January Retreat - Four Pointers to the Essence

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Lama Scott Dashon Smith & Five Cram

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Join Lama Dashon as Sangha to go deeper in retreat for a month. You are invited to make the retreat your own, make the commitment to join as much or as little as you are able to. Join simply the teachings. Dive deep with all sessions. 

Wednesday 14 January

Join Lama Dashon 13:30 - 14:30 for  Feldenkrais (guided mindful movement) 

Open Session 16:30 - 17:30 space for participants to share with each other - offer an activity, story, reading, inspiration....

The timetable has been updated to include (i) Updated times to join Lama Dashon in formless meditation, and (ii) the Feldenkrais sessions. The Events Link will remain available outside timetabled sessions for anyone wanting to sit together.

Questions for the Teachers

Recordings and instructions

All recordings of Lama Dashon's Five's Opening to Insight teachings to date can be found in the Recordings session.

Meditation instructions from Lama Dashon's second teaching session are here

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  • Daily recitations of the Heart Sutra:  click here. If there is no rota anyone present can unmute and step in.
  • Daily pujas - particularly Shakyamuni Sadhana and Evening Puja - rota here

 

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Lama Dashon is going to give instructions on how the teachings of the Four Noble Truths he gave from last year can be integrated into our Formless Meditation practice and the Mahāmudrā path.

Each week, we will explore how each of the Four pointers we receive: Wake; Heart; Open; Be - are guiding us through the Four Truths and the Eight-fold path and pointing to the Indestructible Heart Essence - the True Source of Peace.

Each day we will recite the Heart Sutra and/or others from the Prajnaparamita collection of sutras and reflect on how they are pointing us to the same realisation.

In addition each Saturday starting on the 10th January Five will offer exercises from his book Opening to Insight  to help us integrate the pointers of the Heart Sutra and other teachings into our Formless Meditation practice, and deepen our view. 

We will look at questioning our experience, shaking up fixed ideas, contemplating wholeness, thinking and believing, and similar themes.