If you can spare some advice

tess

I am off for my 3 month holiday, soon. I am planning to do meditation, reading and make Buddhist teaching the part of my life.
There are no shangas near the place I will go.
I am looking for an experienced Buddhist to help me. Give me an advice or motivation when I hit hard time.
Any volunteers?

I know, I might find some Buddhist retreats near but I am taking my dog with me.
He is part of my family and no way will they accept this.

I am also looking for recommendations for teaching which I can download to my MP3.
I hope, I will be able to work out how to download to it. /Especially, Ajahn Brahm./
I have just bought it today with hope that downloads motivation will keepp me from :scratch:

Sabre

On http://www.dhammaloka.org.au/downloads.html you can find guided meditation and guided retreat audio by Ajahn Brahm and other teachers.

With metta,
Sabre

fivebells

Happy to advise and motivate, if it'll help.

Phoenix

As for mp3s, I've found these sites very interesting.
www.audiodharma.org
and
zencast.org

Zencast borrows a lot from audiodharma, but there's a wider variety of teachers.

ThailandTom

I am not going to provide you with any links or downloads, or a plan for your 3 months, (this has already been done for the most part) but I would suggest why not go on a self retreat for a few days? Depending on where you live, get the old tent out and head for somewhere where there are no people, just you and nature and only take your fone which would only be turned on in case of emergencies. This will really test your practice as you will be with your brain, yourself and you only for the entire time. A lot of realizations come from time spent alone like this, this is my advice anyways. Happy holidays!

hermitwin

download these, they are all you need.

http://media.bswa.org/retreats/2007 Easter/

Floating_Abu

dhammatalks.org.uk - Forest Sangha dudes

Safe travels,
Abu

tess

Thank you very much for the link to talks.

tess

Happy to advise and motivate, if it'll help.

Thank you very much for your kind offer. I have decided not to take Internet with me.
However, I will check my e-mails every week....somewhere;
Your offer is great a comfort. The luxury to know that if I hit hard times on my Buddhist way, I would have somebody to talk to is great.

Namasti

tess

I am not going to provide you with any links or downloads, or a plan for your 3 months, (this has already been done for the most part) but I would suggest why not go on a self retreat for a few days? Depending on where you live, get the old tent out and head for somewhere where there are no people, just you and nature and only take your fone which would only be turned on in case of emergencies. This will really test your practice as you will be with your brain, yourself and you only for the entire time. A lot of realizations come from time spent alone like this, this is my advice anyways. Happy holidays!

Good advice.
The place I am going is a lake cabin.No need for a tent. Don’t take me wrong. Tent is great. I had wonderful holidays in it. However, my old bones will hate me for it.
I tried this last year and after few days I got bored with my own company. I kept inviting friends and my retreat changed to one big 3 month summer party. It was great but in the end of it, I felt that it must something more then this. I have fed my hedonistic ‘gland’ but I did not recharge my batteries or become better or more spiritual person.