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Find out all the latest news from the Centre, and read articles written by our teachers.
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Thank you Vajrasadhu!
Dear friends, I heard this week that Vajrasadhu died on 26th May, aged 74, after four weeks in hospital following a stroke. Very few of our sangha knew him as…
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The Heraclitean Fire
Due to furloughing, I’m having to write this blog nineteen days in advance of publication. If I trace back nineteen days I get to the start of lockdown in the…
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A Door onto Wilderness
I arrived in London fifteen months ago after a decade of living in the countryside. At the time I wondered how I was going to adjust to my new urban…
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Help the West London Buddhist Centre Survive the Coronavirus Crisis
Dear Friends, This is not an email I wanted to send but I am writing to you because I need your help. It is now a month since we closed…
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An Open Sky behind the Clouds
In the next months our weekly Saturday morning Buddhism-in-the-City class addresses a pressing need in these times of lockdown, isolation, anxiety and loss: Buddhist methods for relating to difficult emotions…
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Dharma bites – Ratnadeva asks ‘In such times of uncertainty, where do we place our trust?’
In daily conversation, on social and mass media, we are getting used to a new and unsettling vocabulary – ‘lockdown’, ‘self-isolation’, ‘social-distancing’, ‘furloughing’. Other more familiar words ride piggyback –…
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‘Open Up The Thatch’
“If the thatch is leaking, open up the thatch.” – The Buddha The above words are found in the Pali cannon and have for many years been one of my…
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The Dharma Gives Me Perspective
Dear Friends, It saddens me that at a time of such uncertainty and fear, when so many people can benefit from the teachings and the practices we offer, the doors…
