The "Monastery Stay – Self Retreat" program warmly welcomes beginners, intermediate, and advanced practitioners from both monastic and lay communities. Participants will have the opportunity to observe and join in the daily rhythm of monastic life. This includes practicing sitting and walking meditation alongside the monastic community, cultivating loving-kindness (mettā), participating in morning and evening devotional services (pūja), listening to Dhamma teachings, and engaging in group discussions.
This program is designed to enrich your spiritual journey, fostering inner peace, clarity, and compassion. Through immersive practice, it aims to provide a clearer insight into the realization of the Buddha-Dhamma.
Sustaining a personal practice can be challenging, especially within the familiar context of home life. This retreat emphasizes the vital role of wise and spiritual friends (kalyāṇa-mitta) in supporting the path. As the Buddha taught his cousin Ānanda, spiritual friendship is not merely half of the holy life—it is the whole of it. In our current times, marked by periods of isolation, learning to be and to have such a friend feels especially necessary and timely.
Focusing on spiritual friendship offers a powerful starting point for this program. It helps us establish a more compassionate, wise, and mindful way of moving through our lives and relationships. A retreat is, in itself, a way of being a friend to oneself and to others in the practice. It cultivates the courage, clarity, and deep connection that empower us to return to the world with a stronger, more resilient heart—one capable of meeting difficulties with steadiness, honesty, and genuine presence.
简介
“寺院体验－静心自修”计划诚挚欢迎所有初学、有经验乃至资深的修行者，无论出家在家，皆可参与。本计划让参与者融入僧团的日常作息，体验包括与僧众共修坐禅与行禅、修习慈心禅（mettā）、参与早晚课诵、闻法及共修讨论等活动。
此项体验旨在深化参与者的精神生活，培育内心的宁静、觉照与慈悲，并藉由亲身实修，开启对佛陀正法更真切的体悟。
在世俗家居环境中，独自坚持修行往往并非易事。因此，本计划特别重视善知识（kalyāṇa-mitta）的共修力量。正如佛陀对其堂弟阿难的开示：善友相伴，非仅半梵行，实为全梵行。在经历疫情隔离后的当下，学习成为善知识并亲近善友，尤显必要与及时。
以善友之道为起点，本计划帮助我们培养更慈悲、智慧与正念的生活态度。静修本身，即是一种成为自己与他人的修行之友的方式。它能培养勇气与明觉，建立与生命更深层的连结，使我们能以更坚定、更柔韧的心重返世间，如实、真诚地面对困境，与人和睦共处。
