Retreat Reports: Other Chan Retreats

We have not always designated a retreat as being for one specific practice alone. The following reports relate to retreats designated simply as “Chan”, and which may have included teaching and practice of general Buddhist meditation as well as of Silent Illumination, Koan (Gongan) or Huatou practice.

Daily Menu - A Cook's Retreat

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Sunday

Courgette, coconut and Lemon soup.
Bread rolls
Citrus and poppy seed cake.
Mushroom and Lovage stew
Creamy polenta
Green allotment salad.

The…

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Categories: 2011 , Other Retreat Reports , Anon

Surrounded by Silence and Care

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Solitary Retreat at Maenllwyd: Sept. 6 - 13th 2005

On arrival, I felt overjoyed to be at the Maenllwyd and tears flowed on seeing the garden's…

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Categories: 2005 , Other Retreat Reports , Anon

Well There We are Then

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Mahamudra Retreat February 1999, my Retreat Report

My practice at home had been going well. I had read 'The Yogins of Ladakh' shortly after it was…

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Categories: 1999 , Other Retreat Reports , Anon

Learning to be a Zen Cook

Pam Butler

Driving home from the January Mahamudra retreat I thought obsessively about taking up the opportunity to cook. Finally, decided to drop it, not think…

Western Chan Fellowship CIO

Categories: 1998 , Other Retreat Reports , Highlighted , Anon

The Natural Great Perfection

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A 3-week Dzogchen retreat with Lama Surya Das: Canandaigua, New York, 1997

Perhaps it was hearing John Crook talking about the Tibetan practice of…

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Categories: 1997 , Other Retreat Reports , Anon

An Experience with Mahamudra

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A particular attraction of this retreat was for me the possibility of examining the stages of meditation as it deepened. In order that the process of…

Western Chan Fellowship CIO

Categories: 1996 , Other Retreat Reports , Anon

On an Empty Hill - Not a Retreat Report

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Walking across the hillside the fresh spring sunlight warmed the skin, the distant fir woods glistened and a pair of buzzards were playing in the…

Western Chan Fellowship CIO

Categories: 1995 , Other Retreat Reports , Anon

Good Medicine Always Tastes Horrible

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Tantric Retreat, Maenllwyd, July 1994

Driving up to Maenllwyd, knowing that I would be asked, I tried to formulate the reason as to why I wanted to…

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Categories: 1994 , Other Retreat Reports , Anon

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