Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center
Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center

Milarepa - The Shepherd's Search For Mind

By Saddhammapradip on Tue, 20 Feb, 2024 - 07:39

Milarepa - The Shepherd’s Search for Mind - from The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa by Garma C. C. Chang. 

Extract of Same by Deepak Shakya with Hindi Translation as well as Marathi Translation with help of Google Translate. 

Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center
Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center

Milarepa - The Shepherd's Search For Mind

By Saddhammapradip on Tue, 20 Feb, 2024 - 07:24

Milarepa - The Shepherd's Search For Mind

By Saddhammapradip on Tue, 20 Feb, 2024 - 07:24

Milarepa - The Shepherd’s Search for Mind weekend retreat felicitated by Dh. Guhyacitta and Deepak Shakya. For first time retreat center community led retreat after doing study on same subject for six month within community on alternate days. 

It was small weekend of 10 participants. It was nice to hear Milarepa Mantra - “om ah guru hasavajra sarvasiddhi hum” in puja on last day. 

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Dharmabytes: Vast Ocean of Boundless Depths

By Zac on Mon, 27 Mar, 2023 - 06:00

In this talk, Viveka explores the many, diverse faces of mindfulness practice - breaking down the ideological barriers that can so often divide when we try to figure out what, exactly, does constitute mindfulness meditation… With good humour and an emphasis on kindness in the present moment, she encourages us to broaden and deepen our ideas of awareness and of loving kindness. Rich with references - from Satipatthana to Milarepa - this is an excellent and encouraging...

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Community Highlights

In Search of the Nature of Mind: With Maitreyabandhu and Padmavajra

By Centre Team on Wed, 7 Dec, 2022 - 09:58

In Search of the Nature of Mind: With Maitreyabandhu and Padmavajra

By Centre Team on Wed, 7 Dec, 2022 - 09:58

Premiere on Fri 9 Dec | On YouTube

IE & UK 19.00 | USA PST 11:00 | Mexico 13:00 | USA EST 14:00 | Europe 20:00 CET | India 23:30 | Australia AEDT 04:00 (next day) | New Zealand NZDT 06:00

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In this final conversation for Nature of Mind, Maitreyabandhu is in conversation with Padmavajra.

Padmavajra talks about Milarepa and The Shepherd’s Search for Mind (from...

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FBA Podcast: Perfecting Generosity, Ethics and Patience

By Sadayasihi on Sat, 25 Dec, 2021 - 06:00

Here Padmavajra explores a great classic of Tibetan Buddhism – Gampopa’s ‘Jewel Ornament of Liberation’. The work, inspired by devotion to Manjusri, is one of the key texts in the development of the Tibetan Lam Rim teachings. And Gampopa, being one of the two principle disciples of the yogi Milarepa, presents both the monastic Lam Rim approach of Atisha and the Mahamudra meditation teachings of Milarepa himself.

This is the seventh talk in an eight part series entitled ...

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Free Buddhist Audio

Dharmabyte: Faith is the Foundation: Virya is the Wall

By Sadayasihi on Thu, 10 Jun, 2021 - 06:00

There is an unfolding process within us – in each moment we have a choice to move towards the painful and unskilful, or we can move towards liberation. Faith is the intuition that there is a way of responding to experience that moves us away from suffering and towards liberation. What most deeply matters to us? What conditions allow for the process of flourishing to happen?

Dhammarati calls on the story of Milarepa to draw out the relationship between faith...

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Milarepa: A New Video From Urgyen House

By Centre Team on Tue, 13 Apr, 2021 - 15:10

Milarepa: A New Video From Urgyen House

By Centre Team on Tue, 13 Apr, 2021 - 15:10

Paramartha considers the importance of Tibet’s great yogi Milarepa in the life and teachings of Sangharakshita whilst introducing two objects from Urgyen House.

Urgyen House is a project dedicated to ensuring the long-term preservation of Sangharakshita’s collection of books, letters, papers, thangkas and artefacts as well as the building in which he spent the last years of his life.

Visit the Urgyen House website

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The Twelve Days of FBA (2020) - Day 7: 'Great Compassion Penetrates into the Marrow of the Bones' by Dhammadinna

By Free Buddhist Audio on Fri, 1 Jan, 2021 - 14:00

The Twelve Days of FBA (2020) - Day 7: 'Great Compassion Penetrates into the Marrow of the Bones' by Dhammadinna

By Free Buddhist Audio on Fri, 1 Jan, 2021 - 14:00

For the seventh day, Dassini, a long-time supporter of Free Buddhist Audio who has served as a trustee for more than a decade with a steady, heartfelt commitment, recommends a talk by Dhammadinna.

The is a timeless message from the depths: ‘Great Compassion Penetrates into the Marrow of the Bones’. What a title! What a talk! 

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FBA Podcast: Perfecting Generosity, Ethics and Patience

By Sadayasihi on Sat, 22 Aug, 2020 - 14:00

This is the seventh talk in an eight part series by Padmavajra exploring a great classic of Tibetan Buddhism – Gampopa’s ‘Jewel Ornament of Liberation’.

The work, inspired by devotion to Manjusri, is one of the key texts in the development of the Tibetan Lam Rim teachings. And Gampopa, being one of the two principle disciples of the yogi Milarepa, presents both the monastic Lam Rim approach of Atisha and the Mahamudra meditation teachings of Milarepa himself.

Talk given at ...

Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

This week's offers from Windhorse Publications

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 10 Aug, 2020 - 15:00

This week's offers from Windhorse Publications

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 10 Aug, 2020 - 15:00

This week’s free eBook

This week we’re delighted to be giving away Ritual and Devotion in Buddhism: An Introduction by Sangharakshita, which leads the reader through the Sevenfold Puja and gives a feeling for the depth of spiritual practice to be contacted through reciting devotional verses, making offerings and chanting mantras.

It’s not too late to download last week’s free eBook, The Yogi’s Joy, also by Sangharakshita. It will remain free until the 17th of August. 

When you download your eBook(s), please consider making a donation...

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