by Vessantara | Mar 17, 2022 | meditation, News, retreats, Uncategorized
This is a quick note to make you aware that I’m doing a series of events for Order members as part of the Nature of Mind programme that Adhisthana is running this year. There is an introductory online evening on 1st April, an online day event on the 3rd, and a...
by Vessantara | Mar 17, 2022 | News, retreats
It has been a while since I posted here, mainly because I spent January and February leading a retreat for Order members at a venue on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole event. We had an excellent team, a great bunch of retreatants, the...
by Vessantara | Sep 9, 2021 | retreats
As Vijayamala doesn’t have her own website, I put details of retreats she is leading on my Teaching Programme page, so people can follow her future plans. So I’ll also announce here that she has had to cancel the retreat that she was due to lead at...
by Vessantara | Aug 15, 2021 | News, retreats
Well, after having to cancel the events I was going to do in June because of ill health, it was all the more delightful to get back in the saddle (or on the cushion) a couple of weeks ago. I was due to lead a 10-day retreat at Adhisthana at the end of July, and as the...
by Vessantara | Oct 12, 2020 | News, retreats
In my last post I talked about the online Order retreat that I’d just done at Adhisthana. I appreciated the retreat so much that I promptly signed up to do another one. So I’ll be back online from Adhisthana , from the 7th – 12th of November, doing...
by Vessantara | Oct 7, 2020 | meditation, News, retreats
Last week I led a 6-day online retreat for members of the Triratna Order, exploring a practice we use for developing bodhicitta. Bodhicitta is the heart of Buddhism, the combination of profound wisdom and great love and compassion that motivates someone to follow the...