life as a Western Buddhist
Posted in everyday life .., meditation on Dec 31st, 2008
2009 is nearly here. Amongst other things 2009 is International Year of Astronomy. Here’s a four minute video of the sky above our planet. it was on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website this morning …túrána hott kurdís by hasta la otra méxico! from Till Credner on Vimeo.
Posted in meditation, talks on Jun 22nd, 2008
Have a look at the Dharma Audio section. I’ve just added some more talks to it. You’ll find one called “Buddha Nature - it’s Good but Is It Enough?” that I gave on Wesak at the Sheffield Buddhst Centre. I’ve also added a series of led reflections on varoius approaches to Emptiness - reflecting on [...]
Posted in buddhism, meditation, retreats on Jan 9th, 2008
I’ve just finished leading a meditation retreat here over the New Year period. I have to admit to having had a slight longing to be celebrating Hogmanay in Scotland instead of being on retreat! But it faded. And in any case we had a very good celebration of Hogmanay and the coming of the New [...]
Posted in buddhism, everyday life .., meditation, retreats on Oct 23rd, 2007
I’m now back at Taraloka. Thinking about how things went over in Cambridge last week and musing on how I could happily live there, at least that is as it seems to me at present. Who would have thought it!
But mostly thinking about the Urban Retreat..
I’m very impressed by it as a means of helping [...]
Posted in buddhism, everyday life .., meditation, retreats on Oct 15th, 2007
At the moment I am over in Cambridge being “Teacher in Residence” for a week at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre.
The train journey over on Sat was very relaxing. Last week I was co-leading an week’s intensive meditation retreat. That finished on Friday morning .. then I went out with the retreat team for coffee [...]
Posted in buddhism, meditation, retreats on May 7th, 2007
I’ve just finished leading a week’s retreat called “Practising Wisdom”. The programme was modelled after a Buddhist text called the Mulamadhyamakacarika, or “Verses from the Centre” in the particualr translation which I was using. It’s a translation by Stephen Batchelor and I highly recommed it. If you’re interested in exploring Madhyamaka teachings on [...]
Posted in meditation, retreats on Apr 22nd, 2007
The retreat finished this morning and most people have left now .. except Vicki who is waiting for help to get her car keys out of her locked car! It’s always a funny transition when a retreat ends : the people we’ve lived with for a week or so all leave, and those of us [...]
Posted in meditation, retreats on Apr 17th, 2007
This is one of the Buddha figures in our main shrine room.
You might well be wondering why I’m actually anywhere near my laptop when in the midst of a ten-day Pure Awareness Meditation Retreat….
….well, Viveka, who was the main teacher for the retreat, couldn’t come because of illness but she is taking some meditation reviews [...]