Vajraloka Retreats

Retreat Title: Uncontrived Mindfulness

Led by Vajradevi with Tejananda

Sangharakshita says we should be aware of our minds at all times – but how do we do this? And what are the benefits to our practice? How do we really engage with mindfulness in a way that doesn’t feel contrived and ‘added on’, leaving us
feeling stiff and unnatural? How can the profound words of the Buddha in the Satipatthana Sutta inform and wake up our own practice of mindfulness?
During the retreat there will be instructions for working with awareness and right view, and input on aspects of the sutta including all four ‘spheres’ of mindfulness.
The focus will be on how we use mindfulness as a support to vipassana/clear-seeing and the end of suffering. We will look at the role of receptivity in mindfulness and the ‘wise‘ or ‘unwise‘ attention we bring to every aspect of our experience. We will be looking at how continuity of mindfulness can touch and transform our experience through simple presence and intelligent awareness, developing both steadiness of mind and heart and insight into the nature of all things.

This retreat is suitable for people who have been meditating for at least 3 years

Start Date: 19th Jun 2015
End Date: 1st Jul 2015
Price: £480 (Full Price) / £432 (Conc Price)

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