06 July 2008

New Podcast: Exile and Return

There is a new Amida Podcast on Friends of Amida. This is a talk from our annual Exile and Return retreat, given by Dharmavidya in 2007.

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Divine Light - Sunday 29th June

Kaspa has posted his talk from the Sunday service, 29th June, on the Amida Friends networking site. Do take a look.

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Karma and Grace

Dharmavidya has started a discussion on Friends of Amida, entitled Karma and Grace, please do take a look and contribute.

01 July 2008

Do No Harm

Dharmavidya has been quoted on the Do No Harm site.

06 June 2008

New Podcast: Vow Mind of Buddha.

Now available on Freinds of Amida: Vow mind of Buddha and Serene Faith of the Devotee

26 May 2008

Does Amida guide my action?

Kazuo Yamashita, has posted a weblog entry on Friends of Amida: Does Amida guide my action? Kazou is a shin-shu counselor and was one of the panel speakers at this years conference

I am looking at myself how Amida Buddha’s wisdom is guiding me. This wisdom is directing me as Nembutsu. I think partly “yes”, but Amida Buddha’s guidance is extremely deeper and more fundamental than I am expecting. Amida Buddha’s wisdom is more bigger than our thought. In this context, I am Bon-bu, foolish person.

25 May 2008

Dharma talks online: Amida Podcasts

You can now access Dharmavidya's teaching online, as part of a series of Podcasts, subscribe to the .rss feed and keep upto date. Todays talk is entitled Dharma as Practice

18 May 2008

Sunday Service 18th May: Honen, the Samurai and the Prostitue

This week Rev. Kaspalita led the Sunday Service. The readings were from Traversing the Pure Land Path, and the dharma talk is now online, at Friends of Amida.

I hope that none of us spend our days literally on the battlefield, sword in hand, taking life upon life, and I’m fortunate that my profession doesn’t ask me to do that, but when we look honestly at our lives, who among us can say that we haven’t, at least, swung a metaphorical sword in someone’s direction?

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12 May 2008

Sunday Service 11th May: Faith is Power

Mudita led the Sunday Service at The Buddhist House Yesterday, a transcript of her talk is now online on the Friends of Amida Network. Check it out.

When do we look at someone or something without the suspicion that they are not what they seem. Probably not as often as we would like to admit. When we are able to look into the hearts of our companions in depth we find, when we trust that they are as they are, Manshi says we find the true man (or woman), the infinite light within. We find Amida Buddha

19 November 2007

Dharmavidya on Creativity

An interview

13 November 2007

Questions in the Sand

Dharmavidya has published answers to a range of recently asked questions.

15 October 2007

Sharpham Event Announced

Prasada Brazier will speak at the Sharpham Trust, Ashprington, S. Devon on Tuesday, November 6th 2007 on the theme "The Other Buddhism"

Pratyutpanna Samadhi Sutra Class

Dharmavidya taught a class on the Pratyutpanna Samadhi Sutra chapter 10 this evening.

14 October 2007

Transfer of Merit

Dharmavidya today led the Sunday Service and monthly Transference of Merit Ceremony at The Buddhist House. He spoke on the passage in the Larger Sutra that refers to three grades of persons entering the Pure Land and of the self-identification of Pureland Buddhists with the lowest grade who are Amida Buddha's special concern.

11 October 2007

Prasada to speak at Sharpham

Caroline Prasada Brazier, has been invited to speak at the Sharpham Centre for contemporary Buddhist Enquiry

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09 October 2007

Safeguarding the Domain of Bliss

There is a new Pastoral Letter from Dharmavidya to the sangha published today.