Author: suachua
Forum: Places to Practice
Considering this is such a useful site, dedicated to useful information, and considering perhaps the the most useful information around is places you can go and get the time and space to understand things yourself, does anyone know of / want to make a comprehensive list of centres?
the reason i ask is lately Ive been looking for somewhere to practice intensively for a month or so over the summer, that isnt expensive [i.e. by donation or very cheap] preferably in the mahasi sayadaw tradition - ive heard nothing but promising things about it - and somewhere i wont overheat; perhaps its finnicky but i find high temperatures seriously unconducive [is this a word?] to practice. Also not too far away from england due to flight costs [australias out, probably america too].
Looking around I've found this surprisingly hard to find; plenty of western centres do short courses but not much in the way of long-term practice. Ive been looking at doing a work retreat at the very lovely gaia house but feel a full-time meditative retreat would be useful at this time.
Research shows plenty of part-lists, lists of some centres in certain countries etc, eg. this one http://www.buddhanet.net/medlinks.htm, but often links and info are out of date...i guess Im a little surprised that nobody seems to have pooled all this invaluable information [of what must be hundreds of centres, open monasteries and course sites] in one directory, wiki, or place...am I missing something here? Looking at the threads on this topic it seems lots of people are having similar problems.
Ideas anyone?
Any thoughts/advice much appreciated
with love,
Ettie
