Green Tara Retreat (Online)
Choden will offer an experiential retreat exploring how to integrate the teachings and practices of the Tibetan deity practice Green Tara into your daily life and meditation practice.
Online Vision Board Reflection Practice Day
Do you feel that you’re a bit off course? Would you like to feel more aligned with yourself and your vision for life in 2025? Does the idea of feeling inspired by a sense of possibility and potential for the coming year stir something within you? Would time to reflect, create and share in friendly…
The Seven Points of Mind Training
This course will explore the Seven Points of Mind Training (called Lojong in Tibetan) in a pragmatic step by step way. Lojong is a profound and famous text from Tibetan Buddhism that lays out specific guidelines for how to apply wisdom and compassion in our meditation practice and daily lives.
The Practice of Mahayana Buddhism
The Practice of Mahayana Buddhism with Choden and Alan Hughes Step by step teaching and practice of the key elements of the Mahayana Buddhist path This course is a continuation of the Practice of Buddhism course which began in 2024, and this second year will conclude with a retreat in March 2026 which can be…
Living Well to Die Well – Annual Retreat
Cultivate a practice that enables you to live well every single day without regret.
Online Christmas Practice Day: Mindfully Exploring the Breath
Mindfully Exploring the Breath With Alan Hughes Using the breath as a support is probably one of the best known mindfulness practices, and one of the first that many people learn. This can sometimes give the impression that the Mindfulness of Breath is a “basic practice” but as our mindfulness deepens we discover that this…
Late Fragment – Raymond Carver
And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. by Raymond Carver This was the last poem in Raymond Carver’s last book, written while he was dying of cancer. It is also the…
Tonglen Weekend
Note that for this weekend, it will be assumed that participants will already be familiar with basic mindfulness and meditation, and have an established daily practice, so that this weekend is not suitable for beginners. Please book your accommodation and meals for the weekend directly with Samye Ling by emailing bookings@samyeling.org. They will need to…
Living Well to Die Well
Cultivate a practice that enables you to live well every single day without regret.