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September 2019
October 2019
Realizing Awakened Awareness through Unconditional Love and Compassion
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky
Guiding Teacher: Lama John Makransky, Ph.D. Join the developer of Innate Compassion-Wisdom Training (ICT), John Makransky in deepening the experience of our inborn awakened capacity. In this practice, we become receptive to the unconditioned openness, compassion, wisdom, and peace of our buddha nature by participating in a field of unconditional love for self and others. Yet parts of us, often unconsciously, prevent us from becoming more fully receptive to such qualities of awakening. And this can impede even long-time practitioners from…
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Transmitting the Blessing of Compassion
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky, Lama Liz Monson
In this weekend program, Lama John Makransky and Lama Liz Monson will explore how practicing compassion and receiving blessings work in tandem to help us access our deepest nature of loving-kindness and wisdom. By deepening our receptivity to love and compassion, we discover that compassion and wisdom are intrinsically part of who we are. And as we learn to extend these qualities to others, we realize that we are already and always deeply connected with them, and with the transformative…
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Training in Bodhcitta: Relative and Absolute
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky, Bob Morrison, Lama Liz Monson
Hold the dates. More information forthcoming. For registration information, contact: retreats@wonderwellrefuge.org
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Empowering Access to 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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Accessing Awakened Awareness through Unconditional Love and Compassion
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky
Hold the dates. More information forthcoming. For information, contact: jackdetar@gmail.com
READ MOREEmpowering Access to 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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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
Hold the dates. More information forthcoming. For Information, contact: Carole Kretschman: inheart@tds.net
READ MOREEmpowering Access to Awakened Awareness through Unconditional Love and Compassion
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky, Bob Morrison, Julie Forsythe
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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