Guru Yoga and Mandala Offering Retreat
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Venue | Compassion Kadampa Meditation Centre, 2 Station Rd, South Gosforth NE3 1QD.
Guru Yoga and Mandala Offering retreat combines two of the four great preliminary guides that we need to practice if we want to gain Mahamudra realisations – the quick path to Enlightenment.
We all wish for spiritual realisations, but these depend upon creating certain inner conditions such as purifying negativity, accumulating merit, and receiving blessings.
In this retreat we focus on the preliminary practices of accumulating merit and receiving blessings. Making mandala offerings is the gateway to accumulating the collection of merit and attaining an enlightened Pure Land and Guru Yoga is the gateway to receiving powerful blessings of all the Buddhas of the ten directions through our Spiritual Guide.
Monday – 6th April
09:00 – 10:00 | Our Precious Human Life
11:00 – 12:00 | Death & Impermanence
17:00 – 18:15 | Dangers of Lower Rebirth & Refuge (with HJ)
19:00 – 20:00 | Actions and their Effects
Tuesday – 7th April
09:00 – 10:00 | Developing Renunciation – birth, ageing, sickness and death
11:00 – 12:00 | Developing Renunciation – remaining three
17:00 – 18:15 | Developing Renunciation – all 7 (with HJ)
19:00 – 20:00 | Developing Renunciation – all 7
Wednesday – 8th April
09:00 – 10:00 | Developing Equanimity
11:00 – 12:00 | Recognizing all living beings are our mothers
17:00 – 18:15 | Remembering the kindness of living beings (with HJ)
19:00 – 20:00 | Equalising self and others
Thursday – 9th April
09:00 – 10:00 | The disadvantages of self-cherishing
11:00 – 12:00 | The advantages of cherishing others
17:00 – 18:15 | Exchanging self with others (with HJ)
19:00 – 20:00 | Great Compassion
Friday- 10th April
09:00 – 10:00 | Taking
11:00 – 12:00 | Wishing love & Giving
17:00 – 18:30 | Offering to the Spiritual Guide
19:00 – 20:00 | Bodhichitta
Saturday – 11th April
10:00 – 11:00 | Tranquil Abiding on Bodhichitta
12:00 – 13:00 | Tranquil Abiding on Bodhichitta
14:00 – 15:00 | Tranquil Abiding on Bodhichitta
16:00 – 17:15 | Heart Jewel Prayers
Sunday – 12th April
The retreat concludes with a one day retreat ‘A Glimpse into Reality – Meditations on Emptiness’ taught and guided by our Resident Teacher Gen Norden
Cost
£30 | Full retreat, Non-member (*cost includes the one day retreat ‘A Glimpse into Reality - Meditations on Emptiness’ taught and guided by our Resident Teacher Gen Norden)
£8 | Per day, Non-member
£3 | Per session, Non-member
Free | Member
