Breaking Families

(Open to all)

There has been much criticism, often intemperate, of Triratna and in particular Sangharakshita, for ‘breaking families’. So it was in the Buddha’s day. There is clearly an unavoidable tension between on the one hand the needs of the individual for, ideally, complete autonomy and emotional independence, and on the other the needs and demands of that selfsame individual, for such, paradoxically, is often the case, for sexual activity with a willing and appreciative partner. The tension is compounded if there...

Visit Coogee Beach in Sydney

One of our community members at Jayakula in beautiful Coogee Beach Sydney Australia is returning home to Scotland between April 17th and June 4th.

If you are an Order member who’d love to come and spend some time here and can think of some simple ways you could share your practice with our Coogee and Sydney Buddhist Centre Sangha, please contact me.

You’d only have to find your fare over and meet your own living expenses: accommodation in our lovely community would be free.

You can...

'The Bodhisattvas Are Also Necessary'

Open to all - see https://www.sangharakshita.org/writings.html

I have told this story before, but never mind, I will tell it again. It was told me by my teacher, the venerable Jagdish Kashyap, and it was about himself. Born into a Hindu family in Bihar, he had converted to Buddhism and had been ordained as a bhikkhu in Sri Lanka. Though a scholar in Sanskrit and Pāli, he was a gentle, unassuming man who did not mind telling...