At the start of the year the communities came together for our twice-yearly at home days, with study focusing on how to build community with harmony and co-operation. These days together are always a pleasure, and the atmosphere was particularly warm – both communities feel strong and harmonious. The lovely Renate also joined the community […]
As the year draws in a number of community members attended a performance of Handel’s Messiah sung by Yashodeva and Danasamudra’s choir. The operations team have also been venturing out – in one of the weekly Team-based Right Livelihood meetings going on a very misty walk up to the top of British Camp. We’ve been
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This month marked a significant transition during the College meeting, where Ratnadharini ritually handed on the chair-ship of the College of Public Preceptors to Mahamati in an evening ritual witnessed by the public preceptors and the Adhisthana Community. Ratnadharini writes: It was striking to witness Mahamati’s energy ignite as he responded to the call a
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We began the month with the first ever seminar of the Sangharakshita study course, looking at (among other things) his early writings. You can listen to some of the Early Writings from 1944-1954 on Free Buddhist Audio. There was much music, laughter and song one community night as all the residents came together for a
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The Maltese sangha, who joined us for the combined sanghas retreat on Living with Kindness, have made a beautiful new contribution to the alcoves in the main shrine. The atmosphere on-site was as warm as you’d expect from an international gathering of sanghas practicing metta bhavana. We were also delighted to welcome Shubhavyuha back after
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Always a busy month, this year we welcomed a bumper lot of Order members to the Combined Area Order weekend. The programme of study, meditation, talks and just hanging out was a wonderful way to be together in the Order. Thanks to all of you who came and especially to all of you whose heroic
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By Saddhaloka Greater still are the merits of those who hear, read and recite it with single mind, explain it clearly and distinctly to the people in the Great Assembly, and practise it as taught. The White Lotus sutra On a recent solitary retreat in a cabin in the Finnish countryside, in the midst of
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A Second Renaissance? Part 1 by Prajnaketu “It has been said that the renaissance that would be brought about by the discovery, in the nineteenth century, of the treasures of oriental literature, would be incomparably more glorious than that which had been ushered in during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by the recovery of the
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By Ratnaprabha Cover image: Antennae galaxies colliding. NASA, ESA, SAO, CXC, JPL-Caltech, and STScI, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons In a direct encounter between two massive spiral galaxies…, huge cold clouds of molecules will be compressed, and millions of new stars will burst into life like a string of Christmas lights. As the galaxies first
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Over the past few days Mokshapriya has been transforming the exhibition room inside Urgyen House. The previous exhibition, Precious Teachers has been removed, and the new Foundations has been installed and opens today. This exhibition looks at Sangharakshita’s activity in the 1960s; his return from India and the vision behind the beginning of a new
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