Deepening refuge by Kaspa We come to rely on our spiritual communities. When big changes happen that can be very jangling in all sorts of ways, and it also presents an opportunity to deepen our spiritual practice. Earlier this year Satya and I told you that we would be moving out of the temple some […]
Dharma Glimpse by Philip My glimpse is inspired by the previous week’s dharma glimpse from a fellow book group member. They had written, as I understood and remembered it, about a difficult relationship with some relatively new and noisy neighbours. How their perceptions of, and feelings towards, them had shifted after one of the neighbours
by Alexandra Having been practicing Buddhism since December 2023 and having just started my second book group. I am becoming more aware of gratitude, compassion and the importance of listening in my everyday life. As a mental health professional, I feel that these values are something that I hold in mind and display when I’m
Glimpse by Khema I may have mentioned this once or twice!!!! So in exactly 3 Months as of yesterday -on the 28th of June 2024? I’m going to retire and start drawing my pension. Eeak. And as I write this, it feels deeply strange, exciting, and really scary all rolled into one . I don’t
I have been calling out to Amida a little more frequently recently, not really asking for help as such but just to be there for me and embrace me in what I need. I spend a lot of time looking at or being in my garden as nature is so important to me. It is
A Dharma Glimpse by Dave I’ve been living at the temple for three years now, during that time I have had to start wearing reading glasses, I have lost the second of my two top front teeth resulting in me now having false teeth and just last week I was fitted with a hearing aid.
A Glimpse by Paramita The Radio 4 Thought For The Day caught my attention the other morning. It was that sort of early morning, contemplative type material, that probably wouldn’t really have registered so well if I’d heard it in the midst of a normal busy day. The theme was Conspiracy Theory – I can’t
Dharma Glimpse by Izzy Sometimes I feel the Buddha’s hands at work in my life. A while ago now, I was sat at my laptop, as I am right now, scrolling through my emails, when I saw one from the RNLI. “Enter Our Million Pound House Draw! All profits go to the RNLI”. I went
Dharma Glimpse by Kusuma Last summer we began the stressful project of extending our tiny two bedroom house to make it a family home. We put some of our belongings in to storage and I mentally prepared myself for 6 weeks of mess and stress, which dragged out for more than 12 weeks. As foundations
Dharma Glimpse by Mat Osmond This is a glimpse that arrived in two halves. The first half came a few weeks ago as I was giving my daughter Zoe a driving lesson. We had the Sat Nav on, but for some reason we kept turning aside from the route it offered back to where we’d
