A precious opportunity to spend meditating with others and exploring what comes up. Paramananda is a practitioner of great depth, breadth and a sense of humour and down-to-earthness that helps us to have the courage to just be. You never know what path he will invite you to journey on!
A precious opportunity to spend meditating with others and exploring what comes up. Paramananda is a practitioner of great depth, breadth and a sense of humour and down-to-earthness that helps us to have the courage to just be. You never know what path he will invite you to journey on!
Starting from January 2024, we are introducing a slight adjustment to our wifi accessibility during retreats. We want to create a more retreat-like atmosphere for those coming here, and so will be restricting general access to the wifi for retreatants.
Anyone attending a meeting here will still have access, as well as guests who are not here on a specific retreat. If you have a specific need for internet access during a retreat you are attending here, you can discuss it with...
This being, that becomes From the arising of this, that arises. This not being, that does not become From the cessation of this, that ceases… Nidanasamyutta
Reflect on the end of one year and open to the new. These words from the Buddha provide us with a potent and pithy statement of this transition – and of a central Buddhist truth of dependent arising.
Spend this valuable time of ceasing and arising on retreat with Bodhilila and the...
Buddhafield is looking for retreat team, volunteer crew and cooks for Spring/Summer 2022
Our volunteers camp out on Buddhafield’s beautiful land in Devon, and work together in community to build, run and then dismantle our dana-based retreats. We share food, fireside songs and meditate together. Being part of a retreat team is a powerful experience of living simply, in community and close to nature.
The structure and atmosphere of being part of a retreat team is a combination of land-based community living, Team...
‘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.’
Become a warrior with a soft and open heart! Online Taraloka retreat with Vidyamala and team, for Dharmacarinis and women training for ordination.
Drawing on both Satipatthana mindfulness teachings and Lojong mind training Bodhicitta teachings, this is a retreat designed for these times. As we continue to live through all the upheaval and uncertainty of the global pandemic we need to call on a kind of fearless presence, strength and courage within ourselves alongside kindness, empathy and compassion towards all beings. Satipatthana...
Vajrasana Retreat Centre in Suffolk has an exciting opportunity for two men to join the residential community. Successful applicants will be part of the team who look after this beautiful centre and the thousands of people who come on retreat every year.
The ideal candidates would be GFR mitras, although we would happily consider other mitras and Order members too. The growing community at Vajrasana (up to five) is a place of Sangha and kalyana mitrata. The London Buddhist Centre supports...
