Meditation Practice Retreat

2:00pm 08 October 2023 - 12:00pm 15 October 2023

Cost: £0.00

Venue: Samye Ling

Drupon Khen Rinpoche will lead the retreat which will entail a mix of daily meditation sessions and teaching sessions. 

Rinpoche will give teachings from the life of Milarepa excerpted from Tsangnyon Heruka's life story of Milarepa.  There will also be Q&A on meditation as well as general advice for travelling the path to liberation.

This year on 8th October it is ten years since Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche passed away.  Engaging in this week-long practice and study retreat is good for us and potentially good for others too, and it's a meaningful and auspicious way to commemorate Akong Rinpoche.  

To register for the retreat and to book accommodation in Samye Ling please send an email to bookings@samyeling.org.

The Retreat will begin at 2pm on 8th October and finish at lunchtime on 15th October.  

All participants must register and must undertake to attend all sessions. 

There is no course fee, though donations may be made in the Reception Office.

DAILY PROGRAMME

8th October

10.00 – 12.00

Registration for the Meditation Retreat in Reception Office

Please note it is essential to register before joining the retreat – even if you are a resident of Samye Ling or if you are not staying in Samye Ling

14.30 – 16.00

First teaching & practice session  བཤད་ཐུན་དང་བསྒོམ་ཐུན།

16.30 – 17.30

Teaching session  བཤད་ཐུན།

17.30 – 18.00

Mahakala prayers མ་ཧཱ་ཀ་ལ།

18.00

Soup in Dining Hall

19:00 – 20:00

Practice Session

9th to 15th October

05.30 - 07.00

Practice Session བསྒོམ་ཐུན།

07.00

Breakfast    ཞོགས་ཇ།

08:30 – 10.00

Teaching & Practice Session བཤད་ཐུན་དང་བསྒོམ་ཐུན།

10.30 – 12.00

Teaching Session བཤད་ཐུན།

12.30

Lunch    གུང་ཚིགས།

14.30 – 16.00

Teaching & Practice Session བཤད་ཐུན་དང་བསྒོམ་ཐུན།

16.30 – 17.30

Teaching Session བཤད་ཐུན།

17.30 – 18.00

Mahakala prayers མ་ཧཱ་ཀ་ལ།

18.00

Soup  དགོང་ཚིགས།

19.00 – 20.00

Practice Session བསྒོམ་ཐུན།

 

 

Tariff and Charges Guest Info
The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Meditation means simple acceptance.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
Only the impossible is worth doing.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Whenever we see something which could be done to bring benefit to others, no matter how small, we should do it.
Chamgon Khentin Tai Situ Rinpoche
Freedom is not something you look for outside of yourself. Freedom is within you.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Hasten slowly, you will soon arrive.
Jetsun Milarepa
It doesn’t matter whatever comes, stop judging and it won’t bother you.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
Whatever obstacles arise, if you deal with them through kindness without trying to escape then you have real freedom.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
To tame ourselves is the only way we can change and improve the world.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Strive always to be as kind, gentle and caring as possible towards all forms of sentient life.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Every sentient being is equal to the Buddha.
Chamgon Kentin Tai Situ Rinpoche
Wherever and whenever we can, we should develop compassion at once.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Reminding ourselves of how others suffer and mentally putting ourselves in their place, will help awaken our compassion.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche