Meditation
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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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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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Meditations from the Three Vehicles
It is said that the Buddha taught eighty-four thousand different methods to tame the minds of sentient beings because there were so many types of people with diverse temperaments and karmic tendencies. He taught the Dharma in three waves or Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma to suit the capacities of his students. These waves, [...]
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A Courageous Heart
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South AfricaOur minds are naturally perfect but because of our obscurations and afflictions, we have forgotten our true pure nature. The noble Tara is the embodiment of the swift and courageous compassion of all of the Buddhas, and by invoking her energy, she can swiftly liberate us from our fears by connecting us to our intrinsic courageous [...]
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The Lamp that Shines the Way
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South Africawith Alan Muller Atisha's most celebrated text, Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, sets forth the entire Buddhist path within the framework of three levels of motivation on the part of the practitioner. This retreat will concentrate on the sections of the text which cover meditation and wisdom. Sessions will include guided meditations associated with [...]
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ZenPen – Writing, Being and Meditation
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South AfricaJoin us for A Writing, Being, and Meditation Retreat with Dorian Haarhoff for a weekend, with the option to extend your experience to the following Tuesday for A Stream of Words Retreat. We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us to see their own images, and so live for [...]
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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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Taming the Wild Monkey Mind with Lama Zangmo
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South AfricaAn untamed mind is compared to a wild elephant being led by a crazy, wild monkey of distraction. The untamed mind can do a lot of damage, as we can easily observe in daily life. So, how do we go about taming our wild, monkey minds? Lama Zangmo will talk about the benefits and the common [...]
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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 [...]