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Buckfast does well from brewing right? I saw a Rab C. Nesbitt series about it once lol

The Buddhist centre is small, the Lama is there but sometimes on retreat, there is a volunteer manager who had plenty of work to do. I've stayed there and I'm the only other person, I don't expect them to cook for me or give me food out of a limited budget. When there are some bigger events...

Well with the structured retreat there will be a time to get up, go to bed, and time is all taken up with practice. With the unstructured, you are really free to do what you like... Meditate, go for a walk, hang around talking.. whatever... within reason, anybody staying at the centre will be...

I go to Palpung Changchub Darge Ling, in Brynmawr... It's not far from Ebbw Vale. If you are doing a structured personal retreat, then a fee of £10 per night is expected. If you are staying there in a less structured way then £25 per night? I don't think I can post links yet as In very new...

I think for myself I will stick with the Buddhist retreat centre, but I think for Christians there is great value in going on retreat, staying in community, and perhaps for a few, taking up a monastic life.

Hi, yes, I live in Wales, in the Swansea Valley. I have a friend who works for Skanda Vale.. They've got elephants! It seems a shame that so many of the monks these days are old... I know it's not for everybody, bit for the right person a monastic life could be wonderful. It is good that these...

I think in Thailand it is quite common for young men or boys to spend at least a few months in a monastery. In Christianity, I could imaging spending some time in a monastery could be very beneficial, or maybe a non monastic Christian community that practices some sort of 'Rule'. I've stayed at...

Hi Thomas, I watched a YouTube video of a born again Christian lady who, at the time she had made the video, was fairly new to Christianity, just a few months. She had been an atheist, but she had had a powerful experience of the Holy Spirit, that left her with an enduring sense of the presence...

Hi I'm a Buddhist. Buddhism has quite a strong monastic tradition. That has been true in the past for Christianity, but there seem to be very few monks these days. Most Christian monks seem to be Roman Catholic, but I believe there are also Anglican Monks and Nuns? Do you think it would be good...

In the same way that Islam preceded the teachings of Mohammed but was not called 'Islam', so Sufism as mysticism preceded Islam, but was not called Sufism. I like the teachings from the Inayati Sufis, even though I am Buddhist. Here is a quote from Hazrat Inayat Khan, Pir Zia's grandfather...

What's the point of enlightenment if you treat others badly?