Retreats

Going For Refuge Retreat

The Padmaloka Winter Retreat: 2024/25

An intensive retreat, at a potent time of year, offering a special and unique opportunity to enter into deep silence and meditation. This retreat is the pinnacle of our retreat calendar.

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Living With Awareness

Through immersing ourselves in Sangharakshita's commentary on the Satipatthana Sutta – The Discourse on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness we will explore the 'only way to liberation’.

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The Transcendental Principle

An intensive study of the first chapter of Sangharakshita’s magnum opus, A Survey of Buddhism is fundamental to deepening one’s practical understanding of the Dharma – the basic doctrines and teachings of the Buddha, such as conditioned co-production, the three marks of conditioned existence, the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path.

Order Retreat

Post-Ordination 2024: An Ever Deepening Going for Refuge

A vital opportunity to reconnect with friends, and explore how we can deepen our practice and what it means to live a life in the Order.

Open Retreat

Retreat for Men of Colour: The Great Love

Vimalakirti describes the Great Love as 'the love that is firm, its high resolve unbreakable, like a diamond'. Approaching living beings from the profound and paradoxical perspective of wisdom, Vimalakirti has much to teach us about the true nature of compassion.

Meditation Retreat

Essential Meditation

This no-nonsense retreat focuses on the core principles of meditation, helping you work effectively, renew motivation, and inspire your practice.

Open Retreat

Great Gathering: The Ideal of Human Enlightenment

Who was the Buddha? What is Enlightenment? What is the Ideal Man? Sangharakshita explained that the Buddha embodies a universal human ideal, by which we can orient and transform our lives.

Order Retreat

Men’s European Mitra Convenors’ Meeting 1‍

A retreat for Mitra Convenors in Triratna to gather and deepen their inspiration and vision.

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What is the Order?

This study retreat communicates what it means to participate in the life of the Triratna Buddhist Order.

Open Retreat

Fathers’ Retreat: The Creative Mind

On this retreat, we will explore how we can allow our creative minds to flourish in whatever conditions we find ourselves in our work, our families, our meditation, and our friendships. A retreat for fathers, grandfathers, stepfathers, surrogate fathers, fathers-to-be and father figures!

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Going for Refuge Weekend: The Journey to Ordination

You have asked for ordination, but what is the journey to ordination, what are its various stages, and where do you arrive? Includes the Going Forth ceremony for those who are to be ordained this year.

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The Mythic Context

If we are to make any real progress in transforming ourselves, we must transform our emotional life. To transform the depths, we need to activate faith and imagination, opening ourselves fully to ‘the mythic context’ of our lives