Online Retreats

Deep emptiness is nothing other than compassion, leading to the end of suffering. In the retreat on “Compassion and Emptiness” we explore the teachings that Bhikkhu Analayo highlights in his […]

  We will start by clarifying a crucial distinction - that between mind and body. Mental contents, such as thoughts and images, cannot awaken. Our conceptual mind is not what, […]

On 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 views […]

Early in life, a deep, unconscious view arises which comes to afflict our whole being. If we could put it in words, it might be “I am separate”. It is […]

‘Wings to Awakening’ is a poetic rendering of ‘bojjhaṅgā’ - seven ‘limbs’ or factors that support bodhi - awakening. The bojjhaṅgās are highlighted in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta as crucial to […]

  This four day online solstice retreat will explore the practical implications of a short teaching (one of my favourite retreat readings) by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, “Thoughts and the Mind”. […]

  A ‘Buddha’ is one who has realised ‘bodhi’. Both of these words come from budh, ‘to wake’, to know’, ‘to understand’. We already have a sense of what this […]