Summer Retreat - "Stand still and know"
23rd (eve) - 28th August
cost: £205
To break the cycle of endlessly going around the same behavioural patterns, we need to stop, stand still. Only from that place of stillness can we truly see and change.
By studying the Sutta on Dependent Origination we get a deeper insight and support in our practice of “standing still”. Investigating our mind state as the fore runner of all our speech and actions we become more mindful of “where to stop” loosen the grip behavioural patterns have on us.
“Standing still and know” is our path to freedom and happiness.
This is the practice of mindfulness and its applications in our daily life.
Booking: by sending a non-refundable deposit of £50 (cheques to be made payable to Ad Brugman)
Costs includes accommodation and course fee. Participants need to bring food to share and dana for the teacher
Dana reflects
the value you place on the teaching,
the joy of giving and what is realistic for you.
Each participant arrives at the amount voluntarily.
Dana is a Pali word meaning: “liberality,
generosity, offering” and is the first of the “Six Paramis” , ”the
virtues that helps us go further”. Dana is the antidote to holding
on and egoism or self-referencing. The Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche stressed this
first virtue as most important if one wants to make genuine changes in one’s
life. To turn one’s mind to the welfare of others through offering,
giving, brings about a loosening of self-referencing, of “I, Me and
Mine”. It is the opposite of the attitude of poverty, where one sees
the world in terms of lacks rather than offerings.
So, I invite you to join in this practice of spontaneous offering and opening,
of trusting that as we freely give, so in turn we are nurtured.
BURSARIES
Bursaries from The Orchard Sangha Bursary Funds can be obtained to cover part of the course fees for any retreat either with Sonia or Ad at The Orchard.
Enquiries, contact Gini at gini_wade@lineone.