On the first day of the This Being That Becomes retreat, Dhivan talks about the Buddha’s general formulation of conditionality, about the Four Noble Truths and about the three kinds of dukkha. The Buddha’s words to Ananda: ‘This dependent arising is deep and profound. It is from not understanding and penetrating this Dharma that people have become like a tangle of string covered in mould and matted like grass, unable to escape from samsara with its miseries, disasters and bad...
A shrine emerged based on the conditions on this retreat: Nayaka’s vison of a bowl and a robe, Dhivan and I talking about rupas resembling real human beings that inspire both of us, Khemaka and Carole setting out to make it happen, Dhivan’s trip to New Zealand to lead study where he received a set of visual images representing the nidana chain. All must have started though, with the Buddha being born,...
On the second day of the This Being retreat, Dhivan talks about samsara as the manifestation of reactive mind and the spiral path of creative mind. He explains why the factor of feeling is of pivotal importance in Buddhist practice.
Dhivan explores the underlying tendencies that give shape to our experience. He also goes into the psychology of conceptual and perceptual proliferation and presents a model that explains how views and emotions arise.
From India Dhamma Trust: "At the heart of a peaceful Dhamma Revolution" on Mon, 7 Apr, 2014 - 19:04‘Time has come, what is wanted is will. If the countries which are Buddhist can develop the will to spread Buddhism the task of spreading Buddhism will not be difficult. They must realize that the duty of a Buddhist is not merely to be a good Buddhist, his duty is to spread Buddhism. They must believe that to spread Buddhism is to serve mankind.’ https://mydonate.bt.com/charities/indiadhammatrust
