Life consists of things coming and going, births and deaths, decay and renewal, stops and starts. Some of these things we like; others we don’t. This surely invites us to live on the edge of the only thing that is truly real: the ever-fleeting, ungraspable moment. This is a good time of the year to take stock and contemplate our moment to moment, here-now reality in all its fullness. We will celebrate Christmas with a Buddhist slant, and experience a lantern-lit perambulation around the Buddha, and sky lanterns lifting into the starry sky - where they meet up with our past and carry us into the future. This retreat will be held in Noble Silence.