Starting with Padmasambhava as the archetypal transformer of 'demon' energies, Satyalila unfolds her understanding of Bhante as an inspired guide to the 'beyond' and the implications of this for us. Discussing his recent 'confessional statement', she explores how we all need to rely on and stay true to our own glimpse of perfect vision, which is the spark or 'seed' of our awakening.
NB This is the fourth recording in a series of four talks. The recording of the first talk in this series ('Imagination, the Buddha & Us') failed, but it's summarised at the start of each of the 3 subsequent talks and a full set of notes (with illustrations) of all the talks is available from http://bristol-buddhist-centre.org/listen-again-2017-talks-from-sangha-night/.
The Ulex Project is possibly the most exciting initiative that the Ecodharma team have ever undertaken. Building on years of successfully innovating and developing trainings which integrate inner and social transformation, we are launching a new education centre and training programme. The new Ulex Project training centre will extend Ecodharma’s reach and enable us to support activists and organisers all across Europe.
Europe’s facing some deep social and ecological challenges. There’s a fragmenting political climate and the far right is gaining ground...
This group has been paused but remains online as an archive.
Threads, for several years, has functioned as an opt-in, fully participatory space for Order members, echoing the Threads feature of traditional Shabda. Its remit was to be a space for the everyday hustle and bustle of threaded conversation about wider issues, considered if passionate Order exchange, etc. Here are the original Shabda Threads guidelines, which give more of the intended flavour:
This group has been paused but remains online as an archive.
Threads, for several years, has functioned as an opt-in, fully participatory space for Order members, echoing the Threads feature of traditional Shabda. Its remit was to be a space for the everyday hustle and bustle of threaded conversation about wider issues, considered if passionate Order exchange, etc. Here are the original Shabda Threads guidelines, which give more of the intended flavour:
Satyasthira has written to me as his Public Preceptor to resign from the Order. I’ve talked to Dharmapriya, his Private preceptor and, with sadness, together we have accepted Satyasthira’s resignation. We wish him well on his continued explorations.
Satyasthira, from Berlin, Germany, was ordained in October 2004 at Guhyaloka. His resignation letter can be read below.
Best wishes, Surata
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“Knowledge and vision of things as they really are…” - this was the crucial and promising concept for me in order...
The second talk on the theme of What is the Sangha? at Sangha Night, this time by Subhadramati.
Subhadramati is a Public and Private Preceptor and the Women’s Mitra Convenor at the London Buddhist Centre. She is the author of Not About Being Good; an insightful book on Buddhist ethics.
I am delighted to be able to announce that Jyotipala will be having his Public Ordination at Padmaloka on Tuesday 28th March at 2.30 pm.
The ordination will mark Jyotipala’s re-entry into the Order. Jyotipala was ordained at Padmaloka by Bhante on 14th August 1976 - the first person to be ordained at Padmaloka. Jyotipala led a very full Order life, making outstanding contributions to the life and work of the Order, perhaps most notably...
