I have just recently come back from Buddhafield’s Green Earth Awakening and am flagging it up for the UK people amongst us, with a suggestion to put it in your diary for 2018!
I had SUCH a good time and thought it was such an excellent event - weaving Buddhafield magic, being outdoors in nature, coming together on the themes of nature, environment, social justice, Buddhist practice and what that all means for us, and a real sense of the...
Sunday October 1st, 9.30am-12pm Join us this Sunday for a first meditation and to dedicate our new space in the beautiful and historic Portsmouth Public Media building at 280 Marcy Street in Portsmouth’s South End. Our community gathering will take place at the new time of 9.30am-12pm, downstairs in Studio 1. We’d love to have you come and share your ideas for the future too!
Partnering With PPMTV, Portsmouth Media After a beautiful summer in the...
You may be aware of this already but the latest Ecosattva Course starts on October 1st 2017 - I took part the first time it happened and got a lot out of it. It runs over about 8 weeks from Sunday 1 October to November 19th and you can find out more on this One Earth Sangha page
The main shrine room at the London Buddhist Centre is playing a lead supporting role in this new film - Daphne - written by local Mitra Nico Mensinga.
The film features a Mitra ceremony, as well as acting debuts from Jnanavaca (two words), Prajnamanas (one mantra) & Subhadramati (no speaking part this time).
The main shrine room at the London Buddhist Centre is playing a lead supporting role in this new film - Daphne - written by local Mitra Nico Mensinga.
The film features a Mitra ceremony, as well as acting debuts from Jnanavaca (two words), Prajnamanas (one mantra) & Subhadramati (no speaking part this time).
Our year began with the preparations for the 3 month ordination retreat, and we thought all was ready when we discovered the lower water tank was completely empty, an animal had broken a pipe and all the water 20,000 litres had flowed down the hill ! Fortunately we were able to have it fixed pretty quickly and begin filling it again and also fortunately, we had another full tank ! That was enough of a heart stopper one may have thought – but Mara had...
The first of the Means of Unification of the Sangha is Generosity (dana). Dharmanatha is well known for his exemplary practice in this area and brings his passion to bear on this exploration.
I wrote much of this article in April this year after some conversations with a small group of friends in the Order. I asked for feedback from a number of people and got equivocal replies, many of which I agreed with. I didn’t publish it as it the ideas never seemed clear enough, good enough, and I thought I could help more by trying to get into more personal communication. In the times since then...
