TaraNet: October 28, 2008
• This Saturday, Open Meditation Group: The Four Immeasurables
• This Sunday, Lama Tsultrim at Pagosa UU Church: Feeding Your Demons
• This Monday, Lama Tsultrim in Durango: Feeding Your Demons
• Daylong Retreat with Lama Tsultrim in Durango Nov. 15
• New Feeding Your Demons Weekend Retreat: Portland
• New Openings for Retreat Cabins
Open Meditation Group:
Loving Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity
Saturdays, 10am - noon, beginning November 1st
with Julia Jean, PhD.
Join us to develop the meditations on the Four Immeasurables. These heart-opening practices include the cultivation of equanimity, loving-kindness, compassion, and sympathetic joy.
Along with these uplifting teachings, we will learn the associated meditation techniques including tonglen, or sending and receiving.
This five week group will meet at Tara Mandala Saturdays from 10am to 12pm, November 1 – December 13, excluding Nov. 29.
Public Dharma Talks with Lama Tsultrim Allione
Feeding Your Demons: Transforming Obstacles Into Wisdom
November 2nd: 2pm, Unitarian Universalist Church, Pagosa Springs
November 3rd: 5:30pm, Durango Dharma Center, Durango
Within the ancient teachings of Tibetan Buddhism lies a method for facing – and dissolving – our fears, illnesses and emotional stumbling blocks. Lama Tsultrim Allione will present a practical application of a revolutionary, loving approach developed by a legendary Tibetan yogini, Machig Labdrön, almost 1,000 years ago. She will lead an experiential 5-step process that can help you meet and release what the Tibetans call 'demons' – the longings, fears, obsessions, illnesses and attachments we battle every day.
Day-long Retreat
with Lama Tsultrim Allione
Feeding Your Demons: Transforming Obstacles Into Wisdom
November 15th, 10am - 4pm: Durango Dharma Center
Are you wrestling with your demons? Struggling with depression, anxiety, illness, an eating disorder, a difficult relationship, fear, self-hatred, addiction, or anger? Renowned American Buddhist leader Lama Tsultrim Allione will show how the harder we fight our demons, the stronger they become. If we want to liberate ourselves from the fight once and for all, we must reverse our approach and nurture our demons. In Feeding Your Demons, Allione teaches a Western adaptation of the revolutionary wisdom of Tibet's greatest woman adept, Machig Labdrön, providing a powerful method for coping with the inner enemies that undermine your best intentions.
December 5-7: Feeding Your Demons and Prajna Paramita:
Turning Obstacles Into Wisdom
with Pieter Oosthuizen and Charlotte Rotterdam
Portland, OR
This retreat offers an introduction to the process of Feeding your Demons, a powerful and profound method for working with rather than fighting against the obstacles, conflicts, and challenges of our life. By meeting our fears and obsessions, and offering them what they want, we allow them to transform into allies. Drawing on traditional practices and teachings of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, this process was developed by Lama Tsultrim Allione, a Western Buddhist teacher and author of Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict. The retreat also introduces a Prajna Paramita meditation practice which invites us to awaken to the ultimate nature of mind and reality. The practice offers a spacious view to hold the deep personal work of Feeding your Demons.
The weekend will include teachings, meditation, discussion, and practice in the actual process of Feeding your Demons so that it may become of use to you on a daily basis. No previous experience or knowledge of Buddhism or meditation is necessary. All are welcome.
Remember also with Pieter and Charlotte:
Telluride Weekend Retreat, November 7-9: Feeding Your Demons
Ratna Retreat Cabin Open Most of November
Ratna Cabin is available for private retreat during the month of November, excluding the week of Nov. 17th, and through Dec. 5. Ratna is our largest and most remote cabin, and faces south into the 'secret valley'. The spaciousness of the view is matched with the roominess of the interior of the cabin. It offers unparalleled silence and solitude, far removed from the world, including vast views of Chimney Rock and the La Plata mountains. Tara Mandala retreat cabins provide a rare and precious opportunity to be completely secluded in a remote mountain setting.
Download a cabin handbook for complete information.
Find out date availability and request a reservation form here.