Day Retreats and Residential Retreats
Adhisthana
Sangarakshita's Birthday Event Invoking Padmasambhava: The Precious Master | Bhante 100
Monday 25 August 9:30am – 7pm
Led by Subhuti + team
This is going to be a large international gathering on 2526th August in the big marquee and the stunning surroundings of Adhisthana. It is to celebrate Sangharakshita's 100th Birthday and learn more about the life and practice of Padmasambhava. There will be no official York party but why not team up with friends and make your own way there? Booking is direct with Adhisthana. https://adhisthana.org/retreat-calendar/retreat/?ev=1120
Costs for the day will be as follows: Standard £35 | Concession £25
Autumn Sangha Retreat
Kshitigarbha - Rescuing beings from from the hell realms
Friday 3 October – Sunday 5 October
Join us on our Autumn Sangha Retreat for a long weekend of living, meditating and practising together in near-perfect conditions. Mahasraddha and Shakyapada will be leading this retreat which will feature the Bodhisattva Kshitigarbha.
Open to all over 18 who are part of the York or Scarborough sanghas. Our new retreat venue - Barmoor stands in a quiet location on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors near Hutton-le-Hole.
Meditation Day Retreat:
Being with Being
The Buddha’s Teaching to Bahiya
Sunday 16 November 10:30am – 4:30pm
2,500 years ago the Buddha gave a pithy teaching to a man called Bahiya who had travelled across India to find him.
The Buddha said to Bahiya, ‘In the seen only the seen; in the heard only the heard; in the cognised only the cognised; in the known only the known.’
“That’s how you should train. When you have trained in this way, you won’t be ‘with that’. When you’re not ‘with that’, you won’t be ‘in that’. When you’re not ‘in that’, you won’t be in this world or the world beyond or between the two. Just this is the end of suffering.”
Bahiya, who had practised deeply for many years became Enlightened on the spot.
During this Day Retreat Shakyapada will be exploring Awareness once again and how it relates to the the six senses of hearing, seeing, touching, tasting, smelling and thinking. There will be short talks, discussions and a number of guided meditations.