Detailed List of Retreats

We tend to associate a fulfilling and engaged life with a busy mind. If we are not actively fretting or thinking about something or other, we will seek diversion through entertainment to occupy our minds. This never stops. Even at night we will helplessly enter yet another world of fantasy and mental projection: we dream. Buddhist meditation puts us in touch with a deeper sense of awareness from where this frantic mental activity can be seen for what it is: a bubble bath of sensations and emotions. Except for some instructions and fire-side chats in the evening, we will cultivate a state of sustained calmness and clarity in an atmosphere of Noble Silence. This retreat is a foretaste of what traditional, longer, silent retreats are like. The retreat includes a traditional Chinese Tea Ceremony