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Mystery of Mantra 2025

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Mystery of Mantra 2025

3 - 7 Feb 2025
Led By: Maitrisiddhi, Natalia
For: Triratna Regulars

Explore mantra as a practice in its own right! Like magic words, mantra can be a doorway into the archetypal realms of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, cutting through rational concepts, and taking us into a deeper, clearer and more loving engagement with life. Using sound, embodiment and connection with inner and outer energies, we’ll go deeper into the mystery that is mantra.

No musical ability or knowledge required.

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As spiritual practitioners, we are looking to cultivate the wisdom and compassion of the Enlightened Mind. However, our rational, calculating thoughts can often limit our ability to connect: with ourselves, with others, and with the truth of the way things are.  Mantra cuts through concepts, and allows our natural connection with the Awakened Mind to emerge.  Who knows ‘how it works’?  It’s a mystery – yet the effects are real, and can be profound.

When we take mantra seriously, then we have a connection-practice that is always available to us.  On or off the cushion; on a crowded tube or on our own in the dead of night, we can call forth the magic of mantra.

On this experiential retreat, silence will be part of our mantra-exploration, as well as sitting and moving meditation, being in the natural world, ritual, teaching and discussion.

 

Suggested donation (in addition to the booking fee): £255 waged / £175 unwaged

Booking Fee: £85.00

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Paying for your retreat

Taraloka runs on generosity.

To book a retreat you pay a booking fee. This is the only charge made for coming on retreat. As far as possible, we don’t want anyone’s financial situation to stop them from coming to Taraloka.

At the end of your retreat, you have the opportunity to give money towards Taraloka. If you are able to donate, you are giving to another person who otherwise could not afford to come on retreat. And you are helping to give the gift of Taraloka to the women of the future.

We have suggested donations as these reflect the basic income needed to make a retreat viable. However, they are only suggestions. It is genuinely fine to give ten times these amounts, nothing, or anything in between.

Running on generosity is radical – thank you for being part of that.

For more information see what does it cost and a flow of generosity