Fourth talk from 'True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante' Taraloka retreat. With enthusiasm and passion, Maitrisiddhi continues to explore Shinran’s approach using his classic text The Tannisho, and makes connections and contrasts with teachings more familiar to us.

Second talk from 'True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante' Taraloka retreat. Other Power and the Three Myths of the spiritual life. With enthusiasm and passion, Maitrisiddhi explores Shinran’s approach using his classic text The Tannisho, and makes connections and contrasts with teachings more familiar to us.

In the second talk in this series, Vajragupta explores the power of ideas to shape us, our lives and world, and even human history. As Buddhism comes to the West, is it taken on in a way that seems to fit with certain prevailing ideas and assumptions in our culture? What ideas and world-views conduce to Enlightenment and the fullest expression of human potential, and what ideas and world-views may hinder? A talk fizzing with ideas to make you think and wonder… Talk given at the Croydon Buddhist Centre, 2021