Taraloka Buddhist Retreat Centre

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Silent Retreat 2025

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Silent Retreat 2025

9 - 16 Feb 2025
Led By: Samantabhadri, Prakashadhi, Srivajri, Suddhacandika
For: Triratna Regulars

A silent retreat is much more than a retreat without speech. The silence draws us into a particular, deeper way of being and which is appropriate to our particular level of experience. How do we feel when the meditation bell finally fades or when we catch the
pause between the birdsong? What is it like to relax and live within a deeper flow of quietness?

The retreat will be silent from the end of the first evening until after lunch on the final day.

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We experience the inner resonance of silence in meditation, while silence is also an outer presence and atmosphere. It can be as if we are moving in a different rhythm and ordinary life is no longer ordinary. Loosening our deluded, fixed view of self, we feel less substantial and more connected with everything. We may even glimpse that ‘form is only emptiness, emptiness only form.’

Suggested donation (in addition to the booking fee): £365 waged / £250 unwaged

Booking Fee: £85.00

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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.

For more information see what does it cost and a flow of generosity