I started Great Ocean by writing to and later meeting Sangharakshita in June 2018. My idea was a film to explore a range of friendships in his life and he was quick to name two very important ones: Buddharakshita and Terry Delamare.
In this first part, we meet Buddharakshita, Sangharakshita’s companion in the holy life who facilitated the transition to living in India. A first person account taken from several memoirs vividly brought to life with found footage.
The Triratna Video Library is back celebrating Sangharakshita’s 100th birth anniversary with another freshly edited never-before-seen talk by Bhante from the archive. The release for June is a talk entitled ‘My Trip to the USA’.
This month the talk on offer is not a Dharma talk but an opportunity to see Bhante in a different mode.
‘My Trip to the USA’ is an informal talk at an Order gathering, that Sangharakshita describes as ‘a fairly...
Summer has definitely arrived on the mountain. And not only the warmer weather - but preceptors also arrived and departed, leaving behind 19 beautiful new dharmacharinis to settle their feathers back into their remaining time here in the context of an Order retreat…
Such a precious and intense time - for everyone! We welcomed Mokshagandhi into the community (currently Padmasakhi, Vidyachandra, Viryamani and Bodhipaksini) for the ordination period. She arrived with her customary grace and warm friendliness into the retreat and also...
Lokabandhu introduces the American Buddhist activist Joanna Macy and her teaching of the ‘Work That Reconnects’, part of the Southampton Buddhist Centre’s series on 21st Century Bodhisattvas. Excerpted from the talk Introduction to Joanna Macy and the Work That Reconnects given in Southampton, 2018.
Dayajoti offers a short talk on climate change, relating it to basic buddhist teachings, followed by a guided ‘climate’ meditation. From the talk entitled Consensus Trance - Climate given at Bristol Buddhist Centre, 2015.
How can we find meaning in life? What do you long for? Join us at Sangha Night to find out as we travel deeper into the world of transcendental science fiction that is The White Lotus Sutra, with Paranita telling the Parable of the Good Physician.
In this series we are exploring the profound teachings of the White Lotus Sutra, presented through a combination of poetry, drama, parables and what can seem like cosmic science fiction, and the way these have the potential to free us to take our practice of the Dharma to a new level.
“We heal through the imagination, through images and fictions.”
James Hillman, ‘Healing Fiction’
At its best, meditation practice and Dharma reflection can be a means to help us gain access to the unseen underlying currents and forces that shape our lives. Yet, as practitioners in day to day life, many of us can still have an experience of somehow being ‘out of touch’ both with ourselves and...
