Steve Stanley on the Urban Retreat. What a great, informative and inspiring week thank you to The Buddhist Centre Online Here's my shrine... #urbanretreat 

Liverpool Buddhist Centre, UK we spent a day together hand printing prayer flags as part of the Urban Retreat Week. #urbanretreat 

Our shrine Liverpool, UK, Urban Retreat 2013 #urbanretreat 

Advayasiddhi Sunshine from Copenhagen Thanks for all your engagement during this week it’s been lovely to hear your stories, to see photos from all round the globe and to witness all your efforts. So heartening to know there is so much metta and inte 

Thank you from Shantikula Dear urban retreat team, Thank you for creating, facilitating and leading us through Blazing like the Sun. Opening Shantikula every night of the week was a first for us, and there were a handful of people that attended every eve 

Düsseldorf took part in the Urban Retreat. Our Mitras Stefan and Tanja organized morning sittings and a practice night, yesterday Vajragupta led virtually our meditation and we listened to his talk about the fifth stage of the metta bhavana. On other days 

Anke: Hello from Wiesbaden (Germany) Sangha Our shrine Hello from our wiesbaden sangha! It is a wonderful, warm feeling to be connected with you. I wish you the best. #urbanretreat 

Savanna and Jon delightfully caught in this global metta wave! Much gratitude for this special opportunity to practice and inspire eachother all together… Vessantra’s short talks in particular have had a real impact on us this week. Deep bows of gratitud 

Magic often happens when you simply give something attention, doesn’t it!?! My frustration at the early part of the week at having difficulty accessing the retreat materials (as I am visually impaired and cannot read the written word) has given way to the 

Hi all, I wanted to share the beautiful shrine created by Prajnamala for our Urban Retreat at Croydon. with metta, Carol #urbanretreat 

Mitra Cake! Portsmouth Buddhist Center, NH. #urbanretreat 

Mitra Ceremony Shrine, No. 2 Portsmouth Buddhist Center, NH, USA. #urbanretreat 

Mitra Ceremony Shrine, Portsmouth Buddhist Center Urban Retreat #urbanretreat 

Our shrine at Barcelona Buddhist Center Metta waves from Barcelona! This is our shrine during the Urban Retreat week. #urbanretreat 

Buddha Rupa from Nepal Roger Bruton on the Urban Retreat. This Buddha sits on the shrine and continues to remind me about what’s important! With metta... #urbanretreat 

Our shrine at the Ipswich buddhist centre. Thanks to Carol and Ed for making such a beautifull shrine for the urban retreat. #urbanretreat 

Urban Retreat shrine in north London. Warm wishes to everyone from North London. Really enjoying sharing the urban retreat with you all. #urbanretreat 

Vajragupta, Berlin Buddhistische Tor, Deutschland. Hello there, here is the Urban Retreat shrine at the Berlin Buddhist Centre. I’m staying here for the week and taking part in the urban retreat here… The Berlin Centre opened in its 

Parami, Herefordshire UK, Simple shrine in my room. Sending metta across the globe #urbanretreat 

shrine chez gill aitken in manchester, uk, urban retreat vajrayogini with more explicit heart to reflect the metta waves…#urbanretreat 

Carol's home shrine, Croydon, England. Hi, Please find attached a photo of my own home shrine, bathed in red for metta. Carol xx May our mind become Buddha, May our thought become Dharma, May our communication with one another be Sangh 

Akasharaja's Urban Retreat shrine, Berlin, Germany. My shrine’s been dusted off and given a welcome makeover for the occasion. #urbanretreat 

Lindsay's Shrine in Bothwell, near Glasgow, Scotland Urban Retreat #urbanretreat 

Hello Everyone, I wanted to share a picture of our shrine at the Seattle Sangha, sorry it is a little blurry. We kicked off the urban retreat last night with a dedication ceremony, followed by a meditation, listening and watching the materials from this 

Arthaketu & Lynne Maries shrine Urban Retreat Changed the shrine a bit for this week Was thinking about 3 minute breathing spaces and thought that I would try a 3 minute looking at an image space and the Amitayus image I find really beautiful and of 

Les Robertson, home shrine for the Urban Retreat, Renton, Scotland, part 2 #urbanretreat 

@dhammadinna, London: "Part of my Tara shrine", Urban Retreat 2013 #urbanretreat 

Les Robertson, home shrine for the Urban Retreat, Renton, Scotland, part 1 #urbanretreat 

Claire Martin, Beauly, Scotland: Home Shrine, Urban Retreat #urbanretreat 

Home shrine in San Francisco by @marysalome , part 2 #urbanretreat 

Home shrine in San Francisco by @marysalome , part 1 Here’s my hallway shrine at home. Today is my birthday and I did a special “family of origin” metta bhavana with my Mom, Dad, sister, brother, and all beings in mind. I am enjoying all the activity on 

Home shrine at night, Glasgow, Scotland, part 2 #urbanretreat 

Home shrine at night, Glasgow, Scotland, part 1: Home shrine, light and shade. Excited about my first urban retreat and inspired by the resources and the thought of our worldwide sangha deepening the metta connection. Sadhu! #urbanretreat 

Elke from Wavertree (Liverpool) Home Shrine for the Urban Retreat: I redecorated my shrine today as part of my mindful of meta practice. The beautiful prayer beeds in the foreground are from a lovely new shop in Liverpool where encountered 

Building the shrine in Leeds (UK), making a sun... #urbanretreat 

Worcester Buddhist Centre, UK, shrine for the Urban Retreat #urbanretreat 

Leeds Buddhist Centre, UK, Urban Retreat: Loving Kindness Blazing Like The Sun... #urbanretreat 

The Seattle Sangha for the Urban Retreat Metta wave #urbanretreat 

Abhayadevi in Inverness, Green Tara shrine for the Urban Retreat #urbanretreat 

Eleanor, Home Shrine Eastbourne, UK... feeling such gratitude and appreciation for this wonder and metta full urban retreat added a heart, studded with pearl beads, to my shrine today to represent heart connection and a more truthful commun 

Cambridge Buddhist Centre, UK Urban Retreat shrine #urbanretreat 

Stella Home Shrine, Wem, North Shropshire. #urbanretreat 

Johannesburg shrine no. 2: The Teahouse Shrine is a second space that has been created to allow for more activities to happen simultaneously at Shantikula. We used it for the first time today on the second day of the Urban Retreat. It is lovely to be in a 

Start of the Urban Retreat at The Blackburn Triratna Buddhist Centre Hope everyone is full of Metta and is sharing it with all beings. Vidusi #urbanretreat 

ccat27 Shrine in Hamilton, Scotland for the Urban Retreat 2013. Tara and Padmasambhava in a homely setting. #urbanretreat 

Paula, Brett, and Oliver's new shrine Hi All, we are joining the retreat from Newcastle Australia. As part of the retreat and practice in mindfulness we have decided to forego watching television and instead have created a family shrine in the lounge roo 

Here is a photo of our shrine for the Rocky Mountain Buddhist Center Urban Retreat. Kay sending love from Missoula Montana USA. #urbanretreat 

Picture from the retreatshrine at Dharmagiri retreatcenter in Sweden. The theme of the retreat is how to build Sangha and is led by Gyhyavajra. For the Urban Retreat 2013. #urbanretreat 

From Kusalamati, Beijing, China for the Urban Retreat 2013. Hello fellow Urbanites, I’m very happy to be joining you all in your various quarters on this week of practice, and the theme of Metta Bhavana couldn’t come at a 

Will Elworthy, Tintern, South Wales Home Shrine From our Shrine space in Tintern South Wales, which we will be making full use of during the Urban Retreat. I am based at the Cardiff Sangha and Michelle is based at the Bristol Sangha. I hope you all have 

Portsmouth Buddhist Center, New Hampshire, USA shrine for the Urban Retreat 2013. Here’s a picture of the shrine we made this morning at the Portsmouth Buddhist Center in New Hampshire (USA). We had a lovely group this 

Steven Caldwell from Sydney, Australia, shrine for the Urban Retreat... Just down the road from the Sydney Buddhist Centre is our small house. Here’s the shrine room where my partner and I meditate. The red cloth is a special one brought 

Inverness, Scotland, Triratna Highlands shrine for the Urban Retreat 2013 #urbanretreat 

Brighton Sangha wishes you a happy and effective urban retreat! #urbanretreat 

Exeter Triratna group wishing you a good Urban retreat! X #urbanretreat 

Dublin Buddhist Centre This is our shrine for our Urban Retreat, with Amitabha as the patron Buddha. 

In the main shrine at Shantikula, for Blazing like the Sun. There were 6 of us who joined into the retreat and had a pleasant, and productive morning together. We meet up again tomorrow morning 

Beautiful shrine made by Amaladevi for Bristol urban retreat. 

Amalavajra's shrine for the Urban Retreat. This the shrine in my bedroom. At best, all five us in my community in East London Vajradaka, Mike MacFarlane, Luke Doherty, Alex Crowe and myself meditate each morning for an hour at 7am. Then we have breakf 

Richard Pauley's shrine for the Urban Retreat