The calendar for March and April is now live on the website Dragon Bell will be closed 13th-28th April, while I am assisting with the Jukai retreat at Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey. There are places available for our Eden Rise residential retreat, 20th-24th May. Book yourself a place by getting in touch. Details here My […]
December news Dear friend, Seasons greetings and perhaps a belated best wishes to you for the Buddha’s Enlightenment (December 8th in our tradition and many others). I’m glad to say that we held our December residential retreat at the beginning of the month. It doesn’t make sense to me to say whether a retreat was good
We’re coming up to three months being here in the Willows and the temple is quite well settled. The schedule of events is up and running, we’ve held full day, half day, morning and evening meetings and the usual morning zazen sessions available on Zoom. The calendar for December is published here There are still
Loving Impermanence Impermanence is an inescapable feature of a compassionate reality. The ability to adapt, make, and use things, is a quality human beings possess. On the most basic level, manipulating stuff is essential for wellbeing and survival, and this is nothing but impermanence too. Obstructions appear when our creation and use of things (including
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The calendars for October and November are posted on the calendar page I look forward to people coming to the temple to practice of the way of the Buddha together. In Gassho Willard
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Do Be Doing No amount of doing can produce a fulfilling life. Doing is either an expression of fulfilment, or it is contributing to creating an illusion of it. The manifesting of fulfilment is vastly different from actions that are chasing reward. Of necessity, the former is doing without need, so it is activity without
The Temple’s new address: 7 The Willows Shillingford St George Exeter EX2 9QS We moved in on Saturday 8th, there was a good crew of eight for what turned out to be a long day, thank you all. The following 10 days or so has been fairly non-stop too, much has been done and thank
Sickness, old age and death Sickness, old age and death are not party poopers. If you fear there imminence and see these facets of existence as ruining the show, then you have a problem that is a self imposed problem. A problem that is being created through ignorance. Thankfully, awareness of a problem includes awareness
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Views and Opinions We can all hold on to our views and opinions, nothing is stopping us or telling us it is wrong to do so. Everything is constantly and lovingly telling us that it is a mistake though. If we want to experience the liberating true nature of existence, we have to be willing
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We will close from August 2nd until we are ready to re-open in our new premises. Watch this space for news of the restarting of events. The calendar has all current scheduled events and closing dates, these are subject to change. Looking forward to continuing in our new premises as soon as possible. Information about
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