You may know that there is a (Closed) Facebook group called Triratna Climate Change Action. (Some strong conversations and discussions are happening here, so if you’re on FB, I recommend joining!)
Teojapala has just posted a question, which I thought you might be able to contribute to. If you’re not on the FB group, please share it below, as it will be of interest to all of us.
The venue where our sangha gathers is on a street that sees many of Exeter’s ‘street homeless’, and sangha members wanted to know - what is the wise and compassionate response? So for the theme ‘connecting communities’ we had a talk by Brett Sentence from the charity Julian House - “Julian House works for a just society where socially excluded people are supported and empowered to build sustainable, independent lives.” Could Brett give us a simple answer? “No!” he said regretfully, “it can be very...
BAM! It all starts here… for the gardens at Taraloka at least, with our COMPOST. I love it, and I love making it. So it’s time to dish the dirt. Let’s start big, with some facts about soil and our planet.
1) It can take about 1,000 years to make just a couple of centimetres of soil.
2) The human population is rising globally, and almost all of the new growth is being housed in towns and cities that, by definition, are...
Apart from the fact that we can continue with our skilful actions engagements and all through the year, should you feel that you’d like to end the month doing something to have a positive effect on the world and reach out to yourSangha as well as your local community - here are some ideas for 10 minutes actions which you can still do - even today!
a daily dose of FMI’s: five minute interventions {not sure what they are? Look it up here,
Karunaprabha is a Triratna order member living in Pune, India. Here she talks about her life, about Dr Ambedkar, and about her work with the Green Tara Foundation which helps young girls and women in ten slum districts in Pune. She loves her work her, and says she has benefitted so much from contact with the Dharma in her life she really wants to give back - as she says, “we have compassion - but we must express it somewhere!”
This post could be entitled ‘How to do something positive for the world and have a really good day at the same time’: the Exeter & Devon Triratna sangha met with members of other local Buddhist groups - Western Chan fellowship, Gaia House group and Diamond Way - at Dawlish Warren, a little seaside resort south of Exeter, and followed Neil, our beachcare officer, along the beach, away from the shops selling flip flops and ice cream.
For Buddhist Action Month 2016 we asked our friends from around the world to say what the Bodhisattva Ideal means to them…
Here’s Khemasuri, who suggests to the extent we practise the dharma we are all trainee bodhisattvas, and as part of that we’ll ’remember that all our actions have consequences and that we can always be agents for positive change”. In her talk she explores how we can be be positive agents for changing the world - she has some good quotes from Sangharakshita too,...
