It’s Buddhist Action Month, and you may well be reflecting on the choices you make and the impact they have on the world around you. It is clear that humanity is facing into an unprecedented situation of human caused global warming, and, without taking adequate and immediate action, runaway climate change is imminent- which would ultimately make most of our planet uninhabitable for humans. So far, so alarming. What is one to do in such a situation?
Buddhafield would like to recruit two people to help run the Buddhafield Café and to be involved with other aspects of the Buddhafield project.
Our ideal candidates would be inspired by the vegan ideal, want to join a community and work within a team based right livelihood business as a context for their Buddhist practice. What we do will be especially attractive to those who have a taste for adventure.
We especially want to increase the representation of women in...
Its a common misconception that eggs are central when baking cakes, and that vegan cakes are dry and tasteless. But this isn’t true! You can make delicious cakes that are totally vegan without compromising on taste and texture. For the recent Taraloka open afternoon Momtaz and I spent the day baking vegan cakes, to show visitors how wonderful vegan cakes can be.
Momtaz baked a ‘Luscious Lemon and Poppy Seed’ cake; ingredients were vegan margarine, brown sugar, lemons, soya milk, flour, baking powder and...
“When I think about Buddhism and veganism, it makes me think first of all about just how crucial from a Buddhist point of view it is to practise non-harming of living beings. It...
Vajracaksu, the Order Member living in Istanbul, where he runs classes, writes to update what they have been doing for BAM, in addition to their six week course based on Akuppa’s book -
‘On Saturday 11th June for BAM we had a vegan meal, meditation & film evening watching ‘The Little Buddha’, with all the money from the evening going to a foundation here in Turkey to get trees planted on the West coast of Turkey. With the money...
We in the Cambridge Sangha have been enjoying a few BAM events already, including a movie launch night (Home), a Sangha Art display coupled with a cafe offering vegan cakes and soyaccinos, and a talk on ‘Abundance, Simplicity and Sharing’ by the inspiring Vessantara. People have come with lots of enthusiasm and ideas, leading to upcoming events like ‘making your own gifts’ (this Sunday), working on a cropshare farm and a clothes swap. In addition, over thirty people have made pledges in June from going vegan to...
We kicked off Buddhist Action month at Aryaloka with a vegan pot luck and recipe share. We took photos of the recipes and shared them electronically to reduce paper usage.
By jane.easton@blu... on Tue, 15 Dec, 2015 - 12:24
Whether you’re eating with fellow vegans/veggies or sharing the holiday with meat eaters, why not offer some lovely, kind and inclusive food that everyone can eat? I cook vegan every year for ‘mixed’ friends and family, all of whom love the all vegan dinner, desserts and everything!
