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Acharya Kaspalita (temple host) posted an update 6 days, 6 hours ago
Hi everyone – you can watch the two short talks from our Bodhi day on the temple YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/amidamandala
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Vajrapala Moerman posted an update 1 week, 4 days ago
Blessings and love to all. Wishing everybody who joins a fine Bodhi retreat. Here we start this evening, Susthama comes over from UK to lead us through the theme of honouring our ancestors. On saturday we have a non-stop-nembutsu-day. Thinking of you all – with a very tender hearth – very much in this days, hope the light off Amida will reach all…[Read more]
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Sending much love from Scotland – tomorrow we will have a day of chanting, meditation and a Renewing our Refuge ceremony. We’ll feel connected with you, our friends in Malvern, in Canada and all points around the globe – connected by Amida’s Golden Chain xxx Namo Amida Bu
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Namo Amida Bu. We’ll be thinking of you Vajra – look forward to hearing how it goes. Love to Scotland too!
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Acharya Kaspalita (temple host) started the topic Four years! in the forum News from Amida Mandala 2 weeks, 3 days ago
This week is the fourth anniversary of our moving into the temple. Four years! I remember those early days very clearly: the complicated business of buying a house and making sure all of the old trustees from years ago signed the right piece of paper; the moving process; the amount of help we had cleaning and preparing the temple for the first…[Read more]
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Andrew Cheffings (temple host) posted an update 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Having spent a long time doing continuous nembutsu, unfortunately the nembutsu in continuous form has become a new OCD compulsion for me and then, as it progresses or when it stops, acute OCD symptoms manifest, so I have been reading Shinran to comfort me and using nembutsu puja in the morning as my main practice with lots of deep listening…[Read more]
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Ananda replied to the topic More Intensive Chanting in the forum Amida Shu Buddhist Practice 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Aloha Ken,
Here is piece I wrote for folks in our Sangha who were taking on the One Million Nembutsu practice. It contains suggestions for using a mala. I hope it helps. Ananda
Aloha All,
Thank you for joining me on this one million Nembutsu pilgrimage. There are lot’s of different types of pilgrimages. Most are familiar with the exterior p…[Read more]
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Andrew Cheffings (temple host) replied to the topic More Intensive Chanting in the forum Amida Shu Buddhist Practice 3 weeks, 5 days ago
May be worth mentioning here that not all of us can do extended repetitive practices, whether for the reason of mental conditions or physical conditions or both. And even if we technically might be able to, it is not always medically advisable to do so. This is on a sliding scale of course, it’s usually on a continuum, although there’s usually one…[Read more]
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Johnathan Robertson posted an update 3 weeks, 6 days ago
Had a wonderful time hosting Dharmavidya here in Baltimore. His talk was well received and we had a diverse crowd. Namo Amida Bu!
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So glad to hear it went well!
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It warms the heart to hear that you had a great time hosting Dharmavidya. I am glad his talk was well received!
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Ananda replied to the topic More Intensive Chanting in the forum Amida Shu Buddhist Practice 4 weeks ago
Aloha Brian and Ken,
I am glad this has been helpful in connecting with the Nembutsu. I wrote recently about the the Nembutsu is not Just Another Mantra, on personal blog. The more I recite the Nembutsu the more understand that it is simply a practice of relationship. Nembutsu may or may not quite the mind. Nembutsu may or may not make one’s life…[Read more]
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Vajrapala Moerman started the topic Bodhi retreat 2018 in the forum Amida Belgium 1 month ago
From 6-9 december there will be a Bodhi retreat in Belgium led by Susthama with the help of Annetta and myself. We are already a little group of people who will attend – people of Belgium and Holland – but it is possible to recieve some more people. We are intended to make a very beautiful retreat, the theme will be : honouring our ancestors. I’m…[Read more]
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Jeaunice Tribue Burnette replied to the topic Tell me again how to meditate in the forum Dharmavidya’s Teachings 1 month, 1 week ago
Greetings!!!
I struggled to meditate on my own for years, because I lacked a proper instructor. How very silly. Still, I discovered that I shouldn’t meditate due to my acute mental illness. That is why I am so very grateful for Amida’s saving grace. I would be very lost without the nembutsu. I rely on Other power now. I know that this post is…[Read more]
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Andrew Cheffings (temple host) started the topic Monday 8th October in the forum Monday Nembutsu 2 months, 1 week ago
Namo Amida Bu. ‘No Abode’, The Record of Ippen, came through the post the other day, and I’m joyfully reading it. I hadn’t realised that ‘Among all living things….’ is a sentence from a letter and that the next sentence reads, ‘It is not human beings alone who share in the all-surpassing vow.’ So I’ve added this sentence to the end of the…[Read more]
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Gayre Christie posted an update 3 months, 1 week ago
Hello folks
i havent p[osted in a long time. My Autumn word is Quotidian
Thats exactly the minimum number of times I need to remind myself of my status as a refugee. Refugee is such a misunderstood word!
I like the reference in Leonard Cohens soinf Anthem where he says —–“All hearts to love will come….but as a refugee’
Hah…”When all else…[Read more]-
I meant ‘song’ not soinf
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Hi Gayre good to see you here, and excellent word! The book I’m writing at the moment is on refuge – it’s a good daily reminder to me to try and do it….
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Andrew Cheffings (temple host) replied to the topic Report from the European Jodo Shinshu conference in the forum News from Amida Mandala 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Thank you for that writing, Satya. I had wondered what went on at that conference you attended, having visited the Jodo Shinshu temple in Antwerp recently. They were very laid back there so I’m interested in what you say about flexibility and conservatism. Certainly, what you say about flexibility in Amida Shu is really important to me as I search…[Read more]
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Jason Harris replied to the topic How to read a Sutra in the forum Questions for Dharmavidya: Questions in the Sand 4 months ago
I absolutely love this answer 🙂. It reminded of an instruction I read sometime ago of how to interpret answers from hexagrams in the I Ching. I intend to ask this on the Questions In The Sand forum too if I can but I wonder if its important at all to have some idea of the meanings behind the symbology of the images in a sutra as well?..for example…[Read more]
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Acharya Kaspalita (temple host) started the topic Wildness: Buddha and the forest in the forum Buddhist Teachings 4 months, 1 week ago
When I was out in France earlier this year, with the abundance of poppies, the almost continuous bird song and a visit from a red squirrel, Dharmavidya said something to me about Buddha and the forest.
We were talking about the Buddha’s experience at the ploughing festival – where he sees the cutting of the earth and becomes aware of…[Read more]
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Dayamay started the topic Random Ramblings. in the forum Share your creations 4 months, 3 weeks ago
I’m trying to get back into the habit of writing regularly and found these little musings in my phone memo app from the last few years. Here’s some of them. Hope you like them.
To be alive is to express the fullness of the Universe. To die is to illustrate its primary function, that of transformation.
We grasp and comprehend the nature of…[Read more]
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Jason Harris posted an update 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Hi, just finished this morning’s Nembutsu. I have been finding Nagarjunas Hymn to be such a blessing to listen to. Fell in love with it the first time i heard it. It just seems to say it all :-). I hope everyone has a wonderful day. Namo Amida Bu!
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Excellent! Great to hear you’re enjoying the Pureland resources! Namon Amida Bu( :
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Johnathan Robertson posted an update 4 months, 3 weeks ago
A big thanks to Ananda for speaking at First Unitarion today. He was well received!
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Ah, I was thinking of you on Sunday. Glad to hear it!
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That’s great to hear. Namo Amida Bu
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Suzy Jay posted an update 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Hi just started the Nembutsu course today as not in the best of health, so glad I did. Taking much needed refuge is what it’s all about 🏯 Love to all
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Sorry to hear about your healthy Suzy Jay. Hope you can find some refuge… Namo Amida Bu _/\_
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PS I can’t remember if you’re local to us here / if you’ve been to the temple before or not?
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Hello 👋 I have been to the Temple couple of times but I live in Fladbury near Pershore and have had my disability car taken away from me by the powers that be so am housebound until I can save up for a car. Won’t have the money until the end of the year so am not able to visit until then sadly but it is what it is. All best wishes to you and…
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Ah, that’s right I remember. We do various things online if you are interested – eg I run practice sessions on FB on a Thursday night (or whenever you want to watch later) – hopefully you can stay connected from there. Namo Amida Bu, blessings from the temple.
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Peter Adamson started the topic Walking Weekend – my impressions in the forum General chit chat 5 months ago
Mindful Malverns
Beacon Hill and British Camp, the Iron Age hill fort with paths on its flanks, aridity and stony tracks, dead yellowed grass, stone waymarkers that point in all directions, but no time to stop to inspect as we weave single file through the Malvern Hills, led by a local Boedicea, her staff cleaving a path for us to pass silently…[Read more]
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