Home Retreat Online – Dhyana and the Wings to Awakening

Is this Event for Me?

Dhyana and the Wings to Awakening (Friday 9th – Sunday 11th October 2026) is an online Home Retreat hosted by The Buddhist Centre Live, exploring meditative absorption (dhyana) alongside the seven Wings to Awakening (bojjhaṅgā).

You’ll likely enjoy this retreat if you want:
a calm, structured online retreat space for meditation and reflection, with a focus on awareness, serenity, integration, and the gradual unfolding of awakening-supporting qualities within everyday home life.

What you’ll find across the format includes:

3-Day Online Home Retreat Format (October 9–11, 2026) ·
Buddhist Meditation Practice and Reflection ·
Dhyana (meditative absorption) Exploration ·
Wings to Awakening Teaching Frame (bojjhaṅgā) ·
Awareness, Discrimination, and Energy as Supports of Practice ·
Wellbeing, Serenity, Samādhi (Integration), and Equanimity ·
Shared Retreat Atmosphere Across Distance ·
Suitable for Both Continuing Practitioners and Newcomers ·
Offered Freely with Donations Welcome

Dhyana and the Wings to Awakening (with Tejananda) — Online Home Retreat (October 9–11, 2026)

A particular kind of quiet arrives when retreat practice begins at home. Attention settles, the ordinary space softens, and the day opens with a different rhythm. In the world of Home Retreats, atmosphere arises through intention: a candle lit, a seat prepared, a few hours held gently for stillness.

Dhyana and the Wings to Awakening (with Tejananda) is an online Buddhist retreat offered through Buddhist Centre Live, part of the wider teaching and practice ecosystem of The Buddhist Centre. Guided by Tejananda, this retreat invites participants into meditation, reflection, and deepening awareness from within the simplicity of home.

For those exploring Home Retreats as a sincere spiritual path, this retreat offers an opportunity to enter traditional Buddhist meditation teachings while remaining grounded in familiar surroundings. The experience carries both intimacy and spaciousness: shared practice alongside others, held within one’s own quiet place.

What This Home Retreat Explores (Dhyana + Wings to Awakening)

At the heart of Dhyana and the Wings to Awakening lies a deeply practical Buddhist teaching known as the Wings to Awakening (bojjhaṅgā). These qualities function as living supports of mind and heart — experiential conditions that gather, strengthen, and open into calm, clarity, and awakening. In the context of Home Retreats, they offer a gentle map for how inner stillness unfolds right where you are.

These seven qualities are highlighted in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta as crucial to the contemplation of dhammas. They arise through recognition and cultivation, moment by moment, as awareness deepens.

The Wings to Awakening move in a natural flow: awareness, discrimination, and energy support entry into meditative absorption, the dhyanas. Awareness steadies attention, discrimination clarifies what is wholesome and supportive, and energy sustains the direction of practice with steadiness.

From there, the latter four qualities come successively toward fulfilment: wellbeing, serenity, samādhi (integration), and equanimity. Wellbeing brings inward ease, serenity quiets the surface of the mind, samādhi gathers experience into unification, and equanimity rests in balance — spacious, clear, and undisturbed.

This home retreat explores how these seven wings arise through sincere practice within the simplicity of home space. Through Tejananda’s guidance, the journey of dhyana becomes intimate and immediate: the gradual gathering of awakening’s conditions within everyday life.

Who This Home Retreat May Suit

This online retreat may feel especially meaningful for practitioners drawn toward the deeper dimensions of meditation, including the dhyanas, and for those who wish to explore how calm and collectedness mature in a steady, gradual way. For anyone curious about meditative absorption as a living process, this retreat provides a supportive space for reflection and practice.

It may also suit those who have encountered the Wings to Awakening (bojjhaṅgā) and wish to understand them as lived qualities arising through attention, balance, and sincere cultivation.

For many, the appeal of Home Retreats lies in the possibility of entering a structured contemplative container while remaining rooted in familiar surroundings. This retreat supports depth and steadiness of practice within the rhythms of home life.

This event follows an earlier offering, Dhyana and Insight, and newcomers remain welcome. Whether continuing a thread of practice or entering the exploration for the first time, participants may find a gentle opportunity to engage deeply with Buddhist teachings in an accessible form.

Attending From Home (Home Retreat Atmosphere)

One of the quiet strengths of Home Retreats is their simplicity: retreat begins with intention. Attending Dhyana and the Wings to Awakening from home can be as straightforward as setting aside a small space and time, allowing the usual environment to become a temporary container for deeper practice.

A simple “retreat corner” can feel supportive — a cushion or chair, a blanket, a notebook nearby, perhaps a candle or a cup of tea if that feels natural. Comfort allows the body to settle so attention softens into stillness.

Online Retreats and Virtual Retreats also carry a sense of shared atmosphere. Knowing others are setting aside time for meditation and reflection brings a subtle communal support, even as each participant practises within their own home space.

Donation Approach + Accessibility

This home retreat is offered in a spirit of generosity and shared practice, with participation based on donation. The intention is to sustain the retreat offering while keeping the door open to all who feel called to attend.

A suggested donation range is given as:

This provides a guiding sense of what helps support the work of Buddhist Centre Live and the wider community around The Buddhist Centre, while recognising that circumstances differ.

The underlying approach is simple and sincere: accessibility matters alongside depth and seriousness of practice. This retreat arises as part of a living community of Dharma.

One ticket allows participants the flexibility to attend any session they wish, making engagement realistic across home life, time zones, and personal capacity.

Retreat Dates + Organiser

Dhyana and the Wings to Awakening with Tejananda takes place online from:

Friday 9th to Sunday 11th October 2026

The overall time window is listed as:

Oct 9 at 8:00am through to Oct 11 at 8:30pm (GMT+1)
Category: Spirituality / Buddhism
Refunds are available up to 7 days before the event.

Organiser ecosystem homepage (The Buddhist Centre):

https://thebuddhistcentre.com/

Closing Reflection

Home Retreats offer a sincere doorway into stillness, with awakening-supporting qualities arising through steady practice. Practising within ordinary home space allows the teachings to feel close, woven gently into daily experience.

This retreat invites calm integration through dhyana and the Wings to Awakening, held in community and depth. Perhaps the invitation is simple: to sit, to listen inwardly, and to allow clarity, balance, and possibility to gather within everyday life.