We asked our teachers 5 questions and here is what River responded: 1) If you could go back in time, what would you tell your younger self / what do you wish you’d known at the beginning when you started out on this path? It’s not a competition. Trying to be...
Why, in these challenging and over-stimulating times, longer retreats can leave us more comfortable in our skin, more creative and able to wisely contribute Our teacher Jaya Rugard shares how two weeks can make all the difference In a week’s time, lucky me, I’ll...
In tears I want to be the gardenerof the soil you inhabit and enrich,*friend in dharma, much too early. As my tuneless pain feedsthe rain, conches and organs,to the disheartened poppiesI will give your heart as nourishment. At the end of a retreat I sat at Gaia House,...
On fidelity and flexibility in the Early Buddhist discourses Bernat Font on why he has invited Eviatar Schulman for a conversation on this topic on 24 February (see more here): Most dharma practitioners know only one version of how the early Buddhist discourses came...
Christina Feldman, teacher“The last year for me has been very engaged with looking after young children. This is a very present moment way of living with the question of ‘what does this moment need’ very much at the forefront. As my days are so full, I find it greatly...
by Luke Tinson (Florac, France) I see the Community Groups as an idea that ran away with itself, and feel very lucky to have somehow got swept up on the way. They were set up by our very much loved Gary Born, one of the Bodhi College trustees, as a participant-run...
