![]() ![]() ![]() She is an award-winning author of three books and was awarded an OBE in 2022 for her services to pain management and well-being. This draws on her own experience of managing spinal pain and disability. William Wordsworth *** Vidyamala was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order in 1995 and is co-founder of Breathworks, a leading mindfulness organisation and she focuses particularly on using awareness and kindness training to work with pain and illness. Jby William Wordsworth -And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man: A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Come join us in the vastness of the present moment! *** Show notes Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Urgyen Sangharakshita Dharma talks by Vidyamala | Dharma talks by Vishvapani More about the Five Buddha mandala Listen to 'Vidyamala, OBE! - A Platinum Jubilee Honour for Breathworks' From Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. An exploration of mindfulness and imagination through talks, meditation, creative activities, discussion and shared ritual, particularly focused on the richly evocative symbol of the mandala. This Home Retreat is an opportunity to live for a week with mindfulness, kindness, poetry and creativity, even in the midst of our daily lives. Kusaladevi joins Vidyamala and Vishvapani in a conversation exploring the theme of their upcoming Home Retreat, Entering the Mandala: Mindfulness and Imagination. When our minds are clear and we’re alive to what’s within us and around us, our imaginations wake up to new possibilities. Awareness of the body, heart and mind can blossom into awareness of boundlessness, love and mystery, as Buddhist teachers have taught down the millennia. But awareness offers much more: it also provides a doorway to other dimensions in the large chamber of our being. And through knowing experience directly we can transform difficulties and become happier, calmer and more fulfilled. What would it be like to experience yourself without restrictive concepts? What dimensions might open up in your life as you engage with myths and symbols? Awareness, or mindfulness, is an essential foundation for all spiritual growth. In fact, we have no idea that the large chamber is even there.” Sangharakshita This week we’re opening portals to awareness and the wonders that can arise when we really start to pay attention to everything that’s going on in the world around us. We can see nothing at all of what’s going on in the large chamber. We are living in a tiny chamber next to – indeed, part of – the larger one. If you enjoy this conversation, come explore the theme online on our Home Retreat with Vidyamala and Vishvapani! Join Entering the Mandala: Mindfulness and Imagination, September 1-7 “Imagine an enormous subterranean chamber all lit up from within. ![]()
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