Tag: #meditation

Compassionate Warrior Training ONLINE 15 - 21 January 2022

By Maitrisiddhi on Tue, 28 Dec, 2021 - 17:06

Compassionate Warrior Training ONLINE 15 - 21 January 2022

By Maitrisiddhi on Tue, 28 Dec, 2021 - 17:06

Become a warrior with a soft and open heart! Online Taraloka retreat with Vidyamala and team, for Dharmacarinis and women training for ordination.

Drawing on both Satipatthana mindfulness teachings and Lojong mind training Bodhicitta teachings, this is a retreat designed for these times. As we continue to live through all the upheaval and uncertainty of the global pandemic we need to call on a kind of fearless presence, strength and courage within ourselves alongside kindness, empathy and compassion towards all beings. Satipatthana...

Buddhafield

At Home with the Elements Online Event 2022

By lotusbuddhafield on Mon, 6 Dec, 2021 - 16:34

At Home with the Elements Online Event 2022

By lotusbuddhafield on Mon, 6 Dec, 2021 - 16:34

13th - 27th February, 2022

Our sense of identity is deeply rooted in the real nature of things. This is the fullness of contentment.
- Subhuti, Mind in Harmony

What is the antidote to deep feelings of separation? Of despair and loneliness? Without being able to control everything, how can we hope to gain any sense of security?

Connecting with deep identity means realising that we are nature, that we contain the six elements within us at the same time...

Portsmouth Buddhist Center

Wise Up! Buddhist Teachings for Awareness and Transformation

By Suddhayu on Sun, 5 Dec, 2021 - 21:09

Wise Up! Buddhist Teachings for Awareness and Transformation

By Suddhayu on Sun, 5 Dec, 2021 - 21:09

A five week online course on Monday evenings, Jan 10 to Feb 7, 6:30-8pm ET.

What does Buddhist teaching have to offer us in 2022? During times of pandemic, social discord and uncertainty, it is both vital and inspiring to find voices of compassion and wisdom from our past, and to connect with a community of like-minded people now. After 2500 years, the Buddha’s vision of human spiritual life is still relevant, radical, practical and fresh. This five...

Portsmouth Buddhist Center

The Path of Transformation: Embracing Change and Finding Refuge in Unsettled Times

By Suddhayu on Sat, 7 Aug, 2021 - 15:23

The Path of Transformation: Embracing Change and Finding Refuge in Unsettled Times

By Suddhayu on Sat, 7 Aug, 2021 - 15:23

The Path of Transformation: Embracing Change and Finding Refuge in Unsettled Times
Meditation, Dharma, Community every Sunday 10-11:30am ET, In-person at Gateway Taiji or Online on Zoom Beginning 09/19

What motivates us to grow with change? What do we turn to when things are difficult? Recently, we have all likely experienced degrees of uncertainty, loss and polarization in navigating the pandemic, climate change and our political climate. We also face the particular challenges of our personal lives and the larger existential...

Portsmouth Buddhist Center

Find Your Depth with Meditation

By Suddhayu on Wed, 4 Aug, 2021 - 16:19

Find Your Depth with Meditation

By Suddhayu on Wed, 4 Aug, 2021 - 16:19

A 4-week online course on Monday evenings, 10/04-10/25, 6:30-8:00pm ET

Meditation practice helps us to develop contentment, clarity, integration, concentration, and a sense of peace. Whether you’re just looking to find some stillness in your life, or to directly explore the nature of consciousness, this class is a great way to begin!

In this introductory meditation workshop we will explore the Buddha’s teaching of mindfulness, generally as a living principle, and more specifically as a meditation practice. Participants will learn the Mindfulness...

Buddhafield

I Am Because We Are – Meditation Retreat

By lotusbuddhafield on Thu, 8 Apr, 2021 - 12:57

I Am Because We Are – Meditation Retreat

By lotusbuddhafield on Thu, 8 Apr, 2021 - 12:57

Led By: Singhashri, Kamalanandi & team
Location: Bowerwood, nr. Honiton in East Devon
Retreat Experience: Six months or more meditation experience
Age Group: Adults only

“I am because we are” is a traditional African saying from the Ubuntu tradition evoking the inherent truth of interdependence and the promise of Beloved Community.

We all yearn to find and engage with others in spaces of deep meaning and heart-felt belonging, where we are each doing our own work in authentic connection with one another. This is the ideal of...

Buddhafield

The Light Within Online Retreat: 18th - 20th December

By Dayajoti on Thu, 19 Nov, 2020 - 13:02

The Light Within Online Retreat: 18th - 20th December

By Dayajoti on Thu, 19 Nov, 2020 - 13:02

Buddhafield Online Retreat with Akuppa, Dayajoti & Others

As the longest night approaches, so an opportunity to see the bright light within arises. Our ability to shine out into the world depends on the inner work that we do. All that we need is possible when we can accept both the brightness and the dark.

Join Akuppa, Dayajoti and others for this weekend, at-home retreat to explore the light within. Meditations, movement practice and kula groups will take place throughout the weekend supported by...

Buddhist Action

Stillness on the edge

By Christine on Fri, 12 Jun, 2020 - 18:57

Stillness on the edge

By Christine on Fri, 12 Jun, 2020 - 18:57

Morning meditation beside Lynn Creek. My awareness became absorbed by the environment: the sounds and smells, the hardness of granite, colours, stillness amidst noise. I took a video. A haiku emerged.