The West London Buddhist Centre is looking for either a Mitra Convenor (full-time) or 2 Mitra Convenors (part-time) to nourish and grow its sangha and support its vibrant mitra community. Ratnadeva, our beloved Mitra Convenor of the past 5 years, will be leaving London in April 2024.
The job involves:
regular teaching activities at the centre and on retreats
engaging with newcomers, developing connections and friendships and supporting them in their involvement with centre activities
supporting everyone in the community to go deeper in their practice, including those
I’m delighted to say that all six of the Essential Sangharakshita courses are now online and available for your centres to use.
After running many of these in Dublin, I’m confident these courses will be very useful for Centres and a great way to help relative newcomers ‘meet’ Bhante and his thinking very effectively. They are primarily aimed at people who have learned to meditate, but, really, they’re suitable for everyone.
They are:
Breaking Through into Buddhahood.
Mind, Reactive and Creative.
Steps to Enlightenment (based upon The Path of Regular
Satyaraja explores what it means to ‘cherish’ or treasure the Dharma in all its aspects, and as both the teaching of the Buddha and his Enlightenment experience. The talk concludes with the importance of seeing the Dharma as beautiful if we are to truly cherish it. Excerpted from the talk entitled Cherish the Doctrine given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2919, as part of the series A Living Bodhisattva. ...
Plantation Drive carried out by Hirva Swapna and Non Resident GFR Mitra Training Batch 2. Hirva Swapna has donated 265 plants as well as help with plantation.
Deepak Sonwane is well wisher of retreat center from many years. One year back his mother has pass way. On occasion of first Death Anniversary had puja at retreat center. All his family members got together for puja for same.
It was good to meet his relative. Many of them were visiting retreat center first time.
I was absolutely astounded by Karunadhi’s phone-call telling me that the Windhorse Trust was giving Tiratanaloka Unlimited half-a-million pounds! She had to say it twice before it sank in. Then I burst into tears of our gratitude. What an affirmation to all of us - to all of you who believe so deeply in this project. And it’s a massive leap forward for our fundraising. This brings our new total to over one million pounds, which means we’re...
I was absolutely astounded by Karunadhi’s phone-call telling me that the Windhorse Trust was giving Tiratanaloka Unlimited half-a-million pounds! She had to say it twice before it sank in. Then I burst into tears of our gratitude. What an affirmation to all of us - to all of you who believe so deeply in this project. And it’s a massive leap forward for our fundraising. This brings our new total to over one million pounds, which means we’re...
As you may know, Silabodhi has informed us that he is stepping down as Chair of the Manchester Buddhist Centre in May 2024. We are therefore in the very early stages of exploring the process of appointing our next Chair.
You may also be aware that the Buddhist Centre is in the process of deciding whether to stay in our premises at Turner Street, or to move to another building in the City Centre. We are exploring both these options in...
