coming up...
a preview of dates for 2010,
more details to follow shortly
| theme | venue | dates |
|---|---|---|
| a huge barrel of wine, but no cups gfr women's weekend retreat |
up north |
12-14 feb |
| a huge barrel of wine, but no cups weekend retreat |
nottingham buddhist centre |
27-28 feb |
| ordinary beauty wabi sabi retreat for dharmacharinis |
akasavana retreat centre |
23 march - 1 april |
| ordinary beauty wabi sabi retreat |
rivendell retreat centre |
9-16 april |
| ordinary beauty wabi sabi day retreat |
brighton buddhist centre |
18 april |
| lifting the veil yogacara retreat |
taraloka retreat centre |
11-18 june |
| the essential sangharakshita finnish sangha retreat |
abhayaloka retreat centre |
25 june - 4 july |
| gateways to freedom grf meditation retreat |
taraloka retreat centre |
6-15 august |
| the essential sangharakshita retreat with the taraloka team |
taraloka retreat centre |
27 aug - 3 sept |
ordinary beauty wabi sabi weekend retreat |
birmingham buddhist centre | 4-5 sept |
| dharma month theme tbc |
san francisco buddhist centre | 18 oct -8 nov |
| new year retreat theme tbc |
dharmagiri retreat centre, sweden | 28 dec -6 jan 2011 |
a huge barrel of wine
but no cups
weekend retreats on love and death, inspired by rumi
up north, for gfr women 12 - 14 feb
nottingham 27 - 28 feb
This weekend we'll be exploring the great koan of our Buddhist lives, in fact of all life, the koan of love and death.
This koan is at the root of Rumi's mysterious poem: a huge barrel of wine, but no cups.
Over the weekend we'll engage with this mysterious koan through meditation, symbol, reflection, poetry and ritual. More...
ordinary beauty
wabi sabi retreats
akasavana, for dharmacharinis 23 march - 3 april
rivendell 9 - 16 april
brighton buddhist centre 18 april
anybody's barn 3 - 5 sept
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.
lifting the veil
yogacara retreat
taraloka 11 - 18 june
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.
the essential sangharakshita
abhayaloka retreat for the finnish sangha
25 june - 4 july
taraloka dharma retreat with the taraloka team
27 august - 3 september
more details to follow...
gateways to freedom
gfr meditation retreat
taraloka 6 - 15 august
Finding freedom isn't about going elsewhere, real freedom is only to be found here and now. If we go deeply enough into our experience, in the light of the dharma, we'll find a gateway. A mostly silent meditation retreat with teachings on the skandhas, the laksanas and vimoksa mukhas. More details to follow...