Färjås Yogaretreat

20/02/2026

Vad är icke-dual meditation?

Under femton år har vi hållit tysta meditationsretreat på Färjås.
I början vilade undervisningen starkt på shaivata**ra och Pratyabhijñā – avtäckandet av det eviga självet, ātman.

Under de senaste sju åren har vårt arbete allt mer inspirerats av samarbetet med Dharma Bodhi och Trika Mahāsiddha Yoga, och genom det också daoistisk icke-dual meditation – särskilt Zuo Wang, ”att sitta i glömska”: att vila bortom den mentala konstruktionen av ett jag.

Den teoretiska delen har fått träda tillbaka något.
Den direkta erfarenheten har fått mer plats.
Tystnad. Te. Natur. Närvaro.

Nu öppnar Dharma Bodhi en ny online-kohort i Wu Wei Dao och Direct Meditation.

Detta är en pågående studie- och praktikgemenskap för den som vill fördjupa sig i icke-dual meditation – inte som gradvis utveckling, utan som ett direkt inträde i det som redan är närvarande.

Här studeras och praktiseras bland annat:

– Zuo Wang (daoistisk direkt meditation)
– Dao De Jing och Zhuangzi
– Muntlig tradition
– Inre och yttre alkemi (qi gong, nei dan)
– Daoistiska livsprinciper och praktik

Inga förkunskaper krävs.
Man kan ansluta när som helst.

Datum 2026:
26 februari
9 april
4 juni
10 september
25 november
10 december

Torsdagar kl. 20.00 – 21.00.

För alla er som under åren har mött icke dual meditation på våra tysta meditationsretreat, så är detta en möjlighet att fortsätta fördjupningen, nu i en gemensam online-praktik.

Här svarar Dharma på frågan "What does direct meditation mean compared to other progressive practices?"

https://youtu.be/ijffAyxkaaE?si=QBjupnJIjiXbXS3e

Anmälningslänk finns i kommentarerna.

(P.S. Vi har fortfarande några platser kvar till nästa helgs tysta retreat, 27 februari–1 mars.)

Q&A about the Direct Meditation Cohort & TMY’s Home for Daoist Cultivation

08/02/2026

Notes from Silence

”När jag tystnar så väcks jag –
jag märker då att tingen vilar i sin eviga tystnad
och att träden är vakna sedan länge.”

— deltagare, tyst retreat

29/01/2026

On simplicity, practice & integration

Spiritual development is often imagined as something distant or extraordinary.
Yet again and again, the teachings point us back to something simpler:
clarity, presence, and the patient work of integration.

What is natural does not happen by accident.
And what is true reveals itself when we actually live it.

Here is a reflection that speaks clearly to this balance.

«Many people have frequently asked me, ‘How can I discover if I am realized?’ I have replied, ‘You must not worry. If you become realized, you will understand it very well.’ Before obtaining realization you must develop clarity and you will understand very well that you are getting there even before you become realized.

For example, if we have the capacity to integrate a little or to find ourselves in the state of presence, then it also becomes manifest in our daily life, as an aspect of our body, voice and mind. First of all, all our tensions and attachments diminish. There are many practitioners, who instead of reducing or integrating their tensions do not even discover them. Day after day they accumulate tension and in the end they are ready to explode. It is true that many practitioners do practices and then they end up with a psychoanalyst, because they cannot explode. It means they do not understand the manifestation of tension, and if they do not discover this in the practice, it means they have to work hard, and understand the teaching well.

Many “old” practitioners say, ‘It is so difficult, I cannot integrate.’ Of course it is difficult to integrate if we never do it. Integration is not only an idea, or the creation of an idea. First of all we must find ourselves in a very precise state of awareness.

Many people may lack a basis from the beginning and, believing they can jump very high, think, ‘I have understood everything. This is contemplation.’ And then they jump and arrive at thögal (thod rgal) and practices like Yangthig (yang thig) and other elevated methods without substance. What is there to develop? To grow some flowers in a field we need seeds. First we must sow the field and then water it so that something will grow. If we only believe that we have sown seeds even if we pour water on the field every day, nothing grows.

Nowadays there are many fertilizers that make plants become enormous in two days. Some people get these kinds of fertilizers and use so much of them that nothing grows. A method like the thögal practice is like a fertilizer to develop contemplation, to obtain realization. But if there is no knowledge of contemplation, what can we develop?

So, first of all, we need to understand the basis and work with it very well. We must not be confused between an idea and real knowledge. I have explained many times and also given examples, but it seems many people are not able to understand very well. I do not mean everybody, because there are also many people who certainly understand. If everyone could understand, what a marvelous thing it would be. Also you must not always think that everything is so easy.»

* Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, “On Individual Potentiality,” transcribed from an oral teaching given on September 21st, 1990 at Merigar West, Italy; reprinted from The Mirror Issue 9, June 1991; edited by Tuula Saarikoski, final editing by Liz Granger