BY pATRICK Adhisthana is a rich and rewarding place to live out Sangharashita’s vision of the Dharma life and its myriad blessings. There is a uniquely joyful – and mysteriously subtle – intensity to working, living and practising within a large mixed sangha of two single-sex communities which provides plenty of frontiers for spiritual growth. […]
During Adhisthana’s celebratory tenth anniversary year, we are delighted to announce that Akasalila, a local artist, has an installation on the Adhisthana grounds. After her recent displays at two Royal Academy shows, she has kindly offered to create and display one of her ‘posts’ here. Standing near the library building and the pond behind the
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Saddhanandi and Nagabodhi will lead a retreat at Adhisthana for the Order based on the Bodhicaryavatara titled Summoning the World to Buddhahood. And later this year we’ll have our first-ever Summer Sanghas Retreat on the same theme. Below, Saddhanandi reflects on her long-standing personal relationship with the text. Saddhanandi The Bodhicaryavatara is a text that
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The importance of Dr Ambedkar Born the 14th child of an army officer, Bhimrao Ambedkar was the only one of his siblings to finish primary school. As a member of the Untouchable caste, he was forced to sit outside the classroom for lessons, and not allowed to drink water unless someone else poured it for him.
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In December of last year I made two visits, my first, to Adhisthana. What follows is an account of my experience and its context. The delightful, intelligent, and smart Saddhanandi, whom I met on the first visit, and who also, I’ve subsequently learned, has a wonderfully mischievous sense of humour, suggested this could be of
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Since Adhisthana opened in 2013 an ever-increasing sangha of Order Members has moved to the area to be close to Adhisthana (and a few were already here). Malvern is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, so it’s also not a bad part of the country to live in. It’s a wonderful development to have this
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Three months after the course finished, Jan reflects on his time at Adhisthana and very honestly shares his expereince about what it was like to do. Hello everyone, Caroline asked me to write a bit about my experience during the DharmaLife course. I am back home now for about three months and a lot of
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The DharmaLife course has been one of the highlights of my life. I’m reaching the end of my 3-month stay at Adhisthana and am writing this blog as a reflection on my time here. In some respects, it was a difficult decision to decide to come on the course. I had been working in the
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In November, members of the Adhisthana Teaching Community gathered together over several days to connect and to study together. This Teaching Community is drawn mainly from those Order members who’ve been involved in teaching at Adhisthana over the last few years. Thinking of this group of order members as a ‘community’, we hope, will encourage
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by Ratnaghosha I moved into the men’s community at Adhisthana on July 15th, which happened to be Saddhanandi’s birthday – an auspicious day for sure! Lizzie’s birthday was the next day. So one of my first introductions to Adhisthana was the celebration of birthdays when everyone rejoices in the person whose birthday it is. I
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