'The stillness and simplicity of a retreat provides the ideal basis for a heightened and consistent emotional positivity.'  

A booster shot of Tiratanaloka and time with sangha friends. Maybe your going for refuge group might like to come together?

The theme will be advertised closer to the date.
 

'The stillness and simplicity of a retreat provides the ideal basis for a heightened and consistent emotional positivity.'  

A booster shot of Tiratanaloka and time with sangha friends. Maybe your going for refuge group might like to come together? This weekend is for young women under 35.  Ratnadharini will be joining us on this weekend. The theme will be advertised closer to the date.
 

This year for the first time we’ll be teaming up with Buddhafield to offer a retreat for women training for ordination. It will be held on the Buddhafield land at Broadhembury.

Please book directly via their website http://www.buddhafield.com/

'The unconditional acceptance of the conditioned is itself the unconditioned.' 

We'll be exploring the three marks of conditioned existence as elucidated in the book The Three Jewels in a week of study, shrine room practice, and spiritual friendship.

This retreat is for carers.  If you are not a carer and wish to book on the retreat, please contact the office.
 

'It is only through intensity of commitment and practice that you achieve any results. For commitment to be strong is has, in a sense, to be narrow.'  

What does it mean to commit your life to a specific spiritual community? We’ll explore kalyana mitrata and the significance of the private and public ordinations to find our own answers. 

'It is only through intensity of commitment and practice that you achieve any results. For commitment to be strong is has, in a sense, to be narrow.'  

What does it mean to commit your life to a specific spiritual community? We’ll explore kalyana mitrata and the significance of the private and public ordinations to find our own answers.

There will be a group for German speakers on this retreat.

'As a committed Buddhist one goes for refuge - or tries to - all the time. As one’s appreciation of the three jewels grows, one’s going for refuge becomes correspondingly more profound.'  

Sangharakshita has said that the act of going for refuge is what makes one a Buddhist. What does this actually mean? And what are the possible results of this act for us?

'As a committed Buddhist one goes for refuge - or tries to - all the time. As one’s appreciation of the three jewels grows, one’s going for refuge becomes correspondingly more profound.'  

Sangharakshita has said that the act of going for refuge is what makes one a Buddhist. What does this actually mean? And what are the possible results of this act for us?

'When our life is inspired by a mythic dimension, we are working out on the historical plane something that is of archetypal significance. And the Bodhicitta is the myth that inspires the Buddhist spiritual community.'

This retreat will explore the mythic dimension, our need for spiritual receptivity, and how we can develop this, especially in relation to the refuge tree. This will be supported by the going for refuge and prostration practice, pujas and meditation. 

'The trend of withdrawal may be said to embody the wisdom aspect of the spiritual life, while the trend of involvement embodies the compassion aspect. Although these trends are contradictory, both must be developed in the course of the spiritual life.' 

How do we bring these two trends into our going for refuge? Is it possible to walk the Bodhisattva path in our busy lives? We’ll be exploring its relevance to us as current and future Order members.