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	Entering the Mandala of Meditation Retreats specifically for women who have asked for ordination into the WBO The immediate years before entering the Order can be crucial in deepening  awareness and our understanding of how to put the Dharma into practice.  Kulaprabha has designed a mandala of meditation retreats especially for women who have asked for ordination, based around the Order's system of meditation.  She envisages this mandala evolving and changing as different Preceptors and  other experienced Dharmacharinis come and help lead them.  The Beauty of Becoming: spiritual rebirth  17-26 February  Suggested donation: £324/£252/£198  Letting go of our limited, ego-bound selves we open up a space in which something completely new  can arise. It's as though a new mind can enter in which is free from  ego-clinging and powered only by compassion. This is the process of spiritual rebirth, leading the way to the arising of the Bodhicitta. However, it can't be born in us unless we are doing  something to lessen our egocentric attitude to the world. The retreat will use  reflections on empathy, the limitations of samsara, and elements from the  Bodhicitta practice. The four Brahma Viharas will also be included in the programme.    Trusting the  Heart of Awareness: spiritual death  Padmadevi  and Vijayamala  10-19 March  Suggested donation: £324/£252/£198  'By constant practice and mindfulness thereon,  One feels radiant self-awareness shining like a brilliant  lamp.  It  is pure and as bright as a flower,  It  is like the feeling of staring into the vast and empty sky'  More details on this retreat here Sangha Gathering  26 - 29 May An opportunity for all women who have asked for ordination to practice together The  Alchemy of Happiness: positive emotion                                  Kulaprabha and team  16-25 June  Suggested donation: £324/£252/£198  Exploring the positive nidanas of joy, delight, bliss, serenity and concentration, as they emerge from their basis in faith, skilful conduct, and  wise reflection. They can be experienced as a path to insight made up of pairs,  or they can be thought of as conditions each leaning on and supporting the  others like sheaves of corn; a set of mutually supportive mental states which together create the stepping off point for seeing things more as they actually are.    Moments of Being: integration                                                                 Vidyamala and team  3-13 November  Suggested donation: £360/£280/£220 Based on the Satipatthana Sutta, a key text on mindfulness, we will  explore both samatha and vipassana approaches to the four foundations of  mindfulness: body, feelings, thoughts and dhammas. In meditation we will learn to 'rest with' our actual experience in the moment - finding a spacious and kindly way between suppression of our experience and over identifying with it. We will also explore the interconnected or loving dimension of mindfulness. There will be daily teaching input, poetry and will be mainly in silence with  opportunities for meditation interviews and group inquiries.   Mindfulness leading to Pure Awareness  3  - 23 November  An opportunity to deepen your practice by combining two retreats:  Moments of Being with Vidyamala and  team from 3-13 November  Suggested donation: £360/£280/£220 and  Pure Awareness with Viveka, Vidyamala  and Team from 13-23 November  Suggested  donation: £360/£280/£220
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