Meditation Day Retreat:
Being with Being
The Buddha’s Teaching to Bahiya

As meditators we aim to stay present with our moment-by-moment experience but sometimes it seems that all we encounter is thoughts and distractions. 

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.

We may not become Enlightened like Bahiya but maybe we can train ourselves, in meditation at least, just to hear, just to see and so on, without adding to everything we find in our experience.

Open to anyone over the age 18 years who has been meditating for at least 6 months.

Booking is essential, please follow the link at the foot of this page

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