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Retreat Dharma Talks

Awakening in the World (3) : Awakening into the Web of Life (online)

Awakening into the Web of Life

“We are not just humans learning to become Buddhas, but also Buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.” John Welwood

During this spacious weekend of practice, alongside our silent meditation practice, we explore the relational dimensions of Dharma practice, discovering how communication and interaction with others is also a core part of the vehicle of awakening, perhaps more so in these individualised times.

This weekend is grounded in the Buddha’s teaching on ‘conditionality’, shining a light on interrelationships in our own intimate experience and silent practice, before expanding this exploration out into formal speaking and listening practice with each other in 2’s or 3’s. Making use of tenets from the Insight Dialogue framework [LINK] and another modern approach, we can discover how the process of awakening can infuse our relational interactions.

In understanding what arises for us relationally, we can start to see and embrace life more as a dance of interdependent relationships, that we awaken within rather than awaken out of.

In line with the emphasis for this weekend, if you have a particular formal sitting practice that you do, you are welcome to include this during the weekend, with much of the time open for self-led practice.

This weekend retreat is the third in a series of four weekends in 2024. The weekends can be attended individually, or together as a set of supports running across the year. There may also be the opportunity to attend in between group sessions, or 1-1 meetings, to support your practice in daily life. The dates for other weekends in the series are:

• Friday 19th – Sunday 21st April 2024
• Friday 21st – Sunday 23rd June 2024
• Friday 22nd – 24th November 2024

2024-09-27 (3 days) Gaia House

  
2024-09-27 Opening Session - The View of the Web of Life - Wide and Particular. 41:38
Gavin Milne
2024-09-28 Instructions & Guided Meditation - Penetrating the Root of the Bind 1:18:06
Gavin Milne
Bringing awareness to the 6 senses, contact and feeling tone. Breathing as exemplar of the interdependent web. Opening to the 6 senses and let sense off the cushion. Continuity of practice.
2024-09-28 Relational Practice Instructions 1 - Insight Dialogue 22:36
Gavin Milne
The step of pause, the step of relax, and exploring what is happening right now.
2024-09-28 Dharma Talk - Illuminating the Vortex of Self Within the Ocean of Life 56:25
Gavin Milne
Talk, followed by inquiry - plunging into your part of the ocean.
2024-09-29 Instructions & Guided Meditation - Releasing into the Web of Life 1:13:09
Gavin Milne
The double helix of disentangling, and opening to - noticing qualities of depth, as we release the bind. Normalising Papanca.
2024-09-29 Relational Practice 2 - Insight Dialogue 23:01
Gavin Milne
Mindfulness inside and outside, the step of open, and relationship as the object.
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