dayaketu on Sat, 31 May, 2025 - 00:32

The Call of Anxiety: Developing a Fearless Compassionate Heart

By dayaketu on Sat, 31 May, 2025 - 00:32

The Call of Anxiety
Developing a Fearless Compassionate Heart

June 13-15th 2025
With Singhashri and Balajit

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Many meditators come to practice in the hope of reducing or even getting rid of difficult feelings like stress and anxiety. Yet, to feel anxiety about our lives and especially the current state of our world is a completely understandable and even appropriate response. So how do we learn to listen deeply to our anxiety without allowing it to overwhelm us?

Anxiety can have...

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Transforming the Sacred Space

By dayaketu on Mon, 31 Mar, 2025 - 21:14

Transforming the Sacred Space

By dayaketu on Mon, 31 Mar, 2025 - 21:14

Transforming the Sacred Space.
Online weekend retreat on spiritual death and rebirth
Hosted by Jnanadhara and Suvarnadhi.

Event postponed. Check back for new dates soon!

The Auckland Buddhist Centre is delighted to invite you to a weekend retreat on The Buddhist Centre Live in collaboration with the team at Dharmachakra.

Featuring experienced Triratna teachers and leaders from both hemispheres, this is a wonderful chance wherever you live to meet a new set of friends in our worldwide community. Join us as we embrace new...

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Pointing to the Moon - Led by Tejananda with Advayasiddhi

By dayaketu on Wed, 12 Mar, 2025 - 21:37

Pointing to the Moon - Led by Tejananda with Advayasiddhi

By dayaketu on Wed, 12 Mar, 2025 - 21:37

Pointing to the Moon, led by Tejananda with Advayasiddhi
A home retreat on working with self-view.

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Friday 2nd May - Thursday 8th May

The well-known metaphor of ‘a finger pointing at the moon’ is itself a hint at something essential in Dharma practice. It suggests ‘don’t mistake the finger for the moon’. But what is the moon, and what is the finger? The finger could be taken as whatever gets us looking and going in the ‘right’ direction. For...

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Following the White Deer

By Centre Team on Wed, 29 Nov, 2023 - 15:06

Following the White Deer

By Centre Team on Wed, 29 Nov, 2023 - 15:06

🧘‍♀️ 🧘‍♂️ Seven days of meditation, soulful exploration, and strong, supportive friendship: a safe space to go deeper into experience and practice.

A Home Retreat led by Paramananda and Bodhilila

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...

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Emptiness and the Nature of Mind: Meditation Intensive Online Led by Tejananda with Upekshanandi

By Centre Team on Sat, 27 May, 2023 - 12:35

Emptiness and the Nature of Mind: Meditation Intensive Online Led by Tejananda with Upekshanandi

By Centre Team on Sat, 27 May, 2023 - 12:35

A Home Retreat: 24 – 28 November, 2023

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Our deepest and truest nature, right now, is the Dharma. We can imagine – and ultimately experience – this as the total openness of the ‘Dharma body’, 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 ‘compassionate energy’. Traditionally, the union of these is referred to as...

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Forces for Good - Challenging Emotions as Portals to Liberation (New Home Retreat)

By Centre Team on Tue, 21 Feb, 2023 - 16:38

Forces for Good - Challenging Emotions as Portals to Liberation (New Home Retreat)

By Centre Team on Tue, 21 Feb, 2023 - 16:38

April 28 – May 4 2023

Co-Led By Balajit, Singhashri and Viveka

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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...

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