Beggars Banquet All that continues to obstruct you revolves around thought. Both acceptance and faith are active states of unobstructed being. Letting go of thought is how acceptance and faith are made actual. Acceptance and faith are essentially two sides of the same coin, which is worth reflecting on, I think. Both reveal the immeasurable […]
News for August and September Hello, August temple dates are on the website booking calendar. There are also two dates for early September, I will be away shortly after the second weekend to attend a ten day (or so), monastic gathering at Throssel Hole and will be visiting parents either side of that as well.
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Just eat “To just eat a meal, is the most difficult thing in the world.”* When you eat, do you ever just eat? Forgetting for a moment any meals that you share with others, if you find yourself sitting down and eating alone, do you ever just eat or do you always have to have
Hello, Events for July are now on the calendar We have a memorial day for Reverend Master Myfanwy on July 2nd, details are on the calendar. Meditation morning on the 8th and a meditation day on the 22nd. The monthly schedule of introductory sessions follows as usual, dates are; 11th, 15th and 25th. I look
Willingness to change It’s akin to a disaster for a meditator to approach life from fixed viewpoints (attitudes) of knowing, or not-knowing. Both are like a solid walls between the supposed self and everything else “out there”. Knowing pushes a wall onto the world and not-knowing is like a wall that hides from the world,
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Meetings for the month are now on the booking calendar: Saturday 3rd: Meditation morning 9.00am – 12.30pm Tuesday 13th: Introduction evening 7.00 – 8.30pm Saturday 17th: Introduction morning 10.00am – 12.30pm Saturday 24th: Meditation day 9.00am – 4.00pm
Dates for May temple events are now available to book here We also have the 4 night retreat at Eden Rise, starting Monday 22nd May. Between 22nd-26th, there won’t be any of our usual weekly temple schedule running, like Zoom Zazen for example. Have an enjoyable May. It’s the time of celebrating the buddha’s birth
Events for April are now up on the website calendar: Saturday 8th – introduction morning, 10.00am – 12.30pm Saturday 15th – meditation day, 9.00am – 4.00pm Tuesday 18th – introduction session, 7.00 – 8.30pm Saturday 29th – meditation morning, 9.00am – 12.30pm There are places available for the Eden Rise retreat, May 22nd – 26th.
The joyful activity of the life of meditation cannot be taken away by anything. Whatever comes, pleasurable or painful, is liberated when freed from the tight grip of a self concerned with itself. The open way of what is good to do can always be found. This joy is not whimsical or reckless, within its
Words Sandokai1, a well known Buddhist teaching poem, contains the lines, “If from your experience of the senses basic truth you do not know, how can you ever find the path that certain is, no matter how far distant you may walk?” It’s straightforward enough to understand the logic of of such a simple piece
