Throughout 2016, Urgyen Sangharakshita and Dharmacharini Saddhanandi met regularly to record a series of ten interviews about a topic close to Sangharakshita’s heart – the expression of his spiritual life through poetry. These intimate and reflective conversations, which took place at Sangharakshita’s home at Adhisthana, reveal new facets of his written work and shed light on aspects of his life and practice.

Touching on topics as diverse as his family, environmentalism, his time in Kalimpong, the power of giving, and much more, these exploration of verse offer rich insight into the experiences of Triratna’s founder.

Meditation

Here perpetual incense burns;

The heart to meditation turns,

And all delights and passions spurns.

A thousand brilliant hues arise,

More lovely than the evening skies,

And pictures paint before our eyes.

All the spirit’s storm and stress

Is stilled into a nothingness,

And healing powers descend and bless.

Refreshed, we rise and turn again

To mingle with this world of pain,

As on roses falls the rain.