Bristol Buddhist Centre
By jvalamalini on Sat, 9 Sep, 2017 - 21:51
By jvalamalini on Sat, 9 Sep, 2017 - 21:51We had a wonderful first day of our Order-Mitra ‘Rainy Season Retreat’ today, with Ratnaguna on fine form exploring everything from what we can learn from the language of the heptapods in the film ‘Arrival’, through the way the Mahayana expresses insight cosmically, suggestions on how to listen to the sutras, to why birds have to be magical apparitions in the pure land.
We listened to one of the sutras twice, and discussed our responses.
When I...