Acharya Kaspalita (temple host)

What am I grateful for today?

My body. I was able to walk into the hills today, and feel the wind on my face, and see the beautiful view and hear the birdsong. And I couldn’t have done that without a body. And grateful to the hills of course.

To David, who was working in the garden today.

To our green power supply, for keeping the lights on and…[Read more]

We had a busy couple of days at the end of last week. Baking cakes interspersed with my other usual work on Friday, and then on Saturday a first timers service in the morning and the cake sale and competition in the afternoon.

The sale was great fun and I unexpectedly won the cake competition, which was a real surprise 🙂

It left me feeling…[Read more]

Hi Jeaunice, thanks for your question. Sorry I didn’t get to it sooner.

I recently read a commentary by Dharmavidya, on an old Buddhist poem – the great mirror samadi.

At the beginning of the poem it compares a white egret to the moon, saying they are not the same. The white egret is the enlightened person, reflecting the bright moonlight, but t…[Read more]

Hi Xavier,

Sambogakaya is how the Dharmakaya breaks through to this world (when it isn’t in a human body). It is the Tataghata in the sense of ‘one who comes’. The Buddha that appears in our dreams, a felt sense of ‘Other Power’ in meditation, and we might even think of the Buddha statues, images and sutras as Sambogakaya as well.

Dharmavidya…[Read more]