Everything Leans
"Deep is this dependent origination, and deep its appearance."
"Whoever sees dependent origination sees the Dharma;
whoever sees the Dharma sees dependent
origination."
- Buddha [MN:28, DN:15]
"Deep is this dependent origination, and deep its appearance."
"Whoever sees dependent origination sees the Dharma;
whoever sees the Dharma sees dependent
origination."
- Buddha [MN:28, DN:15]
It is also possible to join our group on Signal private messenger (like WhatsApp but ethical and better).
A drop-in group, meeting on the first Thursday of the month, that focuses on
emptiness and the liberation of perception.
For more information head to DependentOrigination.org/group/FreeingPerception
Meeting on the third Sunday of the month to explore how we can shape perception
through
insight, samadhi, and metta, and bring that into all of our lives.
For more
visit DependentOrigination.org/group/ShapingTheWorld
Drop in sessions of morning meditations and Dharma inquiry running every weekday.
Upcoming dates:
Jan 12–16 (Zohar); Mar 2–6 (Nathan);
Jun 8–12 (Nathan); Jul
6–10 (Zohar);
Sep 7–11
(Nathan); Dec 7–11 (Zohar)
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for
more
Nathan & Zohar are among those who offer drop in sessions of meditation and Dharma
reflections on Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
Visit GaiaHouse.co.uk/online-dharma-hall/ for more
A time to pause, meditate and listen deeply at the beginning of the year. To help clarify our view and connect with our inner resources, we will explore the Buddha's teaching of the pāramīs—a collection of beautiful awakening qualities.
With Nathan Glyde, Jaya Rudgard and Sumedha
Devon, UK
GaiaHouse.co.uk
A day of working and practising together, expressing our care and connectedness to all life
With Zohar Lavie & James Blake
London, UK
SanghaSeva.org
The Buddha taught us to notice our interdependence. Both the cultivation of mettā (goodwill) and Dependent Origination embody this central teaching. Mettā opens the heart to our shared capacity for care, while Dependent Origination reveals how distress arises from reactive grasping and rejection. By softening unwholesome tendencies and nurturing goodwill toward all we meet, we create space for an ease that deepens understanding.
With Nathan Glyde & Zohar Lavie with Mark Ovland and Monica Antunes
Devon, UK and online
GaiaHouse.co.uk
The aim of this retreat is to gather in community around Moor Trees' mission to restore native woodland. Then while we work the land, we will deepening our connection to ourselves and to nature. We will stay near Dartmoor in the beauty of Eden Rise, where we will have space and time for meditation and community.
With Nathan Glyde & Zohar Lavie
Devon, UK
SanghaSeva.org
The liberating not-self perspective, “this is not me, this is not mine, this is not my self,” is not a truth claim. When directly asked about self, the Buddha pointed to a Middle Way beyond affirmation or denial. The issue is not our sense of self, but clinging to fixed views. The not-self lens loosens attachment to self-views. Yet if we hold to not-self as a truth— and abandon our sense of self before unbinding goes deep enough—we undermine the self-confidence and resolve needed for transformation. The skilful Middle Way avoids both extremes and opens a vaster freedom, bringing awakening within reach.
With Nathan Glyde
Online
GaiaHouse.co.uk
We envision Bringing Insights To Life as a transformative journey that guides us
toward beauty and release in all of our lives. Through this extended programme
profound insights and understanding will have time to root deeply and express
more fully.
This journey will be supported by ongoing immersions in discerning teachings and
heart-centred practices, regular gatherings with a supportive community, and
engagement in recurring acts of service that cultivate interconnection and
expansive ethics.
By embracing a whole-life awakening, we will deepen our bodhicitta; the
embodiment of an awakening heart of compassion and wisdom.
With Nathan Glyde & Zohar Lavie
Online Programme
GaiaHouse.co.uk
Being Peaceful in the midst of the Israel-Palestine conflict, supporting Palestinians and Israelis dedicated to peace.
With Nathan Glyde & Zohar Lavie
Israel and Palestine
SanghaSeva.org
The freedom of a wise heart.
With Zohar Lavie & Keren Arbel
Israel
Tovana.org.il
Embodying our compassionate response to the refugee crisis.
With Nathan Glyde
Calais, France
SanghaSeva.org
Being Peaceful in the midst of the Israel-Palestine conflict, supporting Palestinians and Israelis dedicated to peace.
With Zohar Lavie
Israel and Palestine
SanghaSeva.org
Mettā (goodwill or loving-kindness) is a powerful and transformative practice that connects us with our potential to awaken to ever deepening levels of love and wisdom. Mettā is both radical and practical: it spans both the personal and the relational aspects of our experience, guiding us to embody the Dharma in every area of our lives.
With Zohar Lavie & Antonia Sumbundu
Devon, UK
GaiaHouse.co.uk
Illness and loss are a time to slow down and look deeply into our experience. This retreat provides an opportunity to open to our shared inevitable reality with wisdom and love.
With Nathan Glyde & Zohar Lavie
Online
GaiaHouse.co.uk
A wonderful opportunity for deeper and longer practice, this programme invites a journey of awakening that unfolds from the most immediate and tangible liberation towards the most refined and subtle freedom. In this deep immersion, we have the space to engage wholeheartedly with each moment, discovering the sweet relief that each step on the path can offer. Free from haste for the destination or reluctance to engage, we are invited into a skilful presence with our experience. As we cultivate the Dharma path of liberation, an ever-deepening and more reliable confidence opens, carrying us far beyond the familiar boundaries of habitual reactivity.
The two retreats (listed separately below), together with the practice that bridges them, unfold nourished both by the clarity of insight—wisdom that penetrates the nature of experience—and by the gathered well-being that arises from meditative absorption. And so, through sustained presence and deepening understanding, the journey opens in the heart of freedom—sublime in its depth, expansive in its reach, and ever inviting further discovery.
With Nathan Glyde & Zohar Lavie
Devon, UK
GaiaHouse.co.uk
On the path of practice, few obstacles are as persistent and influential as doubt in our capacity for transformation. This uncertainty can keep us entangled in dukkha—stress and distress—mistaking these conditioned experiences for something unchangeable. This retreat invites a direct exploration of dukkha and encourages the cultivation of an experiential understanding that stress and distress are conditioned and resolvable. As practice deepens, assurance grows—not as blind belief, but as a lived recognition of our ability to come close to life without habitual reactivity, transcending dukkha with clarity and responsiveness.
With Nathan Glyde & Zohar Lavie
Devon, UK and online
GaiaHouse.co.uk
The Buddha was not only a wisely liberated being but also a poet, gifted in language; still, the freedom he realised and shared extends far beyond the reach of words. Yet with deft expression, he guides us towards pragmatic release within a world that can never be described so simply as either “is” nor “is not.” Rather than resting where others might have settled, the Buddha illuminated the dependent origination of all experience—the most majestic of reasonings—offering an untangling that leads beyond known limitations.
With Nathan Glyde & Zohar Lavie
Devon, UK
GaiaHouse.co.uk
A day of working and practising together, expressing our care and connectedness to all life
With Nathan Glyde & Zohar Lavie
London, UK
SanghaSeva.org
Being Peaceful in the Middle East conflict. Bringing the skills of deep listening and wise action to support Palestinians and Israelis dedicated to non-violence transform their lives.
With Nathan Glyde & Zohar Lavie
Israel and Palestine
SanghaSeva.org
Being Peaceful in the Middle East conflict. Bringing the skills of deep listening and wise action to support Palestinians and Israelis dedicated to non-violence transform their lives.
With Spring Up Foundation Students
Palestine, Online
SanghaSeva.org