Mindfulness, study, the arts and critical thinking in rural Wales
Come join fellow Mitras as we explore going for refuge in the context of Triratna. What is it to go for refuge to the three jewels, how do we turn more towards this in our everyday lives. Whether we are just taking our first steps or looking to deepen our practice, together we can explore …
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By invitation only. Please go to costs and booking to book.
The Middle Way approach can both arise out of meditation experience, and help us to shape meditation practice. There is probably no better way of recognizing how absolute assumptions lie in wait for us at every turn than to meditate - for every distraction, every hindrance, assumes an absolute viewpoint. We think we have the …
Would you like to gain more confidence and experience in cooking vegan food? During this weekend retreat we will be exploring and cooking some of the great range of delicious, (mostly) healthy, low-cost, easy, varied, colourful, and nutritionally balanced food that a plant-based approach has to offer. Viryanaya cooks for retreatants and volunteers from all …
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At Tirylan House, we’re in the process of creating a forest garden: that is, a sustainable and low-input garden designed to produce food for the retreat centre using a diverse mixture of mainly perennial plants. Some of the plants (trees, shrubs, and herbaceous perennials) produce food directly, but many of them have a range of …
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Calling all Night Owls! Have you ever wished you could be on a meditation retreat where you didn't have to get up and go to bed so early?! Then join Suvarnajyoti from the London Buddhist Centre for this pioneering retreat designed to fit the sleep habits of Night Owls. We will spend the week exploring …
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This Triratna retreat is by invitation only, for people from the Worcester Triratna group. If you are part of that group, please book by going to costs and booking
This Triratna Buddhist retreat is by invitation only, for women from the Cardiff Buddhist Centre. Please go to costs and booking to book onto this retreat, if you belong to this group.
The Middle Way Society has now run several walking retreats both in the Lake District and here in the Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog) National Park. We aim to combine walking in the hills and woods with meditation and the arts, treating walking as a practice that can be both mindful and social, and can put …
This Triratna Buddhist retreat is by invitation only, for members of the West Wales Buddhist Group. To book onto this retreat if you belong to this group, please go to Costs and Booking.
Getting caught up in looped states - sometimes called proliferation or rumination - is a central problem for human beings. These can take the form of powerful fantasies or feelings of hatred that keep going round our minds, or of dogmatic beliefs that keep us bound to recurrent ways of thinking. Middle Way Philosophy is …
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