by Vessantara | Apr 7, 2019 | meditation, Talks
I’m just back from leading a 3-month retreat in South Wales. (I’ll aim to post something about that very soon!) For now I want to recommend 2 talks that Taranita gave recently at the Bristol Buddhist Centre. They’re based on my article about ways to...
by Vessantara | Dec 22, 2018 | Talks
Last year I visited the Dublin Buddhist Centre and gave a talk called Padmasambhava Practice – a Personal Unfolding. As the title suggests, it was quite a personal take on the experience of practising visualization and mantra...
by Vessantara | Dec 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
I recently spent a very enjoyable day with my friend Jinamitra (Nicolas Soames). He runs Dharma Audiobooks, which has some very good recordings of Dharma material. We were making an audio recording of my book The Breath, which is an in-depth introduction to the...
by Vessantara | Nov 15, 2018 | retreats
There is a lot of audio material that you can listen to online from retreats that I’ve led over the last few years. That includes a set of 5 retreats I did at Adhisthana, exploring the different aspects of the mandala of practice that was outlined in his...
by Vessantara | Nov 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
31st October 2018. My teacher and friend since 1973, Sangharakshita died yesterday at the age of 93. After hearing the news, last night I dreamt that I was in a large garden with several people. I looked around and there was Sangharakshita, walking down a flight of...