Becoming the Mind of Siva Retreat
June 17, 2010
Filed under Dharmanidhi, Featured Gallery, Meditation, Retreat Center - Thailand, Tantra
Four week Tantrik Meditation Intensive
October 14th – November 12th
Kailash Akhara Retreat Center
Phu Reua, Thailand
Below the thinking mind, below emotions and concepts exists your essential nature. Beyond form and formless, ever-present yet ungraspable, your essential nature is uncreated and unknowable to the ordinary mind. To become your essential nature is to become the Mind of Siva.
This 4-week intensive in Tantrik Meditation will focus on the method of “nirapeksa dhyanam” or formless meditation, the supporting practices and teachings, and study of sacred written texts, to transmit the experience of our essential nature.
Multiple sessions of meditation each day will allow you to immerse yourself in the experience of your True Nature. First we must discover our essential nature and then we must stabilize that realization with ever-deepening mediation practice.
Dharmanidhi Sarasvati Acharya will be leading this retreat. He has studied with true adepts of non-conceptual meditation from Hindu Tantrik Yoga, Yungdrung Bon (pre-Buddhist religion of central Asia), Daoism, Tibetan Buddhism, Chan and Zen. Dharmanidhi will give the crucial “pointing out” instructions, which are at the heart of these traditions. These instructions are greatly valued for their ability to instantly open the mind of Essence-Nature.
Kailash Akhara retreat center is located in Northeastern Thailand, nestled in the rolling hills near the Laos boarder. The center is situated on 40 acres of natural beauty full of fruit trees, ponds, a permaculture garden and Asia’s largest Yoga training hall and temple – The Mahasiddha Mahabodhi temple (Great Awakening Temple of the Yoga Adepts). The temple has a teak practice floor surrounded by a foot walking meditation deck, 30-foot ceilings and is open on three sides giving spectacular mountain and forest views.
Fees:
Fees include Housing (shared dormitory, shared bamboo hut or tent), All Meals, All Handouts, and Teaching Fee. 20% non-refundable deposit required at time of registration. Full refund (less 20% deposit) available until September 13. 2010. After September 14, 2010, no refund is available.
Housing is by request on a first come-first serve basis. Please register early, dorm rooms and huts are limited.
Dormitory or Hut: $1925
Tent: $1275
Wire Transfer and Cash in US$ only. Deposit required to register. Registration is complete upon our receipt of official copy of confirmation of wire transfer via email to info@kailashakhara.com.
Registration:
Any questions may be sent to info@kailashakhara.com. Detailed information regarding what to bring, weather, arrival information etc. will be sent to you once your registration is complete.
Original Posting: February 2010
