Passaddhi is a small meditation centre outside Adrigole on the Beara Peninsula in the southwest of Ireland. Passaddhi overlooks Bantry Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, and is situated on a quiet hillside between Hungry Hill and the Sugarloaf Mountain. In 1996 Marjó Oosterhoff and her husband built it as their family home, and since 1999 meditation retreats take place at the house. Passaddhi (meaning ‘peace and tranquillity’) is the perfect environment to experience the calm, clarity and contentment meditation practice can bring.
Marjó Oosterhoff is the resident teacher and manager at Passaddhi. She now mainly teaches at other venues; the accommodation at Passaddhi is too limited to warrant hosting retreats for the time being.
She seeks to make the wisdom teachings of the Buddha and other spriritual teachers, and in particular awareness and compassion meditation practices, available to as many people as possible, whether they are Buddhist or not.
Marjó has practised meditation (both vipassana/insight and metta/loving kindness) for many years, in monasteries and meditation centres in Burma and Thailand, as well as in Buddhist retreat centres in the West. In 1995 her Thai and Burmese teachers authorised her to teach meditation retreats.
Silent retreat: Coming upon Kindness, Compassion, Joy, Equanimity and other qualities of heart and mind through Open Awareness Practice.
15th - 21st August
Teach Bhride, Tullow, Co. Carlow
Marjó will introduce an open awareness practice, that is non-directive, non-selective and non-prescriptive. We will let the mind wander where it wants; with kindness, interest and permission seeing where it takes us and understanding what it wants to show us.
Private talks with Marjó about the practice are an integral part of this retreat.
Cost: €380 for a regular single room, and €490 for a single ensuite room. Please ring or email if finances are an issue.
The guidance by Marjó is on a donation basis
We will start at 8 pm on Monday 15th, and finish with lunch on Sunday 21st.
There are still a few places available.
Bookings with Marjó on marjo.metta@gmail.com or 086 8787040.
marjo.metta@gmail.com