Body, Heart, Mind Awake – At Cardiff Buddhist Centre
About the Retreat - Taking the Backward Step Mind is usually taken to mean all kinds of mental activity, but what we’re interested in here is ‘mind itself’ – the […]
£50 – £100
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Cardiff Buddhist Centre 12 St Peter's Street, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Compassion and Emptiness – Vajraloka
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, United KingdomThe Buddha taught the divine abodes – unconditional love, compassion, joy and equanimity – not just as states of calm, but as ways to liberate the mind. The Brahmavihara practices […]
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The Awakening Heart and the Divine Abodes – co-leading with Rijumitra – Vajraloka
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, United KingdomBodhicitta – the awakening heart – is both the heart–response of wisdom to the suffering of living beings everywhere and the urge to realise full awakening for the benefit of […]
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Dhyana Through the Body – at Rivendell
Rivendell Chillies Lane, High Hurstwood, East Sussex, United KingdomAccessing dhyana (jhana), or absorption, seems to be very natural for some people, and a complete mystery to others. Dhyana is well worth cultivating as a way of deepening […]
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Satipatthana: the Buddha’s teaching on mindfulness – co-leading with Prajnapriya – Vajraloka
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, United KingdomThe Satipatthana Sutta, one of the most influential of the Buddha’s discourses, shows how wakeful, insightful attention to body, feelings and mind can enable us to wake up to […]
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Emptiness and the Heart Sutra – at Rivendell
Rivendell Chillies Lane, High Hurstwood, East Sussex, United KingdomThe Heart Sutra is one of the most well-known and loved of all Buddhist texts. Inevitably, there are innumerable takes on what it ‘means’. Early western commentators treated it […]
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Dhyana Through The Body – Re-evaluating Dhyana
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, United Kingdom“Quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states… one suffuses, fills, and permeates one’s entire body with rapture and pleasure born of seclusion, so that there is no part […]
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The Energy of Awakening – co-leading with Karunachitta – Vajraloka
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, United KingdomOur ‘precious human body’ is the first and most important foundation not just of mindfulness, but of meditation and Dharma practice as a whole. The teaching of the Buddha’s […]
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Dhyana and Insight – Reevaluating Dhyana – At Metta Vihara, Hengstdijk, Netherlands
Metta Vihara Hengstdijkse Kerkstraat 36, 4585AC Hengstdijk, Netherlands“Quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states… one suffuses, fills, and permeates one’s entire body with rapture and pleasure born of seclusion, so that there is no […]
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Simply Being – at Vajraloka
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, United KingdomAt any moment we can recognise, directly and viscerally, that we are alive and awake. With a settled and embodied awareness, this may open into an intuitive glimpse of what […]
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Dhyana and Insight 2026 – at Dhanakosa
Dhanakosa DHANAKOSA Buddhist Retreat Centre, Balquhidder, Lochearnhead, FK19 8PQ, Scotland, Balquhidder, Scotland, United KingdomOn this retreat, I will be offering embodied approaches to dhyāna (jhāna) that people have found to be helpful and effective. This may well involve questioning both our own […]
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Body, Heart, Mind Awake – taking the backward step – at Vajraloka
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, United KingdomBody Heart Mind Awake – taking the backward step Mind is usually taken to mean all kinds of mental activity, but what we’re interested in here is ‘mind itself’ […]