Retreats
We provide information sheets that tell you what to do in each session, so no experience is necessary. Ask someone beforehand to go through them with you if you like.
All retreat sessions are FREE, come to as many as you like.
Although donations are welcome!
If you have any questions about what we do in the sessions or anything else about retreats, just email the Education Programme coordinator at education@atishameditation.co.uk
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Guru Yoga & Mandala
Offerings Retreat
Saturday 31st May - Friday 6th June 2008
Free introductory on 18th May at 7.30 pm
Session times: 7am, 10.30am, 4pm, 7pm
You do not need an empowerment to do this retreat
Guru Yoga is a special method for receiving the blessings of our
Spiritual Guide. Our Spiritual Guide is any Spiritual Teacher who sincerely
leads us into spiritual paths by giving correct instructions. All schools of
Buddhism agree that the practice of Guru Yoga, or relying upon a Spiritual
Guide, is the root of the spiritual path and the foundation of all spiritual
attainments.
The word ‘Mandala’ in this context means ‘universe’. When we offer a
Mandala to the holy beings we are offering everything - the whole universe with
all it’s objects and all the beings who inhabit it. We mentally transform the
whole universe into a Pure Land and imagine that all it’s inhabitants are pure
beings and that all it’s objects are precious substances. We then imagine that
we are offering this pure universe in our hands.
These two practices are very powerful methods for receiving blessings from
all enlightened beings and for accumulating a great stock of merit or positive
mental energy. They will be done in conjunction with the prayers
Offering to
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