Reflections on the end of Windhorse:Evolution

Sthanashraddha reflects touchingly on the final days at Windhorse:Evolution, Triratna’s ethical gift import and retail business in Cambridge, UK, which closed last month after trading for more than 30 years.

Closing ritual highlights video (3 minutes)
Extended closing ritual video (23 minutes)

“It was a sad Monday morning back in January when we gathered together in the dining room - the majority of the warehouse staff and almost all the managers from across the chain of Evolution shops - to...

Everything is different now!

Nine men recently completed Adhisthana’s latest five-month Dharma Training Course For Men. vidyaruchi [at] yahoo.co.uk ((Want to enquire about the next one?)) One of them was Robin Allan, who writes:

“To try and accurately convey what this experience was like for me and the effects it has had on my life, using only words, feels nearly impossible. I feel a sense of direction and purpose like nothing I have ever known in my life so far. Everything...

Sangharakshita's diary

Sangharakshita’s secretary, Ashavajit, writes from Adhisthana, in Herefordshire, UK:

“A late winter chill lingers here in south-west England, but the sun is getting progressively brighter and warmer, and leaves and buds are preparing to burst forth. The temperature in Bhante’s sun lounge at Adhisthana has been quite high during some of the brighter days, and the Bodhi tree there has been putting out quite a spray of heart shaped leaves.

The rather chilly and damp weather outside, however, has meant that Bhante has...

The Topsy Turvy Views of My Life

According to traditional Buddhist teaching our views about life are generally upside down 

We see what is always changing as permanent, what is unreal as real, painful things as pleasant and ugly things as beautiful ……

And despite the fact that I personally accept that every action and mind event I have that is motivated by greed, ill will and delusion is a road to my own and others’ suffering I continue to act from this place

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