The 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 enable us to cultivate these qualities and to engage with our afflictive emotions – craving, hatred and ‘ignoring’ – in relation to them. In doing […]

'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 awareness. It points to being what we really are, beyond conceptual fabrication. In recognising and opening to the steady and spacious aspects of experience here and […]

Mind, Body and the Three Marks Distinguishing our mental activities ('mind') from immediate sense experience ('body') is vital to all kinds of meditation. If we can develop clarity about this, we can become increasingly embodied and no longer try to 'think' ourselves into meditation. This clarity is essential to mindfulness of breathing, metta bhavana, and […]

Co-led with Prakasha  This retreat is for members of the Triratna Buddhist Order only This retreat will introduce the four principal stages of the spiritual path. Firstly, the contemplation of the three lakshanas. Secondly, entry into the three liberations. Thirdly, the exploration of the perceptual situation. Fourthly, entry into the Mandala of Awakening. Through this […]

Co-led with Rijumitra Bodhicitta – 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 all. This retreat will focus on love, compassion, joy and equanimity – the four ‘divine abodes’ or brahmaviharas – in the context […]