by Kaspa At lunchtime today a photographer for a national news agency came and took a photo of me standing in front of the temple. About ten days ago Bright Earth Buddhist Temple was in the Malvern Gazette. Then we were in the Worcester News, then the Birmingham Mail. Today we were in the Gazette […]
By Kaspa Buddhism and the Climate Crisis At the beginning of the week the IPPC released its sixth report. You’ve probably seen the headlines in newspapers and on the radio and television. The headline from the IPPC press release is: climate change: rapid, widespread and intensifying. This is a longer post than usual. But it’s
By Kaspa This Saturday as part of our morning practice in the shrine room we’ll have a refuge ceremony. Refuge is what we call it when we place our trust in the three jewels: The Buddha, The Dharma and the Sangha. Refuge is when we stop being taken in by our defensive, calculating mind and
By Dayamay In a book by an old teacher of mine, Samsara is described as “the conditioned mind”. Human and all sentient life entwined and impossibly snared in the illusion of materialism, which draws us ever deeper in and perpetuates our predicament – the cycle of birth and death. Karma could be described as the
By Dayamay It turns out that living in a Buddhist Temple can be a very interesting thing. One of the benefits of staying in one place for a long time, is that you get to observe the fluctuations of the world from a fixed standpoint, which can prove quite advantageous at times. Here at the
From Wednesday the 21st of July, in line with government advice, we will be opening up our shrine room to the public for the first time. We will be leaving coronavirus safety up to the individuals who attend. There will be sanitising hand gel on entry, which we’d encourage you to use. We won’t make
Satya and Kaspa have written various reflections on their engaged Buddhism over the past year. Here are links to some of that writing: PROTESTING AT G7: GUILT, WORRY, BIG MIND AND HOPE Kaspa writes about his experience of being with XR Buddhists in Cornwall to demonstrate at the G7 summit. DEAR EARTH: WHY AM I
Remembering Suvidya. I was very sad to hear the news that our dear friend, colleague and dharma brother Rev. Suvidya, from the India Sangha, has passed away. I knew he was very I’ll but somehow had assumed that he would be one of the lucky ones who pulled through. I have very fond memories of
We have a couple of rooms available for new temple residents from mid-May in our Pure Land Buddhist temple in Great Malvern. We’re looking for someone who’s already connected to our Buddhist practice, or someone who’s willing to come along to practice sessions and see if what we offer here is a fit. Find out
To my left I noticed heaps of dried brown leaves on the ground, above them tender green leaves were beginning to uncurl in the sycamore tree. A robin jumped onto a fallen branch, moving in that clockwork way that birds have, and looked into my eyes before flitting away. I was at the front of
