I’m here in Sydney Australia and am doing an attic conversion in a community house that I own / live in.
The carpenter doing the work has proved to be very unreliable and it is hard to replace him this side of Christmas.
If there is a carpenter associated with our movement who’d like to come and spend the summer in beautiful Coogee Beach Sydney Australia please contact me urgently.
We can accommodate you and pay you a good hourly cash rate.
This is a blog based on notes for a short talk I gave here on the New Hampshire Seacoast to help launch the Urban Retreat. It was supposed to be about internationality in our spiritual community and the conditions that support it. I hope, in the end, it was.
I’ve been working a lot of late. It’s an amazing privilege - one I’d do well to recall at every opportunity - to get to travel around the...
The verse “Transference of Merit and Self -Surrender” expresses the wish that the benefit that we have gained through the efforts of our practice may serve for the benefit of all beings, not just ourselves. It is the last verse of the Triratna Sevenfold Puja.
Within Triratna, it is frequently recited at the end of a practice day, a meeting, or a retreat to conclude the event. You may wish to use it to dedicate you efforts for the wellbeing of all every evening...
Dharmachari Uttama from Finland has informed us that he has decided to resign from the Order. As his Public Preceptor I have accepted his resignation. His resignation letter is provided below.
With metta, Padmavajra
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Hello Saddhaloka,
Thank you for the mail, its good to hear from you.
With this email, I Veli-Pekka Teromaa resign from Triratna Buddhist Order.
I wish that the order continues to flourish and enables its members to deepen their practice for the sake of infinite sentient beings.
Thinking about playfulness this week has cast some of my regular activities in a new light.
For instance, when I go out of the house and leave Fable (the dog) I always give her two biscuits. She likes Winalot Shapes. There are six different ones – a star, a flower, a house, a bone, a heart and a fish, all different colours.
We have been very fortunate to have Amoghasiddhi and Yashosagar in Croydon as part of the Urban Retreat 2015. They talk about working with the Caste system in India and about the influence of Dr. Ambedkar on their lives and on their communities.
