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.
Visit Sangha.Live
for
more
Nathan & Zohar are among those who offer drop in sessions of meditation and Dharma
reflections on Saturdays and Sundays.
Visit GaiaHouse.co.uk/online-dharma-hall/ for more
In any moment, the degree to which we’re holding on tightly to something will determine the degree of distress experienced. On this retreat, we will explore how this push-and-pull habit is at the root of so much stress and discomfort in our lives, and through practising various ways of relaxing this tension we will taste some of the freedom, lightness, and ease that is available to us.
With Zohar Lavie
Devon, UK
GaiaHouse.co.uk
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 & Laura Bridgman
Devon, UK
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 Buddha said, I teach dukkha, to bring it to an end. When questions were asked outside this specific area, he would bring them back to the dependent origin of experience to explain how it builds up into stress. These are the contingent links of dukkha that draw a map of liberation. On this retreat, we will explore this map and progressively play with the most useful and applicable of these links to dissolve dukkha here and now, and move into more subtle and ever-deepening release.
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
The Buddha’s brief definition of suffering was ‘the five clinging aggregates’. The aggregates are forming, feeling, perceiving, conditioning and knowing. These processes construct every experience we have and the self we think we are. Clinging can attach to this very quickly and subtly. This is how suffering arises. Rejecting the clinging aggregates is not the way. Instead, we are invited to relate to them skilfully and free ourselves from the demanding obsession of clinging.
In this course, we will explore the disentanglement of the tendency to cling to the aggregates, transforming these most personal processes into a liberating path of release.
With Nathan Glyde
Online
GaiaHouse.co.uk
Some of us may be familiar with the Buddha’s teaching on the dependent co-arising of suffering (dukkha). This teaching is further expounded in the texts, where the Buddha describes the dependently co-arising nature of awakening, and the qualities that lead to it. These include: faith, gladness, joy, tranquility, pleasure, gatheredness, knowledge and vision, disenchantment, dispassion and release. On this retreat, for experienced practitioners, we will explore and cultivate these conditions for freedom and awakening.Together we will deepen our understanding of the possibilities they open up for our personal lives and the way that we engage with the world.
With Zohar Lavie & Jaya Rudgard
Devon, UK
GaiaHouse.co.uk
We tend to focus on letting go, but have we let it in? Whether through social pressure or inner lack of confidence, what in this life are we not letting in? The teachings suggest that we regularly remind ourselves of our vulnerability to sickness, ageing, loss and death. This is not to wallow in grief, but to taste the immediate relief of release in the least acknowledged aspects of our lives. We are all subject to them, they are natural. Denial creates more tension and pain. Acknowledging them is the beginning of freedom with them.
With Nathan Glyde & Monica Antunes
Online
GaiaHouse.co.uk
Facing illness and loss in our lives can be a time to slow down and look deeply into our experience. This retreat provides an opportunity to explore being present with our experience just as it is without judgement or blame, thus opening to the possibility for transformation that this approach brings. The practice of Insight Meditation will be used as the basis for exploring our relationship to bereavement and illness. Developing greater mindfulness in times of transition, challenge and confusion can enable us to find new ways of relating to our daily lives.
With Nathan Glyde, Zohar Lavie & Tony O'Connor
Devon, UK
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, & Shahar Matan
Israel and Palestine
SanghaSeva.org
The sublime attitudes of goodwill, compassion, appreciation, and equanimity express profound wisdom and care. These attitudes elevate our view and deepen our understanding of experience. By practising them, we become a friend to all life, wishing the best for all beings, including ourselves. We will explore how these practices can help us feel into limitless expansiveness and boundless inclusiveness, and understand how they can shape our lives towards greater meaningfulness.
With Nathan Glyde & Antonia Sumbundu
Devon, UK
GaiaHouse.co.uk
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
When we live in a reactive way, we create distance. It's hard to see the world clearly when we can't get close to it. This distance is reinforced by assumptions we often don't realise we hold. For example, believing that the way things appear is the way they really are (naïve realism), and that lasting fulfilment can come from reactive grasping and rejecting.
This three-week course will guide us to recompose our sense of the world and reconsider our ways of relating, to shrink this distance from life and find infinite freedom in being equally close to all things. The weekly sections of the course will feature clear and understandable Dharma principles, meditation instructions to practice throughout the week, and opportunities for questions and responses. This can be used as a lead in to the hybrid retreat at Gaia House called Unequalled Radiance starting the week after this ends.
With Nathan Glyde
Online
GaiaHouse.co.uk
Equanimity is not a practice of dull withdrawal, it's a way that comes alive. One that invites every part of us to transform as it resolves and releases suffering and distress. The path unfolds through the subtle undoing of fabricated experiences; the resolving of confused inattention into wise observation, the releasing of contraction into boundless expansion, and the dissolving of reactive agitation into receptive accommodation. It has been depicted in the texts as a fist opening in the heart-mind that unlocks the peacefulness of all things. Touched yet deeply rooted, pliable yet not distorted, flexible yet reliable, equanimity is radiant ease.
With Nathan Glyde & Zohar Lavie
Devon, UK and Online
GaiaHouse.co.uk
When we cultivate peace, equanimity or freedom, we may tend to see it as gaining freedom from certain aspects of experience. On this course we will explore our capacity to develop freedom with; to meet different aspects of experience with tenderness, intimacy and a steadiness that is inclusive and vast in its capacity.
This five-week course will explore how we can access peace and equanimity within the push and pull of conditioned existence, excluding nothing and yet transforming everything. The weekly sections of the course will feature clear and understandable Dharma principles, meditation instructions to practice throughout the week, and opportunities for questions and responses. This can be used as a follow on from the hybrid retreat at Gaia House called Unequalled Radiance ending the day this begins.
With Zohar Lavie
Online
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 backpacking meditation retreat in Finnish Lapland over the summer solstice.
With Nathan Glyde & Zohar Lavie
Lapland, Finland
Nirodha.fi
One week silent meditation retreat.
With Nathan Glyde & Zohar Lavie
Finland
Nirodha.fi
On this retreat we will explore our capacity to welcome each moment with a kind and spacious attention, to deepen our understanding of how experience is shaped, and to nourish a sense of wellbeing beyond conditions and circumstances via the teachings and practices of mettā.
With Nathan Glyde & Zohar Lavie
Brussels, Belgium
YogaRoots.be
A day of working and practising together, expressing our care and connectedness to all life
With Nathan Glyde & James Blake
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