In Love with the World: Educating Ourselves Back to Sanity – Retreat with Kabir Saxena

We humans have, in the last two hundred and fifty years severely damaged our connection with Nature and each other, orphaning ourselves and future generations in an insane pursuit of power, progress, and questionable knowledge.

In this eight-day retreat, we will explore how we can heal ourselves and our relationship with the world around us, through talks, readings, discussions, meditation, writing, and silent observation in the natural beauty of the center, we will explore the wisdom and courage embodied in the lives and teachings of The Buddha, Aurobindo, Tagore, and Gandhi. We will also delve into the insights of Longchenpa, J. Krishnamurti, Chögyam Trungpa, Sheldrake, Schumacher, and other Western guardians of conscience, such as Walt Whitman, Thoreau, Kerouac, Wendell Berry, Rilke, Mary Oliver, and others. The goal is to see if we can connect their healing contributions to our own experience and wisdom.
Perhaps, through this exploration, a way forward will emerge in which we can create small oases of sane living amidst a world that is truly falling apart, caught in the throes of conflict, polarization, AI, and the climate crisis.

Most importantly, we will address the fundamental challenge: How do we create the conditions for our innate gentleness, spaciousness, and deep awareness to grow so that we can flower in goodness and be of genuine help to today’s children?

About the Facilitator—
Kabir Carlyle Saxena was born in Delhi in 1956 to an English mother and an Indian father. He has always had a deep love for nature, music, poetry, history, and literature. This passion was nurtured by the kindness of his parents and Scottish grandfather.
Kabir studied History in England and spent 18 years there before returning to India in 1983. He adopted Buddhism in 1977, and his spiritual journey led him to become an integral part of the Root Institute in Bodh Gaya, where he now works at the Maitreya Universal Education School.
He has been a student of Lama Thubten Yeshe and the late Lama Zopa Rinpoche since 1979.

No fee; donation based.
For queries, registration & accommodation, please email: info@buddhapada.in