Tag: home retreats

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

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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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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The Poetics of Awakening - A Home Retreat with Paramananda and Bodhilila

By Centre Team on Wed, 7 Dec, 2022 - 10:37

The Poetics of Awakening - A Home Retreat with Paramananda and Bodhilila

By Centre Team on Wed, 7 Dec, 2022 - 10:37

Led by Paramananda and Bodhilila | Friday January 20th till Thursday January 26th 2023

What does it mean to really wake up? Join us for an opening of the heart and imagination to our own deepest nature and place in the world.

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

The Buddha was known as the Awakened One, but what does it mean to really wake up? Buddhism is clear that this awakening is...

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The Buddhist Centre Online Highlights from 2021

By Centre Team on Sun, 26 Dec, 2021 - 12:58

The Buddhist Centre Online Highlights from 2021

By Centre Team on Sun, 26 Dec, 2021 - 12:58

2021 has been another rollercoaster of a year: with the three of the traditional ‘four sights’ of old age, sickness and death an ever present backdrop. But 2021 has also been interspersed with moments of beauty, generosity, connectedness and hope.

Our team has been busy this year keeping the fourth sight—the Dharma—alive; fostering community—sangha—at a time of continued uncertainty.

Looking back over the year, here are some of our highlights from the year that was 2021:

Support The Buddhist Centre Online in 2022—and beyond!...