Pointing Out the Nature of Body and Awareness

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Hermitage of the Awakened Heart, North Wales & online

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Understanding the relationship between the Body and our Awareness is an essential part of Dharma training, and teachings on it can be found in all Buddhist traditions.
Exploring the direct experience of our breath, body and movement can help to undermine the hidden assumptions that keep us bound to saṃsāra - and will naturally take us deeper in our meditation practice.

Lama Shenpen will be teaching on the profound view of our True Nature and Dashu will guide us in exploring these teachings further.

This is a ten-day retreat and by enrolling, participants commit to joining all the teachings and at least one practice session each day.

You are also invited to join discussion groups and the regular daily morning and evening prayers and meditation.
Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their meditation practice in one to one interviews with Lama Shenpen or Dashu, as well as meeting with other students of the Awakened Heart Sangha.

This event is particularly aimed at students of Lama Shenpen who have completed at least one Formless Meditation course or retreat. Although, anyone who has a regular meditation practice and would like to spend more time investigating the Nature of Awareness is welcome to join.

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A note about commitment and boundaries:

When you book, you are committing to attending the event online. If, after booking you find you are unable to make the event, please let us know as soon as possible.

You are encouraged to participate on the event as fully as you can, and are invited to attend all the sessions listed.
We understand that it isn’t possible for everyone, and therefore you can reflect on what boundaries you would like to include in your participation.

It is up to you how you choose your boundaries.
Once you have chosen them it is good for your practice and for the strength of the whole retreat that you stick to them as best you can.
If that means that you can only join in one session each day, then make that commitment and stick to it. You might also decide that for the whole day you will make a special effort to live by the five precepts (link to read more about them) or you will choose to avoid all emails, phone calls or communication with anyone other than those on the event..

All in all, an online event can be as strict or easy as you make it, but the most important thing is to make your commitment and try your best to stick to it. And if you aren't able to, then notice how uncomfortable it can be, and reassert your wish to keep to your word in the future.

An example of a timetable (specific times will be confirmed before the event for those who are booked on)

Morning Prayers and meditation - 7 am - 8 am Teaching session 9.30 am - 10.30 am Meditation session 11.00am - 12.00 pm

Discussion group - 2.30 pm - 3.30 pm
Meditation session - 4.00 pm - 5.00 pm
Evening Prayers and Meditation - 7.30 pm - 8.30 pm

A note about donations:

The Shrimala Trust is a registered charity whose mission is to support the activity of Lama Shenpen and the Awakened Heart Sangha.
These events are organised and provided for you on a donation-only basis. Showing gratitude through our donations for the teachings that are generously offered to us is one important way to deepen the connections between us and helps to make these teachings accessible to others in the future.

You can express your gratitude for the people who have made this event possible by donating to the Shrimala Trust using the following link: https://ahs.org.uk/donations-and-payments

You will also be invited to make specific donations to the teacher and details will be sent to those who book.