Silent Buddhist Retreat in Lake District

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Seeking Zen at a silent Buddhist retreat comes with its own challenges

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The theme of the retreat was “appreciate your life” and it involved spending most of the day in silence.

The retreat involved eating a silent breakfast with the other 20 people participating in this lunacy.

After breakfast, spending 45 minutes washing up, then 90 minutes doing samu (work) chopping, shredding and peeling vegetables.

Tim Lott and Manu Bazzano present 15-minute Zen retreat on the moors.

They practise butoh, originally an avant-garde dance that focused on existential despair.

The goal of Zen practice is liberation from the painful illusions of everyday life.

Lott : 'The accomplished Zen practitioner is on his way to becoming a complete idiot. It takes an idiot to commit to Dharma practice a practice that has no purpose and offers no gain'.

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