The Valley Retreat - Meditation Centre

The Valley Retreat - Meditation Centre The Valley Retreat is set in 3 acres of beautiful Cornish countryside just 5 minutes drive from Trur To reconnect with this present moment.

The Valley Retreat is a unique non-residential mindfulness and meditation centre set in over 3 acres of beautiful Cornish countryside within 5 minutes drive of Truro city centre. The Valley Retreat is filled with an abundance of trees and a wide variety of wildlife. It is an ideal setting to begin or develop a mindfulness and meditation practice and reconnect with the natural environment. The Valley Retreat offers a space dedicated to learn and develop the skills of mindfulness and meditation. Whether you are new to mindfulness and meditation or looking to further develop your practice then The Valley Retreat can offer you what you are looking for. People come to mindfulness and mediation for a wide variety reasons and as a result each session we offer is unique. Each session is as fresh and unique as the moment it is expressed in. So whether it is just an intial inquisitive enquiry or something more specific we tailor every session to your specific needs. We offer mindfulness and meditation coaching and classes to individuals or small groups with an emphasis on giving complete compassionate focus and attention. It is our effortless dedication to all that visit and participate in the teachings that makes our sessions so engaging. We ensure that where there are group sessions sizes remain small and intimate. Importantly there is an emphasis on individual coaching sessions. One on one sessions last 75 minute sessions at a cost of £30. The key is the opportunity learn from an experienced teacher and importantly directly experience the benefits of mindfulness and meditation for yourself. Whatever reason you may be looking for a new way of being please feel free to contact us at anytime by phone 07966237344 or by email rob@thevalleyreatreat.co.uk

So this is the dharma point of view; who is this person, this one, this me that says I exist, I am like this. So when we...
04/08/2025

So this is the dharma point of view; who is this person, this one, this me that says I exist, I am like this. So when we look at emptiness we are taking all the qualities that we attribute to ourselves and that we hear and see other people attributing to us and we try to see do they have substance, do they have truth, are they actually defining who I am or is this like children making sandcastles, just piling together moments of possibility into a form which has no essence. Sandcastles always fall apart, the tide comes in washes them away or other children jump onto them, they have no essence, we also have no essence. We are in situations which are held together by so many factors we don't know

- James Low

This modern obsession that we have with health is highly egotistical because its based on the notion of knowledge. I kno...
02/08/2025

This modern obsession that we have with health is highly egotistical because its based on the notion of knowledge. I know what other people need, I know what food you should eat in order to be healthy but each culture has different readings of this. We don't know. From the buddhist point of view whether they are healthy or not depends on their karma. That is to say that the buddha said if you want to know about your previous lives look at your body, if you want to know about your future body in future lives look at your present action. This doesn't mean that if you have orange juice for breakfast it will make you healthy. The theories about what makes us healthy or not healthy are floating on an ocean of ignorance. We don't remember our past lives, we don't know what we did, Out of this ocean of ignorance suddenly a big shark arrives and jumps up and bites you. You have a pain in your side you go to the doctor, they send you to the hospital, bad news. How could this happen. All these vegetables I have eaten, even my best friend is called broccoli, but you have cancer. Where did it come from. Past life. This is very different. This is not to say that you shouldn't do yoga and exercise and so on but the ego seeks certain things, it seeks omniscience and omnipotence and if it can have this it feels safe. I know how it works and I can make things happen on my terms . This is not the buddhist understanding The buddhist understanding is the ego is a confusing force full of deluded ideas

- James Low

We are very, very good at making problems for ourselves- Ringu Tulku
31/07/2025

We are very, very good at making problems for ourselves

- Ringu Tulku

This whole world is nothing but movement. And this movement is arising and passing. Arising and passing. Immediately thi...
29/07/2025

This whole world is nothing but movement. And this movement is arising and passing. Arising and passing. Immediately this moment is gone and gone and gone. Now becomes then. In this immediacy what this indicates is that now is fresh. Fresh is like a gap. A new beginning. But if I link the past to the present to the future and experience these times as weaving together to create a frame across which my life is spread then the formation of now is determined by the past and the formation of now influences the future. So these are always these two potential readings; the ground of being, the ground that we exhibit from, that we are the showing of, this open empty ground, it is unborn. It has never come into existence as a thing. And we are also unborn. Or if you could put it another way we are ceaselessly born and dying. Born and dying. I am this and then I am not. Fully this and then not. What I am as this which feels completely true it dies. It vanishes. Oh. Oh. So what I have access to is this. I bring into this the burden of neurosis, patterning and so on. The function of meditation is to help us to see that we are importing things we don't need

- James Low

In buddhism wisdom is not the accumulation of knowledge. It's not something you build up through time. But it's recognis...
28/07/2025

In buddhism wisdom is not the accumulation of knowledge. It's not something you build up through time. But it's recognising that we have been operating in a false paradigm, which is the paradigm of ignorance. Ignorance is a way of operating. Ignorance is a way of saying knowledge is important because ignorance is trying to fill the gap that's created by not recognising who you are with ideas about who you are. So awakening is experiential it is not a concept

- James Low

The idea is to rely on something which will not make us smaller but will always be extending us. So when we take refuge ...
28/07/2025

The idea is to rely on something which will not make us smaller but will always be extending us. So when we take refuge in the buddha, buddha is the one who awakened, so we are saying being awake is better than being asleep. Finding out is better than assuming. Which means we have to look. So if I take refuge in the buddha I commit myself to looking, looking again and again, and looking further. To really enquiring. Taking refuge in the dharma really means listening to dharma ideas but also massaging them into myself and applying them. And using them as a way of helping me to see. To see what? To see that which dissolves the assumptions that I have. So to take refuge in the buddha and the dharma is a very big step, because it is a very radical step, which means instead of relying on the beliefs that I have I am going to examine these beliefs and put them into question and hopefully I will do it deeply and profoundly successfully so that I am not relying on anything. I am going to use reliance on the buddha to dissolve reliance

- James Low

I am a temporary construct. I am a tent not a palace. In fact I am not even a tent.... I am just some branches and leave...
24/07/2025

I am a temporary construct. I am a tent not a palace. In fact I am not even a tent.... I am just some branches and leaves put together as a nomads shelter

- James Low

Seeing the world with all the unspoiled simplicity of a young child, you are free from concepts of beauty and ugliness, ...
23/07/2025

Seeing the world with all the unspoiled simplicity of a young child, you are free from concepts of beauty and ugliness, good and evil, and no longer fall prey to conflicting tendencies driven by desire or repulsion. Why trouble yourself about all the ups and downs of daily life, like a child who delights in building a sand castle but cries when it collapses? To get what they want and be rid of what they dislike, look how people throw themselves into torments, like moths plunging into the flame of a lamp! Would it not be better to put down your heavy burden of dreamlike obsessions once and for all?

- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

What people commonly refer to as “life” or “living” is, in truth, filled with unexpected events and fleeting circumstanc...
23/07/2025

What people commonly refer to as “life” or “living” is, in truth, filled with unexpected events and fleeting circumstances. Yet death—perhaps the most profound and meaningful occurrence in one’s entire existence—seems, strangely, to receive the least attention. If you were to die tonight, you would lose your identity and all your possessions; none of your plans would come to pass

This is precisely why death is such a momentous matter. For most of us, birth is hardly something we ever worry about, while death stands as the one certainty that evokes the greatest fear. In fact, we are fond of birth. When a child is born, we rejoice with the parents, and from that day forward, we celebrate each passing year with increasing devotion

Today, there exists an entire industry dedicated to birthdays: birthday cakes, birthday parties, birthday surprises—and, of course, birthday cards, always ready to be sent with the mere press of a button. Without lifting a finger, social media ensures that we never forget a single birthday, not even that of a cat

- Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

Recognise that from the very beginning our being is pure. I am not a thing. I am not an entity. How I am is ungraspable,...
21/07/2025

Recognise that from the very beginning our being is pure. I am not a thing. I am not an entity. How I am is ungraspable, like the sky. This infinite openness gives rise to all phenomena. Resting in openness that allows phenomena to come and go. The distorted ego-winds gradually dissolve and there is clarity and spaciousness. From clarity and spaciousness a deep satisfaction arises, a contentment which means you have no need to go and do things. You can just sit quietly and not be so hungry for experience

- James Low

“All that you see, all appearances are the deity.All sounds are the mantra.All awareness is Rigpa”- Minling Terchen Gyur...
18/07/2025

“All that you see, all appearances are the deity.

All sounds are the mantra.

All awareness is Rigpa”

- Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje
(Quoted by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche)

We are driven by this notion that if we are not busy, we are not constructing something, we're not doing something, if w...
16/07/2025

We are driven by this notion that if we are not busy, we are not constructing something, we're not doing something, if we're not creating value, we will have no value. This is the prime anxiety of the ego. The ego knows it is empty and fears that emptiness as if its a kind of bad smell, as if its shat its pants in some way and so it has to cover it up and cover it up by showing I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, I'm useful, I'm useful, but it's actually empty and this emptiness is not shameful, it's the emptiness of all phenomena

- James Low

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