DharmaMind Buddhist Group

Empowering Yourself

The negative image so many of us have of ourselves is the reason why we don't recognise and enjoy the peace of our innate blue sky. Through this form of training you learn to bring the blue sky into your life by owning everything that makes you up. This revolutionary state of being then empowers you to turn away from a life time of habitual negative self-views. With this change taking place your blue sky will come evermore into your life.

The Dangers of Wilful Practice

How is it possibly to engage whole-heartedly with life's activities and challenges without always having the end game of "I'm doing this in order to get that" ambition? This is the usual function of our everyday mind that would even resort to strong wilfulness in order to fulfil its desires. Our training is to discover the mind that doesn't engage with wilfulness or pushy ambition, and yet still engages wholeheartedly with life and its never ending challenges.

The Blue Sky, and the Inconceivable Journey

It is easy for us to take moments of peace as being no more than that, but can you see that experience as a gateway that invites you to pass through it? An invitation that will take you on a journey into who you really are, and a journey to that part that is free from conditioned fear that is called your true nature. Precious jewels of transcendental knowledge that points to the astonishment and wonder of life itself awaits, if only you have the courage to make that journey.

Mind, Body and Practice

We have the opportunity when in sitting meditation to use the experience to cultivate a mind that becomes ever more still. But we also have the opportunity to wake up to the whole process of how we create attachment and suffering, by being alive to our ongoing relationship to the very posture itself. By just being alive to this relationship on its own can reveal so much of the path to freedom and liberation.

Dharma Practice will change your Life

It is natural to expect some sort of reward from your practice. If you are patient and engage correctly with the training, it will transform your life. In time, you will come to see that this training is worth keeping your trust in, and discover that it is truly an authentic inner revolution.

Talk 6/6 End of Retreat Question and Answer Session

A selection of training questions from the students that closed the 2012 Summer Retreat.

Can you expand on the Blue Sky concept? Can you give an example of insight contemplation? What is the nature of fear?

Talk 5/6 The Spritual Journey

To train ourselves to be always reflecting inwardly is to correctly prepare ourselves for the inner spiritual journey of transformation. From the ability to be still and inwardly reflect, the spiritual journey of discovering our own inner transcendental divine nature and liberation from suffering will surely follow.

Talk 4/6 Stillness and its Profound Nature

For many in Buddhism stillness of mind is just a pre-requisite for insight practice. We too use stillness to cultivate insight, but by seeing there is more to stillness than just being empty of distractions, we discover who we really are beyond this self-delusion by awakening with ever growing clarity to our infinite true nature.

Talk 3/6 The Tools of Transformation

Buddhism offers us many tools for insightful contemplation (usually based on tradition) to use in our quest for transforming wisdom. Our type of training offers a free and open chest of insightful treasures in that ongoing quest.

Talk 2/6 The Art of Non Doing

To be able to perceive a 'practice of no practice' takes a long time because it runs against all that you have come to understand in living your life.