Daring to be Genuine - Meditation Retreat

“In a speedy and aggressive culture, we need different principles to live by—bravery and insight. The first moment of bravery is building trust in the mind, which we do in meditation. When we know how to create peace in our own mind, we can transform the world.” —Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Meditation retreat with teachings about the timely vision of Saykong Mipham, the leader of the Shambhala Buddhist Tradition and author of the bestsellers "Ruling your World" and "Turning the Mind into an Ally".
Learn meditation, deepen your practice and learn about confidence and courage in everyday life. The programme is suitable for both, beginners as advanced meditators.
 
The retreat will include meditation instruction, practice, talks, guided contemplation, discussion, and individual meditation interviews with an instructor. During the programme you will have enough time to go for outside walks, relax and read.
All participants are asked to join in community work for about 1 hour per day.
You find more information about Barbara Märtens in the teacher section (About us) on this website.
 
This unique programme will contain elements of Maitri Space Awareness practice.
About Maitri:
Cultivating genuine contact with our emotions through working with their underlying energies Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism points out ways to welcome our emotions as useful resources on the spiritual path rather than rejecting them as uncontrollable troublemakers, again and again disturbing our spiritual practice and development. Emotions embody our wisdom and provide the energy for compassionate communication with the world.The ancient teachings of the five Buddha families explain our world as a display of five different expressions of wisdom. Seasons, elements, forms, emotions, thoughts, sciences, arts, colours - in short all aspects of our inner and outer experiences are regarded as an expression of the interplay and potential of these five archetypical forces. Dependent on the attitude we take towards our experience, these traditional Vajrayana teachings guide us on how – each moment anew - our emotional neurosis can be recognized and transformed into awakened insight.The Tibetan mediation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche was a genius in explaining the teaching of Tibetan Buddhism to our western mind. He developed new ways to understand the essence of these teachings, for example in 1971, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche created the maitri space awareness practice, a meditation practice using five postures and five colours to evoke these five basic energies so that we could learn to befriend emotions and ultimately develop unconditional love for ourselves and others. On the basis of this experience we are able to approach our daily life in a more playful and open manner; we are able to step beyond our habituated emotional patterns and glimpse that we don’t have to exclude any aspect of our being in order to discover our true potential as compassionate, awake and utterly alive human beings.