Due to popular demand, Vajratara is repeating this online Order seminar that we ran in October. 

It will run from 10.30 until 1pm,  Friday, November 24, 2023

Yoga integrates body and mind, restoring our energies for life, health and our highest purposes. This long-weekend retreat gives space for a range of yoga poses and styles, and time to feel the fruits of that in meditation, as well as experiencing communal living and receiving Dharma input.

“In a reactive state you feel cold and hard as though there's a tight little ball inside you or as if you are constantly circling back on yourself.  But in a creative state you feel free and open, flowing and expansive; instead of the little ball there is warmth, radiation, a spiralling outwards and upwards.”  Sangharakshita, ‘Living Wisely’

“Everyday you have five things to practise: Keep up the effort to be mindful and aware; remain in as positive a state as possible; do not lose sight of your ultimate goal at any time; apply at every level whatever you have realised or discovered at the highest level of your being; do your best for other people, do what you can to help them.

“You cannot go for Refuge to the Sangha, to the Dakini, unless you have your own Dakini within. We may say that Dakini goes for Refuge to Dakini.” Sangharakshita, ‘Levels of Going for Refuge’

“One must set an example … of impartiality and detachment, an example of love for humanity as a whole, an example of genuine devotion to the achievement of world peace by non-violent means.  It has to be an example of sanity and compassion.”  Sangharakshita, ‘Buddhism, World Peace and Nuclear War’

“There is something about the movement, the Order and even about me that is not easily definable. There is a touch of something that cannot be buttoned down, something that cannot in the end be defined. Everyone will need to take care of that rather mysterious, indefinable spirit that gives the movement life and energy.”  Sangharakshita, ‘What is the Western Buddhist Order?’

By invitation only.