A Buddhist Meditation Retreat
 Goedgedacht Farm, Kasteelberg near Riebeek-Kasteel
9 days ● Friday 31 Oct to Sunday 9 Nov 2025
(Arrive Friday afternoon 31 Oct depart Sunday morning 9 Nov)
 
For costs & to book: capetown@kagyu.org.za  or harmse.charlotte@gmail.com

 In Love
“A pity beyond all telling
Is hid in the heart of love:
The folk who are buying and selling,
The clouds on their journey above,
 
The cold wet winds ever blowing,
And the shadowy hazel grove
Where mouse-grey waters are flowing,
Threaten the head that I love.”
W.B.Yeats

It is said that a simpler life imbued with love and wisdom can be discovered through the pathways of meditation and contemplation. A life without love is such a barren waste land. There is our all-too-human love as well as deeper love that is at the heart of the religious life. The love which Rūmi, John of the Cross and the Buddha speak of. By religious we mean the gathering of all that is good and blessed of heaven and earth. The work is to move from alone (isolation) to Alone (all one).. Perhaps it is ‘That’ which can dissolve all sorrow, loneliness and their roots.
 
We will explore the topic and see if in our torn world we can ignite its flame so we are a warm light to ourselves and others. 
 
Conditions for participants:
Each person should be committed to the full retreat program and leave personal demands and agendas aside. This is essential. Our retreat is informed by Buddhist ethics, view and practice.
Ethical conduct and sensitivity to others is assumed.


Dónal Creedon is a Buddhist meditation teacher with many years’ experience, loved and deeply appreciated for his warmth, openness and sincerity. He studied and practiced with Buddhist masters of the Kagyu practice lineage in Europe as well as in India and Nepal. This involved many years of intense retreat.

Dónal also spent a number of years at the Krishnamurti Centre in Varanasi as resident Buddhist scholar. Thus the radical inquiry of Krishnamurti informs his approach.
 

Dónal will also run a retreat in Groot Marico, please contact them direct to book:
 
11 Nov to 4 Dec Tara Rokpa Centre, Groot Marico
https://tararokpacentre.co.za/event/meditation-retreat-with-donal-creedon-2025/