Gaia House is a meditation retreat centre offering silent meditation retreats in the Buddhist tradition. We warmly welcome people of every age, ethnicity, cultural heritage and religious background, socio-economic group, sexual orientation and gender identity, and we are actively working to investigate and remove barriers to inclusion. Join us in to explore the teachings of the Buddha, guided by experienced Dharma teachers from all over the world.
(Gaia House) A meditation, reflection, and (just the) responses to questions on the theme of wise perception: knowing this is a dependently originating appearance. And expanding wise and skilful (right) speech to include not exaggerating or simplifying! Perhaps these alongside other ideas, will support our practice to deepen, and widen to help liberate peace into the world.
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(Gaia House) The imperfectly perfect teacher: the Buddha's hesitation to teach, a lifelong ambivalence between blissful solitude and human engagement, the human & vs the ideal Buddha. How unconditioned can awakening really be? How perfectionistic are we? Equanimity not as flawless calm but as the ability to hold fluctuations with gentleness.
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(Gaia House) Impermanence through the image of the Little Prince's rose. Is everything really dukkha just because it's transient? More on samatha & vipassanā. Stages in relinquishing reactivity. The Buddha's awakening as a discovery of secular faith, connecting impermanence to beauty & care, liberation through mettā.
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(Gaia House) His (and our) addiction to both pleasure and suffering. The four efforts as different strategies of practice, moving from problem-fixing to sustaining naturally occuring non-reactivity. Samatha as settling the mind, vipassanā as understanding how that happened. The awakening factors, joy at the release of reactivity & the first jhāna.
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(Gaia House) The 4th satipaṭṭhāna in formal practice & in daily life. Includes guided meditation.
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(Gaia House) An overview of the four satipaṭṭhānas, with emphasis on the fourth.
(Gaia House) Fourth foundation - processes - seeing processes - seeing conditionality.
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(Gaia House) A meditation, reflection, and responses to questions on the power of conceiving of ourselves as interconnected. With examples from Palestine, the meditation cushion, and living with illness and loss. In all cases, perhaps this transformative idea is more potent than it is true. Some links from this session: Essential Surgery in Palestine: https://chuffed.org/project/123753-essential-surgery-for-palestinian-medical-student James Skeet, from Just Stop Oil, talking to Scroobius Pip on Distraction Pieces Podcast: https://www.scroobiuspip.co.uk/dp-player/?fl=https://embed.acast.com/$/ad4e2f12-9862-4cf6-b6af-3ae392c45fad/612jso&dl= Sacred Places with SanghaSeva | Meditation in Action: https://www.sanghaseva.org/comingup.html#sacred
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