Easter Retreat 2018 - Schedule

26 Mar 2018

Friday 30^th March

2.00 - 7.00 pm	Arrival and registration
6.00 - 7.00 pm	Supper in Dining Room
7.00 – 8.30 pm	Teaching by Clive Holmes in the Temple
8.00 - 10.00 pm	Tibetan Tea Rooms will be open
10.00 pm	Quiet time

Saturday 31^st March

6.00 - 7.00 am	Green Tara Prayers (optional)
7.00 - 8.00 am	Breakfast
8.00 - 9.00 am	Silent Meditation
10.00 - 11.00 am	Teaching & Meditation with Lama Yeshe Rinpoche
11.00 - 11.30 am	Break
11.30 - 12.30 pm	Teaching by Clive Holmes
12.30 pm	Lunch
1.30 - 3.00 pm	Time for relaxation or help with lunch clear up
3.00 - 4.00 pm	Questions & Answers about Meditation with Lama Yeshe Rinpoche
4.00 – 4.30 pm	Break
4.30 – 6.00 pm	Teaching by Clive Holmes
6.00 – 7.00 pm	Supper
7.00 - 7.45 pm	Chenrezig Prayers (optional)
8.00 - 10.00 pm	Tibetan Tea Rooms will be open
10.00 pm	Quiet time

Sunday 1^st April

6.00 - 7.00 am	Green Tara Prayers (optional)
7.00 - 8.00 am	Breakfast
8.00 - 9.00 am	Silent Meditation
9.30 - 10.30 am	What it means to take Refuge by Ani Lhamo
10.30 – 11.00 am	Break
11.00 – 12.00pm	Refuge Ceremony with Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche or
11.00 – 12.00 pm	Teaching by Clive Holmes for those not taking Refuge *in the Lecture Hall*
12.30 pm	Lunch
1.30 – 3.00 pm	Time for relaxation or help with lunch clear up
3.00 - 4.00 pm	Questions & Answers about Meditation with Lama Yeshe Rinpoche
4.00 – 4.30 pm	Break
4.30 – 6.00 pm	Teaching by Clive Holmes
6.00 - 7.00 pm	Supper
7.00 - 8.30 pm	Amitabha and Chenrezig Prayers (optional)
8.00 - 10.00 pm	Tibetan Tea Rooms will be open
10.00 pm	Quiet time

Monday 2^nd April

6.00 - 7.00 am	Green Tara Prayers (optional)
7.00 - 8.00 am	Breakfast
8.00 - 9.00 am	Silent Meditation
10.00 - 11.00 am	Teaching by Lama Yeshe Rinpoche
11.00 - 11.30 am	Break
11.30 - 12.30 pm	Teaching by Clive Holmes
12.30	Lunch
1.30 – 2.00 pm	Time for relaxation or help with lunch clear up
2.00 – 3.00 pm	Teaching by Clive Holmes *in the Lecture Hall*

The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.

Meditation means simple acceptance.

Only the impossible is worth doing.

Whenever we see something which could be done to bring benefit to others, no matter how small, we should do it.

Freedom is not something you look for outside of yourself. Freedom is within you.

Hasten slowly, you will soon arrive.

It doesn’t matter whatever comes, stop judging and it won’t bother you.

Whatever obstacles arise, if you deal with them through kindness without trying to escape then you have real freedom.

To tame ourselves is the only way we can change and improve the world.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Strive always to be as kind, gentle and caring as possible towards all forms of sentient life.

Every sentient being is equal to the Buddha.

Wherever and whenever we can, we should develop compassion at once.

Reminding ourselves of how others suffer and mentally putting ourselves in their place, will help awaken our compassion.