Mandy Sutter reflects on yesterday’s playful Day Retreat
It was great to see everyone who made it along to the first event of our Urban Retreat yesterday.
For those who didn’t make it, we all agreed we’d take a little time out this week to be more playful. We thought it was a good way of dodging the pressure from self and others to be ‘useful’ members of society. Samanartha read us some poems by the...
Yesterday Uddyotani talked about the ‘playfulness’ of the Bodhisattva and referred to a chapter from Wisdom Beyond Words by Sangharakshita. If you would like to read the whole chapter for yourself, you can download it here. Don’t let the long title put you off! It is a fascinating piece, exploring how we can live our lives with more appreciation, more spaciousness and engagement, a greater eye for beauty and being less utilitarian in our attitude to the places and people around us.
Maitreyabandhu launches the International Urban Retreat at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre with a talk on the theme of the retreat which is the teaching from on the Greater Mandala.
A wonderful discussion between Maitreyabandhu and Aryashila introducing The Journey and the Guide. They explore different sections of the book and then include a brief extract from Yarn with Maitreyabandhu talking about poetry and reading two of the poems.
This talk was given at Croydon Buddhist Centre in November 2015 as part of the regular Sangha morning class.
Dans cette conférence pour lancer la retraite en ville, Vassika présente le thème du mandala comme modèle pour notre vie, l’importance de l’aspect ésthetique de la sagesse et le lien entre metta et l’appréciation ésthetique. Elle nous invite à créer de l’espace dans notre vie pour ne rien faire et pour apprendre à regarder et apprécier des choses et des gens sans toujours nous demander ce qu’ils peuvent nous apporter…
Parami gives the introductory talk for the 2015 Triratna International Urban Retreat live in Adelaide, Australia. Her theme - and the theme of the whole retreat - is ‘Living in the Greater Mandala’, and she brings this alive in the most human, poetic, and inspired of ways.
Her range is broad as she evokes the mandala itself, and the profound, playful path of the Bodhisattva. Calling forth Rumi and Hafiz, the great Buddhist Perfection of Wisdom texts, Keats, Yeats, Robert Hass, and Kenneth White, she...
We’re almost ready for the retreat - look forward to seeing you tomorrow from 9.30m for a prompt start at 10am.
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The fourth in our series of talks on the Mandala of the Five Buddhas for Sangha Night. Jnanavaca talks on the dark green Buddha of the north, Amoghasiddhi.
