Lamrim Guided Retreat: Your Step-by-Step Path to Enlightenment

Embark on a life-changing retreat where you’ll experience guided meditations, clear teachings, and silent reflection that awaken your Buddha nature, moving you from everyday worries to boundless compassion and wisdom. Whether you’re new to the path or deepening your practice, this retreat offers the complete roadmap in a supportive, modern setting.

Each session will include a teaching, chanted prayers and a guided meditation. No previous experience of meditation or Buddhism is needed. Everyone is welcome!

This guided retreat follows a half-day course called Learn to Meditate: First Steps on the Path to Enlightenment on Sat Jan 3, 10am-1pm, which will also be led by Gen Thekchen. Attending this course would be excellent preparation for participating in the retreat.

Retreat Schedule

Sunday, January 4

9-10:15am - Precious Human Life

10:45am-12pm - Death and Impermanence

1:15-2:30pm - Dangers of lower rebirth and benefits of refuge practice

7-8:30pm - Karma

Monday, January 5

9-10.15am - Renunciation - True Sufferings

10:45am-12pm - Renunciation - True Origins

1:15-2:30pm - Renunciation - True Paths

7-8:30pm - Renunciation - True Cessations

Tuesday, January 6

9-10.15am - Developing equanimity

10:45am-12pm - Recognizing all beings as our mother

1:15-2:30pm - Remembering the kindness of mother beings

7-8:30pm - Wishing to repay the kindness of mother beings

Wednesday, January 7

9-10.15am - Equalizing self and others

10:45am-12pm - The faults of self-cherishing

1:15-2:30pm- The benefits of cherishing others

7-8:30pm - Exchanging self and others

Thursday, January 8

9-10.15am - Great Compassion

10:45-12pm - Taking

1:15-2:30pm - Wishing Love and Giving

7-8:30pm - Bodhichitta