Help Maitripa bring Amitabha to Adhisthana

Suvajra, Vimaladasa and Maitripa have asked Chintamani to make a painting of Bhante’s vision in the cave. They need 4000 pounds and need your help in raising that money. Do you want to contribute 25, 50 or 250 pounds? Do you want to share this project with your friends in the order and movement? That would be fantastic!

Give and share through this link: Honouring Bhante

Support Suvajra to bring Bhante's vision to Adhisthana

In 1949 Bhante’s vision in the Virupaksha Guha cave was life-changing. His vision of Amitabha holding the lotus convinced him that it was time to seek formal ordination and join the lineage of the Buddha.

Help Suvajra bring Bhante’s vision to Adhisthana and share this project with your friends: Honouring Bhante

Day 5: Summoning the World to Buddhahood

Today we moved on to Chapter 8 – The Perfection of Meditative Absorption. This is the longest chapter in the Bodhicaryavatara and has two main themes:

• The importance of renunciation of craving and attachment if one is to achieve any sense of calm and stability in meditation
• The exchange of self and other as a profound meditation to overcome self-clinging and cultivate the Awakening Mind

After hearing the verses (where Santideva doesn’t disappoint in his direct, challenging, even shocking language), we heard a wonderful talk from...

Day 3: Summoning the World to Buddhahood

Day 3

Day three brings us to chapter 6: The Perfection of Forbearance.

After introducing the perfections of Generosity (Dana) and Ethics (Sila) yesterday in chapter 5, today we moved onto the Perfection of Forbearance (Ksanti).

Following our daily format, we listened to the text at 10.30 before Saddhanandi gave an excellent and clear commentary drawing on Shantideva’s words, Bhante’s teaching and her own experience of this aspect of practice.

She unpacked how Shantideva looks at forbearance in three main ways: forbearance towards suffering (verses 11-21), forbearance as...