Tag: Retreat

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Form is empty - is it?

By Centre Team on Mon, 7 Oct, 2024 - 11:02

Form is empty - is it?

By Centre Team on Mon, 7 Oct, 2024 - 11:02

An online weekend retreat exploring Suññata with Tejananda

Friday 29th Nov - Sunday 1st Dec

Earlier this year we explored...
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Adhisthana

Open retreat at Adhisthana

By Maitriyogini on Wed, 24 Jul, 2024 - 10:16

Open retreat at Adhisthana

By Maitriyogini on Wed, 24 Jul, 2024 - 10:16

Friday 30 August - Friday 6 September

A retreat led by Saddhanandi, Jvalamalini, Manjuvajra + Ratnaghosha

The natural tendency of the mind is to set limits and settle down, but positive emotion goes against this tendency.

We have all been taught the Metta Bhavana, and it is tempting to imagine we know what we will get with a retreat on kindness. But do we consistently act to nurture the seeds of metta in our hearts and minds? It’s possible to live our everyday lives in a way...
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Adhisthana

The journey towards the ultimate

By Maitriyogini on Sun, 12 May, 2024 - 12:10

The journey towards the ultimate

By Maitriyogini on Sun, 12 May, 2024 - 12:10

Only the walker who sets out toward ultimate things is a pilgrim. The pilgrim resolves that the one who returns will not be the same person as the one who set out. Pilgrimage is a passage for the reckless and subtle. The pilgrim—and the metaphor comes to us from distant times—must be prepared to shed the husk of personality or even the body like a worn-out coat.

- Andrew Schelling

Pilgrims week is back, with the same epic ambitions. A continuous 108 hours of circumambulation,...
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Buddhist Centre Features

Triratna Earth Sangha Online Retreat

By Centre Team on Fri, 10 May, 2024 - 13:29
  • The Wheel of Life and Journey of Death and Liberation

Triratna Earth Sangha Online Retreat

By Centre Team on Fri, 10 May, 2024 - 13:29

A Triratna Earth Sangha weekend retreat exploring the Four Samgrahavastus (Means of Unification of the Sangha)

How to live united and care for all life

Led by Shantigarbha, Sanghajata and team

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Community Highlights

People of Colour Big Weekend at Adhisthana, UK

By Centre Team on Fri, 19 Apr, 2024 - 18:01

People of Colour Big Weekend at Adhisthana, UK

By Centre Team on Fri, 19 Apr, 2024 - 18:01

A unique opportunity to spend a long weekend surrounded by nature, meditating, relaxing and connecting with other people of colour. Chat to new and old friends over a cuppa or a walk in the Malvern hills, and with opportunities to go deeper in periods of silence.

The retreat is led by a wonderful team of experienced practitioners who will share their wisdom through talks, led-discussions and guided meditations, and this year will feature an exciting international guest speaker joining us from overseas.

People of...
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Adhisthana

February at Adhisthana

By Rush on Mon, 4 Mar, 2024 - 16:05

February at Adhisthana

By Rush on Mon, 4 Mar, 2024 - 16:05

The first few months of every year are usually a bit quieter. With fewer people on site this means the cooks have a chance to get more creative; Jayadhi made a great Pad Thai, Bodhiketu created a spicy Lasagne, and Harry has been mastering a variety of recipes that you’ll get a chance to taste when you’re next here.

There are changes afoot again as Prajnanita hands over being manager to Prakashamitra. She will now be the Director – a new role...
Adhisthana
Adhisthana

Freed from the Burning House

By Maitriyogini on Wed, 3 Jan, 2024 - 10:30

Freed from the Burning House

By Maitriyogini on Wed, 3 Jan, 2024 - 10:30

It can effect your dream life, it can effect your meditation, it can effect your life. If you really enter into the imaginative, dream world of the Lotus Sutra, it starts to affect how you experience the world around you.

Ratnaghosha on the White Lotus Sutra.

A practice-focused retreat at Adhisthana, available in person and online.

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Adhisthana

A glance back over our tenth year

By Maitriyogini on Thu, 21 Dec, 2023 - 11:30

A glance back over our tenth year

By Maitriyogini on Thu, 21 Dec, 2023 - 11:30

It’s been a significant year at Adhisthana, and as it draws to a close we are taking the opportunity to cast a backward glance over what has happened.

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To hear, read, and recite..with a single mind

By Maitriyogini on Tue, 24 Oct, 2023 - 16:09
  • Solitary retreat, Finland
  • Solitary retreat, Finland
  • Solitary retreat, Finland
  • Solitary hut, Finland

To hear, read, and recite..with a single mind

By Maitriyogini on Tue, 24 Oct, 2023 - 16:09

Greater still are the merits of those who hear, read and recite it with single mind, explain it clearly and distinctly to the people in the Great Assembly, and practise it as taught.

The White Lotus sutra

On a recent solitary retreat in a cabin in the Finnish countryside, in the midst of quiet countryside and mild autumn days, I spent a period every day for two weeks reading aloud the whole of the White Lotus Sutra.

Back in 1970 Bhante gave a series of talks...
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Adhisthana

Science and Buddhism

By Maitriyogini on Wed, 4 Oct, 2023 - 11:03

Science and Buddhism

By Maitriyogini on Wed, 4 Oct, 2023 - 11:03

Ratnaprabha recently led an over-subscribed retreat at Adhisthana on Science and Buddhism. He will be releasing a series of articles on the topic which you can read on  Adhisthana’s blog as well as Ratnaprabha’s personal website. If you missed the first retreat, there is another in 2024.

Science and Buddhism can be seen as self-contained universes, apparently complete in themselves. Each is a very extensive, coherent worldview, worked out over many centuries. They are the greatest collective cultural achievements...

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