This group has been paused but remains online as an archive.
Threads, for several years, has functioned as an opt-in, fully participatory space for Order members, echoing the Threads feature of traditional Shabda. Its remit was to be a space for the everyday hustle and bustle of threaded conversation about wider issues, considered if passionate Order exchange, etc. Here are the original Shabda Threads guidelines, which give more of the intended flavour:
This group has been paused but remains online as an archive.
Threads, for several years, has functioned as an opt-in, fully participatory space for Order members, echoing the Threads feature of traditional Shabda. Its remit was to be a space for the everyday hustle and bustle of threaded conversation about wider issues, considered if passionate Order exchange, etc. Here are the original Shabda Threads guidelines, which give more of the intended flavour:
Satyasthira has written to me as his Public Preceptor to resign from the Order. I’ve talked to Dharmapriya, his Private preceptor and, with sadness, together we have accepted Satyasthira’s resignation. We wish him well on his continued explorations.
Satyasthira, from Berlin, Germany, was ordained in October 2004 at Guhyaloka. His resignation letter can be read below.
Best wishes, Surata
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“Knowledge and vision of things as they really are…” - this was the crucial and promising concept for...
The second talk on the theme of What is the Sangha? at Sangha Night, this time by Subhadramati.
Subhadramati is a Public and Private Preceptor and the Women’s Mitra Convenor at the London Buddhist Centre. She is the author of Not About Being Good; an insightful book on Buddhist ethics.
I am delighted to be able to announce that Jyotipala will be having his Public Ordination at Padmaloka on Tuesday 28th March at 2.30 pm.
The ordination will mark Jyotipala’s re-entry into the Order. Jyotipala was ordained at Padmaloka by Bhante on 14th August 1976 - the first person to be ordained at Padmaloka. Jyotipala led a very full Order life, making outstanding contributions to the life and work of the Order, perhaps...
In honor of Black History Month, Tricycle is presenting a special video series, “Teachings for Uncertain Times,” featuring 13 teachers of color. This week Viveka from San Francisco Buddhist Center is featured, speaking about activism and the Dharma.
“I remember… tuning into what was happening in Ferguson, Missouri as people were taking to the streets,” Viveka says in her talk. “Something was called from me… it was not appropriate to just be a voyeur.”
Viveka also speaks about self-care practices for activists, such...
Dridhamati recently informed me that he had decided to resign from our Order. Following further correspondence and friendly exchanges between Dridhamati and Purna, his Private Preceptor, and myself, his Public Preceptor, I have accepted his resignation. For those interested, an outline of his grievance may be found in previous editions of Shabda, and his resignation letter is shown below. We wish him well in the future.
Dridhamati was ordained in Feb 2008 at Sudarshanaloka in New Zealand and his Private...
