We’ll be exploring the nature of the project we’re undertaking through talks, discussions and study.
‘What we need to do is engage, and try to get others to engage, very deeply with Bhante’s own words, always seeking the mind behind the words, so that we enter into a kind of posthumous dialogue with him.’
subhuti
Resources
List of Attendees: Click Here
Programme: Click Here
Subhuti’s Letter to the ATC: Click Here
Zoom Link for Online Sessions: Click Here (Meeting ID: 857 7225 7409, Passcode: 888246)
Day 1
Welcome & Introduction
Subhuti introduces the plan for the gathering and the Adhisthana Teaching Community.
Day 2
Briefing for Group discussion
Subhuti invites everyone to talk about their personal relationship to Bhante, his teaching and the project in groups.
Personal relationships to the project
A plenary in which each person shares a summary from the morning groups.
Guru Yoga
Sona leads us in the Guru Yoga practice.
Day 3
Group studY
Breaking into 3 groups, we explored what it means to study a text from Bhante’s perspective. No recording is available.
Discussion
The whole retreat discussed what they’ve learnt during the morning’s study.
Guru Yoga
Sona led us again in the Guru Yoga practice.
ONLINE DISCUSSION GROUP
Those attending online joined Saddhanandi and Dhammarati for an exploration of their personal relationship to Bhante and the project.
Day 4
group study
We’ll be breaking into different groups to explore a further 4 texts.
ritual handover of chair
The residential and teaching communities ate dinner together and we rejoiced in Saddhanandi.
Subhuti led a ceremony in the shrine room for the handover of the role of chair from Saddhanandi to Khemabandhu.
Audio Link from the ritual
Dhammarati’s Photos
Coming up…Day 5
A Range of Discussion Topics
We’ll hear some short presentations from some of the community. As well as discussions on how to keep the community alive, succession planning, internationality…and more.
Guru yoga
Sona leads us in the Guru Yoga for the last time.