‘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)

“Around this mandala, this sacred spot, may the lotus petals of purity open.

Around this mandala, this sacred spot, may the vajra wall of determination extend.

Around this mandala, this sacred spot, may the flames that transmute samsara into Nirvana arise.”

(Dedication Ceremony)

‘Going for Refuge represents your positive emotional response - in fact your total response - to the spiritual ideal when that ideal is revealed to your spiritual vision. Such is its appeal that you cannot but give yourself to it.’ (Going for Refuge)

‘We are in the realm of the spiritually positive, a world glowing with colour and flashing with light.’ (A Survey of Buddhism)

“What they were was more important to me than what they said. It was as though what they were was much bigger than what they taught. Nowadays, if I happen to do a sādhana that I was given by one or another of them, as soon as I start the sādhana they at once spring to mind and I have a very vivid sense of their presence. It’s as though they transcend their own teaching. Life can never find full expression, and in the case of a spiritual teacher, his or her spiritual teaching never fully expresses their realization.”

Sangharakshita

Celebrate our first London Region Order day at Tiratanaloka Ware!  To celebrate this momentous occasion, we will be looking at extracts from the newly discovered 1976 seminar on Milarepa that Sangharakshita gave to women.

By invitation only

Please note this event is for Mitra Convenors only

"The bodhicitta is much more like a sort of higher power – the power of Enlightenment, if you like – which works through you when you are open and receptive. It’s not ‘yours’ in the ordinary sense – not your thought, your idea, your will. In a sense – though even this can be misunderstood – it’s something that takes you over when you are sufficiently ready for that or sufficiently open to that and which as it were works through you: this is the bodhicitta.” - Sangharakshita, Endlessly Fascinating Cry