With our first home chanting retreat taking place this December, teacher Jaya Rudgard gives us an insight into this ancient and supportive practice: What do you feel that a chanting practice gives you? “Chanting gives me a sense of direct connection to a...
“Secular Dharma” is the name of a two-year modular course taught at Bodhi College that I teach with Martine Batchelor, Renate Seifarth and Jenny Wilks. In February this year, we began the second of these courses with twenty-three students from Europe, America and Indonesia. But what does “Secular Dharma” mean? And how, if at all, does it differ from what is taught on other courses at Bodhi College?
The Boundless Heart by Christina Feldman was published in April 2017. It explores the Brahma Viharas of Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity as pathways of awakening. These ennobling qualities of the heart are virtues, seed of potentiality that live in every human...