Wat Thaton International Meditation Centre

Will you be travelling through Thailand, Summer 2010?
Visit Wat Thaton and the International Meditation Centre where you can practice Vipassana meditation for 7-10 days under the direction of Phra Ratha Panyavudho!
The Wat Thaton International Meditation Centre opens up during the Rainy Season period in Thailand. This coincides with the “Buddhist Lent” season (I think), [...]

The Practice of True Love ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

EXCERPT FROM
“THE PRACTICE OF TRUE LOVE”
DHARMA TALK

given during the recent 21 day retreat in Plum Village
The teaching on love in the Buddhist tradition is very clear, we all need love because love make us happy, if it doesn’t then it is not love.
Love has a lot of meaning, but we had abuse love.
When [...]

Disarmed by Compassion

The heart receives,
the mind separates…
disarmed by compassion
the mind stills
the heart expands
and reaches across
with a smile.
Updated HEART CATALYSTS + OPENING page

Praktis ~ Retreatin’ & Nourishin’ Self

Upcoming Retreats at Deer Park Monastery
in the Great Hidden Mountains of Escondido
1)  Wake Up Young Adults Retreat
Another Way of Being
May 20th-24th, 2009
(for young folks ages 18-35)
http://wkup.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=173%3Ausa-spring-retreat&catid=54%3Aevents&Itemid=50&lang=en
2)  World Beat Sangha Weekend at Deer Park
Last weekend of May 2009 (Memorial Day Weekend)
Join the World Beat Sangha for a weekend retreat to strengthen sangha!
More info to follow.

Praktis ~ “Answers from the Heart” (TNH)

Picked up a copy of “Answers from the Heart” by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press). What a gentle and healing read it has been. I remember Thay sharing once about the praktis of reading dharma texts. Breathe, settle and allow the mind and body to be receptive to the “reading” because this [...]

Refuge: Compassion

Compassion has no limit.
Kindness has no enemy.
Mindfulness, concentration & insight.
What does my refuge of compassion look like, feel like, sound like inside and outside of me?
What about when I speak to Nanay and my voice raises? Where is my compassion to myself and another at that moment?
How about when I am listening [...]

Praktis ~ Bronze Bell Qi Gong

After last weekend’s “retreat” with Le Tian Da Shi and other teachers, beginning to feel an inclination to continue with some of the praktises learned. Incorporating them with what I might already feel comfortable with and setting the intention for opening and closing the praktis session.
Staying in the present moment…
Breathing to Be as the [...]

Tian Gong ~ SD Praktis Group

Link to http://tiangong.org/en/ to check out
MARCH 2009 SOUND HEALING WORKSHOP
AT WORLD BEAT CENTER
If you have a chance to catch the Tian Gong teachers in your area, or a workshop sponsored that you can attend, I highly recommend it. I had a WOW experience at today’s Bronze Bell Qi Gong praktis session. WOW! WOW! [...]

Spring Emerge(N)see

Springtime Equinox at the week’s end…
Welcome, welcome, welcome new season!
Spring
Emerge(N)see
2009
…seeds planted, watered
and slowly
gentle root by gentle bud
bursting
from the ground of manifest reality
Spring
Emerge(N)see
2009
What seeds are you watering?
What intentions have you planted?
What new growth and transformations are you sensing beneath the ground of your being…about to emerge(n)see?
. . . . . . . . . .
Dear Vissuddha [...]

Visshuddha Chakra ~ A Praktis

On Opening, Liberating and Nurturing Visshuddha Chakra
“…as loud as you can, as free as you can, opening as much your throat and all the path of the air through the strength of your diaphragm, from your lungs through your throat, through your mouth and your lips- all wide open, like a gateway for you innerself [...]