Beginners meditation retreat

Cultivating emotional freedom

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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller

This retreat is an introduction to the Metta Bhavana which is a meditation practice that cultivates loving kindness. This is one of two principal meditation practices through which we can develop calmer, more concentrated and positive states of mind.

A retreat to warm the heart that is suitable for both beginners and practitioners needing to bring their meditation to life.

There are many things in life that are beyond our control. However, it is possible to take responsibility for our own states of mind – and to change them for the better. According to Buddhism this is the most important thing we can do, and Buddhism teaches that it is the only real antidote to our own personal sorrows, and to the anxieties, fears, hatreds, and general confusions that beset the human condition.

Meditation is a means of transforming the mind. Buddhist meditation practices are techniques that encourage and develop concentration, clarity, emotional positivity, and a calm seeing of the true nature of things. By engaging with a particular meditation practice you learn the patterns and habits of your mind, and the practice offers a means to cultivate new, more positive ways of being. With regular work and patience these nourishing, focused states of mind can deepen into profoundly peaceful and energised states of mind. Such experiences can have a transformative effect and can lead to a new understanding of life.

When

Start: 11 November 2016 at 7:00pm
Finish: 13 November 2016 at 3:00pm

Cost

$250 Waged
$200 Unwaged or low waged

Caring for each other's health

Before attending, please read our current Covid Guidelines. This is part of how we practice together.

Location

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Sudarshanaloka

Tararu Valley, Thames

Led by

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Bhadrakari

Born in 1946 she left home at 21 on a quest to find a deeper meaning to life. After much travelling and living and practicing with many different…

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