Beyond limits: 2021 Karuna Appeal applications now open

Do you want to live this year with deeper meaning and purpose?

To develop more kindness, with others.. for others..

and move beyond ways that limit you?

For over fourty years people in our community have choosen to deepen their practice by joining a Karuna fundraising appeal team. Many have said that doing an appeal was one of the most significant and transformative times of their dharma lives.

Fundraising as a spiritual practice means remembering to open to what’s alive in each moment, meeting fear with metta...

Big Changes to Funding Movement Projects in India

As you may have seen in the news, the past few weeks have seen major changes affecting the NGO sector in India. More than 150 large Indian charities, including at least one of our Triratna Trusts, have had their permission to receive foreign funding revoked by the Indian Government.

Most significantly, TBMSG Pune has had its foreign contributions permission removed. This is one of the main trusts supporting Triratna social projects in India. It employs 67 staff, mostly Mitras and...

Ratnamati

Dear Order members,

Sadly I have come to the conclusion that Ratnamati has taken herself outside of the Order and as her Public and Private Preceptor, I must now declare that she is no longer an Order member.

Ratnamati was suspended after complaints that she was breaching the second precept – not paying back her debts to other Sangha members when they were long overdue. In consultation with myself and with the active participation of the Indian Public Preceptor kula local Dhammacharinis from the Ordination...