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.
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 Heart Sutra is one of the most familiar of all Buddhist texts and, inevitably, there are innumerable takes on ‘what it means’. How do we square the opening statement that the skandhas (our psycho–physical constituents) are ‘empty’ with the following one that ‘in emptiness’ there are no skandhas,...
4 workshops led by Tejananda for experienced meditators 3 years minimum experience required
Saturdays: 20th February and 6th March 1st session (90 mins):IE&UK 09:30 | Europe CET 10:30 | India 15:00 | Australia EST 20.30 | New Zealand 22.30 2nd session (90 mins):USAPST 11:00 | México 13:00 | USAEST 14:00 | IE&UK 19:00 | Europe CET 20:00 |...
We hope you have enjoyed Meditating in the Mandala with us this week!
Thank you so much to Tejananda for leading daily sessions, exploring a dynamic, embodied, somatic approach to meditation and Awakening. You can find the recordings of the daily Zoom sessions on the Home Retreat page. You can also find the recordings on this Youtube Playlist.
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If you haven’t been able to meditate at the live Zoom sessions with Tejananda, then there’s good news. The video recordings of each day are now available on the Home Retreat page! Head over there to check them out.
You can still join the live sessions, today and tomorrow
USA 8am PST | México 10am | USA 11am EST | UK & IE 4pm | Europe 5pm CET
The link to connect to Zoom will be available on The Home Retreat page before the event
