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When Insight arises we feel that it has come of its own accord.
Once upon a time a young man abandoned his father and went to live in another country...
Akashamitra re-examines the eternal allegory for our times.
From Monday 20th April.
Inspired by the principles behind BAM and a growing sense that our Buddhist practice has the potential to transform the world around us, the sustainability group linked to the Dublin Buddhist Centre (known as ‘Green Dharma Dublin’) decided to participate in the Global Day of Action on Military Spending. This annual event is organised by the International Peace Bureau and takes place in mid April with the aim of raising awareness about the obscene amounts of money spent on the military each year ($1.8...
Hi everyone.. Did you know our community at Akashavana had a blog? It was called ‘the great to do list’.. We recently decided to move the blog to the ‘thebuddhistcentre.com’ site. This makes sense because it’s perfectly possible to do exactly the same as what we have been doing on our wordpress blog, which is to inform you about what’s happening out here in the land of luminous space. If you click ‘subscribe’ at the Akashavana space at ‘thebuddhistcentre.com, you’ll...
This is to tell you that Dhivati died peacefully on the morning of 19th April 2015. Her daughters Liz and Julia were with her. Her son Bill was away, unfortunately. She’d been in a care home for just a short while and had said to friends that she was ready to go. She was 90.
With metta, Dayapakshini
Dhivati was ordained in June 1995 and given the Green Tara sadhana. Her private preceptor was Ratnasuri and her...
I am pleased to tell you that all twelve of the men attending the 2015 Spring Ordination course will soon be privately and publicly ordained.
The men to be ordained are:
Eoin Dowling Pedro Raul Vidal Anaya Damian Gill John Gridley Chris Effendowicz Tim Crosskey Ian Ward David Welsh Peter Cox Ben Niblock Ian Barker Klaus Stock
The Private Ordinations will take place over three evenings starting...
Saddhaloka, new Chair of the College of Public Preceptors arrived to live at Adhisthana last Thursday evening.
he writes: After twenty years I packed my possessions and life at Padmaloka into a van and drove right across England to Adhisthana, and a warm welcome from the community and the balmy Spring weather. I have just about settled in to my new room, but no time yet to really settle into my new life here. Now I am off to...
A personal talk by Guhyavajra reminiscing about Sangharakshita as friend and teacher. Talk given the 17th of april 2015 at the Stockholm Buddhist center
