Meditation Tune-up This Sunday with Vajradaka

Sunday, May 14, 10AM - 12:30PM
This week we will take a break from our series on the Brahma Viharas to work with a master meditation teacher.  A visitor from the UK, Dh. Vajradaka will address how to clarify and translate the essential principles of meditation practice into a clearly thought out and practical approach which can suit you and which draws out the best of the meditation practices. He will use contemporary and relevant analogies...

Caring for Others

  A brief posting on the above theme. The company of which I am co-director, Mindful Carers Ltd, is only progressing slowly and has changed its aims, at least in the short term. As to a work project run on Buddhist principles, I definitely think what we need most is a residential care home. That’s some years away, and frankly the social care funding situation has never been worse, prompting me to develop a presentation called “Who in their right mindfulness?”. Anyway,...

Small Actions: Growing Minds

Low Countries young Buddhists retreat April 2017

Gerda writes:

On a sunny, cloudy and windy Easter weekend in April, 27 young buddhists from five different countries came together in retreat centre Metta Vihara in the Netherlands to explore the idea of ‘total action, free mind’.

If we long to free our minds, it may be most obvious to turn to practices working directly with the mind, such as meditation and reflection, which will help us to become wiser, more aware and, as a result, more skilful...