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  • Insight Retreat : Working Creatively with Negative Emotions – Choden

    Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South Africa

    Many people relentlessly battle with their emotions and end up leading conflicted and unhappy lives. But this does not have to be the case. In Buddhism the negative emotions are described as ‘mind poisons’, but the poison contains hidden gold. This retreat will focus on working creatively with the negative emotions that afflict us. It [...]

  • Bringing the Mind to Rest – Alan Muller

    Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South Africa

    A weekend of guided meditations, contemplations, and exploring the above Milarepa quote.

  • Living Compassionately in Challenging Times

    Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South Africa

    If we wish to find lasting happiness, we need to look at how to tame the mind and uncover our compassionate nature. We are so lucky to still be able to access the wisdom of ancient Tibetan masters, whose advice is very relevant in today's degenerate times. The text The Eight verses for Training the [...]

  • The Value of Meditation in Challenging Times

    Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South Africa

    Theme Each of us has the potential to be whole and free, but few of us realise this potential. Many of us go through our lives under a spell of imperfection – thinking and feeling that things are not right with us and life never really hits the spot. There is a gnawing feeling of [...]

  • Kagyu Practice Retreat

    Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South Africa

    with Alan Muller Please join us this weekend to reconnect with practice, lineage, and old Dharma friends. The benefits and merits of practicing together with fellow travelers on the path are immeasurable. Alan will tell us stories, give us practical advice, and guided meditations. There will be time for walks, chats, and your own practice. [...]

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  • Compassion and the Foundations of Buddhist Practice

    Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South Africa

    The 3rd of March is the Tibetan New Year of the Water-Tiger. The first fifteen days of the lunar year are known as the fifteen days of the Buddha's miracles, when the Buddha, who was usually reluctant to show his miraculous powers, did display miracles in order to increase the faith of his followers.

  • Extraordinary Purification Practices of Tibetan Buddhism

    Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, South Africa

    During this retreat, Alan will give instructions on the foundational practices of Tibetan Buddhism. These practices, although termed "preparation" practices, are complete practices in themselves.

  • Study, Reflection and Meditation

    Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, South Africa

    with Alan Muller The Buddhist path emphasizes study, reflection, and meditation. But sometimes we neglect the study aspect. The study of Buddhist texts is somewhat different from how we normally approach the study of academic subjects. Study, in the spiritual context, is very necessary as it provides the view, the basis, the perspective needed in [...]

  • The Dynamic Magic of Guru Rinpoche and Yeshe Tsogyal

    Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South Africa

    A Transforming Retreat with Melanie Polatinsky The legends of Guru Rinpoche/Padmasambhava, also called the second Buddha, are rooted in a historical figure, miraculously born, who came to Tibet in the 8th Century to bring the highest Buddhist teaching and subdue the darkness in the land. His consort and disciple, Yeshe Tsogyal recorded all these teachings [...]

  • Vajrayana Practice Weekend

    Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South Africa

    with Alan Muller Please join us this Lunar New Year weekend to reconnect with practice, lineage, and old and new Dharma friends. The benefits and merits of practicing together with fellow travelers on the path are immeasurable. Alan will tell us stories, give us practical advice, and guided meditations. There will be time for walks, [...]

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