‘Evensong’ means evening prayer or ritual. It’s roots are from the ‘vespers’ which in archaic language means ‘evening’.

Join Singhamanas for a spacious practice of poetry, chanting and meditation. This is a beautiful way to start your evening, transitioning from work into whatever awaits you. Connect more with your practice in daily life whilst building connections.

Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Arrive from 5pm for a 5:15pm start.

Please more...

Do our present conscious actions build our future? An ambitious but brief look at the eight distinct aspects of consciousness to point towards an understanding of the Buddhist perspective on karma as this is depicted as driving this whole wheel of becoming.

Be the Revolution course on the Wheel of Life – with Bhadra. Week 2/6, no need to have attended last week.

Arrive at 19:15 for a 19:30 start.

Please familiarise yourself with our updated more...

We will start to explore a new theme through short introductions, experiential exercises and led meditations. The class also offers an opportunity to share and reflect on our meditation experience through an open format ‘conversation’ after the meditation.

Open to those who have completed the intro courses and are familiar with Triratna’s basic meditation practices. Get in touch if you need to discuss.

Please familiarise yourself with our updated covid more...

‘Evensong’ means evening prayer or ritual. It’s roots are from the ‘vespers’ which in archaic language means ‘evening’.

Join Singhamanas for a spacious practice of poetry, chanting and meditation. This is a beautiful way to start your evening, transitioning from work into whatever awaits you. Connect more with your practice in daily life whilst building connections.

Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Arrive from 5pm for a 5:15pm start.

Please more...

This event is going to be a little different to usual!

Please note the slightly earlier start time.

We are going to spend the evening with the wider Triratna Buddhist community by joining in the start of the Nature of Mind project. This is an innovative and rich series of events over 6-months which looks into the meeting of ancient Buddhist wisdom and modern scientific understanding. We will join others online for the talk, and do discussion and hanging out just in more...

Body as a Dharma door

How do we engage with the body?  With meditation, short talks, group discussion and optional body based practice

Led by The Forest Chapter : Amaladevi, Bodhipushpa, Maitrimani and Samasuri

Lunches and supper will be provided.

Please email Vimalavajri if you need us to arrange accommodation in Bristol, or if you have a special diet for health reasons.

Saturday 5th 10am – 8pm & Sunday 6th February more...

Our tradition places great emphasis on building Sangha (a friendly community of individuals practising the Dharma, the Buddha’s teachings, alongside each other). Possibly because of the experience of the pandemic we may be noticing how we are by nature social creatures: We need each other to know ourselves. This is a safe and open space in which to be with others to bring kind attention to how we relate to others and just as importantly, ourselves.

For those who more...

‘Evensong’ means evening prayer or ritual. It’s roots are from the ‘vespers’ which in archaic language means ‘evening’.

Join Singhamanas for a spacious practice of poetry, chanting and meditation. This is a beautiful way to start your evening, transitioning from work into whatever awaits you. Connect more with your practice in daily life whilst building connections.

Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Arrive from 5pm for a 5:15pm start.

Please more...

Worlds defined by pride, addiction, hatred, delusion, ignorance and attachment swirl within and around us. To step into the potential of our life we need to know where we stand. This is the first step on the path of liberation. This week we will be exploring the imagery of the six realms. Where do we find ourselves?

Be the Revolution course on the Wheel of Life – with Bhadra. Week 3/6 – no need to have attended previous weeks.

Arrive at 19:15 for a 19:30 more...

No need to book!

We will start to explore a new theme through short introductions, experiential exercises and led meditations. The class also offers an opportunity to share and reflect on our meditation experience through an open format ‘conversation’ after the meditation.

Open to those who have completed the intro courses and are familiar with Triratna’s basic meditation practices. Get in touch if you need to discuss.

Please familiarise yourself more...

‘Evensong’ means evening prayer or ritual. It’s roots are from the ‘vespers’ which in archaic language means ‘evening’.

Join Singhamanas for a spacious practice of poetry, chanting and meditation. This is a beautiful way to start your evening, transitioning from work into whatever awaits you. Connect more with your practice in daily life whilst building connections.

Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Arrive from 5pm for a 5:15pm start.

Please more...

Metta Beyond Beings

As in last month’s session, we’ll practise bringing metta to ‘phenomena’: all of our experience, as it unfolds through the six senses.  We’ll also explore ‘Metta with No Reference’.  In this practice we drop the sense of metta having any object at all.  We also let go of the sense of a subject who sends or generates the metta.   Finally we see if it’s possible to let go of the experience of metta needing any more...

The Buddha’s parinirvana was his final and perfect enlightenment, a cessation of all the remaining conditions leading to suffering that are part and parcel of a human life. It is the realisation of the highest goal of human life: pure enlightened awareness.

On Parinirvana Day we will be celebrating the Buddha’s life and recalling his parinirvana with a day of practice.

In the morning we will have a series of reading from the final days of the Buddha’s more...

Our tradition places great emphasis on building Sangha (a friendly community of individuals practising the Dharma, the Buddha’s teachings, alongside each other). Possibly because of the experience of the pandemic we may be noticing how we are by nature social creatures: We need each other to know ourselves. This is a safe and open space in which to be with others to bring kind attention to how we relate to others and just as importantly, ourselves.

For those who more...

‘Evensong’ means evening prayer or ritual. It’s roots are from the ‘vespers’ which in archaic language means ‘evening’.

Join Singhamanas for a spacious practice of poetry, chanting and meditation. This is a beautiful way to start your evening, transitioning from work into whatever awaits you. Connect more with your practice in daily life whilst building connections.

Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Arrive from 5pm for a 5:15pm start.

Please more...

The momentum of the spinning wheel is slowed by facing our delusions. Are we looking for a better life somewhere else in the future or can we be the revolution here and now? Could we dare place faith in finding the power of a skilful compassionate response simply by trusting the power of living in awareness as the primary act of revolution? Let’s see what the image suggests.

Be the Revolution course on the Wheel of Life – with Bhadra. Week 4/6 – no need to have more...

We will start to explore a new theme through short introductions, experiential exercises and led meditations. The class also offers an opportunity to share and reflect on our meditation experience through an open format ‘conversation’ after the meditation.

Open to those who have completed the intro courses and are familiar with Triratna’s basic meditation practices. Get in touch if you need to discuss.

Please familiarise yourself with our updated covid more...

‘Evensong’ means evening prayer or ritual. It’s roots are from the ‘vespers’ which in archaic language means ‘evening’.

Join Singhamanas for a spacious practice of poetry, chanting and meditation. This is a beautiful way to start your evening, transitioning from work into whatever awaits you. Connect more with your practice in daily life whilst building connections.

Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Arrive from 5pm for a 5:15pm start.

more...

There is no Evensong this week. We are taking a break for half term. Back next week!

‘Evensong’ means evening prayer or ritual. It’s roots are from the ‘vespers’ which in archaic language means ‘evening’.

Join Singhamanas for a spacious practice of poetry, chanting and meditation. This is a beautiful way to start your evening, transitioning from work into whatever awaits you. Connect more with your practice in daily life whilst building more...

A brief look at the outer rim of the wheel which illustrates the dynamics that build or diminish potential. A celebration of this precious opportunity for liberation. 

Be the Revolution course on the Wheel of Life – with Bhadra. Week 5/6 – no need to have attended previous weeks.

Arrive at 19:15 for a 19:30 start.

Please familiarise yourself with our updated covid guidelines (Feb 2022) before visiting the centre. Thank you.

We will start to explore a new theme through short introductions, experiential exercises and led meditations. The class also offers an opportunity to share and reflect on our meditation experience through an open format ‘conversation’ after the meditation. With Naravira.

Open to those who have completed the intro courses and are familiar with Triratna’s basic meditation practices. Get in touch if you need to discuss.

Please familiarise yourself with our more...

There is no Evensong this week. We are taking a break for half term. Back next week!

‘Evensong’ means evening prayer or ritual. It’s roots are from the ‘vespers’ which in archaic language means ‘evening’.

Join Singhamanas for a spacious practice of poetry, chanting and meditation. This is a beautiful way to start your evening, transitioning from work into whatever awaits you. Connect more with your practice in daily life whilst building more...

Our tradition places great emphasis on building Sangha (a friendly community of individuals practising the Dharma, the Buddha’s teachings, alongside each other). Possibly because of the experience of the pandemic we may be noticing how we are by nature social creatures: We need each other to know ourselves. This is a safe and open space in which to be with others to bring kind attention to how we relate to others and just as importantly, ourselves.

For those who more...