9 day retreat: A modest awakening

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Wabi-Sabi retreat

Friday 7 June -Sunday 16 June 2024

Lead by Vajradharshini

Costs: €630 (reduced/student rate: €495)

An intensive meditation retreat around the theme of Wabi-sabi. Wabi-sabi is a Japanese aesthetic, which finds beauty and truth in our simple, ordinary experiences.

The Dharma teaches that everything changes, nothing is ever complete and real satisfaction seems always out of reach. These are the harsh truths of human life. And yet… there is a beauty in being human. Transformation isn’t about moving away from life, it’s about going more deeply into it.

With the help of meditation and wabi-sabi, we’ll look deeply into our experience of the 3 marks of existence (laksanas), impermanence, insubstantiality and dissatisfaction. There we can find the doorways to true freedom.

We’ll take a down-to-earth approach to Dharma practice. And draw widely on the Buddhist tradition and on contemporary art and culture, weaving them together to create an engaging and enjoyable retreat. You can expect a week of reflection and meditation, with some long periods of silence.

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