by Vessantara | Oct 7, 2020 | meditation, News, retreats
Last week I led a 6-day online retreat for members of the Triratna Order, exploring a practice we use for developing bodhicitta. Bodhicitta is the heart of Buddhism, the combination of profound wisdom and great love and compassion that motivates someone to follow the...
by Vessantara | Jul 3, 2020 | News, retreats, Uncategorized
I’ve spent nearly the whole of 2020 doing personal retreat at home. I had a personal retreat scheduled anyway for January to March, which went well. Then I emerged just in time for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to announce the beginning of the Covid 19 lockdown....
by Vessantara | Apr 7, 2020 | Books, News
My good friends at Windhorse Publications are responding to the current pandemic by giving you the chance to download a free book every week, in an initiative they’re calling Free the Dharma. This week’s offering is my book Tales of Freedom. You can take...
by Vessantara | Feb 5, 2020 | News, retreats
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any news here, so I’ll give a short overview of last year, which saw some big changes on the material level. It started with getting married on the 2nd of January, mainly for financial reasons, although it was good...
by Vessantara | Oct 2, 2015 | News
A short look back at the year so far, and some of the highlights, plus a couple of lowlights… What has had the most impact on me has been the Dharma tour of New Zealand and Australia that I did with Vijayamala from February to May. It had been 15 years since...
by Vessantara | Oct 2, 2015 | News
Back in May I wrote saying that I was thinking seriously about how to use my time over the coming years.The last 2 or 3 months have been busier than I expected, so my reflections about the future are still rumbling on, without reaching any final conclusions. This...