Many Worlds, One Mind: Exploring Buddhist Cosmology as Inner Landscape
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Admission
- Free - Dana
- $80.00 - Base Cost
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Description
Many Worlds, One Mind:
Exploring Buddhist Cosmology as Inner Landscape
A Non-Residential Weekend Retreat with Anushka Fernandopulle
Bodhi Tree Dharma Center, 654 N Judd St, Honolulu, HI 96817
This retreat explores Buddhist cosmology by focusing on the traditional realms of existence and their direct relevance to lived human experience. Rather than approaching cosmology as a distant or mythic worldview, we will explore the realms as powerful metaphors for mind states that arise moment to moment in our own lives—such as anger, craving, confusion, contentment, jealousy, and equanimity. We will also examine how these mind states condition our actions and shape future experience.
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Emphasizing compassion and mindfulness, the retreat supports participants in recognizing these inner realms and cultivating wisdom and freedom amidst constantly changing worlds. Suitable for both beginners and experienced Dharma practitioners, the retreat also will deepen the understanding of the human realm as a unique opportunity for awareness, ethical choice, and awakening. We will be practicing mostly in silence through sitting meditation, walking meditation, eating mindfully. There will be guided meditation and time for questions and interaction with the teacher.
Anushka Fernandopulle has trained in the Theravada Buddhist tradition in the US, India and Sri Lanka for over 35 years. She is a Core Teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California and teaches Insight Meditation retreats and workshops around the world. Her teaching is informed by arts, nature, social justice and modern urban life. For more info, please see www.anushkaf.org
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Dana
In accordance with tradition, all Vipassana Hawai’i internationally respected teachers offer their teachings free of charge and are supported through the freely-offered generosity of students and supporters. Costs associated with retreats cover the growing expenses associated with online services, online storage, broadcasting equipment, and website administration - but do not support teacher time, training, effort, or energy. We believe that this commitment helps keep the purity of the teachings alive and thriving, as it has for millennia. They do not collect salaries in keeping with the time-honored tradition of sharing openly the chance for peace. This allows us to keep our registration fees as low as possible but also means that the livelihood of our teachers is precarious. As a result, we strive to give back in any for - including monetarily - so that they may continue their endeavors and share their wisdom. Vipassana Teachers must be supported in this way if we are to keep this tradition alive, healthy, and with integrity in the modern era. Dana, or generosity, can be offered by cash or check at the end of the retreat or online here.
Any additional income generated by registration fees, after covering program expenses, will be shared between Bodhi Tree and Vipassana Hawaii.
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Bodhi Tree Dharma Center
The Bodhi Tree Dharma Center is spiritual center offering meditative practices from a variety of traditions. Our vision is to make the practice of meditation openly available to those in society most in need; to develop and deepen the capacity for unconditional, selfless dedication to the service of others; and to exercise innovation and creativity in the application of Mindfulness to healing, the arts and daily living.
The Center also serves as a spiritual, educational and social gathering place for Vietnamese, Burmese and Thai residents. These communities hold their ceremonies and host visiting monks at the Center. Classes in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Non Violent Communication are offered along with Vipassana and Tibetan forms of meditation for our English speaking community.
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