A video of all the teaching from the weekend retreat lead by Padmayogini & Dhichitraka
CHAPTERS
Friday Evening
0:00 Dhichitraka – introduction
8:16 Padmayogini – introduction
16:25 Padmayogini – introduction to the themes of the retreat
30:11 First theme – prajna wisdom
33:32 Second theme – dakinis, or even the dakini principle
35:21 Third theme – mandala
39:23 the quality of evenness in the mandala principle
40:27 PY – intro to ritual
41:57 PY – setting up mandala for the ritual
44:01 [PY entering the mandala for this story, this ritual:] Telling the story of Nagarjuna receiving the Prajnaparamita teachings from the nagas.
58:28 PY leaving the mandala
1:03:58 Dhichitraka – Heart Sutra in Sanskrit
Saturday Morning
1:09:39 PY – summary
1:11:59 PY – introduction to the mandala, and using mandala in in meditation
1:26:56 PY – setting up the mandala of space, spacious awareness
1:27:53 PY – led meditation, space & spaciousness, inside & outside
1:34:45 PY – silent meditation
1:40:15 PY – coming out of the meditation
1:41:55 PY – summary
1:42:41 Dhichitraka – personal response to Prajnaparamita and Heart Sutra
2:03:49 DC – invocation to Prajnaparamita
2:07:32 PY – summary
2:08:49 PY – talk on Prajna wisdom and questions for reflection
2:23:50 PY – just a little thing to imagine
Saturday Afternoon
2:26:43 PY – summary – plan for the afternoon
2:29:57 PY – talk on dakinis
2:30:55 the fierce feminine
2:31:53 the daka
2:32:32 peaceful meditation doesn’t quite sum up experience of enlightenment
2:33:56 Sangharakshita saw dakinis as important
2:35:42 the wisdom
2:37:27 the dance
2:39:50 the sexual
2:42:22 the knife
2:42:39 the elements
2:45:14 the taboo breaking
2:46:49 Dhichitraka – led meditation
3:01:58 PY & DC – the five wisdom dakinis
3:03:58 PY – Buddhadakini
3:10:05 DC – Vajradakini
3:15:04 PY – Ratnadakini
3:19:38 CD – Padmadakini
3:25:37 PY – Karmadakini
3:32:20 PY DC – summary
3:34:29 DC PY – working creatively, choosing a dakini to work with and exploring her with colour, drawing and finding objects to represent an aspect of the dakini
Saturday Evening
3:49:41 DC- led meditation
3:58:10 DC – invocation and praise to the dakinis “sky dancer puja…”
4:12:02 PY – recap on the 5 wisdom dakinis, their wisdom qualities, and the unenlightened aspects of those wisdoms that we experience – with the aim of transforming these in the ritual
4:27:25 PY – intro to ritual
4:34:31 PY – ritual with the 5 wisdom dakinis
4:42:28 silent meditation
4:53:43 PY DC – ritual continues, bringing in the 5 wisdom dakinis
5:24:50 DC – dakini mantra
Sunday Morning
5:30:08 PY – setting up the meditation mandala & using the mandala
5:40:41 silent meditation
5:44:29 pleasure, ease, happiness…
5:46:39 messengers…
5:47:25 sense of support…
5:49:53 concluding words
5:51:11 DC – intro
5:54:46 DC – dakini evocation
Sunday Afternoon
6:01:51 PY – summary
6:03:07 PY – talk pulling the threads of the retreat together & what you can take away from the retreat for practice and reflection, ideas:
6:25:59 Dhicitraka
6:38:54 Padmayogini
6:47:21 DC – talk
7:14:04 DC – Puja
Sunday Evening
7:33:41 PY – summary
7:35:55 DC – Meditation
7:51:35 DC – thanks
7:55:47 PY – thanks
7:58:27 PY – closing remarks
8:04:09 PY – ritual mandala of metta and appreciation
8:42:09 closing the retreat mandala and final goodbyes.