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Weʼre raising £40,000 to help renovate Alfoxton Park Retreat Centre
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This year a group of intrepid cyclists will be travelling from Canterbury via Buddhafield to John O'Groats, over 1000 miles! Completely self supported we will be visiting every Buddhist Centre and Retreat Centre on route, all to raise money for the Alfoxton Park project. Leaving Canterbury on 12th of July, we aim to have reached John O'Groats by the 23rd of August!
Taking part in this ride will be: Kit de Heger, Sebastion Evans-Thornton, Matt Clark, James Anderson, Olivia Haywood Smith, Holly Taylor, Jack Foulkes and perhaps more!
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Alfoxton Park was once home to William and Dorothy Wordsworth and was a pivotal place in the birth and growth of Romantic poetry and literature in England. The building had been largely falling into ruin after its last incarnation as a Hotel, until it was acquired by the Triratna Buddhist Community in 2020. Since then it has been a place of great spiritual practice alongside the building renovations, giving hundreds of people a dynamic context to practice Buddhism and Meditation in harmony with the beautiful land and immense creative history of the building. The community are working as custodians of this important space, but they are in need of funds to continue this work, we aim to help them raise some money to be put towards the massive task of rescuing this building from collapse! Find out more about their mission here.
Inspired by the tenacity of the community at Alfoxton and the grass roots utopianism that exists within the Triratna Buddhist Community, we will be living on the road eating, sleeping and meditating together, just as the Buddha and his followers did 2500 years ago - but this time with Bicycles.... We will be travelling in semi-retreat conditions building sangha together and deepening our practice through our journey, ritual and a connection to the land we call home. To enshrine this journey Kit will be riding a cargo bike carrying a (lightweight) Buddha to ritualise the journey. Just as, in the early days of Triratna, those who were building the London Buddhist Centre drove around London in a van with a big gold Buddha atop it!
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If you are inspired by the Buddhist path or want to protect this bit of English heritage, please do give generously and share this page around. Together we can turn the Wheel...
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9 days agoWe've completed Day 1 of riding from Canterbury to Crawley (124km) Feeling good!
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Wendie
Jul 20, 2024
Sadhu to you all xx
£10.00
Vajragupta
Jul 16, 2024
Sounds like an amazing adventure... Good luck!
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Anna
Jul 15, 2024
Thank you for doing something beautiful, life giving and much needed for humanity ✨🌱🫂🌍🙏
£12.00
Paul
Jul 13, 2024
Good luck with the Tour Seb...post a few pics!
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garmo
Jul 13, 2024
Rohan
Jul 13, 2024
You got this!
£20.00
Faye Evans
Jul 13, 2024
See you at Justin and Lynn’s 👍 good luck every one. Have fun xx
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