ONLINE - True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante | Taraloka | Buddhist Retreat Centre For Women

Monday, February 22, 2021 to Sunday, February 28, 2021

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‘The awakening of faith in Shin Buddhism is a moment of pure egolessness…. Faith of this kind is not faith in the current sense of the term, but the emotional counterpart of wisdom.’

- Sangharakshita, A Survey of Buddhism

Can faith be a complete path to Awakening? What happens in our heart-minds when we take devotion as the main orientation of our practice-lives? With meditative mornings, study afternoons and devotional evenings, we’ll explore what Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante have to say to us around receptivity and devotion, failure and forgiveness, surrender and entrusting.

*Groups are now full but places are still available to participate in the rest of the retreat. If you would like a group space if one becomes available please email the office to go on a waiting list.*

Suitable for Order Members and experienced mitras training for ordination who have completed 'The Mythic Context', 'Bodhisattva Path' and 'Transcendental Principle' retreats at Tiratanaloka.

Retreat starts at 10.30am on Mon 22 and closes at 5.30pm on Sun 28 February

With his radical teaching of entrusting to Other Power, Shinran explored the path of faith to its fullest extent in thirteenth century Japan. He overturns conventional tenets of Buddhism – and blows wide open our assumptions about how to live the Dharma life. Yet he is simply drawing out and taking to their furthest limits some essential teachings of the Buddha, and, later, Bhante.

‘Just as light and heat are constantly coming from the sun, in the same way adhisthana is constantly coming from the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. It's only a question of making oneself receptive to that.’

- Sangharakshita, seminar on Vimalakirti Nirdesa

Retreat programme:

10.30 - 12.30am Morning session

3.30 - 5.30pm Afternoon session

7.45 - 8.45pm Evening session

All times GMT.

Discussion groups will be held daily, as part of the afternoon session (exact length not yet decided!!) You will need to commit to attending all the group sessions to join a group.

Morning and afternoon sessions will be recorded and available for catch up on YouTube if a session is missed during the retreat.

Suggested donation: £175 waged / £60 unwaged

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