Retreats

Open Retreat

Open Festival Day: This Precious Opportunity

The Padmaloka open festival day is a celebration of the Three Jewels. We are celebrating the fact that the human potential for enlightenment has been rediscovered and attained in our era, that the path to realise it has been made available to us, and that we do not have to tread this path alone – we are part of a spiritual community that walks it together.

Going For Refuge Retreat

The Bodhisattva Ideal

In the Bodhisattva, Buddhism finds its highest expression and its ultimate meaning. The Bodhisattva is indeed the meaning of human life, even the meaning of existence.Sangharakshita – The Bodhisattva Principle

Going For Refuge Retreat

Autumn Going for Refuge Weekend

In his ground-breaking 1965 lecture ‘Going For Refuge’ Sangharakshita reveals that the experience of Sangha constitutes ‘a shared exploration of the spiritual world between people … in a relationship of complete honesty and harmony’, while the quality of communication enjoyed by such individuals can be described as ‘a vital mutual responsiveness’.

Meditation Retreat

The Brahmaviharas

The four Brahmaviharas – loving kindness, compassion, altruistic joy and equanimity – a set of meditation practices that have the power to utterly transform our emotional lives and relations to others. They are the basis for the development of Insight and the Bodhicitta and yet begin with ordinary acts of kindness and helpfulness.

Order Retreat

Post-Ordination 2023

Having spent a year in the Order, this retreat offers the opportunity to take stock, reconnect with friends and explore how we deepen our practice, our life in the Order, and our Going for Refuge to the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.

Order Retreat

3-Day Dharmachari Retreat: The Domain of the Bodhisattva

Following Sangharakshita's lectures on the Vimalakirti Nirdesha, we will explore such mysteries and wonders as the sicknesses of Bodhisattvas, Bhante's insights into the mutual perfuming of Suchness, and what we might do to practise these profound teachings.

Order Retreat

Men’s European Mitra Convenors’ Meeting 3

A chance for the Mitra Convenors to gather and deepen their inspiration and vision of the spiritual practice of Mitra Convening.

Open Retreat

Great Gathering: The Great Rain Cloud of The Dharma

The White Lotus Sutra compares the Buddha to a great cloud rising and spreading over the parched and barren earth, his sweet Dharma rain falling equally on each and every individual being, nourishing and revitalising all. Although the rain of the Dharma is the same rain for everyone, it causes all to flourish and grow in their own unique way.

Open Retreat

5-Day Open Retreat: A Boundless Vision of Limitless Awakening

On this retreat, Ratnaghosa will give a series of far-reaching talks exploring and unfolding numerous images, parables and themes from the White Lotus sutra, weaving them together so that we can see the deep significance of our quest for growth and meaning.

Going For Refuge Retreat

Subhuti: The Semi Monastic Core & The Transcendental Principle

On this retreat Subhuti will be giving a series of ground-breaking talks on the importance of the semi-monastic-core, a very special and rare occasion. Followed by study of the first chapter of the Survey of Buddhism. Don't miss out!

Open Retreat

Men of Colour 2: The Way of Truth

'Do no harm. Practise what is good. Discipline the mind.' These encapsulate the whole of the Buddha's teaching and give us all we need to make progress along the path to awakening.

Sheffield Men's Weekend

A weekend retreat for men who attend the Sheffield Buddhist Centre. Go deeper into the Dharma with your brothers in the powerful and beautiful context of Padmaloka. Theme to be announced nearer the time.