Middle Way Society Retreat

The Middle Way approach can both arise out of meditation experience, and help us to shape meditation practice. There is probably no better way of recognizing how absolute assumptions lie …

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At Tirylan House, we’re in the process of creating a forest garden: that is, a sustainable and low-input garden designed to produce food for the retreat centre using a diverse …

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The Middle Way Society has now run several walking retreats both in the Lake District and here in the Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog) National Park. We aim to combine walking …

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Getting caught up in looped states - sometimes called proliferation or rumination - is a central problem for human beings. These can take the form of powerful fantasies or feelings …

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At Tirylan House, we’re in the process of creating a forest garden: that is, a sustainable and low-input garden designed to produce food for the retreat centre using a diverse …

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The Buddha offers the earliest and fullest source of inspiration for following the Middle Way. In the story of his early life moving beyond the limitations of both the Palace …

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