WOW!!!.My Mind has been Blown...3 weeks of meditation , Silence, Community, kindness, Sudarshanaloka NZ bush, grounding, QiGong guided by Dharmamudra was life changing, amazing food, awesome poetry and meditation instruction by Paramananda (WHAT a cool teacher) ...basically this kind of retreat is what Sudarshanaloka retreat centre was created for, it was inexpressably wonderful, and if we can get him to come back DON'T MISS IT for the world...

Fantastic Day, thanks To Tomoko Bruce, for instigating it and to everyone who made it a success, we raised some funds for the ITBCI School via a very entertaining Auction run by Akasadaka, with skills, goods and services offered by the many talented Friends of Sudarshanaloka...We had fantastic Musical Interludes with Peppermint Patties (Hawkwind & Sue Smith); and Jennifer, Odee, Brett and Genoveva & Rohan, awesome. We finished…

It was an awesome day, the rituals were moving and the talks inspiring, SADHU to all the effort that went into the day, and thanks to the Stupa for being a constant source of inspiration to everyone from bushwalkers, to solitary retreatants and Buddhists from…