We wanted to let you know that Satyamala was discharged from hospital on Wednesday, 24 November after three and a half weeks in an acute ward. She had a significant septic infection as well as pneumonia, and there were times where we wondered if she would pull through, but she has, though she is less robust than when she went in and it is unlikely that she will regain this strength and vitality. We owe...
On a working retreat in November, a new stupa was built at Akashavana retreat centre, Spain, containing the ashes of Dhardo Rinpoche, one of Sangharakshita’s main teachers.
This stupa joins a number of other stupas dedicated to Dhardo Rinpoche across our community in retreat centres such as Tiratanaloka, Padmaloka and Vajrasana in the UK, Aryaloka (USA), Vimaladhatu (Germany), Guhyaloka (Spain), and Sudarshanaloka (New Zealand). Dhardo Rinpoche and Sangharakshita developed a strong friendship over the many years Sangharakshita lived in Kalimpong....
Dhammaratiilluminates the process of conditionality that is put in motion when engaged in Anapanasati meditation. Here he is introducing the fourth tetrad focusing on the first instruction of contemplating impermanence.
Akasaruci reflects on sangha. How do we work with sangha -and our connections and friendships in it, our ideals of how it should be vs reality of how it is? Sangha as both joy and challenge.
There is an opportunity to join the successful Buddhist team-based right livelihood business of Lama’s Pyjamas, the charity shop for the London Buddhist Centre, for the period May – August 2022, when one of our team members will be away on her ordination retreat.
If you like the idea of:
Being part of a close-knit team supporting each other to practise the Dharma in the workplace
Helping to run a well-known high street charity shop in East London
Contributing more than £50,000 to the London Buddhist Centre annually
Dhivan, author of ‘This Being, That Becomes’, talks about some of the historical Buddha’s ideas on how conscious awareness can influence unconscious patterns that keep us imprisoned in a fixed sense of self.
We are Ella, Dayajoti, and Amber of Kalyanaloka, a Triratna Women’s Community which has been established in Bristol for 5 years. Please see our lovely flyer attached to this post!
We would love to welcome a new order member or mitra into our community, which is built on the foundation of our friendship and shared practice. We have community time and meditate together in our dedicated shrine room.
Some of our rejoicings in life at Kalyanaloka are feeling witnessed in how our life and practice unfold,...
