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watch the meanderings come and go without attachment to them
I am interested in exploring in greater depth our understanding of the notion of individualised spiritual friendship and its relationship to notions of community. How for instance do we balance or indeed understand the human ideal which is set forth…
An on-going class for study of the Digha Nikaya: The Longer Discourses of the Buddha
This is a group where the electronic editions of Running Tide - the Amida Trust Journal will be available to read and comment upon.
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- About Me:
- Senior Lecturer at Staffordshire University. Recently completed MA Buddhist Studies with Prof Peter Harvey at Sunderland University
- Amida Membership
- Would like to be a member
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- Buddhist
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- Senior Lecturer
- What is your interest in Amida Trust
- Interested in the work of the Trust and in Pureland
- How did you find this web site?
- friends
- What country are you living in?
- England
- What is the nearest town to where you live? If in UK, please give first half of your postcode. Thank you.
- Birmingham
- Are you a member of an Amida group/Congregation
- not at the moment
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- The Buddhist House
Mark Savage's Blog
Spiritual Friendship and Community.
I am interested in exploring in greater depth our understanding of the notion of individualised spiritual friendship and its relationship to notions of community. How for instance do we balance or indeed understand the human ideal which is set forth in many buddhist texts of 'individualism'. Often, for instance, renouncers are portrayed as spending their days in solitary meditation, emerging from their huts only in the morning and evening to gather alms. Yet, is this portrayal consistent with a… Continue
Posted on September 23, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment
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- At 9:31pm on January 10, 2009,
Fiona Edwards said…
- Wow Mark!. The time alone..sounds challenging. I would like to invite you to read my page...The concept of an Eco-Sangha; experimental, to create fully engaged 'steady state' sustainability. a whole new...way of life.
What is your...immediate 'gut' reaction to this concept?
Fiona
- At 8:42pm on January 10, 2009,
- A warm (virtual) Sangha welcome Mark...What interests me is academic Buddhism...Please, will you give me a little bit of insight into the MA you completed.
Prajna paramita Fiona
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