Kinds of Kindness In the 1990’s, in my mid – twenties and a new member of the monastic community at Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey, I was asked by the temple officers to phone a long standing supplier and give notice that that the monastery was ceasing our regular order of tea. The community and guest […]
Hello website reader, I hope this finds you well. Temple dates for September and October are published on the website calendar. Would you be interested in there being a mid-week meditation morning or day, on the calendar? Let me know if you’d like to attend such and which kind, what day of the week. You
My aoplogies if you have been tring to join us on Zoom, these last few days. We are back online from Friday 26th with our usual schedule, please see the calendar for more details. Willard
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News from Dragon Bell Hello, We have the sangha outing happening this coming Saturday, here’s a reminder of the details; You are invited to join a social sangha gathering on Saturday 29th June. This will replace the scheduled meditation morning that was posted on the website calendar. We will be meeting in Exmouth at 11.30am,
Meditation – true form of the self There are no difficulties in the heart of meditation. Meditation, as practised in the Soto Zen way, is manifesting the true form of the self. As the true form of the self is formless, meditation is not limited to any particular posture, activity, situation or time. Hence, in
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Home Late September 2022, Our frail and pinched mum, sister and I, exposed on the sweeping expanse of Godrevy beach. A place thinly transparent to everything beyond sight, at least for a time. We come together, we move apart, no one is in charge or knows how it’s going to go. The three of us
May, June & July Newsletter Hello, What’s coming: Temple dates for May, June and July, are up on the website calendar. I look forward to seeing you here in person or on Zoom. You may see that the temple is closed for three weeks in July, when I’ll be away. There are still places available
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The Dharma Gate of No Restriction If you want to realize what the Buddha taught, then simply: when eating, just eat; when walking, just walk; when sitting, just sit; when thinking, just think; when talking, just talk, and so on. That’s it, gather yourself together, diligently apply yourself to directness, and let your intrinsic nature
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Compassion and a dreamlike world The material and physical world is as dreamlike as the world of the mind. So the self of a human being is dreamlike too. Dreamlike – but not – a dream. Though both are equally valid aspects of experience, they are not the same. Part of the ongoing examination of
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Hello, Before we get to the news for March and April, here’s a quick review of some of what’s happened in January and so far in February; On the 29th January we had a funeral ceremony at Cross Farm for Ian and Judy’s companion of 16 years, Cora. Photo by Judy Over the last six
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