The Way of Loving Kindness
Two-Day Meditation Workshop
Oscailt, Pembroke St. Dublin 4
Saturday 7th – Sunday 8th February 2026, 10am – 5pm
Led by Vajrashura
Join us for a weekend of meditation, reflection, and connection as Vajrashura leads an in-depth exploration of the Karaniya Metta Sutta — the Buddha’s beautiful and profound teaching on loving-kindness (metta).
Often regarded as one of the most poetic and inspiring texts in the Buddhist tradition, the Karaniya Metta Sutta goes far beyond being a simple guide to cultivating friendliness. It encapsulates the entirety of the Buddhist path, expressing the threefold training of ethics, meditation, and wisdom.
This two-day urban retreat offers the ideal opportunity to escape from the hecticness of everyday life, practice meditation, and explore how loving kindness can transform our experience of others and the world around us.
Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced practitioner, this workshop offers a rich opportunity to reconnect with the heart of the Buddha’s teaching — and with a community of fellow meditators.
Please note this event is not taking place in our usual premises.
When
Saturday 6th – Sunday 7th December 2025, 10am – 5pm
Where
Oscailt Integrative Health Centre,
8 Pembroke Road,
Ballsbridge,
Dublin 4,
D04 F597
Vajrashura started practicing yoga and learnt to meditate while in university doing a Masters in High Performance Computing. He firstly did these through university societies, and then in the Dublin Buddhist Centre. He has worked as part of the Centre Team since 2002 and in 2007 he joined the Triratna Buddhist Order.
Since ordination, he’s been one of the DBC’s main teachers, leading many courses, retreats, and events each year, and is concerned with helping people go more deeply into meditation and Buddhism. He also is helping coordinate the new retreat centre project and looks after the DBC finances.
Suitable for: Open to anyone who has an interest in meditation, mindfulness, loving kindness, or Buddhism.
Cost
We do tiered pricing, depending on the circumstances.
- €180 waged
- €140 concession
Booking Terms and Conditions
A €50 deposit per person of this payment is non-refundable under all circumstances.
If you wish to cancel or transfer a booking, please notify us as soon as possible on info@dublinbuddhistcentre.org
Cancellation
- If you wish to cancel your place seven days prior to the event starting, a full refund minus the deposit will be offered.
- If cancellation occurs within seven days of the event starting no refund will be available.
Transfers
- It may be possible to transfer your place to another event if we are given sufficient notice (at least four days before the event is due to start) and there are places available on the alternative event.
- If the event you wish to transfer to costs more than your original booking you will need to pay the difference at the time of transferring in order to secure your place.
- We will refund the difference if the event you wish to transfer to costs less than the original booking.
- We will only transfer a booking once and no transfer will be possible once an event has started.