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. We...

Adhisthana
Adhisthana

Insight and Imagination: Meditating on the Vimalakirti Nirdesa

By Caroline I P on Thu, 10 Aug, 2023 - 10:30

Insight and Imagination: Meditating on the Vimalakirti Nirdesa

By Caroline I P on Thu, 10 Aug, 2023 - 10:30

On this retreat Vessantara will guide us through practices that will penetrate to the the wisdom at the heart of this text. Through symbols and imagery we will bring about a mystic marriage of insight and imagination.

So, how do you practise a Mahayana sutra? Can you take it deep into your being, so that it’s vision affects your whole life?

Click for more info and to book

Adhisthana
Adhisthana

Want to get better at the Mindfulness of Breathing?

By Caroline I P on Tue, 11 Jul, 2023 - 09:50

Want to get better at the Mindfulness of Breathing?

By Caroline I P on Tue, 11 Jul, 2023 - 09:50

The Mindfulness of Breathing is the practice that gives us a structure to take our awareness into the breath, the body, the feelings, the mind and the nature of phenomena.

Over the past six weeks Dhammarati has been leading a series on the Anapanasati Sutta - the Buddha’s instructions on this practice. This Q&A session was offered to the 200 people on the course; watch for a sneak-peak at what next week’s Order retreat on the Satipatthana will be like. There...

Adhisthana
Adhisthana

The First UK National People of Colour Retreat

By Caroline I P on Fri, 30 Jun, 2023 - 10:30

The First UK National People of Colour Retreat

By Caroline I P on Fri, 30 Jun, 2023 - 10:30

At the end of May Adhisthana hosted a long weekend for the first national People of Colour retreat for the UK. While Triratna POC events have been running in London for over thirty years, this is the first time that there has been a national retreat offered for people of colour drawing on Sangha’s from around the UK.

The teaching team for the retreat was Surygupta (Chair of the London Buddhist Cente), Bodhilila (Chair of the West London...

Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

Dharmabytes: Closer to Truth Through Silence

By Zac on Thu, 25 May, 2023 - 06:00

On a Silent Retreat at Taraloka, Samantabhadri honours silence as significant spiritual practice where we dwell more deeply with ourselves, with others, with nature and the objective world, and within a developing atmosphere. All this opens a vision of experiencing ‘Reality as it is’ (Sangharakshita). From the talk Silence: Practice and Vision given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2022.

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Buddhafield
Buddhafield

Songs from Silence Retreat - 24th-28th Aug

By bethbuddhafield on Fri, 19 May, 2023 - 19:03

Songs from Silence Retreat - 24th-28th Aug

By bethbuddhafield on Fri, 19 May, 2023 - 19:03

Songs from Silence Retreat 

24th-28th August

Frogmill, Nr Throwleigh, Devon

“We must bear silence before we can feel in our bodies the deep joy of what the world is always already singing to us”

Led by: Mokshayogin, Sraddhadipa, Jo Spence, Joe Hill and yoga/movement with Ruth Coutinho.

Starting with the premise that vibration is the beginning of all things, this retreat will explore how we might work and play with sound, resonance, vibration and the voice as Dharma practice.

Together, we will explore how harmony singing and vocal play can support us...

Suryavana Retreat Centre
Suryavana Retreat Centre

A room with a view. Yoga retreat with Bodhiyoga at Suryavana Retreat Centre, Spain

By Sudaka on Fri, 21 Apr, 2023 - 14:37

A room with a view. Yoga retreat with Bodhiyoga at Suryavana Retreat Centre, Spain

By Sudaka on Fri, 21 Apr, 2023 - 14:37

For Our forthcoming Yoga Retreat with Sadhita in Suryavana 22-28 June. We are offering singles (£850), doubles (£650) and one of the rooms called “Dana” - Generosity, as dormitory style room (£450) for our forthcoming Yoga retreat at Suryavana. Do join us! Contact Sadhita info [at] bodhiyoga.es

Triratna Oslo
Triratna Oslo

Uncontrived mindfulness meditation retreat led by Vajradevi

By Muditadevi on Fri, 17 Mar, 2023 - 09:14

Uncontrived mindfulness meditation retreat led by Vajradevi

By Muditadevi on Fri, 17 Mar, 2023 - 09:14

in Norway 7.-16. July 2023 

The retreat is held in Lillomarkskapellet, previously a ’sportschapel’ in the forest, 40 minutes’ drive from Oslo. It is quiet with beautiful surroundings; a small lake for swimming and natural walks in the forest.  Rooms are shared with 3-4 others. We ask for regular meditation practice for some years.

More info and booking: Go to https://www.oslobuddhistsenter.no/arrangementsdetaljer-og-registrering/u….

Price: NOK 4.500 to cover cost for food, lodging and transport from Kjul or Oslo, and we have 3 spaces for ...

Buddhafield
Buddhafield

Women's and non-binary Yatra Retreat

By bethbuddhafield on Fri, 17 Feb, 2023 - 17:38

Women's and non-binary Yatra Retreat

By bethbuddhafield on Fri, 17 Feb, 2023 - 17:38

Our Spring Yatra (walking retreat) is now fully booked! But there’s still a few places left on our Women’s Yatra this coming April…

🌸🌾Women’s and non-binary Yatra - 16th-22nd April - Honiton to Glastonbury

Walking and meditating together on a pilgrimage through the ancient sacred landscape of Britain, we will be evoking the way of life of the very earliest Buddhists.

These walking retreats are a mindful celebration of our land and its primordial energies. During the day we will walk in silence and in single...

West London Buddhist Centre
West London Buddhist Centre

Online Meditation Retreat - Poetics of Awakening

By Ratnadeva on Mon, 8 Aug, 2022 - 21:46

Online Meditation Retreat - Poetics of Awakening

By Ratnadeva on Mon, 8 Aug, 2022 - 21:46

The Buddha was known as the awakened one, but what does it mean to really wake up? Buddhism is clear that this awakening is more than just intellectual knowledge. More importantly it is an opening of the heart and imagination to our own deepest nature and our place in the world. During this online retreat we will be looking at how we might deepen into ourselves and open to the world through our practice of meditation and ritual.

Programme

Session 1 (2 hrs):...

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