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Hola. Estaba meditando esta mañana y, quizás a raíz de una conversación de ayer con una amiga en el Reino Unido, se me ocurrió enviar este mensaje.

El Centro de Retiros Suryavana fue adquirido heroicamente por el Centro Budista de Valencia en 2016. Nos acercamos a nuestro décimo aniversario. Mi pareja y yo nos encargamos de la gestión y el mantenimiento del centro de retiros y el programa. Contamos con la ayuda de muchas otras personas que dirigen retiros. Yashomani es el Tesorero.

Suryavana sirve como centro de retiros para la Sangha Española y la Orden en España, y sirve algunos eventos internacionales. También ofrecemos las instalaciones a grupos no pertenecientes a Triratna.

La Masía y las 14 hectáreas de terreno se adquirieron casi en su totalidad con préstamos.

¿Alguien estaría dispuesto a donar, ya sea una cantidad grande o pequeña, para ayudarnos a liquidar los préstamos? Debemos 75.000 libras esterlinas al Windhorse Trust y unos 90.000 euros a nuestro banco. Estamos devolviendo los préstamos con esmero mes a mes y podemos afirmar que el proyecto marcha bien.

Sería muy útil devolver el préstamo del Windhorse Trust cuanto antes, ya que sabemos que este dinero se invertiría en otros proyectos de Triratna. ¿Hay alguien interesado en hacerlo? Contáctame. Sudaka info@suryavana.es

Hi all. I was meditating this morning and perhaps as a consequence of a conversation yesterday with a friend back in the UK it occurred to me to send out this message. 

Suryavana Retreat Centre was heroically purchased by the Valencia Buddhist Centre back in 2016. We are approaching our 10th year and are now an independent project and running as best we can with myself and my partner onsite, managing and maintaining the retreat centre and programme. With help of many others to lead retreats. Yashomani is the Treasurer. 

Suryavana serves as a retreat centre for the Spanish Sangha and the Order in Spain and it serves as a venue for some international events. We also offer the facilities to non-Triratna group to help cover our costs. 

The Masia (country house) and 14 hectares of lands were bought almost entirely with loans. 

Is anyone willing to donate large or smaller amounts to help clear out the loans? We owe £75k (sterling) to the Windhorse Trust and about 90k euros to our bank. We are laboriously returning the loans month by month and we can say the project is going well. 

It would be really helpful to return the Windhorse Trust loan sooner rather than later and we know that this money would be then invested in other Triratna projects. Is there anyone out there who wants to do this? Contact me. Sudaka info@suryavana.es

I just want to say that generally Suryavana is going well. 

However, unfortunately January and February were quiet months with minimal income which left Suryavana once again on edge. Fortunately this month, March there is a lot of activity thanks to three big events, one of which is an Ordination retreat for David Giménez who has been coming to Suryavana since we opened and is amazingly wheel-chair-bound and blind. 

In the winter we buy propane for the central heating and cooking costing a small fortune!

We had to invest in a new generator this winter and we put in a large new window in the shrine room downstairs which we use on this retreat as it’s easier wheel chair access. 

Conversations are ongoing with local authorities and architects about the shrine room in the back patio. It is looking promising but Suryavana paperwork needs sorting out before proceeding. Some important documents. Now we are “Comunidad Budista Triratna Centro de Retiros Xerica” 

We have proceeded to get all this documentation up to date which is taking several weeks. 

Despite the challleges with moving forward I have faith that we can rise to it. 

Personally I am keen to reinvest as much money back into the project as well as having a buffer. It is always rather tight. And obviously these two objectives conflict at times. 

An important investment was the new generator (which consumes a quarter of the diesel than the rather elderly and worn out 15 year old Taiguer, which by the way, completely broke down in December. (Water pump). Though now repaired by our kindly neighbour Angel.

The next project, a part for the shrine room is to upgrade the solar panels. What we have are 15 years old and the technology has kept forward. The intention is to install new 450W panel doubling the capacity to accumulate solar energy and have the co trol panel linked to the Internet to keep an easy eye on battery level and energy generation. 

All the best. 

Suḍāka