Yashobodhi is our guide for this year's Dharma immersion online and at Triratna Centres around the world as part of the 2018 International Practice Week.

Point 2 of the lojong mind training being explored this week as to do with how to practise 'Bodhichitta' (the deep, realised wish for all to attain liberation of heart and mind), introduced in the first of today's three talks. Having already touched on the area of "absolute" Bodhichitta, here Yashobodhi draws out the "relative" aspect of this same work where the focus in on compassion practice – for ourselves and for all beings. This essential insight work is located within the Tonglen ("sending and receiving via the breath") meditation, to which we are also introduced.

Follow and connect with others at the online space for this year's retreat:

thebuddhistcentre.com/international-practice-week

With thanks to West London Buddhist Centre.

Yashobodhi is our guide for this year's Dharma immersion online and at Triratna Centres around the world as part of the 2018 International Practice Week.

Day 3 and point 3 brings us to the great challenge of what to do when things go wrong in life: how to respond in a way that supports greater peace of heart and mind; how to overcome suffering and use its energy for transformative good, particularly by moving away from a strategy of blaming ourselves or others that always fails to set us free.

Follow and connect with others at the online space for this year's retreat:

https://thebuddhistcentre.com/international-practice-week

With thanks to West London Buddhist Centre.

Yashobodhi is our guide for this year's Dharma immersion online and at Triratna Centres around the world as part of the 2018 International Practice Week.

Day 5 revolves around evaluating the mind-training practice we've been engaged in all week. This is essential on any spiritual path, with any kind of method or doctrine, and Yashobodhi provides a clear set of questions to ask ourselves in checking out that the things we're doing are actually helping! The sense of agency and confidence we can gain from owning the practice in this way is a strong alternative for the routine, everyday kind of ego-clinging that can so often hold us back.

Follow and connect with others at the online space for this year's retreat:

https://thebuddhistcentre.com/international-practice-week

With thanks to West London Buddhist Centre.

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world.

To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world.

To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world.

To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world.

To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world.

To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world.

To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world.

To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices