Living with kindness
The karaniya metta sutta
‘Loving kindness which is freedom of heart… it glows, it shines, it blazes forth.’
Join us on a retreat celebrating kindness, love and bodhicitta – central qualities to the Buddhist path and central qualities to our founder Sangharakshita’s teaching.
Vidyamala and Sona are with us from the UK for quite possibly the last time, and will be joined by Suvarnadhi and Ratnavyuha on this urban retreat. It will be an opportunity to explore different ways to awaken your heart to boundless and luminous love.
Taking the Karaniya Metta Sutta as the foundational text, there will be talks from different team members each day, ritual and devotion, meditation and groups.
What's an urban retreat?
This is a hybrid event with a mix of in person and online elements. Over the weekend, we'll come together at the beautiful Blockhouse Bay Boat Club for a half day introduction and whole day immersion session. From Monday - Thursday, we'll have three shorter online sessions together each day (kind of like breakfast, lunch and dinner). On the last day, there's an option to come together again at the Blockhouse Bay Boat Club, or simply join online. (Note: there's an option to join the entire retreat online only - please register here instead.)
Programme
Saturday 18 January
2.30pm - a 2.5 hour introductory session at the Blockhouse Bay Boat Club
Sunday 19 January
Immersion retreat for the day at the Blockhouse Bay Boat Club. Precise start time TBC. 5pm finish.
Monday 20 January - Thursday 23 January
Online events.
- 7am to 8am meditation
- 1pm to 2pm lunchtime practice session
- 7.15pm - 9pm Dharma talk, discussion and puja
Friday 24 January
- 10.30am - 1pm session to conclude at the Blockhouse Bay Boat Club. (You can join this last session online if you can't make it in person.)
This event is open to those who have learned the metta bhavana and mindfulness of breathing practices with us.
Bookings close 15 January at 10am.
Zoom details to join online will be emailed to all participants on Friday 17 January.
When
Cost
$150 / $180 / $210
Self-select your contribution. This retreat will help support the ABC's renovation project.
Caring for each other's health
Before attending, please read our current Covid Guidelines. This is part of how we practice together.
Led by
Vidyamala
My name, given to me at the time of my ordination into the Triratna Buddhist Order in 1995, means ‘Garland of Wisdom’. This is something I…
Sona
I've been practicing within Triratna for around 50 years. I'm a public preceptor and co-founder of Breathworks, an organisation that trains people in…
Suvarnadhi
My name means 'she whose wisdom is like gold' and was given to me at ordination in 2019. At that time, I'd been practising within the Triratna…
Ratnavyuha
I've been actively involved with the Triratna Buddhist community since 1992 while still at University. As with many other people, my personal journey…