Latest Posts
Find out all the latest news from the Centre, and read articles written by our teachers.
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Series Launch: ‘Getting Real’ featuring Paramananda
The Buddhist Centre Online have launched the ‘Getting Real’ series featuring Paramananda and Viveka on YouTube, also available on Facebook and Vimeo. Viveka is the former Chair of the San Francisco…
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What About Anger?
We are into our second series of webinars on the Abhidharma’s analysis of the mind. The material, based on Subhuti’s Mind in Harmony, is frequently insightful and thought provoking and…
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Brave New World
In these unusual days I find myself wanting to reflect a little on what a strange thing it is to be alive at this time in the journey of humankind….
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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…
