Wednesdays, 7-8.45pm January 12th, 19th, 26th, and February 2nd
A short course with small numbers exploring how to find a serenity that can hold the full range of our experience - through metta, mindfulness and insight.
The four sessions will focus on:
Resourcing ourselves through finding space; leaning into places of pleasure and ease; and using the imagination.
Finding kindness towards painful experience, through opening to it on a bodily level; bringing an emotional attitude of welcoming and acceptance; and through ways of viewing the painful
We currently have the following supported, part-time position open within Buddhafield. Come and join our lovely team and help us offer nature-based retreats as well as our festival and online offerings.
Please contact rose [at] buddhafield.com to apply for the above role
We’re also looking for someone to help us find a new home for Buddhafield to take us into the next 25 years. This role is mostly remote and expected to be close to full-time.
The annual Forum for Order Members in the Central European Region took place over the first weekend in December. Last year’s Forum was cancelled due to Covid, so all were pleased to be able to meet once again in (relatively) large numbers.
About 45 Order Members from Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Malta met at Findhof, a conference centre 35 kilometres east of Cologne. As usual there was a programme of meditation and puja, as well as presentations and...
Here is an exciting opportunity to join the core team at Croydon Buddhist Centre. The Centre has been through a process of re-visioning and is now in a phase of expansion and development. We’ve got a big building right on the High Street of a big borough in south London. Are you passionate about helping communicate the Dharma and create sangha? Are you inspired to help Sangharakshita’s vision for a new Buddhist movement become a reality in Croydon? We’re looking...
I have pleasure in attaching the photograph and names of the three men ordained last Saturday December 11 at Vijayaloka Retreat Centre, NSW during a public ceremony hosted by the Sydney Buddhist Centre.
From left, Jinavajra (“victor of insight” - formerly Max McMullin, Sydney) Private Preceptor: Khemadhamma
I have pleasure in attaching the photograph and names of the three men ordained last Saturday December 11 at Vijayaloka Retreat Centre, NSW during a public ceremony hosted by the Sydney Buddhist Centre.
From left, Jinavajra (“victor of insight” - formerly Max McMullin, Sydney) Private Preceptor: Khemadhamma
At the heart of the spiral path is conditioned co-production which at heart means “changingness”. This “changingness” can be creative (leading to more and more beneficial mental states) or reactive (cycling from pleasurable to painful mental states). Subhadramati describes how the spiral path uses a creative “changingness” to grow out of our habitual habits and into liberation.
This clip is from an interview with Charles Eisenstein recorded on March 31st of this year. It is taken from the beginning of the interview, where Charles and Maitreyabandhu reflect upon the relevance of current events, such as the pandemic, on the transition from the ago of separation into the age of reunion.
This interview was a part of an event earlier this year run by the London Buddhist Centre.
This clip is from an interview with Charles Eisenstein recorded on March 31st of this year. It is taken from the beginning of the interview, where Charles and Maitreyabandhu reflect upon the relevance of current events, such as the pandemic, on the transition from the ago of separation into the age of reunion.
This interview was a part of an event earlier this year run by the London Buddhist Centre.
