This is a document produced by the Steering Group after the last International Council meeting. It is about suggested processes and considerations to unify and sustain Triratna into the future. I’m posting it now to link to an Order newsletter that will soon go out to all Order members.
From Buddhist Action Month 2016 on Sat, 11 Jun, 2016 - 10:55The money awakening day with Amalavajra last weekend was very thought provoking and we had some lively discussions throughout the day. Sharing the details of my personal finances with another person seemed a scary thing to do, but I found it emotionally freeing. We completed a Money Archetype Quiz (Brent Kessel: It’s Not About The Money) which illuminated patterns of behaviour which go very deep into all areas of how I live my life. I could see how certain actions...
In this personal talk Yashobodhi goes into the aspiration to be of benefit to all beings, the pitfalls an aspiring bodhisattva can come across and about the journey from concept to experienced reality and back again.
In this personal talk Yashobodhi goes into the aspiration to be of benefit to all beings, the pitfalls an aspiring bodhisattva can come across and about the journey from concept to experienced reality and back again.
Metta for the oceans, supermarkets and shoppers! John West unsustainable fishing protest at Sainsbury’s
Text: Maitrisiddhi
Photos: Lisa Lens
It was a hot muggy Tuesday 7th of June. At a quarter to five, we were crowded round the table in the dark Taraloka community kitchen. You’d’ve thought we were preparing a bank heist. A pencilled sketch map of the front of Sainsbury’s supermarket in Whitchurch was spread out in front of us. I’d cased the joint the night before.
Here are some of the initiatives Taraloka is kicking off with this month of BAM:
1) John West Tuna unsustainable fishing Protest at Sainsburys, Whitchurch on Tuesday 7th June: It will be a peaceful protest for 2hrs which will include meditation and rejoicing in Sainsburys as well.
2) No internet in the house from 6pm to 8.30am between Wednesday 8th June and 15th June. Let’s see what impact this has on the community in terms of social connection and our state of...
What a beautiful way to start last weekend and Buddhist Action Month - a peace circle on Cathedral Green with lovely people! And a striking image for passers- by too. It was so positive we want to do it again in July ….
Subhuti ceremonially cutting the ribbons to the temple precinct, procession, circumambulation and enshrinement of Dhardo Rimpoche’s ashes in the new Stupa.
Buddhist Action Month began for some members of the Sheffield sangha on Sunday May 29, with the day retreat ‘Natural Dharma’ a Work that Reconnects day in a wonderful woodland setting. It was the first proper event hosted by Kuladitya and Cecilie in their woodland (and gorgeous yurt!), which they are slowly but surely restoring from Pine plantation to Oak woodland. Whereas only a few months ago the ground was covered by Bracken and Brambles, now it was dappled with Bluebells, Stichwort,...
Birmingham Buddhist Centre are running a 6 week course in their Thursday “Going Deeper” class which is for people who have been coming to the Centre for more than a few months. We have a series of speakers from the Mitra Sangha who will be talking about how they apply their understanding of the Dharma to their work in caring for others. Last night Helen Peckett, a clinical psychologist, spoke very honestly and clearly about her work. She reflected on...
