Retreat: Stages of the Path

Bringing Meaning into Our Life

On this retreat each day we will explore four meditations from Venerable Geshe la’s book  How to Understand the Mind  in the section called Meditation, and recite Prayers for Meditation.  It is highly recommended that prior to the retreat, you familiarize yourself with these meditations (presented in How to Understand the Mind), and contemplate their meaning.

For each meditation Kelsang Khacho will explain the particular meditation for that session and after the prayers she will guide us to the object. The aim is to control our mind and gain deep levels of inner peace. Everybody, Buddhist or non-Buddhist, can benefit from these meditations because Kadam Dharma accords with people’s everyday experiences.

Retreat Schedule

Thursday 14

10:00-11:15am  Meditation on karma

11:45am – 1pm  Meditation on renunciation

3:00-4:15pm  Meditation on recognizing our self-grasping ignorance

7:00-8:15pm  Meditation on our determination to enter the path to liberation

Friday 15

10:00-11:15am  Meditation on true cessation

11:45am – 1pm  Meditation on cherishing all living beings

3:00-4:15pm  Meditation on universal compassion

7:00-8:15pm  Meditation on the supreme good heart, bodhichitta

Saturday 16

10:00-11:15am  Meditation on our determination to practice the six perfections

11:45am – 1pm  Meditation on emptiness of the body

3:00-4:15pm  Meditation on emptiness of the ‘I’

Retreat Costs

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