Triratna Buddhism is radical and so is the life style that it offers if we are courageous enough to take it on.

Coming to a Buddhist Centre is radical, attending courses is radical, going on retreat is even more radical but even more radical than that is living in a shared community with other Buddhists.

Shuddhakirti, who has lived in communities for nearly 25 years, talks, with a few slides, about his experience and how it has changed his life. He currently lives at Punyaloka one of the mens' communities near the Birmingham Buddhist Centre.

Starting with the story of his own first contact with the Movement Padmavajra rouses and inspires the Birmingham Sangha to communicate the Dharma ever more widely. This is a timely injunction as it coincides with the Sangha fundraising to support someone to coordinate doing just that!

He then expounds the Samagravastu's as a means of doing this, not matter what level of experience we are at.

Maitreyabandhu interviews Fiona Sampson at the LBC's Poetry East event on April 13th 2013

Talk given as part of the LBC's Dharma Night April 22nd 2013