Weekend Urban Retreat at Manchester Buddhist Centre
Flagging up these dates for my forthcoming December weekend workshop for Order members and mitras at the Manchester Buddhist Centre. I'll share full details as soon as the theme is […]
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Manchester Buddhist Centre 16-20 Turner Street, MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
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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 our […]
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Simply Being – Rivendell
Rivendell Chillies Lane, High Hurstwood, East Sussex, United KingdomIn essence, ‘simply being’ evokes the effortless flow of embodied presence. Presence is this ‘timeless moment’, where there is no observer nor observed, no subject or object. It is […]
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Emptiness and the Heart Sutra – Online retreat for Australia and New Zealand
Seven days of meditation, lively exploration, and strong, supportive friendship: a space to explore why the wisdom of emptiness is, precisely, compassion. Led by Tejananda, with Kusalacitta leading ritual […]
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Body, heart, mind awake; taking the backward step – Online retreat
Body Heart Mind Awake – taking the backward step This is my first 'personal' online retreat, exploring the title I've given to my website. Mind is usually taken to […]
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This, just this – Vajraloka
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, United KingdomIn Zen, a sesshin is a period of especially intense all-the-time formal practice. For three days on this retreat, we will adopt - and adapt - this approach. Each […]
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Pointing to the Moon – Online retreat with The Buddhist Centre (Live)
ONLINEThe well-known metaphor of ‘a finger pointing at the moon’ is itself a pointer to something essential in dharma practice. It suggests ‘don’t mistake the finger for the moon’. But […]
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Wisdom Energy – co-leading with Padmadrishti – Vajraloka
Our ‘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 ‘Three […]
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Emptiness and the Heart Sutra – Vajraloka
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, 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 as […]
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Dhyana Through the Body – Vajraloka
Vajraloka Tyn Y Ddol, Corwen, Denbighshire, 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 shamatha […]
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Body, Heart, Mind Awake — taking the backward step – Glasgow Buddhist Centre
Body, heart and mind are essential facets of our being. Mind is usually taken to mean all kinds of mental activity, but what we’re interested in here is ‘mind itself’ […]
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Simply Being – at Dhanakosa
Dhanakosa DHANAKOSA Buddhist Retreat Centre, Balquhidder, Lochearnhead, FK19 8PQ, Scotland, Balquhidder, Scotland, United Kingdom‘Simply being’ points to the aliveness and awakeness that we can recognise at any moment. It’s an openness to full presence, our full being - in body, senses and […]