Celebrating 50 years of the Triratna Buddhist Order (1968-2018)
Fifty Years, Fifty Voices: starting to capture the vibrant, messy reality of what it’s like to be part of co-creating the new lineage which is the Triratna Buddhist Order.
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Khemajoti: “We used to do rituals in the basement of the shop, invoking Padmasambhava while we made egg sandwiches”

Abhaya: “You have to balance or hold the bearer of the archetype with the ordinary human being, that’s very important. Because there’s no way you’re going to reconcile them.”

Sobhanandi: “You come to a bridge. You look down. You see fish swimming in the water. But the fish don’t know you’re there, because that’s not their world. So the fish, their world is the water… there’s a completely different world.”

Samasuri: “It’s the wounded healer myth. I guess part of me wanting to be a Doctor is my psyche trying to sort all that suffering out… Helping others like I’ve been helped or am being helped.”

Jyotipala: “I must say, a couple of years before that, I’d actually – in one of my sober moments – not alcoholically, but… emotionally. I’d realised what an idiot I’d been in resigning.”

Manjuvajra: “What’s happened over the years is I’ve got more and more confident in the existence of the Buddha, the effectiveness of the Dharma and the joy of the Sangha.”

Maitripala: “I don’t need to go away from samsara to be really going for refuge. I can be right in the middle of it.”

Dhammadinna: “I want people to have the freedom to do what they need to do to grow as individuals AND I want the movement to have that very strong collective dimension. That can be a source of tension for me.”

Suryaka: “I need some sort of channel in my life, so that my energy can flow into it, really strongly.”

Rijumayi: “No-one was ‘sugar-coating’ things, or trying to give me priorities I didn’t subscribe to. I think there’s a real framework for transformation in the direction that I was looking for.”

Atula: “I had to come into relationship with what was happening to me. I couldn’t run away any longer.”

Akasasuri: “The first mettā bhavana I was completely blown over, and that was it. I thought ‘If that is a way of living, I’d quite like to live that way.'”

Manidhamma: “The impact of Bhante’s visit was so great that I decided to give up my pilot’s career and go for training towards becoming an Order member…”

Amritavani: “School runs every day, tantrums, tears (from me as well!)… Family life is a messy life.”

Shraddhavajri: Being far from other Order members – meditation as an agent of change – a girl called “petrol”

Shraddhavajri: Sangha as an opportunity – Doctor Ambedkar as hero and love – working with mind, working for society

Shraddhavajri: “I say to ‘Padmasambhava, ‘You don’t have a body—I have a body… Use my body, and I’ll use your energy.”

Malini: “I have a very definite sense of something which is above and beyond mundane living, and that’s what draws me. That’s what Going for Refuge is for me.”

Dharmashalin: “This is living a Dharma life. This is actually applying it. This is mess in progress.”

Vijaya: Vijaya’s first experience of ordaining someone else – being part of a chain back to the Buddha

Aryavacin y Manjugita: Our Order names – the meaning given at ordination, how we responded at the time, how we connect with their meaning now

Aryavacin y Manjugita: Manjugita reading one of her poems ‘The Mirror’ (El Espejo) – the metaphors she delights in

Vessantara: “…there was something which came through Bhante which really was full of Dharma qualities”

Karunadevi: “…these issues that were very controversial, they didn’t make me want to run away. But they did make me wonder whether I could be a part of the Order”
Celebrating 50 years of the Triratna Buddhist Order (1968-2018)
Fifty Years, Fifty Voices starting to capture the vibrant, messy reality of what it’s like to be part of co-creating the new lineage which is the Triratna Buddhist Order.
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OR FILTER VOICES BELOW BY TOPIC
- All
- Abundance
- Adhisthana
- All Voices
- Anagarika
- Archetypes
- Art
- Australia & New Zealand
- Awareness
- Beauty
- Bhante Sangharakshita
- Bodhisattva Ideal
- Buddhafield
- Ceilbacy
- Change
- Changing Self & World
- Childhood
- Christian Experience
- Communication
- Community Living
- Confidence
- Crisis
- Croydon Buddhist Centre
- Death
- Dependent Arising
- Devotion
- Dharma Study
- Doctor Ambedkar
- Dogen
- Dreams
- Early Days
- Education
- Energy
- Equanimity
- Ethics
- Experimentation
- Faith
- Family Life
- Friendship
- Gender
- Giving Talks
- Going for Refuge
- Going Forth (Renunciation)
- Group Membership
- Healing
- Hearing the Dharma
- Heroism
- Identity
- Images
- India
- Individuality
- Insight
- Integration
- Integrity
- Intensity
- Interdependence
- Internationality
- Japan
- Kindness
- Liberation
- Lifestyle
- Literature and Writing
- Mamaki
- Manjughosha
- Mantra
- Meditation
- Metta (Loving Kindness)
- Mind
- Modern Life
- Mystery
- Myth & Poetry
- Nepal
- Ordination
- Parenting
- Peace
- Perfection & Imperfection
- Politics
- Practice
- Principles
- Professional Life
- Psychology
- Reality
- Relationships
- Retreat
- Ritual
- Sadhana
- Sangha
- Self-View
- Service
- Shobogenzo
- Soul Perspectives
- Spiritual Growth
- Spreading the Dharma
- Struggling
- Stupas
- Suffering
- Teaching the Dharma
- Teachings
- The Buddha
- The Future
- The Netherlands
- The Path
- The Three Jewels
- The Transcendental
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Time
- Triratna Today
- Vairocana
- Vajrasattva
- Visions
- White Lotus Sutra
- Wisdom & Spiritual Death
- Work as Practice
- Young Buddhists
- Zen

Khemajoti: “We used to do rituals in the basement of the shop, invoking Padmasambhava while we made egg sandwiches”

Abhaya: “You have to balance or hold the bearer of the archetype with the ordinary human being, that’s very important. Because there’s no way you’re going to reconcile them.”

Sobhanandi: “You come to a bridge. You look down. You see fish swimming in the water. But the fish don’t know you’re there, because that’s not their world. So the fish, their world is the water… there’s a completely different world.”

Samasuri: “It’s the wounded healer myth. I guess part of me wanting to be a Doctor is my psyche trying to sort all that suffering out… Helping others like I’ve been helped or am being helped.”

Jyotipala: “I must say, a couple of years before that, I’d actually – in one of my sober moments – not alcoholically, but… emotionally. I’d realised what an idiot I’d been in resigning.”

Manjuvajra: “What’s happened over the years is I’ve got more and more confident in the existence of the Buddha, the effectiveness of the Dharma and the joy of the Sangha.”

Maitripala: “I don’t need to go away from samsara to be really going for refuge. I can be right in the middle of it.”

Dhammadinna: “I want people to have the freedom to do what they need to do to grow as individuals AND I want the movement to have that very strong collective dimension. That can be a source of tension for me.”

Suryaka: “I need some sort of channel in my life, so that my energy can flow into it, really strongly.”

Rijumayi: “No-one was ‘sugar-coating’ things, or trying to give me priorities I didn’t subscribe to. I think there’s a real framework for transformation in the direction that I was looking for.”

Atula: “I had to come into relationship with what was happening to me. I couldn’t run away any longer.”

Akasasuri: “The first mettā bhavana I was completely blown over, and that was it. I thought ‘If that is a way of living, I’d quite like to live that way.'”

Manidhamma: “The impact of Bhante’s visit was so great that I decided to give up my pilot’s career and go for training towards becoming an Order member…”

Amritavani: “School runs every day, tantrums, tears (from me as well!)… Family life is a messy life.”

Shraddhavajri: Being far from other Order members – meditation as an agent of change – a girl called “petrol”

Shraddhavajri: Sangha as an opportunity – Doctor Ambedkar as hero and love – working with mind, working for society

Shraddhavajri: “I say to ‘Padmasambhava, ‘You don’t have a body—I have a body… Use my body, and I’ll use your energy.”

Malini: “I have a very definite sense of something which is above and beyond mundane living, and that’s what draws me. That’s what Going for Refuge is for me.”

Dharmashalin: “This is living a Dharma life. This is actually applying it. This is mess in progress.”

Vijaya: Vijaya’s first experience of ordaining someone else – being part of a chain back to the Buddha

Aryavacin y Manjugita: Our Order names – the meaning given at ordination, how we responded at the time, how we connect with their meaning now

Aryavacin y Manjugita: Manjugita reading one of her poems ‘The Mirror’ (El Espejo) – the metaphors she delights in

Vessantara: “…there was something which came through Bhante which really was full of Dharma qualities”
