You may have seen in the
program for the retreat that as well as hosting the retreat materials here, we’ll also be doing some online-only events designed to help bring awareness of the practice into that aspect of our daily lives. We can easily spend so much time online - it’s a challenge to find mindful ways to engage amid so much distraction! And, of course, not everyone is near a Buddhist Centre… So we’re interested in new ways to have a taste of what
sangha means and we’d also like to develop resources that can help anyone bring more self-awareness (and, in that sense, more self metta!) into their web use…
- Listen for daily podcasts (Monday-Friday - at least!)
- Online meditation: 12th & 14th (Tue/Thu): 11am EST/4pm UK/5pm Europe/9.30pm India
- Submit questions any time during the retreat for Vessantara by posting here or on Twitter (@buddhistcentre) using the hashtag #urbanretreat. Questions will be answered on the site and on Twitter on Wednesday and Friday (13th/15th).
- Facebook Group live discussion: “metta in the face of world problems” (Friday 15th, 11am EST/4pm UK/5pm Europe/9.30pm India)
- Follow us on Instagram (@buddhistcenter) - we’ll make an Instagram feed of pictures you pictures [at] thebuddhistcentre.com (send us) or post to this space of your Urban Retreat shrine/Buddha statue. (Unless you ask us not to!)
With apologies to those in the southern hemisphere who, we hope, will be sleeping soundly when some of these events are happening. We’ll be bearing you in mind though… See you online!
It might just be me, but I am already feeling a little overwhelmed at the *amount* of materials there is to look at! And I can only see this getting worse as the week goes on (especially as I work full-time and am not sure how well I’ll be able to keep up). Is there some way of linking like materials together, or putting them in subfolders or something?? Eg. all the guided meditations in one place / all the reading matter in one place / all the foreign language stuff in one place / all the ‘notices’ in one place. At the moment I’m just scrolling through a big list of stuff (maybe I’m just doing it wrong?!), so have to search out what I really want at that moment, and also worry that I’m missing interesting things. Some way of getting a bit of a structured overview would be really useful.