•September 18, 2011 •
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October 21-23, 2011; Boulder, Colorado
This retreat offers an introduction to the process of Feeding your Demons, a powerful and profound method for working with rather than fighting against the obstacles, conflict, and challenges of our life. By meeting our fears and obsessions and giving them what they need, we allow them to transform into allies and insight, thus allowing us to be of greater benefit to all. Drawing on traditional practices and teachings of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, this process was developed by Lama Tsultrim Allione, a Western Buddhist teacher and author of Feeding your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict. The retreat also includes meditation practice to foster a spacious view with which to support the deep personal work of Feeding your Demons. The weekend includes teachings, meditation, discussion, and practice in the actual process of Feeding your Demons so that it may become of use to you on a daily basis. No previous experience of knowledge of Buddhism or meditation is necessary. All are welcome.
Times: Friday, 7pm; Saturday 10am-5pm; Sunday 10am-1pm
Cost: $195 (scholarships are available)
Location: Boulder, Colorado
To Register: Call Charlotte at 720.472.1956 or email charlotte@skymind.us
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Tags: Buddhism, charlotte rotterdam, feeding your demons, meditation, pieter oosthuizen, tsultrim allione
•September 17, 2009 •
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by Charlotte Rotterdam
As I entered motherhood, I had to ask myself whether there would any longer be space for spiritual practice, or whether the spacious silence of contemplation would be altogether drowned out by baby cries and too many loads of dirty laundry. Ironically, I found the opposite to be true, for in the calls of mothering I met the lessons of the teachings in a more direct way than I had hitherto. As a mother, I have had to call on my practice in the most unlikely of situations and places – in the midst of changing a diaper or in the busy rush of a grocery aisle.
The Tantric Buddhist tradition, of course, offers us many wonderful stories of householders who found realization through the most mundane of chores. Manibhadra, for example, Continue reading ‘The Practice of Motherhood’
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Tags: Buddhism, conscious parenting, meditation, motherhood, parenting
•September 17, 2009 •
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The Retitled and Expanded Version
by Pieter Oosthuizen and Charlotte Rotterdam
The practice of Conscious Leadership, in essence, challenges the leader to re-examine and re-evaluate the very notion of self and the worldview that necessarily follows from our conceptions of self. If our image of self is very narrowly defined, we tend toward more fear-based views of the world around us; when we invest in the idea of a self with more permeable boundaries functioning within an interdependent world, our worldview becomes more fluid and contextual. Instead of arising from fear and self-preservation, our business decisions are inspired by collaboration and possibility. In an interdependent world, the driving force is creative collaboration rather than straight-up competition, and sustained authenticity is the ultimate achievement. Continue reading ‘Conscious Leadership:’
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Tags: business, business leadership, charlotte rotterdam, conscious leadership, pieter oosthuizen, social responsibility, spiritual leadership
•August 2, 2009 •
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Click the links for a three part conversation between Joshua Onysko, Founder and CEO of Pangea Organics, and Pieter Oosthuizen, Entrepreneur and former Asst. Vice President at Naropa University and Executive Director of Tara Mandala Buddhist Retreat Center. Feeding Your Demons is a method, developed by Lama Tsultrim Allione, for turning one’s obstacles into wisdom.
Part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT0t7CEm0Nk
Part2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvQX6zd9JAc
Part 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=edEcfUzQXEA
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Tags: feeding your demons, joshua onysko, pangea organics, pieter oosthuizen, Spiritual Intelligence
•August 1, 2009 •
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