We will run a 7-days retreat for beginners and experienced, where teaching is mostly aimed at participants with little experience, but with an equal participant distribution of beginners and experienced. English-speaking independent participants are also welcome. Teaching, guiding, private interview, Q/A. Single room with bathroom and shower for everyone.

In April 2026, there will be a 7-day meditation retreat at Venabu for the fourth time. Venerable Canda and Nitho will be instructors. Welcome!

We plan to set up an intensive course in the Buddhist Pali language during 2025/2026. The course will run full-time for 9 days.

Ajahn Brahmali was invited to Norway to teach Satipatthana or Right Mindfulness, and how this is explained in early Buddhism and how it creates a clear, happy and free mind. Find the podcast episodes and notes of the teaching here.

What exactly does 'right mindfulness' mean in Buddhism? Ajahn Brahmali explains the concept of 'samma sati' and how it relates to meditation and the eightfold path.

DNBF's former chairman Jon Endre Mørk and Nitho had to go to Oxford to meet and congratulate Venarable Canda, which has just established the first place for fully ordained women in the UK. There was both retreat teaching, BBC interviews, a walk along the Themes river and the opportunity to get to know the new center.

The spiritual training is like aircon for your mind.

We had more than 50 registered for the Venabu retreat in the spring of 2025, and since spring came early and Venabu was free of snow, there was also the opportunity for a trip and practice out in nature. You can also find the teaching here.

One day our body doesn't want to hang around any more because of old age, then what is the continuation?

Focusing on the fact that our body is going to die, can arouse a sense of spiritual urgency, that again can help us developing wholesome states of mind.

We can waist lots of time, doing the same things over and over again in meditation, if we don't sometimes pull back and look at what we are doing.

Guided meditation on contenment, which is a universial antidote to our hindrances.

Loving kindness meditation or metta-meditation is a type of practice that fulfils the whole eight fold path. It is a type of unconditional love, committed to the wellbeing of everybody − it is radically inclusive.

A guided loving kindness meditation, or kindfulness meditation.

When we are happy inside, we get to sit for a long time, and the longer we meditate, the more stillness and clarity is created for our development of wisdom.

One way of looking at the training is called the gradual training, which is a gradual refinement of wholesome happiness and freedom.

Letting be meditation is really simple, and works wonders on an active mind.

There are many hindrances (nīvarana) in meditation, and if you are not aware of these, or do not understand them, you can waste a lot of time. Podcast episode can be found in the article.

How does the mind work? Often we don't understand, and we create problems for ourselves and others. But it IS possible to develop wisdom and to be free!

Jhana has become popular, but often dumbed down. So then it helps to have an overview of how aspects of the path fits together.

A longing for freedom is the first of the four bases of spiritual strength—energy, awareness, and understanding are the other three.

Metta meditation is the practice to develop the mind in such a way that this feeling of metta, this most exalted of human potentials, becomes a reality.

Mindfulness is not really meditation, but can be used as a type of meditation where we simply are aware of what is happening in your body and mind.

Early Buddhism is the Buddha's teachings that all traditions have in common − and which are not connected to a particular tradition. What is this doctrine, and what has come later?

Guided meditation focused on care and patience.

Every morning, Johann Forfang does the same. Before he eats or exercises, before he checks his mobile phone and before the dog Ringo gets his walk. One of Norway's best ski jumpers hand-brews coffee. In silence.

In this guided meditation, the body is first allowed to relax and be free, then the focus shifts to the mind and we take on the role of an observer only, leaving everything as it is.

Etter et retrett, hvordan kan vi fortsette vår praksis, hvordan kan vi overføre ferdighetene våre til hverdagen?

In this guided meditation, given deep into a longer retreat, the focus is on programming your mindfulness, which is not so much a doing, but a seeing.