life as a Western Buddhist
Posted in news on Jul 20th, 2008
Just been listening to Al Gore’s latest speech about dealing with climate change. He issues a challenge to US to convert to 100% clean energy within 10 years, likening this challenge to JFK’s challenge to get a man on the moon and back within 10 years - this challenge requiring another giant leap for humankind. [...]
Posted in news on Jul 11th, 2008
Sangharakshita visited Taraloka at the end of May to give a talk at the FWBO International Retreat. His talk is called “Growing the Sangha” and it’s available on Free Buddhist Audio. Clicking here will get you to it. And there’s a slide show of photos that I took on the retreat elsewhere in this blog…. [...]
The FWBO Festival at Taraloka has just ended …. 400 people were here over the weekend. A few people are still here but that’s some of the Buddhafield crew who are still dismantling the tents and marquees.
I have to admit I was all for keeping a low profile on the assumption it would be very [...]
This is a video filmed on our New Year retreat… leading up to midnight we did a Vajrasattva puja and then left the shrine-room and walked over to where we had marked out a double spiral on the ground outside the Tara shrine-cabin. We then walked the spiral inwards and outwards at midnight on 31st [...]
Posted in everyday life .., news on Jan 11th, 2008
I just love this You Tube video…. but you probably need to be a Scottish ex-pat to understand the heart-tugging nostalgia it provokes! And also to have swigged umpteen cans of Irn-Bru as a kid. A previous advertising campaign made Irn-Bru famous as “Our Other National Drink - Made in Scotland from Girders.” The word [...]
I really enjoyed leading the Kalyana Mitra ceremony for Irene Maddocks with Padmasara and Saddhanandi. It happened last month during an FWBO sangha night class at Llangollen. Irene is our part-time book-keeper here at Taraloka. Saddhanandi lives here. Padmasara lives nearby in Wrexham. Irene’s first contact with the FWBO was at the Llangollen class which [...]
Posted in news on Dec 18th, 2007
Hi there,
I haven’t been writing many new posts recently to my blog but have been adding new sections to the main website . So it’s worth while having a look ….
articles section …. it has various articles I’ve written for Golden Drum and Lotus Realm
Dharma study notes …. so far just one set of notes [...]