London Insight Daylong

In-person: More than Meditation: Ritual, Cosmology and Alchemy at the Heart of Buddha Dharma with Martin Aylward
Martin Aylward

31 May 2025 10:00 am – 5:00 pm £15.00 – £50.00

Meditation has become increasingly popular and accessible, partly through isolating it from its traditional Buddhist context, where meditation is inseparably embedded in a body of teachings, beliefs, rituals and other practices.

In the popularisation and secularisation of meditation, has something essential been lost along the way? What might your practice be missing that meditation alone cannot provide? Might some traditional complements to meditation such as an altar, devotional gestures, chanting and making offerings be in some way vital, and how might you engage with them without the traditional cultural context?

This day of practice and teachings will explore meditation in relation to and with the engagement of these adjunct practices, as we inquire together to distinguish the merely superstitious from the vital and transformative. Oh, and we’ll also meditate together.