Meditation
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The Four Immeasurables with Alan Muller and Pippa Cope
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South AfricaA Self-Compassion Retreat "If we learn ways to practice love, compassion, joy, and equanimity, we will know how to heal the illnesses of anger, sorrow, insecurity, sadness and loneliness" Thich Nhat Hanh We will look at how we can develop the four immeasurables in daily life and through meditation. There will be guided Healing Relaxation [...]
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Seeking Happiness with Alan Muller and Pippa Cope
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South AfricaA TRC Xmas/ New Year Retreat "Every man wants to be happy, but in order to be so he needs first to understand what happiness is." Jean-Jacques Rousseau. "If happiness is indeed a way of being, a state of consciousness and inner freedom, there is essentially nothing to prevent us from achieving it." Matthieu Ricard. [...]
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New Year No Intentions Retreat
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South Africawith Lucy Draper-Clarke "The best laid schemes of mice and men Often go awry, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy! Robert Burns As 2020 showed us, we have entered a time of disruption. How many of us set goals and intentions for the new year, and then had to take [...]
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Bardo Retreat with Dónal Creedon
Zoom Room , South AfricaTheme: Bardo ‘we are such stuff’ “We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.” Shakespeare: The Tempest iv.i. I haven’t written anything very extensive as theme. I tried a few but felt they were too wordy. Maybe the less said the better. I’ll talk mainly [...]
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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 AfricaMany 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 [...]
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Bringing the Mind to Rest – Alan Muller
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South AfricaA weekend of guided meditations, contemplations, and exploring the above Milarepa quote.
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Living Compassionately in Challenging Times
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South AfricaIf 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 [...]
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The Value of Meditation in Challenging Times
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South AfricaTheme 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 [...]
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Kagyu Practice Retreat
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South Africawith 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 AfricaThe 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.