Questions on Self, Ego, Energy, Choiceless Awareness, Chanting, Space, Non-Duality. From a June 2025 retreat in Bavaria, Germany Weeklong Retreat held at Seminarhaus Engl. 90 minutes from Munich. This post consists of sections of transcriptions of a Question-and-Answer session with Christopher during the weeklong residential retreat at Seminarhaus Engl, a rural centre in Bavaria, Germany in late June 2025. The text has been edited, adapted for readability with some expansion of points from […]
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Totnes Fringe Festival. A new, three-day celebration of performance arts. 11–13 July 2025 Held in Totnes, south Devon, UK Totnes Fringe Festival is a new, three-day celebration of performance arts taking place from 11–13 July 2025 in Totnes (population 980, Devon, England. Click below to see 50 links with graphics of whats on. https://www.totnespulse.co.uk/totnesfringe/ This inaugural event features a wide array of theatre, comedy, contemporary dance, spoken word, and family shows in a range […]
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Acceptance - Or Else There are all sorts of reasons why people, including those on the Buddhist path, do not accept their life as it is at this moment or was in the past.  We are angry and self-righteous about how we have been dealt with, mistreated, whether by our family or the world.  And for most people, displaying that anger is a way of defending themselves, of saying I'm not going to put up with this anymore.But what does the lack of acceptance accomplish?  How does it move one's life forward?&nb [...]
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Roger Hillyard Lay Entrustment Congratulations to Roger Hillyard for receiving Lay Teacher Entrustment from Central Abbot Ed Sattizahn on May 23, 2025.
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A Letter to the Sangha: Abbot Mako on Skillful Action When violence and injustice become normalized, it takes profound awareness, not reactivity, to stay awake.
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