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Dana - the Emotional Life of the Sangha

From Birmingham Buddhist Centre on Fri, 2 Sep, 2011 - 01:00
Samachitta puts the practice of generosity under the microscope in this engaging talk on the first paramita. When we perform an act of generosity, what exactly is happening? How does it relate to the development of Wisdom? Is there such a thing as purely mental generosity and how effective is it? This talk explains the 'why', 'what' and how' of Dana-Paramita.
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Imagining the Buddha

From Birmingham Buddhist Centre on Fri, 2 Sep, 2011 - 00:00
At the close of 2010 Sangharakshita, with Subhuti, presented a paper to the Order and movement entitled Re-Imagining the Buddha. Keen to communicate something of the vision and content of the paper, Padmakumara explores also how we ourselves, in our own languages and cultures, can Re-Imagine the Buddha, and therefore, always find a meeting with him.
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  • Coming from a poor and uneducated background, Sahaja sought to break free from his conditioning and to reinvent himself. In his teens he found both art and Buddhism and later achieved a Fine Art Degree and Buddhist ordination. Sahaja discovered his natural medium in metal sculpture.

    After college he found himself a studio at Dean Clough in Yorkshire and had a prolific 9 year period of working in metal. But the life of the artist is a precarious one. Eventually Sahaja lost his studio and with it his stable working conditions. This led to a long period of struggle and re-evaluation culminating in Sahaja yet again reinventing himself, this time as a painter using a mix of paint and collage.

    Sahaja’s name means, “natural, innate, spontaneous, born with…” His art is his practice; exploring and transforming himself. He lives and breathes his art as though his life depended on it. It does.

    You can see more of his work, including his recent paintings of The 16 Vajrasattvas, on his own website.

     

     

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