ONLINE – Compassionate Warrior Training 2026

5 - 11 Dec 2026

Led By: Vidyamala, Lilasuri, Sadayasihi, Vimokshini

For: Going for Refuge Mitras, Triratna Order Members

Become a warrior with a soft and open heart! How do we cultivate wisdom – seeing things as they really are; and compassion – allowing our hearts to break open with love for self and others? Drawing on both Satipatthana mindfulness teachings from early Buddhism and Lojong mind training Bodhicitta teachings from later Buddhism, this is a retreat designed for our times.

Building on the success of running this retreat over several years, Vidyamala and team are looking forward to once again offering this week-long training. Thought leaders now speak in terms of the world being in a state of permacrisis and polycrisis – multiple and on-going global challenges happening all at once. How are we to respond? The Buddha was clear that the only truly viable response is to cultivate wisdom – seeing things as they really are; and compassion – allowing our hearts to break open with love for self and others. The world desperately needs wise and kind individuals and this retreat offers a powerful path of training for these challenging times.

Through presentations, guided meditations and small groups the retreat is designed to help you walk the path of the compassionate warrior alongside others committed to the same training and ideal. Let us come together for the sake of the world. It is more urgent than ever.

Suggested donation (in addition to the booking fee): £175 waged / £60 unwaged

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Retreat Level: Triratna Regulars - You need to have been taught the Mindfulness of Breathing and Metta Bhavana meditations and have participated in the Sevenfold Puja within the Triratna Buddhist Community. You also need to regularly attend a Triratna centre, group or retreats. If you do not fit these criteria, please DO NOT BOOK but choose one of our Open level retreats instead.

Our Triratna Regulars retreats include more periods of meditation and silence than our Open retreats. If you are unsure whether this retreat is appropriate for you, please contact the office and we can talk it through with you.

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For more information see our am I well enough to be on retreat page. On retreats we live as a community and share household tasks such as vegetable chopping, cleaning or washing up for around one hour daily. If you are unable to join the communal work rota, please let us know here, as it helps us to plan the practical running of the retreat.

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Paying for your retreat

Taraloka runs on generosity.

To book a retreat you pay a booking fee. This is the only charge made for coming on retreat. As far as possible, we don’t want anyone’s financial situation to stop them from coming to Taraloka.

At the end of your retreat, you have the opportunity to give money towards Taraloka. If you are able to donate, you are giving to another person who otherwise could not afford to come on retreat. And you are helping to give the gift of Taraloka to the women of the future.

We have suggested donations as these reflect the basic income needed to make a retreat viable. However, they are only suggestions. It is genuinely fine to give ten times these amounts, nothing, or anything in between.

Running on generosity is radical – thank you for being part of that.

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