Cultivating a Relaxed and Spacious Mind
Thursday 30th November, 6pm GMT
Join us for the fifth episode in our new series on Wisdom, the Wisdom Dialogues on Thursday 30th November at 6pm GMT ( check your time zone here) with Paula Chichester
About the Talk
“You can organise your life with wisdom. How? One way is by trying to make it beneficial to others rather than by living it simply for your own enjoyment. When your life is integrated and you're a wise, knowledgeable person giving a beautiful, peaceful vibration to others, it's so worthwhile.”
– Lama Yeshe
What prevents us from feeling relaxed, spacious and loving? Can we make friends with feelings of shame, guilt, low self-worth rather than pushing them away or distracting ourselves from them? Where does the feeling that we are not good enough come from and why do we buy into that? Perhaps we know intellectually that those feelings are based on misunderstanding our true nature of limitless love, but how do we get there? How do we accept ourselves and embody love?
Drawing on her decades of retreat experience, teaching and study, Paula Chichester guides us in learning how to navigate our inner landscape. By looking inside and gradually training our attention, we can begin to touch limitless love for ourselves and for others
Available Translations
This event will be available with translations in the following languages:
Italiano (Italian): Traduzione disponibile in italiano, per gentile concessione di Ven Siliana Bosa.
Français (French): Traduction disponible en français, grâce à Jérôme Bernard.
Español (Spanish): Traducción disponible en español, a cargo de Dani Requena
Português (Portuguese): Tradução disponível em português, com a colaboração de Carlota Pineiro.
About Paula Chichester
“As an adolescent in Berkeley in the 1960’s, I began a search for a means to shift the dominant paradigm of our perceptions of reality in order to survive the coming environmental chaos and resulting social unrest. A decade later, upon meeting Lama Thubten Yeshe and his teachers and disciples, I discovered a totally unique, mind-blowing, game-changing science of mind/spirit/ body that I thought could shift our perceptions to something bigger, to actually be able to go beyond small ego needs and feel the interconnectedness of all life. ……. I had studied the ecology of our planet, here was the ecology of mind. Here was the science that was missing from my education that can transform human greed and ignorance to end war and save life as we know it on Earth.
I was compelled to investigate, so I embarked on a lifelong experiment to see if a western person could indeed realise what I was being taught and experiencing in the presence of great Buddhist teachers, such as His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and Kyabje Zong Rinpoche. Perhaps Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche saw me as an experiment as well. I followed their advice as we embarked on a 40 year journey of study and retreats. I told Lama Yeshe I wanted to become a mahasiddha, so I trained as the mahasiddhas of the past, which took a lot of years in solitude.”
To know more about Paula you can visit her website brave view
About the Wisdom Dialogues
Cultivating a Relaxed and Spacious Mind is episode 5 of FDCW’s Wisdom Dialogues: Deepening our understanding of mind and emotions. In this 6-part exploration of the mind and emotions, learn how to cultivate wisdom and become your own therapist. This series, which builds upon last year's Compassion in Action, offers an opportunity to explore the depths of wisdom with some of the world’s most renowned thinkers on the topic. Join us for a chance to deepen your understanding of the mind and emotions and explore techniques for calming the mind, for greater clarity, resulting in stronger compassion and more purpose in life.
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