2022 Spring Pun Retreat
We’re not lion. You’ll enjoy this punny retreat where the central practice happens around the meal table. Open that throat chakra!
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Meditation
Healing Ecological Grief – Meditate in Nature
A new term, ‘Ecological Grief,’ describes our natural reaction to actual or anticipated ecological losses. No wonder there’s a term for this feeling. After all, we’re seeing the loss of species, ecosystems, and meaningful landscapes, all because of acute or chronic environmental change.
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How I Cured My Insomnia
It was at the end of a meditation retreat and I was exhausted. Not because of the retreat but because, once again, I hadn’t slept the entire time.
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What’s It Like in a Tibetan Wong Kur?
What do you do in an initiation ceremony? What’s a Yidam? And why all the rice?
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Finding Bliss in the Challenge of Retreat
The teachers’ comments cut through the confusion. The belief that I couldn’t do it, couldn’t meditate properly, was simply another arising within the field of empty awareness.
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What You Do While Meditating
By Catherine Sensei
Sometimes people imagine that retreat is just sitting still for a month, which may not seem compelling. It’s far more fascinating than that. With meditation, we don’t just sit: we watch the mind. It’s an incredible entity!
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On Entering a Month-Long Advance
By Catherine Sensei.
In a few days I’ll begin my first solitary retreat in over twenty years of spiritual practice, for a month. I’ve done month-long retreats before, and usually I was either helping organize or teach. So it’s been a while, or maybe it’s never been.
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Learning To Integrate Mindfulness
Learning To Meditate Off The Cushion It’s amazing when you enter a clear and radiant state on the meditation cushion. But can
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Challenging My View of Asperger’s Through Dharma
When I was in university, things got clearer.
I was seeing a psychiatrist and in one session, he said that I have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD, under which Asperger’s is now classified).
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Finding Connection in Aloneness
It’s a feeling that’s unexplainable, but during that week, I had a taste of what it felt like to be deeply connected to something. To something bigger than myself. Bigger than my problems and my struggles.
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When the S*#! Hits the Fan, What Colour is Your Raincoat?
When the S*#! Hits the Fan, What Colour is Your Raincoat? The blow-up had been building for some time. It just needed
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Surrender – Is there always one hand on the controls?
One thing I gained from this taste of surrender was a feeling of deep peace and tranquility. When I didn’t care if I got what I wanted or not anymore, a true sense of freedom arose.
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Making Friends with the Monkey Mind
On the other hand, have you ever experienced sitting down to meditate, and watching the mind gradually calm down? I hope so, and I guess we might call that a “good meditation” compared to ones where we feel like the monkey mind dominated the show.
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How to fit hours of meditation into your working day
Instead of going through your day as you normally would, dedicate the day to looking at a particular question. It just takes a few minutes to reframe your day.
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Three ways to keep your meditation practice going
Ways to keep your meditation practice going When I first started meditating, it felt great. I’d had a little instruction and I
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That ‘bad day’ doesn’t exist
What are our judgements based on? As you read the first paragraph, and all of this article, what conditions are influencing your judgement of the experience?
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What Does it Mean to Be in a Good State, Anyway?
If our first responsibility is our own state, before we go fixing others’, then what does it mean to be in a good state?
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Two Views on How Dharma Heals Us
Here we share two of the shorter pieces from our Great Healing series, written by Maureen Smith and Richard Nathaniel.
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How I Stopped Being an Anxious Person
My default state used to be anxiety, with some fear thrown in for good measure. I don’t know why. For whatever reason,
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Dharma and healing
Heal your mind – and expand your consciousness – and your body comes along for a much more easeful ride, despite still being subject to death, decay, and impermanence. And the interesting thing is that it works both ways – when we change the body, we also change the mind.
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How to Get the Best out of a Three-Night Cabin Retreat
If you’re wondering why we require a three-night minimum in our cabins, it’s to honor the process of retreat time. Three nights is still a very short retreat, but it does allow for the possibility of something magical to happen between arriving, settling in, and the “I’m leaving soon” thoughts.
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