coming up...
retreats for 2011
| theme | venue | dates |
|---|---|---|
| lifting the veil swedish sangha retreat |
sweden |
28 dec- 6 jan |
| making your work your practice day retreat |
ipswich buddhist centre |
20 march |
ordinary beauty wabi sabi weekend retreat |
bristol buddhist centre |
26-27 march |
| ordinary beauty wabi sabi retreat |
for the finnish sangha abhayaloka retreat centre |
10-12 june |
| ordinary beauty wabi sabi retreat |
international abhayaloka retreat centre |
15-24 june |
| day retreat estonia |
tallin buddhist centre |
26 june |
| everything matters summer meditation retreat |
taraloka retreat centre |
5-12 august |
| ordinary beauty wabi sabi retreat |
rivendell retreat centre |
21-28 oct |
ordinary beauty wabi sabi weekend retreat |
nottingham buddhist centre | 29-30 oct |
lifting the veil
yogacara retreat
sweden 28 dec - 6 jan 2011
for the swedish sangha
How is it that every thing in our world is showing us reality, yet all we see is what we expect to see? Perception is mysterious, it veils reality and reveals reality. What has the yogacara got to show us about the way we create our world and how we can transform it? More...
A meditation retreat with teachings on the yogacara, led reflections, poetry, film and periods of silence.
ordinary beauty
wabi sabi retreats
bristol buddhist centre 26-27 march
finish sangha retreat 10-12 june tbc
international women's retreat, abhayloka finland 15-24 june
rivendell retreat centre 21-28 oct
nottingham buddhist centre 29-30 oct
Wabi sabi is an aesthetic, which finds beauty and truth in our simple, ordinary experience. We are being shown profound truths in every moment. Impermanence, painfulness and insubstantiality are the cracks in our mundane world. In these cracks we'll find chinks of light, three doorways into a new reality, the signless, the wishless and the open. More...
A meditation and reflection retreat with teachings on wabi sabi, the laksanas and vimoksa mukhas. brought to life through poetry, film and the world around us.
making your work your practice
day retreat
ipswich buddhist centre 20 march
'Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it'- the Buddha
A day workshop based on Dogen's text the 'Tenzo Kyokun', or 'Instructions for a Zen Cook'. 10 till 4 cost £12 (£10cons)
Plus film night - Saturday 19th March 6.30 'How to Cook your Life' - inspirational fun based on Dogen's text above.
Contact the Ipswich Buddhist Centre for more details.
everything matters
summer meditation retreat with Kuladharini and Singhamati
taraloka 5 - 12 august
To become mindful is to become intimate: intimate with our own experience, with other beings and with everything around us.
The retreat will be based in mindfulness and I will take as themes whatever aspects of the dharma are most alive for myself and others on the team at the time. As I write it is too soon to say exactly what those themes or teachings will be. But what I can promise is a retreat in which we'll take aspects of the dharma, as taught by Sangharakshita, that are subtle and profound and we'll attempt to make these part of our own experience, through meditation and reflection.
We'll also be using film, images and poetry to bring the teachings to life.
It will be a midsummer mindfulness retreat, evoking a sense of intimacy through beauty, simplicity, silence and simply being together.