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Acharya Sujatin (temple host) posted an update 1 week, 1 day ago

Hello @wayne – glad you’ve found your way here. You can navigate round the content via the Virtual Rooms in the top bar. Do join in with any conversations that interest you. Namo Amida Bu!
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Paolo replied to the topic Anger and stress management in the forum Buddhist Psychology 1 week, 3 days ago

Thank you Kaspalita for the answer. And yes, it totally makes sense, despite the puppy caused sleep deprivation 🙂 Anyway, I agree with the fact that anger is a short term strategy for self protection, altough we have to manage it someway. On the faith side, well, I’m new to this concept and I have to feel it much deeper. Actually, I recognized…[Read more]
Paolo replied to the topic Hello from Italy in the forum Introductions 1 week, 3 days ago

Thank you, Barry
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Barry replied to the topic Hello from Italy in the forum Introductions 1 week, 3 days ago

Hello Paolo, welcome
Acharya Kaspalita (temple host) replied to the topic Anger and stress management in the forum Buddhist Psychology 1 week, 3 days ago

Hope that makes sense – it reads back as a slightly confused answer – but I am at the end of a long week, and the puppy is keeping us up at night 🙂
Acharya Kaspalita (temple host) replied to the topic Anger and stress management in the forum Buddhist Psychology 1 week, 3 days ago

Hi Paulo,

Brad’s advice is good, as is Thich Nhat Hanh’s. I would add that anger and stress come from moments without faith – they are self-strategies for keeping us safe in the short-term. Of course anger has it’s own good intentions but it often doesn’t have all of the facts. For a Pureland Buddhist one of the most important facts is that we…[Read more]
Acharya Sujatin (temple host) started the topic Anapanasati in the forum Dharmavidya’s Teachings 1 week, 3 days ago

Dharmavidya:

Anapanasati is a central teaching of Buddhism but it is commonly misunderstood. Literally the term means “breathe-in-breathe-out-mindfulness”. It is commonly taken to refer to a meditation exercise in which the attention is focussed upon the breathe, mindfulness being taken to mean attention. Though extremely widespread, this is a m…[Read more]
Acharya Sujatin (temple host) started the topic Bardo in the forum Dharmavidya’s Teachings 1 week, 3 days ago

Dharmavidya writes:

THE IN BETWEEN

The word bardo refers to the state between lives. It is a gap or transition period. More generally, we experience many such periods, not merely after actual death but also after every ending before a new beginning has taken form. Mahayana Buddhism envisages a period of up to seven weeks between lives in which…[Read more]
Paolo replied to the topic Why are you? ~ Dharmavidya in the forum Dharmavidya’s Teachings 1 week, 4 days ago

Wonderful, thank you
Paolo started the topic Anger and stress management in the forum Buddhist Psychology 1 week, 4 days ago

Hello everybody,

I got a difficult question: as Buddhists, but above all as human beings, how do you cope with anger and stress? I guess that suppress them is totally wrong, but it isn’t also a great idea to lash out like crazy. I believe that the worst misinterpretation of buddhist teachings about anger is the stereotype of “a calm, zen-like…[Read more]
Paolo started the topic Hello from Italy in the forum Introductions 1 week, 4 days ago

Hi everybody,

I’m Paolo, and I write from Italy. My interest in Pureland Buddhism started some 3 months ago (more or less), but my interest in Buddhism in general has started years ago. I found the Amida-shu teachings to be simple but, a the same time, very deep and suitable for western people. Here in Italy there aren’t Pureland schools (s…[Read more]
Siani Driver replied to the topic Despair and hope? in the forum Buddhist Teachings 1 week, 4 days ago

Thanks both. After a few weeks (and significantly less social media time) I’m definitely feeling less anxious. Focusing on the many little miracles in the world helps too. I was reminded of this cartoon…
Acharya Sujatin (temple host) started the topic Running Tide 37 ~ Spring 2019: Faith in the forum Amida Shu News 1 week, 5 days ago

The latest Amida magazine
including writing by Dharmavidya David Brazier, Andrew Cheffings, Andrew Nichols, Satya Robyn, Dayamay Dunsby, Colin Mcdougall, Vimalashri Yaakov, Richard Ollier, Kent Nerburn, Jef Jones and Becky Waldron. Editor Robert Waldron

Download Running Tide Spring 2019
Andrew Nicholls (Temple Host) posted an update 1 week, 5 days ago

Hi everyone
Here is the link for the Birmingham Civic Buddha Day Celebration
http://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/bmag/whats-on/buddha-day-2019
- Rev. Satya Robyn (temple host) replied 1 week, 4 days ago
  
  Thanks Andrew!
Dom became a registered member 1 week, 5 days ago
- Rev. Satya Robyn (temple host) replied 1 week, 5 days ago
  
  Hi Dom, welcome. I’m wondering how you found out about Pureland Buddhism? Good to have you here.
Rev. Satya Robyn (temple host) started the topic Hurricane Aiko in the forum News from Amida Mandala 1 week, 6 days ago

As you can see, our new family member Aiko has arrived. Friends have asked me how the past week has been, and I’ve used the word ‘rollercoaster’ a lot.

She’s brought broken nights, anxiety, arguments, frustrated tears and – once – a flash of deep regret.

She’s also brought enthusiastic nose-licking, huge learning, lovely new connections with…[Read more]
Acharya Sujatin (temple host) started the topic Amida in Perth: May meeting and news of Buddhist Action Month in the forum News from Amida Scotland 2 weeks ago

Our latest newsletter https://mailchi.mp/0ed2f8d3c56a/amida-in-perth-may-meeting-and-news-of-buddhist-action-month
Rev. Satya Robyn (temple host) replied to the topic Despair and hope? in the forum Buddhist Teachings 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Thanks D. I like how you’ve arrived at a ‘middle way’ after a ‘cleanse’ – going to the places you can trust to be a bit more moderate in their reporting, and not getting overly tangled – good advice. Makes me think about how much of my ‘news’ (ie gossip!) I get from Facebook….
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