Nordic Order Weekend
Perjantai 24 Huhtikuu – Maanantai 27 Huhtikuu at Retreat centre Abhayaloka
“The garden and the wilderness; eternity and time”
Abhayaloka retreat centre, Finland
Starts at 18.00 on Friday 24th April.
Ends at 12.00 on Monday 27th April. (We will arrange taxis to the airport.)
It’s 50 years since the 1976 talk series ‘Buddhism for Today and Tomorrow’, in which Bhante described ‘four gifts’ the FWBO offered the world – symbolised earlier in his poem ‘Four Gifts’. Here they are:
1. A method of self-development (symbolised as a lotus flower)
2. A vision of human existence (a golden net)
3. The nucleus of a new society (a shepherd’s round dance)
4. A blueprint for a new world (a garden planted in a wilderness)
We’ll explore these four, appreciatively, and perhaps critically, too.
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The retreat center operates in the old village school of Järventausta in Läyliäinen, Loppi, by the shores of Lake Loppi.
arriving at Abhayaloka
Abhayaloka
Triratna Buddhist Centre Helsinki Retreat Centre
Järventaustantie 816
12600 Läyliäinen
Tel. +358 50 318 8621
(Phone operational only during retreats)
Arrival by public transport:
Several buses come from Helsinki, departing from the Kamppi bus station. There are no direct connections at the moment. The travel time is approximately 1 hour 30 minutes to 2 hours. The stop to get off at is Järventaustan th, the third stop after the center of Läyliäinen. Abhayaloka is about 3 km from there towards Hevosoja, on the right side of the road, in a large yellow wooden house. You can inform us of your arrival time, and we will try to pick you up from that junction.
For people traveling from abroad there will be arrangements to travel together from Helsinki to Abhayaloka.
Arrival by car:
The retreat center is 67 km from Helsinki, 136 km from Tampere, 175 km from Turku, and 29 km from Riihimäki. There are parking spaces available for those arriving by car.