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October 2020
Discovering Your Essence of Love
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky, Lama Liz Monson
Stay tuned for updates—this retreat may be online. Description: 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…
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Buddhist and Christian Methods for Personal and Social Awakening
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky, Melanie Harris, PhD
Stay tuned for updates—this retreat may be online. Description: Classical Buddhist traditions have focused on psychological tendencies of misperception and mis-reaction --delusion, greed, and ill will--as primary causes of suffering. Such traditions have provided contemplative, ritual and ethical practices to liberate people from those inner causes of suffering. Christian liberation theologies have identified oppressive social systems as primary causes of suffering, and have provided historical analysis and social activism to empower people to liberate themselves from those systems. In this…
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Awakening Informed by Psychological Science
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky, Paul Condon
Stay tuned for updates—this retreat may be online. Description: This program will explore ways of accessing and settling into our innate awakened awareness through practices adapted from Tibetan Buddhism (Nyingma Dzogchen) with support from modern psychological science. 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, tend to prevent us from more fully accessing such qualities…
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Empowering Access to Awakened Awareness: A Retreat Integrating Scientific Concepts with Practices from Tibetan Buddhism
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky, Paul Condon
Stay tuned for updates—this retreat may be online. Description: This program will explore ways of accessing and settling into our innate awakened awareness through practices adapted from Tibetan Buddhism with support from modern psychological science. 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, tend to prevent us from more fully accessing such qualities of awakening.…
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