Community Highlights
Community Highlights

The Year of Perfect Vision by Suryagupta

By Sadayasihi on Thu, 13 Feb, 2020 - 13:10

The Year of Perfect Vision by Suryagupta

By Sadayasihi on Thu, 13 Feb, 2020 - 13:10

Here’s a rousing talk from Suryagupta, the Chair of the London Buddhist Centre, on 20th January 2020 exploring what vision is, how it can manifest in our lives, and what a Buddhist vision looks like.

Taking Martin Luther King’s ’I Have a Dream’ speech as a starting point, referring to examples from the life of the Buddha and sharing her own personal stories, Suryagupta draws out some of the key aspects of perfect vision and explores how we can make our initial...

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Vassika - A Vision of History, Revisited

By akasajoti on Mon, 19 Sep, 2016 - 23:55

Vassika - A Vision of History, Revisited

By akasajoti on Mon, 19 Sep, 2016 - 23:55

Given on the Women’s International Order Convention 2016, at Adhisthana.

Revisiting Bhante’s 1978 talk on the Vision of History, Vassika articulates our responsibility to become a true and vital spiritual community in a pure and uncompromising form, in order to respond to and transform the world. She makes five suggestions; to strive to become true individuals; to maintain harmony in the Order, to reach out into the world and provide conditions for personal transformation; to keep alive Bhante’s vision of history and...

Buddhist Action Month 2015
Buddhist Action Month 2015

Parami - Radical Then Radical Now: The History Of Triratna’s Progressive Vision

By Candradasa on Thu, 11 Jun, 2015 - 17:56

Parami - Radical Then Radical Now: The History Of Triratna’s Progressive Vision

By Candradasa on Thu, 11 Jun, 2015 - 17:56

As part of Buddhist Action Month 2015 and the international Triratna Young Buddhists weekend, we present this archive version of a live streamed Dharma talk and conversation by Parami. The talk and discussion touch on many aspects of what it is to find the meeting place between our own highest values and the world in which we find ourselves practising.

One of the most experienced and pioneering members of our Order, Parami has helped build the Triratna Buddhist...