Entering the Mandala:

Mindfulness & Imagination Online Retreat

 

Seven days of meditation, creativity and ritual in a spirit of mindfulness and inquiry

Led by Vishvapani and Vidyamala

Friday September 1 – Thursday September 7, 2023

Mindfulness is the ground. Let’s look up at the sky.

Awareness, or mindfulness, is an essential foundation for all spiritual growth. Through knowing experience directly we can transform difficulties and become happier, calmer and more fulfilled. 
But awareness offers much more: it also provides a doorway to other dimensions in the large chamber of our experience. Awareness of the body, heart and mind can blossom into awareness of boundlessness, love and mystery, as Buddhist teachers have taught down the millennia. 
Imagination is a key to this opening. 

When our minds are clear and we’re alive to what’s within us and around us, our imaginations wake up to new possibilities.
Vidyamala and Vishvapani invite you to join an exploration of mindfulness and imagination through talks, meditation, creative activities, discussion and shared ritual, particularly focused on the richly evocative symbol of the mandala.

This Home Retreat is  an opportunity to live for a week with mindfulness, kindness, poetry and creativity, even in the midst of our daily lives.

“Imagine an enormous subterranean chamber all lit up from within. We are living in a tiny chamber next to – indeed, part of – the larger one. We can see nothing at all of what’s going on in the large chamber. In fact, we have no idea that the large chamber is even there.“ Sangharakshita

“If the doors of perception are cleansed, we would see the world as it really is – infinite.”

William Blake 

 

 

Vishvapani

Vishvapani

Vishvapani has practised meditation and Buddhism for over 40 years. He’s a writer, best known for Gautama Buddha: the Life and Teachings of the Awakened One and as the Buddhist contributor to Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4. He’s a prominent figure in the UK’s mindfulness world and has taught over 150 mindfulness courses.

He loves to explore poetry, myth and imagination, along with Buddhism, in his writing, teaching and practice. 

www.mindfulnessinaction.co.uk

 

Vidyamala

Vidyamala

Vidyamala was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order in 1995 and is co-founder of Breathworks, a leading mindfulness organisation and she focuses particularly on using awareness and kindness training to work with pain and illness. This draws on her own experience of managing spinal pain and disability. She is an award-winning author of three books and was awarded an OBE in 2022 for her services to pain management and well-being. She regularly leads retreats and workshops, and speaks at international summits, events and webinars.  
Vidyamala has long had an interest in the creative mind and heart and how to access this through myth, ritual and non-conceptual approaches and looks forward to deepening this even more on this online retreat.

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