Rains retreat with Dhivan. 1st – 8th November

Dependent Arising and the Path to LiberationPratītya-samutpāda or ‘dependent arising’ is the Buddha’s teaching about how everything we experience arises on causes and conditions, and ends with the ending of those same conditions. So dependent arising gives us a framework both for thinking about the ways in which suffering and unsatisfactoriness arises in life, but also about how we can give rise to the conditions for deepening wellbeing and liberating insight. In this retreat, Dhivan will share his years of study and practice with this teaching in a practical way, combining study and discussion with meditation and reflection.

Dhivan is the author of This Being, That Becomes: The Buddha’s teaching on conditionality, published by Windhorse Publications (2011), and this book would make good preparatory reading for the retreat. You can get a taste of Dhivan’s more scholarly work on dependent arising at https://www.saet.ac.uk/Buddhism/DependentArising. This retreat however will be much more down to earth and practical in its approach.

Our popular annual 7-day non-residential retreat at the Bristol Buddhist Centre is open to all Mitras and Order members in the region, plus those who have completed an introductory course at the Centre and regularly attend classes. Please take time to read Dhivans book before the retreat. Although the hope is you will take time to participate in the whole event, you are invited to attend as much or as little as you can fit into your life. All meals are provided and there will be space in the programme to simply hang out in the Centre with Sangha.

Detailed programme will be posted nearer the time.