The Summer Sanghas retreat at Adhisthana finished recently and our own Wendy was there along with a few others from Nottingham, here she shares her thoughts on the experience:
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“all life is interrelated”
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Kshantika and Khemasiri recently presented a Saturday ‘Meditation Morning’ from their Shrine Room in Clifton …
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In ‘The Voice Within’, an essay in a collection called Crossing the Stream, Bhante (Sangharakshita) talks very powerfully about how we’re all constantly assailed by the external world, everything from the media to the expectations of others, advertising, religion and education which he goes on to describe as ‘the intolerable weight of the external.’ …
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I’m currently helping on the Friday morning follow-on course and during the last 5 weeks we’ve been looking at the Wheel of Life and Spiral Path. This week looking particularly at how we can move from our repetitive trips around the wheel and into a more creative way of being and towards liberation by way of the spiral path.
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This is from a series of poems I’m working on about Earth speaking to us in view of our mistakes.
Nothing before
if you can imagine
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Forget yourself in a trance of dappled green,
emerald-opal leaves luminous in late afternoon light …
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I’ve recently fallen in love with mudita. Translated as sympathetic joy, or sometimes gladness, mudita is one of the four Brahma Viharas, or divine abodes. Along with metta (loving-kindness), karuna (compassion), and upekkha (equanimity), mudita is one of the beautiful mental states in which an enlightened being is said to abide.
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These past few weeks I have been reflecting on some of the ten verses in the Dassadhamma Sutta that the Buddha says need to be reflected on time and time again.
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The Seven-Line Invocation/Prayer is chanted regularly in Tibet as a request for Padmasambhava, the great Guru, the Second Buddha, the Bodhisattva of Transformation, to appear…
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You walk through town on a Wednesday evening. The cold air smells of petrol and cigarette smoke. Someone shouts something at you…
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I am finding joy in this shutdown connecting with nature and my practice.
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Initially, my honest reaction to ‘lockdown’ was overwhelmingly one of relief…
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During this time of challenge, I have become aware of how kind people can be towards one another and it has filled me with joy…
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As I’m writing this I’m listening to the city…
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Jyotida with another Video Blog , this time on the Heroic Ideal.
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A friend of mine’s uncle died on Sunday, the first time death has come close since the lockdown started. One loss touches so many others and even though I didn’t know him, it pierces so …
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I can't sleep. So I get up, even though its 5.30…
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