Suryadarshini takes us into the forest to meet our shadows, drawing on traditional Buddhist sources and popular cultural references. Her personal approach to the Dharma accesses its universal aspects, and she navigates the darker parts of our experience with curiosity and kindness.
The men’s ordination centre in Spain, Guhyaloka, is currently in need of at least one Order Member or GFR mitra to join our small team supporting the ordination retreats and solitary retreat facilities in our beautiful, remote valley in the Spanish mountains. We offer inspiring conditions for practice, a hut in the forest in which to live and as many almonds as you can eat!
To discuss this opportunity please email Priyadasa...
Post Ordination retreat led by Dhammacharini Shubhajaya from 7th to 10th Oct 19. Attended by Dhni. Shilshraddha, Shantishraddha, Vidyavardhini and Mokshasara. During this retreat was also Dhammachakra Pravartan Day.
We want to be free from suffering and to become free we need to transform ourselves. How do that? Singhamati describes three paths for transformation: self development, self discovery and self surrender. Each path helping us to turn towards and transform different parts of ourselves. This talk was given at Sangha Night at the Birmingham Buddhist Centre.
We want to be free from suffering and to become free we need to transform ourselves. How do that? Singhamati describes three paths for transformation: self development, self discovery and self surrender. Each path helping us to turn towards and transform different parts of ourselves. This talk was given at Sangha Night at the Birmingham Buddhist Centre.
We are getting in touch to let you all know that our dear friend Varakhanti is seriously ill. A few weeks ago a routine blood test revealed that she was low in platelets and white blood cells. Her diagnosis has remained uncertain, but she has a leukaemia-like disease that is weakening her and making her vulnerable to infections. For much of this time she has been in hospital in Brighton, which is where she is now.
The illness has progressed rapidly to the point where...
How do we go beyond the duality of subject and object, self and other, to experience the true nature of reality?
Join Jnanavaca and Subhadramati for a five-week drop-in seminar on Dharma Night exploring this vital aspect of Bhante Sangharakshita’s presentation of the Buddha’s teaching.
How do we go beyond the duality of subject and object, self and other, to experience the true nature of reality?
Join Jnanavaca and Subhadramati for a five-week drop-in seminar on Dharma Night exploring this vital aspect of Bhante Sangharakshita’s presentation of the Buddha’s teaching.
Dharmacharini Vajradakini who lives in Italy has written to her private preceptor, Dhammadinna, expressing her wish to resign from the Order. Vajradakini was ordained publicly by me some seventeen years ago this month on a women’s ordination retreat at Il Convento, Italy in October 2002.
She and Dhammadinna have been in contact by email and I have had a Skype call with her. I recognise that Vajradakini has come to this decision after considerable thought and heart...
