Acharya Sujatin (temple host)

Andrew Cheffings (temple host) started the topic Monday 21st January in the forum Monday Nembutsu 1 month ago

Yesterday I started week six of the mindfulness course I’m following at the moment and began a week of Metta Bhavna. It’s ages since I’ve done any and the version I am following is new to me. I found it really moving. I really don’t wish myself well very much, so it was a powerful experience. It reminded me of the first time I did it on a week…[Read more]
Jeaunice Tribue Burnette posted an update 1 month, 1 week ago

I have started the Introduction to Pure Land Buddhism course this week. It is everything I hoped it would be. The first lesson has inspired me to check out a copy of the Dharmapada from my local public library. This is so awesome.
- Acharya Kaspalita (temple host) replied 1 month, 1 week ago
  
  That’s great to hear 🙂
  - Jeaunice Tribue Burnette replied 1 month, 1 week ago
    
    Thanks for the support Kaspa!!!
- Siani Driver replied 1 month ago
  
  How are you finding it? I’ve just signed up too 🙂
Rev. Satya Robyn (temple host) posted an update 1 month, 2 weeks ago

An article by @richo about Dharmavidya and The Summary of Faith and Practice – great stuff! http://www.globalbuddhism.org/jgb/index.php/jgb/article/view/234/228
Johnathan Robertson posted an update 2 months ago

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Rev. Satya Robyn (temple host) replied 1 month, 4 weeks ago
  
  🙂
Rev. Satya Robyn (temple host) started the topic Saichi in the forum Favourite quotes 2 months ago

Enjoying the poems of Saichi, a simple Buddhist shoe-maker – you can read more here: http://international.hongwanji.or.jp/mdt_index.html
Acharya Kaspalita (temple host) posted an update 2 months, 2 weeks 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
Vajrapala Moerman posted an update 2 months, 2 weeks 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]
- Acharya Sujatin (temple host) replied 2 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  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
- Rev. Satya Robyn (temple host) replied 2 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Namo Amida Bu. We’ll be thinking of you Vajra – look forward to hearing how it goes. Love to Scotland too!
Acharya Kaspalita (temple host) started the topic Four years! in the forum News from Amida Mandala 2 months, 3 weeks 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]
Andrew Cheffings (temple host) posted an update 2 months, 3 weeks 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]
Ananda replied to the topic More Intensive Chanting in the forum Amida Shu Buddhist Practice 3 months 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]
Andrew Cheffings (temple host) replied to the topic More Intensive Chanting in the forum Amida Shu Buddhist Practice 3 months 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]
Johnathan Robertson posted an update 3 months ago

Had a wonderful time hosting Dharmavidya here in Baltimore. His talk was well received and we had a diverse crowd. Namo Amida Bu!
- Rev. Satya Robyn (temple host) replied 3 months ago
  
  So glad to hear it went well!
- Jeaunice Tribue Burnette replied 3 months ago
  
  It warms the heart to hear that you had a great time hosting Dharmavidya. I am glad his talk was well received!
Ananda replied to the topic More Intensive Chanting in the forum Amida Shu Buddhist Practice 3 months 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]
Vajrapala Moerman started the topic Bodhi retreat 2018 in the forum Amida Belgium 3 months, 1 week 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]
Jeaunice Tribue Burnette replied to the topic Tell me again how to meditate in the forum Dharmavidya’s Teachings 3 months, 2 weeks 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]
Andrew Cheffings (temple host) started the topic Monday 8th October in the forum Monday Nembutsu 4 months, 2 weeks 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]
Gayre Christie posted an update 5 months, 2 weeks 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]
- Gayre Christie replied 5 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  I meant ‘song’ not soinf
- Rev. Satya Robyn (temple host) replied 5 months, 1 week ago
  
  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….
Andrew Cheffings (temple host) replied to the topic Report from the European Jodo Shinshu conference in the forum News from Amida Mandala 5 months, 4 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]
Jason Harris replied to the topic How to read a Sutra in the forum Questions for Dharmavidya: Questions in the Sand 6 months, 1 week 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]
Acharya Kaspalita (temple host) started the topic Wildness: Buddha and the forest in the forum Buddhist Teachings 6 months, 2 weeks 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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