What do I get? ‘And what is blind ignorance? All wordly beings from time immemorial have matters turned around in a variety of ways so that they keep returning to the same place, just as anyone does who is lost and wanders off in all directions. They mistakenly perceive the four elements to be properties […]
Hello, Dates for November on the Dragon Bell website. And while we are here, might as well do December a bit as well. https://dragonbelltemple.org.uk/activities/ 6th – 10th December we have the Eden Rise retreat, if you are thinking of coming, please would you let me know in the next few days (deadline is 6th November).
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Stages If you think of practice in the sense of a verb, then it’s an activity. The activity of practice is the giving of yourself to respecting (being attentive to), allowing for and immersing yourself in, your true nature. Your true nature manifests as you are respecting and loving it. The meaning of true nature
Hello, There are four calendar events posted for October: meditation mornings – 14th & 28th, meditation day – 21st, introductory evening – 24th. The regular weekly schedule will resume from Tuesday 10th, available to join in person or on Zoom. A reminder that you are welcome to make use of the temple at times other
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
