Teaching Buddhism & Meditation
Buddhafield Festival: Wednesday 14 – Sunday 18 July 2010 | Buy tickets
All programme information is illustrative only, based on activities at last year’s event
Buddhism
Images courtesy and © Melanie Klein
Interwoven with the magic of the festival is the timeless relevance of the Buddha’s teachings, fittingly applied to our demanding contemporary conditions. In the Dharma Parlour you'll find a whole programme of talks and interactive sessions by experienced teachers from the Western Buddhist Order and other traditions.
Look out for the special Dharma Parlour flyer included with your programme (available free from the Ticket Office or Info Point) and please check notice boards for details/times.
Buddhist Meditation
Come and learn to meditate! It could just change your life. Meditation can help us relax and unwind, but it is much more than this: it can lead to radical transformation of our whole being and of our world.
Through increasing awareness of what is really going on in our minds, meditation brings insight into what truly matters to us. We also become far more aware of, and engaged with, the world around us: other people, the environment, and ultimately, the nature of reality itself. Through meditation we can come to know more and more deeply that we are not separate but interconnected with all life.
Rituals and Ceremonies
Most days there will be an interactive ritual, probably beginning with a procession gathering at the Ritual Space in the Long Field.
It will be an opportunity to explore the big themes of our lives and the themes of the festival through ritual, play, music, dance or still contemplation. Everyone is welcome to join in.
On Wednesday evening — our opening day — there will be an Opening Ceremony; on Sunday afternoon (at about 2.30pm) there will be a corresponding Closing Ceremony. For Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening the Programme Boards at Info Point will have details of the day’s activity.
Our rituals can help participants connect more deeply with themselves, others, and our world. People are free to join in as much or as little as they feel moved to.
