Living Well to Die Well – Annual Retreat
Cultivate a practice that enables you to live well every single day without regret.
Online Christmas Practice Day: Mindfully Exploring the Breath
Mindfully Exploring the Breath With Alan Hughes Using the breath as a support is probably one of the best known mindfulness practices, and one of the first that many people learn. This can sometimes give the impression that the Mindfulness of Breath is a “basic practice” but as our mindfulness deepens we discover that this…
Mindfulness for Stress Weekend
We will offer a range of simple mindfulness practices that can be surprisingly effective with any tension or stress that we recognise is present for us
A Few Words on Living Well to Die Well
“Analysis of death is not for the sake of becoming fearful, but to appreciate this precious lifetime.” Dalai Lama Do you feel prepared for your own death? Do you feel equipped to calmly and kindly support loved ones through their final weeks to their death? What is your attitude to the word ‘death’? Do…
Let’s Rise Up!
Let’s Rise Up! If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. (Rainer Maria Rilke) When I did a retreat with Joanna Macy (a renowned Buddhist scholar and activist) many years ago, I was shocked to discover that pretty much all my personal suffering is funnelled down from a more…
What is Buddhism?
A Personal View Next month, in April, I’m going to be teaching on a course with Choden (mindfulness teacher, Buddhist monk, author and old friend) on “The Practice of Buddhism”, which I’ve been asked to write a few words about. Where to start! Buddhism has been around for over two and half thousand years, after…
Late Fragment – Raymond Carver
And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. by Raymond Carver This was the last poem in Raymond Carver’s last book, written while he was dying of cancer. It is also the…
Tonglen Weekend
Note that for this weekend, it will be assumed that participants will already be familiar with basic mindfulness and meditation, and have an established daily practice, so that this weekend is not suitable for beginners. Please book your accommodation and meals for the weekend directly with Samye Ling by emailing bookings@samyeling.org. They will need to…
Living Well to Die Well
Cultivate a practice that enables you to live well every single day without regret.