Vesak Retreat: Being and Cessation in Grace
Sat, 22 May
|Awarezen Room
To celebrate Vesak Day 2021, which commemorates the day of the Buddha's birth, awakening, and death some 2,500 years ago, we are having a special one-day meditation retreat at Awarezen. This retreat focuses on awareness and nibbana in the living reality of uncreated grace.
Time & Location
22 May 2021, 7:00 am – 2:00 pm SGT
Awarezen Room
About the event
Dimensionless awareness appears as time, space, and person to the finite mind. Time, space and person appear as pure knowing in the retracing of mind into its source. Empty of inherent existence and thus unobjectifiable, awareness nakedly is - luminous and free, unassailable and irreducible, unborn and undying. Aware being in its essential emptiness is utterly free of all conditioning, stains, obscurations, afflictive states, and their residues. It is the cessation of all that is made, born, constructed, compounded, and fabricated. This is the end of suffering: nibbana.
No self, no mind, no problem. The nibbanic mind is cool, beyond clinging and anguish. Awareness is fully unveiled. Dynamic and creative, luminous mind (pabbhasaram-cittam) spontaneously manifests in myriad appearances and experiences, from subtle to gross. The playful sport of unreifiable awareness constitutes an awakened world of experience and nominal identities suffused by uncontrived bliss. All this is possible because of the…