Regional Order Weekend July

‘I had the satisfaction of knowing that in founding the Western Buddhist Order I had founded a sangha or spiritual community that not only shared my realization that Going for Refuge was the central and definitive act of the Buddhist life but also shared … my conviction that that realization itself was capable of continued growth and development.’ The History of my Going for Refuge

Ethics (Carers)

‘Beauty does give you some clue to the nature of reality.  There is also an ethical element, in as much as your whole being is tuned in to that experience of the beautiful through your imagination, you yourself are transformed, at least you are refined and sensitised.’  Seminar on the Kalama Sutta

Ethics to Insight

‘Morality is, as it were, the words of that most perfect of all poems, the holy life, the language which makes intelligent the secrets of spirituality.  Meditation and Wisdom... are its rhythm and its imagery.’ A Survey of Buddhism

Post-ordination retreat 2

‘Nonetheless, there are times when, far from feeling that it was I who took on the responsibility, I feel that it was the responsibility that took on me. There are times when I am dimly aware of a vast, overshadowing Consciousness that has, through me, founded the Order and set in motion our whole Movement.’ My Relation to the Order