Detailed List of Retreats

Life consists of things coming our way and falling away, births and deaths, decay and renewal, stops and starts. We try to juggle these as well as we can, liking some of it, avoiding the ones we don’t. But there is a deeper wisdom behind all this – one that asks us not to be so choosy and opinionated about what should and should not be happening to us. This requires us to live on the edge of the only thing that is truly real: the ever-fleeting, ungraspable moment. In these retreats we will discover how we forget to live in the here and now when we focus too much on what is past and fret about what may or may not happen in the future. This is a good time of the year to take stock and contemplate our moment to moment, here-now reality in all its fullness; bid farewell to 2014 and welcome the New Year with a renewed willingness to take life on the chin and make whatever comes along workable. We will celebrate Christmas with a Buddhist slant, and New Year with a lantern-lit perambulation around the Buddha, ringing out the old year with an ancient Chinese temple gong, and welcoming the new year with a Tibetan bell. We will release Thai sky lanterns into the starry sky – carrying our past and meeting up with our future.

Apart from the discussion periods and ceremonies, there will be periods of meditative Noble Silence.