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The hermitage is a reconstructed house inspired on sustainable architecture. It abides on the isolated hamlet called Caneto, Huesca, on the Pyrenees mountain range of Spain. The house provides with a room for group meditation and individual rooms for personal practice and resting. It is a place intended to cultivate spiritual wisdom. The electrical supply is photovoltaic, the hot water is obtained through solar-thermal means. Grey waters are reused and there is a biodynamic and ecological vegetable garden. +
The ground and shape of the Association's meditation activity is a meditation retreat house in the remote hamlet of Caneto, Huesca (Spain) to shelter the blatant and urging need to provide retreatants with appropriate conditions for mid- and long-term retreats of meditative absorption in today's circumstances either as a sole practice or as a basis and complement for other meditative or contemplative practices. Enlightened with the motto "Don't harm, give the victory, meditate, fly and return for the benefit of all sentient beings", the ultimate purpose of the meditation house is to provide the meditator with the necessary circumstances and means for them to be their meditative solitude bearer as well as the others' solitude protector in order to ply the meditative absorption practice. +
The ground and shape of the Association's meditation activity is a meditation retreat house in the remote hamlet of Caneto, Huesca (Spain) to shelter the blatant and urging need to provide retreatants with appropriate conditions for mid- and long-term retreats of meditative absorption in today's circumstances either as a sole practice or as a basis and complement for other meditative or contemplative practices. Enlightened with the motto "Don't harm, give the victory, meditate, fly and return for the benefit of all sentient beings", the ultimate purpose of the meditation house is to provide the meditator with the necessary circumstances and means for them to be their meditative solitude bearer as well as the others' solitude protector in order to ply the meditative absorption practice. +
The retreat will take place at Big Hill Retreat, an establishment that rents cottages to tourists mainly, but also to meditators for a discounted price, as the owner, Terry Henderson is himself a practitioner. The place has also been hosting a yearly meditation program for several years. The cabin is isolated and is well suited for Chod practice as it is in a wilderness area. For photos and more detailed information about the setting and the cabin, please consult the website: www.bighillretreat.com slash cozyAcabin.html +
An individual retreat of several years following the course of the Chetsün Nyingthik terma cycle, beginning with the preliminary practices, and progressing through the guru sadhana, extraordinary preliminaries (khordé rushen), and main practices. +
Small house in a remote place in the Dordogne, France. Built in 1995, it has been designed for solitary retreats and has been use only for that purpose since.
One big room with view on a uninhabited valley, Kitchen corner, attached bathroom, cellar. +
Silence and introspection practice through meditation. +
Silence and introspection practice through meditation. +
Hermitage is my own small house, with two rooms, kitchen and bathroom and a small garden.
A house with solar energy and spring water.
Eight Kilometers from Monchique Buddhist Center. +
Meditation house located in an isolated area in a small village surrounded by nature, where I can practice the Dharma teachings, during meditation, post-meditation, and sleep hours (dream yoga). +
My proposed retreat hermitage is my personal home in rural Arkansas, on land contiguous with Katog Rit’hrod, my lama’s retreat center where I am currently in three year retreat. I have owned the home and the 5.5 acres it sits on since 2010. The home is a 10 foot by 50 foot 1950’s era mobile home, located down a very long driveway and situated between a bluff and a small hill in what is known in Arkansas as a “hollow”, making it very private and quiet. There are no other homes in sight, though I have three neighbors, two of whom are sangha siblings. I have done several solitary retreats in the home, including a 100 day retreat in 2020.
The supportive conditions are that home and land is paid for so there is no mortgage. It has running water and electricity from the county and is comfortable with basic needs met. It is heated with a combination of electric and wood, so though it has virtually no insulation, it is comfortable, but also just rough enough that it requires a bit of ruggedness, which I feel is a big retreat support. Because it is so close to Katog Rit’hrod, it will be easy for a paid shopper to bring food and other necessities as needed. It is also close enough to sangha neighbors that, though solitary, I could easily get aid in case of health or weather emergencies. We also have nurses and carpenters at Katog Rit’hrod who know me and my retreat boundaries and are more than willing to help if needed. I am able to grow some vegetables in some small raised garden beds there, it is familiar, basic and simple to maintain. The land is also close enough that receiving continued teachings and support and visits from my teacher and/or his translator will be quite easy, only a ten minute walk from their private cabins.
I believe it is a perfect home and location for retreat. I bought the land and home from another sangha member over 10 years ago, living there full time from 2011 to 2021. Rinpoche himself has always said I would do three year retreat there. It is a very natural, quiet and protected environment.
My hermitage is located in a wilderness area of the Cape Breton (Nova Scotia, Canada), on a private 100 acres wood land (own by my brother). The address is 733 Tarbotvale Road, B0E 1B0, Baddeck.
There is a small house at the border of the land (close to the access road) that will be used for cooking and food storage, and my meditation shelter is located about 15 minutes walking from the entrance house, in a remote and silent area in the middle of the forest, free from any disturbance (no humans, no network, no internet, no road access or driveway). There is a nice stream of pure water just down the tepee that is drinkable.
The shelter is a kind of tepee-like construction (see picture above) I have built myself, very simple, off grid, shingles on the roof, with a plate-form for sleeping and meditation, and a woodstove on which I can also do basic cooking.
For the meals, I will go once a day to the house at the border of the property to cook for lunch (I will eat the leftovers for diner). For breakfast, I will store food in my shelter so that I don’t have to go to the house.
I will wash my body either very simply in the river down the shelter (in summer or warm weather) or in the house (in winter time or cold weather).
I have local Canadian Dharma friends, living closeby, that will provide me with food and other products of the daily life so that I won’t have to go to town for shopping.
I consider getting in touch with my family in France (particularly with my parents that are getting old) once every week. I will use whatsapp through the internet in the house for that purpose.
For my spiritual support or guidance, my main teacher also lives on the same land, in another shelter. So in case I need to clarify some experiences, I will be able to rely on him, because he went through the Four Visions of Tögal years ago after 10 years of solitary retreat in the woods. +
I wish to do my retreat at Rinchen Ling, a retreat center located near Périgueux, where I currently live. Rinchen Ling was originally established in the 1970s as a Zen Buddhist retreat center. Later, it was acquired by the Nyingma tradition, and two traditional retreats were held here under the guidance of Khyentse Rinpoche. Today, it is an individual retreat center under the responsibility of Pema Wangyal Rinpoche.
There are currently six residents at the center, including two women who are in lifelong retreat.
My hermitage is a small, isolated cabin that I have equipped with a dry toilet and running water, allowing me to be fully independent and not rely on communal bathrooms or kitchen.
Although Rinchen Ling is not as secluded as Chanteloube—due to the proximity of a
nearby town, a road running in front of the center, and new houses being built around it
—the center still sits on several acres of land in the countryside, surrounded by a forest.
This setting offers a peaceful environment for retreat, despite the occasional noise from the outside world.
The cabin itself is simple and modest, with a heater to keep it warm. It includes a twin
room, which I can use as a food storage area and kitchen. For my needs, the space is
perfectly sized and feels almost luxurious for a retreat setting. +
Individual Cabin +
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Silence and introspection practice through meditation. +
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The ground and shape of the Association's meditation activity is a meditation retreat house in the remote hamlet of Caneto, Huesca (Spain) to shelter the blatant and urging need to provide retreatants with appropriate conditions for mid- and long-term retreats of meditative absorption in today's circumstances either as a sole practice or as a basis and complement for other meditative or contemplative practices. Enlightened with the motto "Don't harm, give the victory, meditate, fly and return for the benefit of all sentient beings", the ultimate purpose of the meditation house is to provide the meditator with the necessary circumstances and means for them to be their meditative solitude bearer as well as the others' solitude protector in order to ply the meditative absorption practice. +
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The retreat will take place at Big Hill Retreat, an establishment that rents cottages to tourists mainly, but also to meditators for a discounted price, as the owner, Terry Henderson is himself a practitioner. The place has also been hosting a yearly meditation program for several years. The cabin is isolated and is well suited for Chod practice as it is in a wilderness area. For photos and more detailed information about the setting and the cabin, please consult the website: www.bighillretreat.com slash cozyAcabin.html +
I wish to do my retreat at Rinchen Ling, a retreat center located near Périgueux, where I currently live. Rinchen Ling was originally established in the 1970s as a Zen Buddhist retreat center. Later, it was acquired by the Nyingma tradition, and two traditional retreats were held here under the guidance of Khyentse Rinpoche. Today, it is an individual retreat center under the responsibility of Pema Wangyal Rinpoche.
There are currently six residents at the center, including two women who are in lifelong retreat.
My hermitage is a small, isolated cabin that I have equipped with a dry toilet and running water, allowing me to be fully independent and not rely on communal bathrooms or kitchen.
Although Rinchen Ling is not as secluded as Chanteloube—due to the proximity of a
nearby town, a road running in front of the center, and new houses being built around it
—the center still sits on several acres of land in the countryside, surrounded by a forest.
This setting offers a peaceful environment for retreat, despite the occasional noise from the outside world.
The cabin itself is simple and modest, with a heater to keep it warm. It includes a twin
room, which I can use as a food storage area and kitchen. For my needs, the space is
perfectly sized and feels almost luxurious for a retreat setting. +
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The ground and shape of the Association's meditation activity is a meditation retreat house in the remote hamlet of Caneto, Huesca (Spain) to shelter the blatant and urging need to provide retreatants with appropriate conditions for mid- and long-term retreats of meditative absorption in today's circumstances either as a sole practice or as a basis and complement for other meditative or contemplative practices. Enlightened with the motto "Don't harm, give the victory, meditate, fly and return for the benefit of all sentient beings", the ultimate purpose of the meditation house is to provide the meditator with the necessary circumstances and means for them to be their meditative solitude bearer as well as the others' solitude protector in order to ply the meditative absorption practice. +
Meditation house located in an isolated area in a small village surrounded by nature, where I can practice the Dharma teachings, during meditation, post-meditation, and sleep hours (dream yoga). +
