Community living has had something of a renaissance in Triratna in the UK in the last few years with demand for places exceeding supply.
Aryadhara writes about a successful weekend at Adhisthana, 25th-28th March - including a Swedish film about how not to run a community.
“At their best, communities are about going beyond ourselves and living for each other. Adhisthana recently hosted an inspiring weekend around the theme of creating and sustaining vibrant spiritual communities. With much experience of...
He writes: “Spring has been bursting forth here at Adhisthana during April. The oaks are coming into their lime green fresh mantles and the copper beech are sprouting, while the ducklings are finally hatching out! Just the other day Bhante heard the first cuckoo call while sitting out by the pond with Buddhadasa, and he tells me that there are primroses and violets in flower by the path he takes to the pond, while further afield...
In this first programme, local singers, the Ashvaghosh Prabodhan Manch (APM) team members presented their songs. Now APM is taking shape and preparing themselves to reach into remote villages of Nagpur.
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We are very pleased to announce that PTP have launched a cultural team at Nagpur. In this team all are learning to Dhamma and they are spirited to see this wing as a Dhamma Practise to spread Buddha’s Teachings in villages and slums. Though the team members are not a professional but they have strong inspiration of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
This Cultural wing dedicated their songs to Babasaheb on the 125 Birth Anniversary while celebrartion at Katayyuta Training Center...
In my Buddhist community sraddha is the word we use to describe the confidence one develops around something. This faith or confidence must be won for oneself through following our own intuitive sense of rightness. Something seems or feels to be right and so one tests the water around it through a variety of investigations and principally through giving it an authentic trial.
For example one may have read about meditation, seen the figure of a meditating Buddha or been...
