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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.
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Loving Awareness
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South Africawith Lucy Draper-Clarke As you step into this new year, what needs your loving awareness? A relationship, a project, your work, home, or family? You may be holding sorrow for the past or anxiety about the future. The best place to start is bringing caring attention to your own body, heart, and mind. Time away, [...]
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A Mindful Break: Relaxing and getting in touch
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South AfricaWe are usually busy taking care of everybody and everything else in our lives, forgetting we too need love, care, and kindness. This weekend will focus on compassion and self-care
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Family Easter Camp 2022
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South AfricaEaster Camp at Tara Rokpa Centre is traditionally is a family affair and a "come as you are" party. We define family in the broader sense, including the traditional nuclear and extended families, but also extending to friends, individuals, urban tribe members, community members, TRC visitors, and anyone wanting to connect with the spirit of [...]
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Extraordinary Purification Practices of Tibetan Buddhism
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, South AfricaDuring this retreat, Alan will give instructions on the foundational practices of Tibetan Buddhism. These practices, although termed "preparation" practices, are complete practices in themselves.
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Study, Reflection and Meditation
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, South Africawith 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 [...]
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Befriending Your Demons
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South AfricaIn this retreat, we will be learning to work with difficult emotions using a powerful strategy that will enable us to transform our negative emotions, relationships, fears, illnesses, and self-defeating patterns.
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Courage and Care – Women’s Day Retreat
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South Africawith Lucy Draper-Clarke and Mammatli Thakhuli-Nzuza At first glance, courage and care may seem like opposites: one tough and strong, the other soft and fluffy. Explore more deeply, though, and they intertwine as the mother archetype, offering us access to feminine wisdom. From the clarity that arises in the face of compassion, the greatest courage [...]
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Fearless Flow: Do Nothing…just Play!
Tara Rokpa Centre Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico District, North West Province, South AfricaCreative Play Retreat with Anton and the HA!Man Retreat Overview “We only play when we’re in the fullest sense of the word human beings, and we’re only fully human when we play.” - Fred Schiller Drawing on their extensive experience, Anton and the HA!Man will explore awareness and spontaneity as ways of being present, playing [...]