Insight
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Selling Water by the River – Meditation Retreat with Dónal Creedon
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South AfricaSelling Water by the River A Buddhist meditation and study retreat with Dónal Creedon. 4 November to 2 December 2023 “All is hazard that we have, There is nothing biding; Days of pleasure are like streams Through fair meadows gliding. Weal and woe, time doth go, Time is never turning; Secret fates guide our states, [...]
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Weaving Intentions
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South AfricaInstead of setting goals, making New Year’s resolutions, and creating long to-do lists, how would it feel to start the year simply connecting deeply with how you long to live? During this retreat, we will explore how to meet each moment of our lives with clarity and care, not just at the start of the [...]
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Get Set for 2024: New Year Retreat
Do you need time to refocus and reconnect? Are you yearning to change direction or deepen your current work? Do you wish for a gentle start to 2024? How would it feel to start the year simply? This offering extends the Weaving Intentions retreat for a 4-night stay or includes the Speak with Clarity, Listen [...]
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Speak with Clarity, Listen with Compassion
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South Africa“When you are busy judging people, you have no time to love them.” Marshall Rosenberg When interacting with others, we often find ourselves triggered and then communicate in ways that hurt or harm - ourselves, the other, or the relationship between us. Our conditioned ideas of what it means to communicate, especially during times of [...]
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Making Friends with Ourselves – A Mindfulness Retreat
“She looked her demons right in the eye and said “don’t you worry…” we will become the best of friends.” – N.R. Hart We all have our “demons”. They are parts of ourselves that we don’t approve of, don’t accept, don’t like, deny, hate, fight, and do our best to conquer. What if we were [...]
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Echos from an Empty Sky – Meditation Retreat with Dónal Creedon
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South Africa“All things hang like a drop of dew Upon a blade of grass.” ~ W.B.Yeats This year we will continue to explore the human condition, particularly our common experience of disillusionment and disappointment in life. According to the Buddha, the source of trouble is self-grasping and in particular the afflicted mind (kliṣṭamanas). The Sanskrit word [...]
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Exploring the Mind/Body Connection
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South AfricaDo your emotions affect your body?
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The Twelve Links
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South Africa"We all want to find happiness and be free from suffering. The twelve-part process of dependent arising shows how actions underlain by ignorance propel us from one rebirth into another, keeping us trapped in suffering, and how through understanding reality correctly we can break this cycle." Geshe Sonam Rinchen Join us for a transformative [...]
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Cultivating Equanimity and Gratitude with Vera Hey
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South AfricaCultivating Equanimity and Gratitude in a Reactive World. "Between the stimulus and the response there is space, and in that space is your power and freedom, that space is the hope of humanity!" Viktor Frankl What is Equanimity? It is a non-reactive, mindful presence; it is inner balance and ease. It is our inner refuge. [...]
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Returning Home – Meditation Retreat with Dónal Creedon
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South Africa'We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.' T.S. Elliot 'Little Gidding' The journey home is a theme that runs through many traditions, legends and stories. The home can be an actual place, our native [...]