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Fiona Edwards
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The Feeling Buddha
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Engaged Buddhism
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Critical Buddhism
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Amida Kitchen
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Amidist Poetry
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I have (upon far too many occasions) had to remind persons to whom I was a subordinate within the general working situation,that; good management was not a gender...it was (in fact) a skill. This was my albeit, flawed, responce to what seemed like a…
A group in which to discuss the most basic teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha.
Like 'Alice in Wonderland' who comes upon a bottle with the lable "Drink Me". The application of meditation, comtemplation and the study of the vast legacy of literature and teachings that are labled Buddhism...
As the 'Drink Me' bottle, creates cha…
Let's talk about Engaged Buddhism
This is a group for discussing the ideas and questions raised by the Critical Buddhist movement.
For discussion of anything to do with food and cooking, including growing food, sharing recipies, food ethics, seasonal food and so on.
Poetry, songs, hymns on Buddhist themes
Profile Information
- About Me:
- In process of founding a registered charity to establish a fully engaged, therapeutic and experimental 'steady-state' Eco-Sangha. Hopefully, on Cat Island (see: Islands of the Bahamas.com) for pics. Married and very contented, (see my husband Lindy behind me in the photo!). Therapy and healing are my life. Was founding trustee of Amida...and Abindharma student of Dharmavidya and Prasada. Lived in Nassau Bahamas since 1997. Where the sun (almost) always shines!
- Amida Membership
- Would like to be a member
- Faith Background & Affiliation
- Buddhist since 1977.
- Occupation or Primary Activity
- Currently, writing,
- Involvement in Spirituality/Religion
- 1977 Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (Croydon)
Rigpa; to learn care of the dying and the dead. (Sogal Rinpoche)
Eigenwelt Amida to learn Buddhist Psychology, learned much more...bodhicitta.
Formal transmission of The Three Refuges and Five Wonderful Precepts recieved from the (Zen) Tiep Hein Order (Thich Nhat Hanh) 1996
Founding trustee of Amida Trust (late 90s)
Forever friend of Amida Sangha.
My mindset and character...profoundly Zen.
- What is your interest in Amida Trust
- To remain open to my formative Sangha even though we are over 6000 miles apart...time and distance mean very little...to good and true friends...I wish to host (some of the) Amida Sangha in the Bahamas in the not too distant future. I would like to make more friends...I (to my knowledge) am the only Buddhist in the Bahamas (this is an very...Christian fundamentalist country) Must like a challenge(or be barking mad)....eh?
- How did you find this web site?
- Introduced by my beloved teacher: Dharmavidya
- What country are you living in?
- (New Providence Island) Bahamas
- What is the nearest town to where you live? If in UK, please give first half of your postcode. Thank you.
- Nassau
- Are you a member of an Amida group/Congregation
- not at the moment
- Have you visited
- None of these
- What other interests do you have, eg Arts, Gardening and so on.
- Authentic friendship of like-minded people. Fully engaged karuna and 'steady-state' ecology. Buddhadarma and the practice of buddhist psycho-therapy. Real contentment...and interior composure...sublime mind accompanied by ahisma. Non-materialism: (consumerism...another addiction, what do you think?).
Living beauty (Bahamas ++). Virtue and wealth of character.
Want to learn more about organic farming/hydroponics. The transformation of addiction (engaged in this field since 2000)
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- At 4:10am on April 12, 2009,
Robert McCarthy said…
- Dear Fiona, I felt i wanted to thank you. When you said hello to me around the start of the year it was something of a wake up call. I now start to feel that I turn to the Pureland in my life and hope that my heart can stay open. Namo amida bu. Love from Rob
- At 3:43pm on April 9, 2009,
Modgala Duguid said… - Hi fiona, I hope you have got my email now to say the dates are fine andlook forward to seeing you on 8th may if you manage to get a flight. Hope all goes as well as it can from now on... Namo amida bu
Love modgala
- At 1:32am on March 4, 2009,
Robert Gebka said… - Hi Fiona
Thank you for your message.
Im sadened to hear about your daughter who was killed.
Na Mo Amitofo.....May Faith have a good rebirth and may she attain Buddhahood.
I never lost anyone so close to me so If I say that I understand what it is like, then I would be lying.
Please accept my blessings for your difficult situation. I hope that it will resolve itself in a good way for you.
Sorry you said Lindy has never been abroad, is Lindy your husband or your son?
Well do let me know when you know when you would be coming to the UK and I could invite you over to my place and we can have some food and maybe some meditation together. i can show you Windsor too.
Many many blessing to you my friend
Rob
- At 5:29am on February 13, 2009,
Sahishnu (Joy Marston) said… - Just thought I would say hello.It is the Amida sanga that sustains me when I am so geographically far away.Thought you might like to know that for many people here particularly the women and monks, " No hitting" are the first English words they learn from me.
Namo Amida Bu
Sahishnu
- At 3:22am on January 23, 2009,
Wendy Haylett said… - Dear Fiona,
I apologize for not replying in a punctual manner. I have been quite busy. I promise to respond as soon as possible to your note.
Namo Amida Butsu,
Wendy
- At 3:29am on January 22, 2009,
Robert McCarthy said…
- Dear Fiona, So hope you are in well enough health and things flow. yes, freedom to fly. I,ve been so fortunate to keep receiving grace in my life and your writing to me has punctured what i now see more clearly as down time. Spitituality has always been a house of cards for me, and as they fall, so does awareness.
Belief became my excuse to deny, trip into mind. Last night i went to a sleep clinic at the local hospital- sleep apnea is a surprising little gift. I explained that if I go to sleep too early i wake up for a very long time, but hospitals have their ways. so at 10.30 i nod off for half an hour and then lie all wired up awake for the next five hours before they get to check me out for an hour and a halfs sleep. I go back in time 40 years to my first intense experience of what i now call grace. SItting in a fast food place with a few friends- before i read about ego I was able to experience the quality of all voices through the restaurant as some crazy and crazed phenomenon. The underlying feelings were screaming out. No going back from there- but no automatic growth either for sure.
Well I asked the amida people about speaking with a mentor and - well this will be my first guidance beyond experience and books. the cards start to stack up into some structure again. Namo Amida Bu Rob
- At 8:22pm on January 21, 2009,
Doug Osto said… - Fiona,
thanks for your comments on my blog. yes, i would love to talk more about these topics.
Namo Amida Butsu,
Doug
- At 1:54am on January 15, 2009,
Robert McCarthy said…
- Hi Fiona, hope this finds you travelling well. for the last few months I have been reading books on our calamatous global situation and slowly reading eckhart tolles most recent book. and thanks for getting in touch because i am turning back into this sangha of the web. Ive been challenged here- amida is love of a buddha i dont know how to know i guess.
So i reread that stuff i wrote that you mentioned and sometimes the words flow. but i also reread another thing i wrote in and it remains my situation-
"Belief, faith, grace, pureland. Can it only be experience that gives meaning to these terms beyond mind? Pureland is to each of us what we make of it; if faith were only a product of belief, could it be any more than belief and what are we naming as faith?"
Faith is our spiritual fuel on this planet and surely we only gain this from some experience which we know to be other than mundane. To surrender to the experience, surrender our belief, our self; to see our nature. To be given this experience is to be given grace.
Faith then generates our passion to express love in encounter. Happiness is not to be pursued, a fleeting moment of satisfaction, hardly able to co-exist with empathy. Happiness creates desire to hold it, reduces passion. Passion holds us and leads us, not happiness.
Faith turns us to belief, it is not belief that turns us to faith."
but Fiona, theres something obvious and underlying . livings about doing, not reading about it. so ironically its time to delve into a few books and work out a daily practice. time to be active again outside family. belief is not worth the cells its written on- if it clouds our being.
I think Zen practice too. so maybe a little of this grace will sustain some practice. Namo Amida Bu rob
- At 2:51pm on January 13, 2009,
Sumaya said… - Dear Fiona,
Thank you very much for your comment. You are right, I’m really grateful for Sangha, and I hope that your Sangha will be soon established too. It is very nice that we can use this network to write each other. I would be also very happy to meet you in person. Please stay in touch and inform me when you are planning to come to England.
Namo Amida Bu
Sumaya
- At 7:00pm on January 11, 2009,
caroline brazier said… - Dear Fiona
I am so glad if we are able to help with your visit to London. I imagine it will be a stressful time. I hope we can get to see you whilst you are there - please do keep us posted on dates. Thank you for sharing the photo of Faith. She is just so beautiful and full of life. How unimaginably awful to know what happened so soon after. Thank you for finding the courage to continue.
Much love Prasada
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