Letter from the College of Public Preceptors

This month’s letter is from Mahamati - Chair of the College of Public Preceptors

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Dear Order members and friends,

I first contacted Triratna in September 1976, as a 21 year-old student in Norwich, when it was still called the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order. I recall the atmosphere around the FWBO and the feeling that, if I took all my idealism and enthusiasm and threw myself into this young Buddhist movement, I would be part of something tremendously exciting. It would be...

Sub40 Order Weekend

Our annual long weekend for our future elders to strengthen bonds and get a visceral sense of taking our first steps in a decades-long shared life in the Order. This year we’ll be joined by the Adhisthana Teaching Community, some of Triratna’s most experienced teachers, many of whom studied and worked alongside Bhante as members of the founding generation. They’ve given a lifetime of energy and service to setting up and running the movement we’ve inherited and they’re keen to...

Sunday gatherings — Sailing the Worldly Winds: A Buddhist Path through the Ups and Downs of Life

The title for our upcoming program comes from the book by Triratna Order member Vajragupta, Sailing the Worldly Winds: A Buddhist Path through the Ups and Downs of Life* (Windhorse Publications, 2011). With Vajragupta’s guidance, we’ll be building on the Buddha’s teaching on how to become less reactive to “worldly conditions” that buffet us day in and day out — gain and loss, praise and blame, fame and infamy, pleasure and pain. Following his inspiring metaphor of sailing with the...