Events at The Orchard
Chenrezig - Compassionate involvement
9th (eve) - 12th (4pm) June Cost: £ 125
Chenrezig means “continuously all seeing”. Kuan Yin, the Chinese deity of compassion, “deeply listens to all the cries of the world”. Compassion is the openness of the heart towards all beings without exception.
This weekend is a time of meditation, bowing and moving in the spaciousness of the heart-mind of compassion.
We can say that for a practitioner on the spiritual path the many levels of realisation that are gained and the progress made are all dependent upon cooperation and interaction with other sentient beings.
To help us to apply this practice in our daily inter-being with other beings we will explore the “Eight verses that transform the Mind” (Lojong) as our guidance and support for how to apply compassion in our daily existence of inter-dependence.
Meditating on Chenrezig will nurture in us the strength on our path to become truly compassionately involved in the world.
Booking: by sending a non-refundable deposit of £50 (cheques to be made payable to Ad Brugman)
Costs includes accommodation and course fee. Participants need to bring food to share and dana for the teacher
Dana reflects
the value you place on the teaching,
the joy of giving and what is realistic for you.
Each participant arrives at the amount voluntarily.
Dana is a Pali word meaning: “liberality,
generosity, offering” and is the first of the “Six Paramis” , ”the
virtues that helps us go further”. Dana is the antidote to holding
on and egoism or self-referencing. The Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche stressed this
first virtue as most important if one wants to make genuine changes in one’s
life. To turn one’s mind to the welfare of others through offering,
giving, brings about a loosening of self-referencing, of “I, Me and
Mine”. It is the opposite of the attitude of poverty, where one sees
the world in terms of lacks rather than offerings.
So, I invite you to join in this practice of spontaneous offering and opening,
of trusting that as we freely give, so in turn we are nurtured.
BURSARIES
Bursaries from The Orchard Sangha Bursary Funds can be obtained to cover part of the course fees for any retreat either with Sonia or Ad at The Orchard.
Enquiries, contact Gini at gini_wade@lineone.