‘Beyond description, explanation and conception’. True entrusting or ‘shinjin’ – what is it? Exploration of faith as wisdom, and wisdom as faith. Dharma practice as gifted to us. Talks suitable for experienced practitioners only, as a sound base of experience and Dharma knowledge is taken for granted. Given on the 2022 Taraloka retreat ‘True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante’, which explored Shinran’s classic text ‘Tannisho’. Talks begin with a section of this text. *Maitrisiddhi gave talks on the same themes in 2021. While there is overlap, there is also new material in each talk.*

‘When we think good thoughts we think we are good’: Shinran and ethics Shinran at his most controversial – is he throwing ethics out of the window? Or is he asking us to take a wisdom perspective? Points of contact and contrast between Japanese Shin and early Buddhism. Talks suitable for experienced practitioners only, as a sound base of experience and Dharma knowledge is taken for granted. Given on the 2022 Taraloka retreat ‘True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante’, which explored Shinran’s classic text ‘Tannisho’. Talks begin with a section of this text. *Maitrisiddhi gave talks on the same themes in 2021. While there is overlap, there is also new material in each talk.*

‘Grasped never to be abandoned’. Introducing Shinran’s approach to the Dharma: us as foolish deluded beings, and Amida as the limitless. How should we understand Other Power? Looking at Japanese Shin in the context of the Three Myths of the Spiritual Life. Talks suitable for experienced practitioners only, as a sound base of experience and Dharma knowledge is taken for granted. Given on the 2022 Taraloka retreat ‘True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante’, which explored Shinran’s classic text ‘Tannisho’. Talks begin with a section of this text. *Maitrisiddhi gave talks on the same themes in 2021. While there is overlap, there is also new material in each talk.*

Our current theme ‘Radical Reality’ continues with a talk from Dharmamayi.