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  • Buddhist Wheel of Life

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    Wheel Life Lord Death. A traditional Tibetan thangka showing the bhavacakra. This thangka was made in Eastern Tibet and is currently housed in the Birmingham Museum of Art.

    At the hub of the wheel are three creatures—a pig, a snake and a cock—each biting the tail of the other. These three represent the greed, hatred and delusion that dogs our lives. It is these which make the world go round. Remove one and the axis will collapse, bringing the wheel crashing down…

  • Know yourself, Mahesi Caplan

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    Street scene

    Short film (18mins) Perspectives on the Awakening Process, by Mahesi Caplan…

  • An introduction to Zen

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    Bodhidharma

    Short video (4mins): ‘An introduction to Zen’

  • You Are Not A Permanent Person, by Ajahn Sumedho

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    Big Moon

    So much of our suffering is around attachment to perceptions, views, opinions and emotional habits. In the enlightened mind one is breaking out of conditioning. Because there is an infinite variety of conditioned phenomena, the Buddha talked in terms of just five groups (five khandhas) in which to get a perspective on it, and this is to be understood in a very direct way, not in a theoretical way. Each one of us experiences through the body, feelings, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness, and…

  • What was the message of the Buddha? by John Aske

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    Opening of Amaravati temple 2010

    Perhaps this is why Buddhism—almost the oldest of the great religions—has had so little effect on the others…

  • We are having a problem with our Theme

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    We have had a problem with our Theme. All’s well now. However, as you can see below, we have lost all of our Twitter and Facebook likes. All things are impermanent.                                     The Buddha

  • If Only He Were a Cat! by Diana St Ruth

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    Diana and Sam

    What was interesting for me on this particular retreat was that I suddenly saw the very angry person who never seemed to get his own way, as a cat. ‘Funny,’ I thought one day, ‘If he were a cat, I wouldn’t take him so seriously.’

  • This is the Miracle, by Trevor Leggett

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    The teacher said that people today, and always, sell themselves cheap. Somebody who is always saying, ‘I’m no good,’ won’t try at anything because, ‘Things always go wrong for me. And if I do happen to succeed in something, it’s never appreciated; it always goes badly. And is life worth living anyway?’ Such people are selling themselves cheap. They have a treasure in them…