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If you can, donate to allow others who can\u2019t afford it to access these vital Dharma resources when they need them most. <\/strong><strong>Thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Suggested donation:<\/strong><br \/><em data-renderer-mark=\"true\"><strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">\u00a3175 \/ $230 \/ \u20ac205 for the whole retreat, or drop in for \u00a330 \/ $40 \/ \u20ac35 per day.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#donations\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Donate and support Dharma classes online<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=&#8221;#e4ad40&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;75px||||false|false&#8221; custom_margin_tablet=&#8221;25px||||false|false&#8221; custom_margin_phone=&#8221;50px||||false|false&#8221; custom_margin_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243; disabled_on=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;Teachers&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;-25px||||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; collapsed=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/thebuddhistcentre.com\/stories\/toolkit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2025\/09\/Parami.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Parami&#8221; show_bottom_space=&#8221;off&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;Parami&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text quote_border_color=&#8221;#1C70B7&#8243; disabled_on=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;text&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; text_text_color=&#8221;#666666&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; link_font=&#8221;|700||||||#0c3179|&#8221; link_text_color=&#8221;#e4ad40&#8243; link_font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; header_4_line_height=&#8221;1.5em&#8221; max_width=&#8221;720px&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;50px||||false|false&#8221; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; text_font_size_phone=&#8221;16px&#8221; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; link_text_color_tablet=&#8221;gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb&#8221; link_text_color_phone=&#8221;gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb&#8221; link_text_color_last_edited=&#8221;off|desktop&#8221; link_font_size_tablet=&#8221;20px&#8221; link_font_size_phone=&#8221;16px&#8221; link_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; header_4_line_height_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; header_4_line_height_phone=&#8221;&#8221; header_4_line_height_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{%22gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb%22:%91%22link_text_color_phone%22,%22link_text_color_tablet%22%93}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div id=\"message-list_1756830519.501339\" class=\"c-virtual_list__item\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"listitem\" aria-label=\"Jayadhi. 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Since 2002 she has been involved with Ordination training in those areas.<\/p>\n<p>She became a Public Preceptor in 2004 and has ordained over 200 women into our Order from Spain, Mexico, the UK, the USA and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Parami returned home to live in Scotland but continues her involvement with Triratna worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebuddhistcentre.com\/stories\/toolkit\/a-koan-for-our-times\/#virya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to Parami\u2019s inspiring talk on \u2018<em>Virya<\/em>\u2018 or \u2018Energy in pursuit of the good\u2019!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/thebuddhistcentre.com\/stories\/toolkit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2025\/06\/Nagapriya-400.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Nagapriya 400&#8243; show_bottom_space=&#8221;off&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;Nagapriya&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text quote_border_color=&#8221;#1C70B7&#8243; disabled_on=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;text&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; text_text_color=&#8221;#666666&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; link_font=&#8221;|700||||||#0c3179|&#8221; link_text_color=&#8221;#e4ad40&#8243; link_font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; header_4_line_height=&#8221;1.5em&#8221; max_width=&#8221;720px&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;50px||||false|false&#8221; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; text_font_size_phone=&#8221;16px&#8221; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; link_text_color_tablet=&#8221;gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb&#8221; link_text_color_phone=&#8221;gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb&#8221; link_text_color_last_edited=&#8221;off|desktop&#8221; link_font_size_tablet=&#8221;20px&#8221; link_font_size_phone=&#8221;16px&#8221; link_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; header_4_line_height_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; header_4_line_height_phone=&#8221;&#8221; header_4_line_height_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{%22gcid-6e11b5e3-f634-40b8-8318-80dc6999eedb%22:%91%22link_text_color_phone%22,%22link_text_color_tablet%22%93}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p data-prosemirror-content-type=\"node\" data-prosemirror-node-name=\"paragraph\" data-prosemirror-node-block=\"true\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type=\"mark\" data-prosemirror-mark-name=\"strong\">Nagapriya<\/strong> has taught Buddhism and meditation in many different contexts both in Europe and Latin America. 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Afterwards we have a conversation between Parami and Dayanandi, where they discuss Dayanandi\u2019s first encounters with the Triratna movement and Sangharakshita himself. 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Her reflections begin with some observations about the 1960s as the period in which Triratna was founded, focussing particularly on her generation&#8217;s assumptions around the notion of &#8220;progress&#8221; and whether or not it is guaranteed in society and within human history. She brings in Sangharakshita&#8217;s perspective from his talk <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freebuddhistaudio.com\/audio\/details?num=194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Looking Ahead A Little Way&#8217; <\/a>that Buddhism as a particular expression of the Dharma (like any other phenomenon in reality) would rise and fall like waves on the ocean; and that the community he founded is part of the latest wave and has some particular distinguishing characteristics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sangharakshita&#8217;s Bodhisattva ordination would have been informed by Asanga&#8217;s precept that &#8220;It would be a bad thing not to form a community&#8221;. 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We settle into a 30-minute open meditation, practising in whatever way feels most alive, with a broad, kindly awareness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a short break, we turn to Bhante\u2019s influence in India. We set the scene with a snapshot of our Indian Sangha, then listen to a 2013 Buddhist Voices podcast: Candradasa and Vasik\u0101 (Paris) interview Dhammac\u0101ri\u1e47\u012b J\u00f1ana\u015b\u016br\u012b (in Marathi, with translation). She recalls attending the 1956 Nagpur mass conversions led by Dr. B. R. 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Shradavadri explains the greeting <strong data-start=\"690\" data-end=\"704\">\u201cJai Bhim\u201d<\/strong> as a living pledge to equality, fraternity, and human dignity.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"769\" data-end=\"1303\">We map Triratna\u2019s spread since the late 1970s\u2014Maharashtra outward to <strong data-start=\"838\" data-end=\"926\">Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Delhi, Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana, Bihar, South India<\/strong>\u2014with training pathways (mitra, GFR, ordination teams), ongoing <strong data-start=\"990\" data-end=\"1015\">community conversions<\/strong>, and women\u2019s leadership. 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We explore Bante\u2019s imaginative way of teaching the path: vision and transformation working together; the path as organic growth and unfoldment (spiral conditionality); and the dynamic between transcendence and immanence, illustrated through his 1947 poem \u201cImmensity.\u201d Padmasambhava, archetype, myth and symbol come to the fore as living means of practice, and the path is framed as both pragmatic and \u201cmagical\u201d\u2014suffused with inspiration even as it asks for down-to-earth effort.<\/p>\n<p>After a short break, Nagapriya hosts group reflections. We consider which \u201cmyths\u201d of practice speak to us\u2014development, self-surrender, self-discovery\u2014alongside further framings like correspondence and enactment. We share images and metaphors that animate our Dharma life, and touch on Bodhicitta, the Sevenfold Puja, and sadhana as ways of opening to something beyond the narrow self. 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Saddhanandi recalls first encountering his \u201cwords of power,\u201d the ritual gift of a Maori greenstone, and a tender improvised \u201ccaf\u00e9\u201d for her birthday\u2014moments that reveal his courtesy, attentiveness, and playful care. She traces how poet and Dharma teacher interweave in his communication, and how his exacting language aimed to penetrate, not just explain.<\/p>\n<p>Together they sit with two poems\u2014<a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thebuddhistcentre.com\/stories\/a-life-in-verse\/bodhisattvas-reply\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe Bodhisattva\u2019s Reply\u201d<\/a> and <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thebuddhistcentre.com\/stories\/a-life-in-verse\/advent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cAdvent\u201d<\/a>\u2014opening themes of compassion, preparation, awe, and fear, and touching on Ambedkar\u2019s catalytic role. Late-life emails show Bhante still arranging to meet and teach days before his death. 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A panel\u2014Dhammadinna, Mahamati (chair of Public Preceptors), Subhadramati, Nagapriya, and Vajratara\u2014shares first encounters: reel-to-reel <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freebuddhistaudio.com\/series\/details?num=X07\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cEightfold Path\u201d<\/a> talks and <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freebuddhistaudio.com\/audio\/details?num=122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe Meaning of Spiritual Community\u201d<\/a>, hitchhiking to hear <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freebuddhistaudio.com\/series\/details?num=X15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cTransformation of Life and World\u201d<\/a> on the <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freebuddhistaudio.com\/series\/details?num=X15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">*Sutra of Golden Light*<\/a>, LBC lunches that reveal Bhante\u2019s graciousness, and being moved to tears by the cassette lectures while reading <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freebuddhistaudio.com\/series\/details?num=X257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">*The Three Jewels*<\/a>. <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freebuddhistaudio.com\/audio\/details?num=162\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cBuddhism, World Peace and Nuclear War\u201d<\/a> gets a nod, as does <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freebuddhistaudio.com\/audio\/details?num=194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLooking Ahead a Little Way\u201d<\/a>, with the Refuge Tree image hovering in the background as a living symbol.<\/p>\n<p>They then trace how the College evolves\u2014five to eleven to a wave of twelve (2004)\u2014and how consultation replaces simple appointment as Bhante hands his residual responsibilities to the College in 2000 (the \u201cheadship\u201d metaphor clarified as responsibility, not hierarchy). 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