From Community Highlights on Thu, 11 Jul, 2013 - 13:54This just in from the Buddhafield Team as the Festival gets underway…
Dear friends of Buddhafield
We hope you are all gearing up to come to Buddhafield Festival - it looks like its going to be a hotty so bring your sun lotion!*
Two of Buddhafield’s longest-serving and most dedicated champions are leaving this year - Mumukshu, after a staggering 17 years, and Satyajit, after 15 years. Without them, Buddhafield could never have developed to...
I was thinking about the Metta Bhavana practice this week and reflected that this particular practice is really as simple as meeting oneself wherever one finds oneself with a really kind and friendly attitude and then taking this out toward others. It’s a matter of tuning into where we are currently at and then choosing a response that is open, expansive and loving…….
This week we will be doing the Mindfulness of Breathing practice...
A fun conversation with Maitrisara, program organizer for the much-loved Dharma Parlour space at the annual Buddhafield Festival, which is in some ways most expressive of the heart of the Buddhafield community itself.
At the Dharma Parlour you can hear talks and take part in (at least 37!) dedicated Dharma workshops aimed at blending the ancient wisdom of the Buddha with peculiarly modern, environmental concerns about how we live. As well as debates, and introductions...
From New Ventures on Sun, 7 Jul, 2013 - 21:16Hi There Thought I’d share with you my latest video.
I am developing a Buddhist business making web videos to help organisations explain and sell what they do in a fun and effective way.
I am also looking to make some films for organisations in the movement- whether its centres or businesses etc. to develop my portfolio. I would do this at a reduced price so it could be a mutually beneficial enterprise- so get in touch if...
Late Fragment by Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.
Led by Paramananda, Padmadasi and Maitridevi Easterbrook, near Yeoford, Devon, Friday 6 September-Friday 4 October
Our relationship with the modern world is highly complex but, at heart, our feeling of ease in the world is dependent on being present, open and fully ourselves, with simplicity...
From Community Highlights on Sun, 7 Jul, 2013 - 19:38Louise at ‘The Secret Life of Buddhafield’ blog has written a lovely post about just what it means to her to be part of the community and helping create conditions for practice in nature. Here’s the introduction…
“Buddhafield seems to exist as a separate entity, a thing of beauty that no matter how much the people that work for her fall apart, she still manages to appear before...
One of the best features of the Buddhafield Festival is its music scene. Day and (especially!) night you can hear a wonderfully eclectic range of live performances, with plenty of spontaneous jams and happenings around the fringes too.
