Thank you to Taravandana, Lizzie and Gleysa from the Dharma Life Course at Adhisthana for sending in a photo of themselves with their Buddha Tiles.
If you'd like to be involved with this project, follow this link: http://bit.ly/PadmalokaBuddhaTileProject.
Here are the remaining Buddha Tiles in the current batch. Once they are gone we will produce and print a new batch of 108 but there will be a delay between the end of this batch and the release of the next.
If you want to make sure you get a tile soon, you can order one for a donation at http://bit.ly/PadmalokaBuddhaTileProject.
Thank you to Daniel Canning from the Dublin Buddhist Centre for all of the work he put in during his working guest stay. It was a real delight to have him as part of the community for just over a month.
Here is Daniel and Sanghadasa at his birthday meal in Norwich, the day before he travelled back to Dublin.
He will soon be taking part in the Dharma Life course at Adhisthana. We wish him all the best for that and look forward to his return to Padmaloka.
Thank you to Oliver Kraus from the Buddhistisches Zentrum Essen (Essen Buddhist Centre) for sending in his Buddha Tile photo. The text you can see in the tile is the Karaniya Metta Sutta.
If you'd like to be involved with this project, follow this link: http://bit.ly/PadmalokaBuddhaTileProject.
We have now launched our Instagram page. On the page we will be posting photos and videos of projects and special events taking place at Padmaloka.
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Thank you to Dorothée from the London Buddhist Centre for her Buddha Tile and self portrait photo. The writing around the outside of the tile is the Karaniya Metta Sutta-'the Buddha's words on Loving-Kindness'.
If you'd like to be involved with this project, follow this link: http://bit.ly/PadmalokaBuddhaTileProject.
Thank you to Dharmachari Arthapriya from the Cambridge Buddhist Centre (also an external member of the Ordination Team) for sending in his Buddha Tile photo.
If you'd like to be involved with this project, follow this link: http://bit.ly/PadmalokaBuddhaTileProject.
Thank you to Dharmachari Vidyasiddhi from the Cambridge Buddhist Centre for sending in his Buddha Tile photo, great background too!
If you'd like to be involved with this project, follow this link: http://bit.ly/PadmalokaBuddhaTileProject.
On the Bodhisattva Ideal retreat which ended yesterday, we were treated to a talk by Dhammachari Amoghasiddhi, an Indian Public Preceptor and Ordination Team member from Nagpur.
In the talk he spoke about the Bodhisattva Ideal in India. He vividly demonstrated how the Dhamma can radically transform people's lives, liberating them from a hellish existence. Using the examples of his own life, as well as the lives of Bhante Sangharakshita and Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, he illustrated how if we are to live a meaningful life, we mustn't turn away from the suffering of others.
Last month, the Mythic Context retreat took place at Padmaloka. This retreat is dedicated to exploring the realm of 'undefined and even indefinable meaning', using symbol and myth as a way to take us beyond our rational understanding.
During this retreat, some of the Ordination Team gave talks on how myth plays a part in their lives. Two of those talks, one by Padmasagara and one by Sanghadasa, are now available on Free Buddhist Audio, you can find them here:
