The Thinking That Stills Thinking: A Half-Day Online Retreat with Bodhipaksa

Name: The Thinking That Stills Thinking: A Half-Day Online Retreat with Bodhipaksa
Start: 2024-04-13T09:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-04-13T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Online

The Thinking That Stills Thinking:
Half-Day Online Retreat with Bodhipaksa

Saturday, April 13
9:30 am – 12:00 pm (Eastern)

Often our deepest meditations are guided ones. It helps to have someone on hand to interrupt our mind-wandering and to bring us back gently into the present moment, over and over. A skilled guide can also introduce us to new meditation skills and remind us to tap into skills we’d forgotten we knew.

Experiences of meditating on our own might sometimes seem foggy and meandering in comparison. One thing that can make an enormous difference to our meditation practice is to learn to be our own sources of guidance.

In recent years I’ve encouraged my meditation students to use self-talk to lead themselves toward calmness, clarity, and love. That’s what we’ll be exploring on this half-day workshop.

As meditation practitioners we’ll learn to be both teacher and student simultaneously. We’ll learn how to be a wise and kind spiritual friend to ourselves — so that we’re present, responsive, kind, and helpful toward ourselves as we go through the process of settling more deeply into our own experience.

And we’ll learn to be receptive to what’s most wholesome within us, allowing it in, trusting it, and allowing ourselves to be guided by our own inner wisdom.

Retreat format: Short talks, guided meditations, and some self-guided (unguided) meditations.

Bodhipaksa was born Graeme Stephen in Scotland and currently lives and teaches in New Hampshire. He is a Buddhist teacher and author who has been practicing within the Triratna Buddhist Community since 1982 and who has been a member of the Triratna Buddhist Order since 1993.

He holds a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Glasgow (1984) and a Master’s Degree in Buddhism and business from the University of Montana.

Bodhipaksa runs the online meditation center Wildmind to promote awareness of the positive effects of meditation.

Listen to Bodhipaksa’s talks HERE>>
Read Bodhipaksa’s articles HERE>>
Find Bodhipaksa’s website HERE>>

Registration and Dana

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