Datum/Tijd
Date(s) - vr 01 aug 2025
zo 10 aug 2025
Categorieën
Intensive meditation retreat
We will track Metta and Wisdom through the Karaniya Metta sutta: one of the Buddha’s teachings on Metta – the cultivation of Universal Loving Kindness. “As such, it is boundless in its scope. There is no limit to how far you can take it.” writes Sangharakshita in “Living with Kindness”.
We will explore Metta and how we can culivate and deepen our experience of this beautiful quality of Reality, using the 3-fold Path of Ethics, Meditation and Wisdom. We will look at our day to day life, and how we can nourish the seeds of kindness, we will meditate and reflect and the Wisdom aspect will unfold by itself.
The retreat will mainly be in silence to help you going deeper into your experience. To be in touch with yourself, your potential of kindness is a gift that will benefit the world. We will explore the deeper meaning of the the Karaniya metta sutta by presentations, exploration in small groups and reflection. The retreat is enveloped in silence. Meditation and ritual will support our care, love, heart’s wishes, clarity and joy.
The retreat is guided by Parina and Saddhanandi
Parina lives in Amsterdam. She is chair of the Amsterdam buddhist centre since 2019, a responsibility that she tries to hold with playfulness, creativity, clarity and awareness. Being on retreat and leading retreats are part of her life: the simplicity, focus, stillness and being away from the city are indispensible for her.
Trained as an artist, Saddhanandi initially was involved in the Glasgow Sangha. She was at Taraloka for 20 years, and was Chair there for the last 13 of those years, before moving to Adhisthana and becoming Chair. In late 2021 she handed on this responsibility to Khemabandhu, butcontinues to live and work here as a member of the Adhisthana Teaching Community.
Tariff
Standard: € 695,-
Concession: € 590,-
Language: english