Loving Kindness and Compassion – Connecting with your Basic Goodness
Join us for a three-day online retreat! Whether you are new to Buddhism or meditation, or you are a seasoned practitioner, this retreat will give you a chance to focus on teachings and practices around loving kindness and compassion that are so essential to inner health and spiritual growth.
From January 8 until 10th of January 2021, we will offer an online retreat dedicated to the loving kindness and compassion from the treasure teachings used in the Tara’s Triple Excellence online program. This three-day retreat will be skillfully guided by Lama Tenzin Sangpo, a senior lama and chant master from Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery in Kathmandu. Lama Tenzin has spent the last decade travelling the world and teaching Tara’s Triple Excellence to audiences on four continents.
During two facilitated live sessions, one on Saturday and one on Sunday (English only), participants will have the opportunity to connect and collectively prepare questions their group wishes to ask Lama Tenzin during the Q&A.
This retreat will be offered in English, Russian and Spanish.
Registration: Dec 20 to Jan 15, 2021
Access to retreat and videos: Jan 8 to Jan 17, 2021
During the first session of the retreat, we will learn more about the Tara’s Triple Excellence path in general and, specifically, the preliminary practices that accompany each session. In the second session, we will develop a deeper understanding of the profound meaning of loving kindness and compassion. We will devote the remaining eight sessions that follow to meditation practices that expand our own capacity for loving kindness and compassion. Throughout the retreat, there will also be two zoom sessions offered for participants to ask questions to Lama Tenzin Sangpo.
Please see the schedule below for a complete listing of videos and zoom sessions.
Registration:
In order to access the teachings, all participants must already be registered at www.DharmaSun.org Registration to DharmaSun is free.
Registration for the retreat will remain open through Friday, January 15, 2021.
The suggested donation amount for this retreat is: $48 USD
Suggested Schedule
All teaching sessions below will be videos you can watch on your own time. “Q&A Live Zoom Sessions” are listed using Central European Time. Click here to convert to your own timezone.
Fri. January 8 | |
4:00-5:00 pm | Retreat and introduction and preliminaries |
5:00-6:00 pm CET | Live introductory remarks Q&A with Heidi Koppl |
6:00-7:00 pm | Dinner break |
7:00-8:00 pm | Introduction to loving kindness and compassion |
Sat. January 9 | |
8:30-9:30 am | Meditation on loving kindness to ourselves and to motherly benefactors |
9:30-10:30 am | Breakfast break |
10:30-11:30 am | Meditation on loving kindness for those who are close to us |
11:30 am to 1:00 pm | Lunch Break |
1:00-2:00 pm | Meditation on loving kindness to strangers |
2:00 to 2:30 pm | Break |
2:30-3:30 pm CET | Connections: live, facilitated group zoom session (English only) |
3:30-4:00 pm | Break |
4:00-5:00 pm CET | Q&A Live zoom session |
5:00-5:30 pm | Open space on zoom for participant discussion (same zoom room as Q&A) |
5:30 - 7:00 pm | Dinner Break |
7:00-8:00 pm | Meditation on loving kindness to enemies and toward all sentient beings |
Sun. January 10 | |
8:30-9:30 am | Meditation on compassion to ourselves |
9:30-10:30 am | Breakfast break |
10:30-11:30 am | Meditation on compassion toward motherly benefactors and friends |
11:30 am-1:00 pm | Lunch Break |
1:00-2:00 pm | Meditation on compassion toward strangers |
2:00-2:30 pm | Break |
2:30-3:30 pm CET | Connections: live, facilitated group zoom session (English only) |
3:30-4:00 pm | Break |
4:00-5:00 pm CET | Q&A Live zoom session |
5:00-5:30 pm | Open space on zoom for participant discussion (same zoom room as Q&A) |
5:30-6:00 pm | Break |
6:00-7:00 pm | Meditation on compassion toward enemies and all sentient beings; retreat farewell. |