Ethics to Enlightenment

Led by Dhammarati, Lokeshvara, Parami, Saccanama and Saddhanandi

"You cannot be skillful unless you can understand things, unless you can see possibilities and explore them. Hence morality, is as much a matter of intelligence and insight as one of good intentions and good feelings." - Sangharakshita
 
Join the Adhisthana Vision team to explore the ten precepts that each of us received at Ordination. Each day we’ll have a presentation that takes us further into the practice of ethics from a variety of sources and teachings that the team feel inspired to share. We’ll also practice Bodhicitta and the Vajrasattva mula yoga. 
 
In his book ‘Living Ethically’, Sangharakshita discusses Nagarjuna’s teachings on ethics and how the dharma is to be realised in every fibre of one’s being: a realisation that is ‘generated’ within us. This means that our work as Dharma farers is not to merely gain an understanding of the Dharma but that the dharma itself is to be generated within us so that we each become a vessel of the Dharma as a living spiritual principle. From this point of view, the practice of ethics is seen as a necessary way to become receptive to the Dharma at a significantly higher level. This perspective is not easy to assimilate within the views and attitudes that many of us carry in relation to ethics. We’ll use this retreat to explore our practice of the precepts alongside these deeper teachings about the nature of the spiritual life. 
 
"When one places the spiritual ideal at the centre of one’s personal mandala, a radical reorganisation of the contents of that mandala naturally follows. This radical reorganisation corresponds to the observance of the Precepts as its natural consequence, that is to say, as the prolongation of the act of Going for Refuge itself into every aspect of one’s existence.... the Going for Refuge must find expression in the total transformation of the individual, both in himself and in his relationships with other people..." - Sangharakshita

For: Order Members

Start date: 3rd Jul 2016
End date: 10th Jul 2016
Event Type: Residential

Price: Waged/Supported £245  |  Unwaged/Unsupported £175
Non-refundable deposit: £70 (included in prices above)

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