Dhammachari Achala from Newzealand lead a workshop on English language. About 40 students were benefited from the workshop. Learning english skills from teacher specially from the west was an extraordinary experience for most students. Such type of workshop gives them more confidence that they can understand English people’s pronounciation and can speak English.
From Community Highlights on Sat, 16 Nov, 2013 - 13:32This weekend in the UK saw Children in Need Day and the 75th anniversary of Krystallnacht, when my father watched the synagogue burning. The significance of how we respond isn’t just the money. It also says something about who we are and our relationships with others
From Loving Kindness - Blazing Like The Sun on Sat, 16 Nov, 2013 - 13:26We’re nearly at the end of this urban retreat… Thank you to you all for your participation, your engagement, your posts and contributions, shrine photos, and for the way all this has been flavoured and pervaded by metta!
A big thank you to those who helped provide materials and resources for the event. Thanks to Subhdramati and Vessantara for the daily talks and reflections, and to Manidha, Natalie Willmer...
From dharma@work on Sat, 16 Nov, 2013 - 13:09Hello everyone, I hope you’ve had a good Urban Retreat? There’s been loads going on, both online, and at Buddhist Centres around the globe. We’re launching this group on The Buddhist Centre Online because most of us spend most of our waking lives engaged in some form of paid or volunteering work - we are active beings, and like to work! This group is designed to share our inspiration together about how we are managing to practice the...
From Loving Kindness - Blazing Like The Sun on Fri, 15 Nov, 2013 - 14:58Hi everyone, please join us in an hour’s time if you can for the live Facebook group discussion on the topic ‘Metta In The Face Of World Problems’… How does the work of this urban retreat - and of developing loving kindness in our lives - relate (if at all) to the scale of kinds of issues we face today? Typhoons in the Phillipines, global warming, the war on terror, etc. Is it possible to face these things...
