April 2011 Blog Posts (2)

Plans for my solitaty retreat

I’m off soon on a 2 week solitary retreat up to Easter in the Abhaya hut.  I have done solitary retreats before, but none longer than a week, so I am looking forward for a 2 week one and I have been making some plans.

The main thing I am planning is more meditation.  I will try to develop and maintain mindfulness during the whole day, and watch how my mental states change.  On a solitary my mind can become much quieter and totally different from what it is usually like.  But of course…

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Added by Donald Woolford on April 9, 2011 at 16:33 — 2 Comments

FANTASTIC RETREAT THANKS SURYAGITA & SATYADEVI!!!

I just attended a WONDERFUL weekend of mantra & meditation, mindfulness practise, sounds and singing and blessed SILENCE...with the sounds of tui, bellbird, fantails, grey warblers and the constant SsssSSSHHHhhhUUUUsssHH of the rivers.It was a full retreat with people from Whakatane, Tauranga Auckland, Thames, some were new to retreats and to Sudarshanaloka, others the 'usual suspects'! It was a great reminder to me of the power of nature as a healer and one of our greatest attributes of… Continue

Added by Andrea Gill on April 3, 2011 at 22:15 — No Comments

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