dharma themes
ordinary beauty - wabi sabi
A meditation and reflection retreat with teachings on wabi sabi, the laksanas and vimoksa mukhas. Bought to life through poetry, film and the world around us.
Wabi Sabi is an aesthetic, which finds beauty and truth in our simple, ordinary experiences. We are being shown profound truths in every moment. Impermanence, painfulness and insubstantiality are the cracks in our mundane world. Through these cracks we'll find chinks of light, three doorways into a new reality, the signless, the wishless and the open. more...
lifting the veil
A meditation retreat with teachings on the yogacara, led reflections, poetry, film and periods of silence.
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 huge barrel of wine - but no cups
We have a huge barrel of wine, but no cups.
That's fine with us. Every morning
we glow and in the evening we glow again.
They say there's no future for us. They're right.
Which is fine with us.
Weekend events looking at the great koan of our Buddhist lives, in fact of all life, the koan of love and death. The same koan is at the root of Rumi's mysterious poem above.
Over the weekend we'll be exploring this koan through meditation, symbol, reflection, poetry and ritual. more...
gateways to freedom
A mostly silent meditation retreat for women who have asked for ordination, with teachings on the skandhas, the laksanas and vimoksa mukhas.
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. more...
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