In summer 2008 we organized the first meditation course with traveling teachers from Poland, Germany and Hungary. Between 28th June and 6th July we held over 70 friends from all over Poland. This event went down in the history of Żerdno Buddhist Retreat Centre already.
For a couple of summer days, among beautiful meadows, forests and hills that form the landscape of Żerdno, we all have built the mandala of this place. And the program of the course was absolutely OUTSTANDING. We invited 6 (!) traveling teachers: Zsuzsa Koszegi, Marcin Barański, Maria Przyjemska, Tadeusz Uchto, Daniel Wysocki and Wojtek Tracewski gave lectures and we are very grateful to them for sharing rich knowledge and experience with us.
Luckily, just before the course we managed to connect water and power to the plot, so we could ensure excellent cuisine and proper sanitary facilities. We also arranged fine infrastructure: we built Gompa, cookhouse and canteen. Although it was a camp type of infrastructure, our moods were great and the collective effort provided ideal conditions for meditations, lectures and fantastic time spent together with friends.
We are very grateful to everyone who attended the course, worked with us and practised together.
In the future we plan to organize more courses, to which you are already invited! We also want to invite you to support the project of building the Retreat Centre in Żerdno. We still need some external support, especially when it comes to founding the construction works. Hence, we would like to invite all other Sangha friends to become part of our activity.