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Refuge Ceremony with Choje Akong Tulku RinpocheRefuge ceremony with Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche.... click for more info |
Start : May 23, 2013 |
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Green Tara Initiation and Practice Instructions with Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche and Gelong ThubtenChoje Akong Tulku Rinpoche will bestow the Green Tara Initiation followed by an afternoon of instruction on the Green Tara sadhana by Gelong Thubten... click for more info |
Start : May 24, 2013 |
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Ven. Abbot Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche's 70th Birthday Celebrations with Lama Yeshe Losal RinpocheEveryone is invited to join us to wish Lama Rinpoche a very happy birthday - this year he celebrates his 70th birthday and also the 33rd anniversary since he was ordained as a Gelong monk by His Holiness the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa... click for more info |
Start : May 25, 2013 |
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White Tara Initiation with Choje Akong Tulku RinpocheAn opportunity to receive the White Tara Initiation from Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche... click for more info |
Start : May 25, 2013 |
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White Tara Practice Instructions with Lama ZangmoAs part of Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche's 70th Birthday celebrations on the 25th of May, Lama Zangmo will give White Tara instructions to all those wishing to learn more about this practice... click for more info |
Start : May 26, 2013 |
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Guru Rinpoche Initiation and Practice Instructions with Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche and Gelong ThubtenChoje Akong Tulku Rinpoche will bestow the Guru Rinpoche Initiation followed by an afternoon of instruction on the Guru Rinpoche sadhana by Gelong Thubten... click for more info |
Start : May 27, 2013 |
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Introduction to Meditation with Clive HolmesThe wonder and colour of everyday experience can be opened up to us by increasing our awareness through meditation. How we go about it will be through breathing exercises and visualisations with the breath... click for more info |
Start : May 31, 2013 |
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Buddhist Compassion, Buddhist Insight with Ken HolmesCompassion (also known as "skilful means") and insight (wisdom) are famous as the two wings of the bird that flies swiftly to enlightenment... click for more info |
Start : June 7, 2013 |
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"Mindful" Gardening with Ross Menzies and Katrina PadmoreA weekend retreat offering the opportunity to garden in a way that will still the mind and bring you fully into the present moment. Ground your spiritual practice in simple, practical activities and deepen your connection with nature... click for more info |
Start : June 7, 2013 |
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Enjoying a Less Solid World with Edie IrwinOur tendency to see things in a certain rather fixed way can blind us to the ever-changing nature of reality - including ourselves. Over this weekend we will look into this further through methods taught within Tara Rokpa by Akong Rinpoche... click for more info |
Start : June 7, 2013 |
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Purely Meditation with Samye Ling SanghaA great way to start the new year with a refreshingly simple weekend of silent sitting meditation at Samye Ling... click for more info |
Start : June 14, 2013 |
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Breathing into the Freedom of Life and Death with David OldhamReflecting on our beliefs, thoughts and feelings about death is an integral part of our lives but is something that is often surrounded by fear and can cause us a lot of suffering... click for more info |
Start : June 14, 2013 |
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Opening the Heart with Razwan Ul-Haq and Angie BallJoin Buddhist and Sufi practitioners Angie Ball and Razwan Ul-Haq in another inspirational and creative weekend. A mutual journey whose beginning and end resides in the heart of loving kindness and compassion... click for more info |
Start : June 14, 2013 |
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Plant Spirit Medicine with Ross Menzies and Katrina PadmorePlants have always been revered for their healing properties. In many cultures (and historically in our own), healers have had very close relationships with their healing plants and have often described having a communication with them as part of a healing process... click for more info |
Start : June 14, 2013 |
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Towards Understanding Wisdom and Compassion in Buddhism - Part 1 with Clive HolmesThe aim of this course is to learn through experience, three central teachings in Mahayana Buddhism to understand its general message. These three teachings are the Four Infinite Meditations, the Six Paramitas or Pathways to Liberation and Tong Len from the Seven Points of Mind Training... click for more info |
Start : June 21, 2013 |
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Compassion One Year Training - Module Two with Mindfulness Association LtdWe are re-running this successful and comprehensive training in compassion which is a follow on programme for those who have completed the one year mindfulness training... click for more info |
Start : June 21, 2013 |
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Tree Maintenance Weekend with Clare Carr-SaundersAn opportunity to make a lasting difference to Samye Ling by planting trees as part of our woodlands project... click for more info |
Start : June 22, 2013 |
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Certificate in Qigong Part Five with Bob LoweyTHIS COURSE IS ONLY OPEN TO THOSE WHO HAVE COMPLETED THE FIRST YEAR TRAINING... click for more info |
Start : June 28, 2013 |
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Sacred Words of Power with Ani SemchiMany of the sadhanas we practice include visualisation and recitation of mantras and sacred seed syllables. This weekend course will cover three aspects, all aimed at deepening our understanding of the syllables and helping us to develop the ability to visualise... click for more info |
Start : June 28, 2013 |
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Mindfulness Teaching Skills Module Two with Mindfulness Association LtdThis teaching skills module is the second of two modules and this second module is only open to those who have completed the first module (15 to 17 March 2013) or who completed the first module last year in 2011... click for more info |
Start : July 5, 2013 |
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Learning to Fly with Hanna CasementThis yoga workshop will continue working on the theme of flowing from within, but we will approach our yoga practice as if we were learning to fly - as in learning to let go of mind patterns that make us feel it is all hard work, and moving towards the place where our practice could become effortless and flowing... click for more info |
Start : July 5, 2013 |
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Training in the Three Levels of Commitments with Drupon RinpocheThe main reason for giving these Dharma teachings is that whatever vows we have taken, from the vows of a lay Buddhist (Genyen/Upasaka) who has refuge up to the vows of the Secret Mantra Vajrayana, it is obvious that we must know what is to be upheld in each case... click for more info |
Start : July 8, 2013 |
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Mindfulness One Year Training - Module One with Mindfulness Association LtdWe are rerunning the very successful one year mindfulness programme, which is a comprehensive training in mindfulness that is suitable for beginners and for those who already have a mindfulness practice... click for more info |
Start : July 12, 2013 |
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Awakening our Potential of Mindfulness and Kindness with Clive HolmesWe may have all the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle but we need to be able to fit them together skilfully to create a complete and harmonious picture. This retreat will explore how mindfulness, compassion and self-compassion, wisdom and insight can all fit together... click for more info |
Start : July 13, 2013 |
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Meditation Practice Retreat with Drupon RinpocheThis retreat will follow a full retreat schedule which will include both teachings & meditation practice. Drupon Rinpoche will attend all practice sessions and will also give instructions on Shinnay meditation and mind training (lojong)... click for more info |
Start : July 26, 2013 |
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Guru Rinpoche Drubcho with Samye Ling SanghaDedicated to world peace and especially to the activities of His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, everyone is welcome to come and join us in the Temple for these joyous and meaningful prayers... click for more info |
Start : August 5, 2013 |
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Tea Party and Open Day with Samye Ling SanghaWe extend a warm welcome to you to attend our annual Tea Party and Open Day... click for more info |
Start : August 11, 2013 |
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Shedra Studies Course - "Profound Inner Meaning" by the 3rd Gyalwang Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje with Drupon RinpocheThe fifth part of Drupon Rinpoche's six year Shedra Studies Course, this course is open only to students who have either:completed all the four previous parts or a three or four year retreat or are definitely committed to doing a 4 year retreat in future. This year Drupon Rinpoche will teach from the 'Profound Inner Meaning' by the 3rd Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje... click for more info |
Start : August 12, 2013 |
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Compassion One Year Training - Module Three with Mindfulness Association LtdWe are re-running this successful and comprehensive training in compassion which is a follow on programme for those who have completed the one year mindfulness training... click for more info |
Start : August 16, 2013 |
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Towards Understanding Wisdom and Compassion in Buddhism - Part 2 with Clive HolmesPart Two of a three part course in which we will learn through experience, three central teachings in Mahayana Buddhism to understand its general message. These three teachings are the Four Infinite Meditations, the Six Paramitas or Pathways to Liberation and Tong Len from the Seven Points of Mind Training... click for more info |
Start : August 16, 2013 |
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Introduction to Buddhism with Clive HolmesWe live in a very challenging age of widespread insecurity. Many of us are searching for the kind of guidance that Buddhism can reveal. Buddhism has what we need and has been helping people for over two and a half millennia. Through the practise of wisdom and compassion we can come to realise our own inner wealth and potential... click for more info |
Start : August 23, 2013 |
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Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep - Module One with Mindfulness Association LtdWe sleep for a third of our lives. Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep allows us to make use of that time and gives us the tools to train our minds, reprogram our habits and to enter into a friendship with every aspect of our psyches, all while we're sound asleep... click for more info |
Start : August 30, 2013 |
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Purely Meditation with Samye Ling SanghaA refreshingly simple weekend of silent sitting meditation at Samye Ling... click for more info |
Start : September 13, 2013 |
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Bringing Yoga into Focus with Hanna CasementFor this workshop we will be concentrating on the focus of our Yoga practice: why we practice, how we practice and the ways we need to develop our practice... click for more info |
Start : September 13, 2013 |
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Creating the Conditions for Insight Training - Module Two with Mindfulness Association LtdThis course follows on from our Compassion One Year Trainings and particiants should have completed the Compassion training before joining this training... click for more info |
Start : September 13, 2013 |
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Medical Qigong - Part Two with Bob LoweyAn opportunity for everyone interested in Traditional Chinese Medicine and the health maintaining exercises involved in Qigong, this is the second part of a two-weekend course... click for more info |
Start : September 27, 2013 |
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Towards Understanding Wisdom and Compassion in Buddhism - Part 3 with Clive HolmesFinal part of a three part course in which we will learn through experience, three central teachings in Mahayana Buddhism to understand its general message. These three teachings are the Four Infinite Meditations, the Six Paramitas or Pathways to Liberation and Tong Len from the Seven Points of Mind Training... click for more info |
Start : September 27, 2013 |
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Reducing Stress Through Wisdom and Compassion with Clive HolmesThe approach this weekend will be based on there being two kinds of suffering - one is the primary suffering that is inevitable and the other secondary one that is our reactive mind that can make everything much worse. Pain x resistance = suffering or stress... click for more info |
Start : October 4, 2013 |
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Explore your Tiger with Annie Dibble'Taming the Tiger' is a book that transmits the essence of the teachings of the Venerable Akong Rinpoche on mindfulness and compassion with the emphasis on deepening one's understanding of the mind. It provides the basis for the Tara Rokpa Therapy process as originally taught by him... click for more info |
Start : October 4, 2013 |
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Compassion One Year Training - Module Four with Mindfulness Association LtdWe are re-running this successful and comprehensive training in compassion which is a follow on programme for those who have completed the one year mindfulness training... click for more info |
Start : October 11, 2013 |
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Meditation Retreat with Lama ZangmoThere are many different methods of meditation but in this retreat we will focus primarily on the fundamental ingredients of all types of meditation that we need to learn to identify and train in; mental qualities like renunciation, mindfulness, relaxation, joy, compassion and faith... click for more info |
Start : October 12, 2013 |
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Mindfulness One Year Training - Module Two with Mindfulness Association LtdWe are rerunning the very successful one year mindfulness programme, which is a comprehensive training in mindfulness that is suitable for beginners and for those who already have a mindfulness practice... click for more info |
Start : October 18, 2013 |
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Creating the Conditions for Insight Training - Module Three with Mindfulness Association LtdThis course follows on from our Compassion One Year Trainings and particiants should have completed the Compassion training before joining this training... click for more info |
Start : October 25, 2013 |
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The Four Preliminary Foundations - Part Two with Ani Rinchen KhandroThe Four Preliminary Foundations, or Four Ways of Changing the Mind, are the essential topics for contemplation which form the basis of the Buddhist view... click for more info |
Start : October 25, 2013 |
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Certificate in Qigong Part Six with Bob LoweyTHIS COURSE IS ONLY OPEN TO THOSE WHO HAVE COMPLETED THE FIRST YEAR TRAINING... click for more info |
Start : November 1, 2013 |
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November Mindfulness Practice Retreat Weekend - Deepening Loving Kindness with Mindfulness Association LtdDuring this practice weekend, led by Angie Ball, we will revisit some of the material contained in both the Mindfulness and Compassion Courses as taught through the Mindfulness Association... click for more info |
Start : November 1, 2013 |
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Vajrayana Deity Practice with Gelong ThubtenThis course will provide valuable information on the philosophy behind Tibetan Buddhist deity practices and mantra recitation... click for more info |
Start : November 1, 2013 |
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Yoga for Meditation with Johnny GloverWith the use of traditional yoga practices from the Bihar School of Yoga this weekend offers practical support and encouragement to those who wish to develop a regular meditation practice... click for more info |
Start : November 8, 2013 |
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Purely Meditation with Samye Ling SanghaA refreshingly simple weekend of silent sitting meditation at Samye Ling... click for more info |
Start : November 15, 2013 |
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Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep - Module Two with Mindfulness Association LtdWe sleep for a third of our lives. Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep allows us to make use of that time and gives us the tools to train our minds, reprogram our habits and to enter into a friendship with every aspect of our psyches, all while we're sound asleep... click for more info |
Start : November 15, 2013 |
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Yoga - the Practice of Moving into Stillness with Hanna CasementThis workshop takes a deeper look at yoga as a practice of focussing the mind and preparing the body for meditation.... click for more info |
Start : November 22, 2013 |
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Making Friends with Stress with Gelong ThubtenGelong Thubten will explain how meditation, mindfulness and the development of compassion can transform life's stressful situations into food for spiritual growth... click for more info |
Start : November 22, 2013 |
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Mindfulness One Year Training - Module Three with Mindfulness Association LtdWe are rerunning the very successful one year mindfulness programme, which is a comprehensive training in mindfulness that is suitable for beginners and for those who already have a mindfulness practice... click for more info |
Start : November 29, 2013 |
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Chenrezig Practice Weekend with Samye Ling SanghaThis weekend offers an opportunity for those who are familiar with the Chenrezig prayers and wish to deepen their practice... click for more info |
Start : December 6, 2013 |
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Establishing a Regular Practice of Meditation with Clive HolmesMany people want to meditate and relax but good intentions often falter. It is all very well to talk about the benefits of meditation but unless we actually do it, it is like counting other people's money and calling it our own... click for more info |
Start : December 13, 2013 |
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Christmas Retreat - How Bodhisattvas Transform Emotions with Ken and Katia HolmesThis year's retreat will focus on very practical advice for both living and dying in the peaceful, ethical and compassionate way of the bodhisattva... click for more info |
Start : December 24, 2013 |
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New Year Retreat - How Bodhisattvas Face Change & Death with Ken and Katia HolmesThis year's retreat will focus on very practical advice for both living and dying in the peaceful, ethical and compassionate way of the bodhisattva. This special New Years' module on will teach us how to deal with change and the Mind Training preparation for death... click for more info |
Start : December 30, 2013 |
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Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep - Module Three with Mindfulness Association LtdWe sleep for a third of our lives. Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep allows us to make use of that time and gives us the tools to train our minds, reprogram our habits and to enter into a friendship with every aspect of our psyches, all while we're sound asleep... click for more info |
Start : January 24, 2014 |
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Spring Tree Planting Weekend with Clare Carr-SaundersAn opportunity to make a lasting difference to Samye Ling by planting trees as part of our woodlands project... click for more info |
Start : April 12, 2014 |
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Spring Tree Planting Weekend with Clare Carr-SaundersAn opportunity to make a lasting difference to Samye Ling by planting trees as part of our woodlands project... click for more info |
Start : April 26, 2014 |
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Spring Tree Planting Weekend with Clare Carr-SaundersAn opportunity to make a lasting difference to Samye Ling by planting trees as part of our woodlands project... click for more info |
Start : May 10, 2014 |