{"id":2399,"date":"2022-09-30T16:31:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T14:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2025-06-19T15:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:53:17","slug":"fietstocht-2022-tushita-meditatiecentrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/en\/blogtype\/tibet\/fietstocht-2022-tushita-meditatiecentrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike ride 2022: Tushita Meditation Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2399\" class=\"elementor elementor-2399\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7aa791e6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7aa791e6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5e21340 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title 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class=\"elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-date\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time>30 September 2022<\/time>\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-6863c75 elementor-inline-item\" itemprop=\"about\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-post-info__terms-list\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/en\/category\/reistype\/fietsen\/\" class=\"elementor-post-info__terms-list-item\">Cycling<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/en\/category\/land\/spanje\/\" class=\"elementor-post-info__terms-list-item\">Spain<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/en\/category\/blogtype\/tibet\/\" 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decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-okt-22-Tushita_3.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2402\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-okt-22-Tushita_3.webp 800w, https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-okt-22-Tushita_3-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-okt-22-Tushita_3-768x576.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4699426 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4699426\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bdd5f97 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"bdd5f97\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/156963010@N04\/albums\/72177720302578263\/\" id=\"Flickr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Photos Tushita<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e46cf26 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"e46cf26\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d372af elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7d372af\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform );\"><span style=\"font-weight: bolder; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\">30 Sept - 1-2 Oct: silence weekend at Tushita meditation centre<\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform );\">Friday evening a little before 18:30 I arrived at the\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); color: #00285e;\" href=\"https:\/\/tushita.es\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: bolder;\">Tushita meditation centre<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform );\">, just in time for the welcome by director Alberto Gamez. Tushita is in the highest part of Viladrau and, as in most villages, a final, very steep slope awaited me to get there.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; color: #2c2c28; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\">But what a paradise! That high altitude means there is virtually no traffic and very little village noise, apart from some barking from the neighbour's dog. The domed terrace of the centre overlooks an imposing mountain. For summer retreatants, there is even a swimming pool. The Gompa (meditation room) is big enough for over 20 people. So is the accommodation to stay overnight. Meals are vegetarian, organic and prepared on site.<\/p><p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; color: #2c2c28; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\">The guided meditation sessions Saturday and Sunday, eight in total, focused on achieving mental peace and calm.<\/p><p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; color: #2c2c28; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\">As announced on the website, the sessions were in Catalan. Broadly speaking, I was able to follow because there were many parallels with the silent retreats I attended at\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bolder;\"><a style=\"color: #00285e;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.antwerpen-meditatie.be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ehipassiko Antwerp\/Mechelen<\/a><\/span>\u00a0followed in Belgium. The Q&amp;A sessions were more difficult to understand because these were sometimes about very personal experiences.<\/p><p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; color: #2c2c28; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\">Here's a quick rundown of the explanation and instructions, or at least what I think I understood from it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c47ec9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1c47ec9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-okt-22-Tushita_Marina.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2403\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-okt-22-Tushita_Marina.webp 769w, https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-okt-22-Tushita_Marina-300x220.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Marina Brucet - spiritual director of Tushita<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2051ed7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"2051ed7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-232c390 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"232c390\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align); font-weight: bolder;\">Marina Brucet<\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align);\">, spiritual director of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align); font-weight: bolder;\"><a style=\"color: #00285e;\" href=\"http:\/\/tushita.es\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tushita<\/a><\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align);\">, first explained that meditation is more than just a pleasant relaxation technique, as people here in the West often think. During meditation, you try to nurture and cultivate the positive aspects of your mental and emotional life (compassion, loving-kindness, patience, attention, modesty...), while extinguishing the negative aspects (anger, hatred, selfishness, indifference, impatience, contempt...) by not immediately acting on them when these emotions overwhelm you. By suspending your reactivity, you notice that the negative emotion is not in the objective outside world, but rises within yourself. And that you can therefore learn to control it. Through meditation, you learn to deal with these emotions and redirect them to their positive opposite. In this way, you yourself become more relaxed and happy in life and become a more pleasant person for others and for society as a whole.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; color: #2c2c28; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\">Subsequently, the\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bolder;\">Marina<\/span>\u00a0the correct sitting postures and focused on certain aspects that can hinder the achievement of mental peace while sitting. Restlessness and resistance can arise from unpleasant sensations in the body, such as sleeping feet or legs for\u00a0<em>meditators<\/em>\u00a0sitting in cross-legged or kneeling position, back pain, tension in neck or shoulders due to sitting in the same position for a long time, etc. Marina explained in detail how to deal with these. In a nutshell: do not develop resistance or aversion to these physical discomforts, as this will only exacerbate them. Observe them calmly, accept that they are there, relax the part of the body where they occur and then turn your attention back to your meditation object, in this case the breath. After a while, you will notice that the discomforts soften, because a sensation is not eternal and is also subject to change. If physical discomforts do not improve, you can make some subtle movements or change your sitting position.<\/p><p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; color: #2c2c28; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\"><span style=\"font-weight: bolder;\">Marina<\/span>\u00a0also stressed the importance of keeping the middle ground between too much forced sitting, which causes tension and closes the mind, and too much relaxation, which leads to sleepiness. Meditation is all about being awake present and looking with an open and unbiased mind at all that presents itself here and now. Without judging it or reacting to it with aversion or craving.<\/p><p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; color: #2c2c28; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\">Then there are the mental jammers, something everyone, including advanced practitioners, has to deal with: intrusive and jumpy thoughts that incessantly assail your mind, even if the external conditions are conducive to achieving mental calm, as here in\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bolder;\"><a style=\"color: #00285e;\" href=\"http:\/\/tushita.es\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tushita<\/a><\/span>. Or difficult and overwhelming emotions such as anxiety, sadness, stress...<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-96d3b6c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"96d3b6c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-okt-22-Tushita_2.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2407\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-okt-22-Tushita_2.webp 800w, https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-okt-22-Tushita_2-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-okt-22-Tushita_2-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c724ccc elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"c724ccc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dbceead elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dbceead\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align);\">Again, try not to react to it. Just notice that a thought or emotion is there, observe it for a while and don't act on it any further. Certainly don't start building on it with hypothetical if\/then thoughts. Return to breathing. By observing the thought or emotion from a distance, letting go and returning to your meditation object, you create breaks between thoughts. And this again and again whenever a new thought arises. Meditating is starting over and over again, until the breaks between thoughts become longer and you achieve more mental peace. This doesn't happen overnight; it takes a lot of practice, patience and persistence. And leniency towards yourself. Above all, don't be angry with yourself when it 'fails again'. That is normal. Just start again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\"><span style=\"color: #2c2c28; font-family: Open Sans, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align);\">The final morning session Saturday closed Marina with half an hour of&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align); font-weight: bolder;\">Qigong<\/span><span style=\"color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align);\">&nbsp;exercises. To get the chi energy flowing freely again and loosen up any stiff limbs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; color: #2c2c28; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\">Between cycling and all that comes with it, this silence weekend was a very beneficial rest. It was actually a bit of coming home. To continue tomorrow with renewed energy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; color: #2c2c28; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\">And many thanks to Marina and Alberto for the extra night's stay, so I didn't have to go looking for a place to sleep late in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; color: #2c2c28; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\"><span style=\"font-weight: bolder;\">Much\u00edsimas gracias por todo!<\/span><b><br><\/b><span style=\"font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align);\">More info:&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); 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