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April 2020
How to Cultivate Deep, Replenishing, and Inclusive Compassion and Wisdom
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky
Sustainable Compassion and Wisdom Training (SCT) teaches us how to become newly receptive to compassionate, healing qualities in the depth of our being, to settle and relax into that depth, and to come from there in responding to others with more replenishing and expansive care, compassion and awareness. Developed by John Makransky, SCT is adapted from Tibetan Buddhism into a form that is immediately accessible to people of all backgrounds, traditions, and world views. SCT has three modes of practice:…
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Becoming Our Compassionate Self — Integrating Parts of Ourselves into the Process of Spiritual Awakening: A Retreat Integrating Internal Family Systems with Practices from Tibetan Buddhism
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky, Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.
Have you noticed that, even after years of dedicated and sincere spiritual practice, whole areas of our personalities and lives can remain untouched by the compassion and wisdom described in the spiritual teachings? There is a paradigm shift taking place in both psychology and spiritual practice. It hinges on recognizing that we have not just one personality, but many inner sub-personalities, or parts, whose burdens obscure our access to the qualities and energy of our fuller awareness--our true Self. When…
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Accessing Awakened Awareness through Unconditional Love and Compassion
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky
This program will explore ways of accessing and settling into our innate awakened awareness through practices adapted from Tibetan Buddhism. By participating in an empowering field of loving, spiritual connection, we can become increasingly receptive to the unconditioned openness, wisdom and compassionate energy of our buddha nature, where we sense our undividedness from other beings and the earth in the emptiness and interdependence of all things. Yet parts of us, often unconsciously, may prevent us from becoming more fully receptive…
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Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky, Bob Morrison, Ilona O’Connor
This program will explore ways of accessing and settling into our innate awakened awareness through practices adapted from Tibetan Buddhism. By participating in an empowering field of loving, spiritual connection, we can become increasingly receptive to the unconditioned openness, wisdom and compassionate energy of our buddha nature. Yet parts of us, often unconsciously, may prevent us from becoming more fully receptive to such qualities of awakening. This is true even for long-time practitioners. To address that, we will focus on…
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Accessing Awakened Awareness through Unconditional Love and Compassion
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky
This program will explore ways of accessing and settling into our innate awakened awareness through practices adapted from Tibetan Buddhism. By participating in an empowering field of loving, spiritual connection, we can become increasingly receptive to the unconditioned openness, wisdom and compassionate energy of our buddha nature. Yet parts of us, often unconsciously, may prevent us from becoming more fully receptive to such qualities of awakening. This is true even for long-time practitioners. To address that, we will focus on…
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Discovering Your Essence of Love
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky, Lama Liz Monson
Have you ever felt that there isn’t enough love in your life? That love is something you need to find outside of yourself in order to feel whole and fully alive? If so, this retreat is for you. Over this weekend, Lamas John Makransky and Liz Monson will explore practices of accessing and abiding in our essential nature of love. Although it may feel counterintuitive, by extending love and compassion to others and by engaging in an empowering field of…
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