Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

The River Underground: A Meditation Home Retreat

By dayaketu on Wed, 4 Jun, 2025 - 07:00

The River Underground: A Meditation Home Retreat

By dayaketu on Wed, 4 Jun, 2025 - 07:00

The River Underground: A Meditation Home Retreat
with Paramananda & Melbourne Buddhist Centre

11-17 July

Reserve your place here

“We heal through the imagination, through images and fictions.”

James Hillman, ‘Healing Fiction’

At its best, meditation practice and Dharma reflection can be a means to help us gain access to the unseen underlying currents and forces that shape our lives. Yet, as practitioners in day to day life, many of us can still have an experience of somehow being ‘out of touch’ both with ourselves and...

Adhisthana
Adhisthana

The Three Jewels

By Maitriyogini on Mon, 26 May, 2025 - 10:30

The Three Jewels

By Maitriyogini on Mon, 26 May, 2025 - 10:30

Dhammarati and Saddhanandi take a closer look at some important quotes from ‘The Three Jewels’ exploring Sangharakshita’s ability to combine the poetic and the analytical. They will be leading an Order retreat together on this material at the end of June - join us online or in person.

Buddhafield
Buddhafield

Buddhafield - At Home with the Elements - Voices of the Rain

By bethbuddhafield on Sat, 13 Jan, 2024 - 12:54

Buddhafield - At Home with the Elements - Voices of the Rain

By bethbuddhafield on Sat, 13 Jan, 2024 - 12:54

“Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them. Sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever.” 

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, 2013

This year, At Home With the Elements invites us to open our hearts, minds, arms and all our senses to the voices of the rain: the wisdom and the nourishment of the rest of the natural world. What...

Buddhafield
Buddhafield

Buddhafield - At Home with the Elements - Voices of the Rain

By bethbuddhafield on Tue, 7 Nov, 2023 - 18:14

Buddhafield - At Home with the Elements - Voices of the Rain

By bethbuddhafield on Tue, 7 Nov, 2023 - 18:14

“Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them. Sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever.”

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, 2013

This year, At Home With the Elements invites us to open our hearts, minds, arms and all our senses to the voices of the rain: the wisdom and the nourishment of the rest of the natural world. What...

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

(More) Reflections: Writing and Meditation

By Centre Team on Tue, 15 Aug, 2023 - 14:46

(More) Reflections: Writing and Meditation

By Centre Team on Tue, 15 Aug, 2023 - 14:46

Sunday October 15th 2023 with Yashobodi
Following an engaging and thought-provoking event held last Spring, we invite you once more to take part in a day of exploration and practice through meditation and reflective writing with Yashobodhi and others. We will gently delve into our experience following writing prompts and working with images and metaphors. No previous experience required!

Book now for (More) Reflections with Yashobodhi

The kind of writing we will be doing is unplanned....

West London Buddhist Centre
West London Buddhist Centre

With Roots in the Sky

By Ratnadeva on Tue, 18 Jan, 2022 - 14:56

With Roots in the Sky

By Ratnadeva on Tue, 18 Jan, 2022 - 14:56

Online Meditation Retreat 23-29 January 2022

with Paramananda and Bodhilila

‘Imagine a sky, empty, spacious and pure from the beginning; the essence of the nature of mind is like this. Imagine a sun, luminous, clear, unobstructed, and spontaneously present; the nature of mind is like this. Imagine that sun shining out impartially on us and all things, penetrating all directions; the energy of mind, which is the manifestation of compassion, is like this; nothing can obstruct it and it pervades everywhere.’

from Tibetan Book of Living...

Buddhafield
Buddhafield

At Home with the Elements Online Event 2022

By lotusbuddhafield on Mon, 6 Dec, 2021 - 16:34

At Home with the Elements Online Event 2022

By lotusbuddhafield on Mon, 6 Dec, 2021 - 16:34

13th - 27th February, 2022

Our sense of identity is deeply rooted in the real nature of things. This is the fullness of contentment.
-
Subhuti, Mind in Harmony

What is the antidote to deep feelings of separation? Of despair and loneliness? Without being able to control everything, how can we hope to gain any sense of security?
 
Connecting with deep identity means realising that we are nature, that we contain the six elements within us at the same time...

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Online Urban Retreat 2021 - The Alchemy of the Sangha

By Cardiffbuddhist... on Thu, 7 Oct, 2021 - 16:11

Online Urban Retreat 2021 - The Alchemy of the Sangha

By Cardiffbuddhist... on Thu, 7 Oct, 2021 - 16:11

Cardiff Buddhist Centre and Stroud Sangha proudly invite you to our online Urban Retreat!

With an alchemical mixture of talks, workshops, meditation, ritual, creativity and discussion, we will explore these four tantric rites in relation to Sangha. We will also explore how to bring this retreat into your everyday life and transform you, no matter what your living conditions are.

When...

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