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First Retreat for Italian Speakers

By Suvarnagarbha on Wed, 8 Oct, 2025 - 18:49

First Retreat for Italian Speakers

By Suvarnagarbha on Wed, 8 Oct, 2025 - 18:49

In September we held our first long weekend for Triratna Italian speakers at Adhiṣṭhāna. We had about 12 people on the retreat. Some flew from Italy and other parts of Italy to be with us. We enjoyed studying a passage from Sangharakshita translated into Italian and the retreatants very much enjoyed the chance to participate in Dharma discussion in their mother tongue. It was a very lively discussion group. We also did puja and rituals in Italian.

We hope that...

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Science and Subjectivity Retreat

By hallykelly on Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 - 11:09

Science and Subjectivity Retreat

By hallykelly on Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 - 11:09

Science makes sense of the objective world, including the human brain and nervous system. But what of private inner experiences – subjectivity? Can you be objective about that?

This seminar is for order members with a scientific background or an interest in science. We’ll have presentations from Munissara, Jnanadasa, Vaddhaka, and perhaps others; all have thought deeply about subjectivity from both Buddhist and scientific angles.

Munissara, a psychiatrist, explains methods for exploring the mind, which can even assess deep psychology and degrees of insight. Jnanadasa,...

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Buddhafield Events for 2025

By bethbuddhafield on Thu, 12 Dec, 2024 - 12:52

Buddhafield Events for 2025

By bethbuddhafield on Thu, 12 Dec, 2024 - 12:52

Buddhafield Events for 2025 are up and ready for your perusal…. Come and check out what we’re offering next year.

From meditation retreats, to family-friendly retreats, walking and wilderness retreats, retreats for people new to meditation or Buddhism, online retreats, retreat and camp from the Green Earth Awakening team, retreats exploring ritual and story-telling… and of course our festival.

https://mailchi.mp/buddhafield/12738547

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Open retreat at Adhisthana

By Maitriyogini on Wed, 24 Jul, 2024 - 10:16

Open retreat at Adhisthana

By Maitriyogini on Wed, 24 Jul, 2024 - 10:16

Friday 30 August - Friday 6 September

A retreat led by Saddhanandi, Jvalamalini, Manjuvajra + Ratnaghosha

The natural tendency of the mind is to set limits and settle down, but positive emotion goes against this tendency.

We have all been taught the Metta Bhavana, and it is tempting to imagine we know what we will get with a retreat on kindness. But do we consistently act to nurture the seeds of metta in our hearts and minds? It’s possible to live our everyday lives in a way...

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People of Colour Big Weekend at Adhisthana, UK

By Centre Team on Fri, 19 Apr, 2024 - 18:01

People of Colour Big Weekend at Adhisthana, UK

By Centre Team on Fri, 19 Apr, 2024 - 18:01

A unique opportunity to spend a long weekend surrounded by nature, meditating, relaxing and connecting with other people of colour. Chat to new and old friends over a cuppa or a walk in the Malvern hills, and with opportunities to go deeper in periods of silence.

The retreat is led by a wonderful team of experienced practitioners who will share their wisdom through talks, led-discussions and guided meditations, and this year will feature an exciting international guest speaker joining us from overseas.

People of...

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February at Adhisthana

By Rush on Mon, 4 Mar, 2024 - 16:05

February at Adhisthana

By Rush on Mon, 4 Mar, 2024 - 16:05

The first few months of every year are usually a bit quieter. With fewer people on site this means the cooks have a chance to get more creative; Jayadhi made a great Pad Thai, Bodhiketu created a spicy Lasagne, and Harry has been mastering a variety of recipes that you’ll get a chance to taste when you’re next here.

There are changes afoot again as Prajnanita hands over being manager to Prakashamitra. She will now be the Director – a new role...

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Freed from the Burning House

By Maitriyogini on Wed, 3 Jan, 2024 - 10:30

Freed from the Burning House

By Maitriyogini on Wed, 3 Jan, 2024 - 10:30

It can effect your dream life, it can effect your meditation, it can effect your life. If you really enter into the imaginative, dream world of the Lotus Sutra, it starts to affect how you experience the world around you.

Ratnaghosha on the White Lotus Sutra.

A practice-focused retreat at Adhisthana, available in person and online.

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To hear, read, and recite..with a single mind

By Maitriyogini on Tue, 24 Oct, 2023 - 16:09

To hear, read, and recite..with a single mind

By Maitriyogini on Tue, 24 Oct, 2023 - 16:09

Greater still are the merits of those who hear, read and recite it with single mind, explain it clearly and distinctly to the people in the Great Assembly, and practise it as taught.
The White Lotus sutra

On a recent solitary retreat in a cabin in the Finnish countryside, in the midst of quiet countryside and mild autumn days, I spent a period every day for two weeks reading aloud the whole of the White Lotus Sutra.

Back in 1970 Bhante gave a series of talks...

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