Fantastic Mitra Ceremonies last night at the MBC - welcoming 7 new Mitras to the Manchester sangha! Sadhu to Jan, Kevin, Lucie, Leticia, Elaine, Kate and Laura!
From Buddhist Action Month 2014 on Thu, 5 Jun, 2014 - 20:27“As Buddhists we are meant, we are urged to direct metta towards all living beings. That doesn’t just mean all human beings, it means all animals, insects, plants, birds, beasts of every kind. So this is the basis, we may say, of our ecological concern as Buddhists: we wish well towards all living beings.”
(The Next Twenty Years, WBO Day 1988)
“It is not that you just sit on your meditation mat radiating metta towards the world...
“Have you not seen, O have you not seen, This has been man’s fate, how can you alone live forever? Thinking of this, my heart always feels torn; You, too, are like the sun going down behind the western mountains, Or a living corpse whose span of life is nearly over. Futile would be my stay in the capital; Away, away, I must go…” -Kukai; 8th Century Japanese Buddhist
Ratnagarbha reviews the life’s work of one of the most profound, and original poets of the modern world. A poet with a deeply felt spiritual vision which encompasses the whole of European history.
Any would-be reviewer of this large volume is in danger of falling into abashed silence. What can one say about the life’s work of the person...
From Manchester Buddhist Centre on Thu, 5 Jun, 2014 - 12:57The third talk from the International Retreat. Mokshini on the tensions and dilemmas in acting ethically - both individually and collectively as a Buddhist Community…
