Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey

20/01/2024

We have a retreat with a difference coming up in March:

This retreat aims to explore how the activities of writing and reading poetry, as with meditation, can allow us to pay attention to our lives and our essential connectedness. As poet and Zen practitioner Jane Hirshfield has written: “Both poetry and meditation are potential paths of awareness thro...

01/01/2023

Message for the New Year: Yesterday evening, during our New Year Retreat, we celebrated the New Year by gathering at the altar, and revolving the Scripture of Great Wisdom (also known as the Heart Sutra). The ceremony ends with an offertory that expresses things better than I ever could: "This New Year is the time of the turning of the wheel of the Dharma. This turning is realized in the revolving of the Scriptures, in our life and through everything in the Universe. Whatever this year brings it will be the turning of the wheel of the Dharma.
Let us follow this turning by forever grounding ourselves in true sitting and the wish to cease from evil, to do only good and to do good for others.
We offer the merit of our chanting of the Scripture of Great Wisdom, the Kojin Shingon Dharani and the revolving of The Scriptures at this New Year to all, so that they may be able to realize the Truth."
With best wishes to all for the New Year,
Rev. Berwyn (Abbot)

16/11/2022

Rev. Master Leandra's successor has been elected:

Having reached the end of the election process the Monastic community are pleased to announce that Rev. Master Berwyn Watson is now the Abbot of Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey. On taking up his Abbatical seat in the meditation hall on Friday 11th November, Rev. Master Berwyn gave the following dedicat...

27/06/2022

A new Dharma talk by Rev. Master Daishin: https://throssel.org.uk/dharma-talks/zazen-and-the-self-by-rev-master-daishin/