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NEW ONLINE COURSE!!!

AMIDA TRUST INVITES YOU TO JOIN A NEW AND EXCITING COURSE BY DISTANCE LEARNING : EXPLORE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH EATING AND WITH YOUR BODY.

Come and join us online for a month long course by distance learning starting in January 2009.

We are launching a month long course looking at attitudes to food, eating and body image. The programme includes exploratory exercises, guided meditations, and theoretical material based in the insights derived from Buddhist psychology. Participants join a supported peer group. Enrolment will be ongoing, with the first participants starting after Christmas.

This month long programme helps you to look at your eating behaviour and your relationship with your body in new ways. Through daily activities and reflections it helps you to understand some of the factors behind compulsive or restricted patterns of eating and to develop strategies to change your behaviour around food. The multi-media course uses meditations, work charts, guided fantasy exercises and practical experiments. It also contains theoretical and inspirational material related to the subject. Participants join an on-line support group and are given access to many resources. They remain registered after completion of the programme thus having access to an ongoing community of peers.
Check out details and register through the web page on click here for more details

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Amida Ning has Streaming Video

On Friends of Amida networking site we have added a streaming video facility for broadcasting events from The Buddhist House. We hope to develop a forward programme of broadcasts. Our first broadcast was of the 24 hour chanting at the start of this year's Bodhi Retreat. The second will be Dharmavidya's Dharma Talk at 1400 GMT 3rd December.

Sexism in Buddhism: Discussion

Now on Friends of Amida, a blog post from Dharmavidya, followed by lots of good discussion, sign in, and and your thoughts: Gender is a serious issue in Buddhism 

Seriously though, it does seem to be the case that Buddhism has a major problem in this area. Buddhist events and Buddhist institutions are almost invariably male dominated especially in Asia. As one speaker said, the Buddhist vinaya is a blatant case of institutional sexism.

Do No Harm

Dharmavidya has been quoted on the Do No Harm site.

Flying West Free Form Nembutsu Video on You Tube

Flying West. This is the second little film to emerge from the Bodhi retreat - a free form chanting session to accompany pictures from a flight west. Voices by the retreat community, pictures by Prasada.

Nembutsu Film

The film of our 24 hour nembutsu is now on U-Tube . You can also read Susthama's lovely account of her experience of the event.

Amida Muse

There is a new Amida weblog for poetry called Amida Muse

Questions in the Sand

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

Smaller Sutra now Available

The Smaller Pure Land Sutra, also called, in Japanese, Amida-kyo, is now available on the Amida-shu site.