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This group is for discussing and developing ideas about mentoring, especially in the context of Amida-shu. What does/should it consist of? What is useful? What are we learning about it?
I know one fairy tale where there is a princess who is very proud, thinking just about herself. The prince from neigbourhood, who she refused to marry just by looking at his picture, changed his identity and became a gardener in royal garden of the…
Hi Joan,
I'd just like to say I love the fox cub in the plant pot! Your a whizz at getting JUST the right photo.
I really agree that just knowing the wildlife is there is enough. We don't always need to be looking under logs or poking about disturb…
I believe a garden becomes a healing garden when we have a personal relationship with it.
What I mean by this is the possibility of talking to the plants, flowers, trees. They respond by growing and bringing fruits and flowers.
So, any piece of land…
Toyo
I do agree with you - something about caring for plants as living things is very fulfilling ( I somehow equate being fulfilled with being healed). Caring for others generally is of course very fulfilling if we get it right, but plants are easy…
Profile Information
- About Me:
- I'm 53, happily married, with a 15 yr-old daughter, living in south London with 4 cats, a greenhouse filling up with cacti & succulents and an organic allotment. I design gardens and courtyards for hospitals and health care centres, and I am a volunteer bereavement counsellor for a local hospice.
- Amida Membership
- Would like to be a member
- Faith Background & Affiliation
- Catholic, then atheist, then New Age, now Pureland Buddhist
- Occupation or Primary Activity
- Landscape Architect
- Involvement in Spirituality/Religion
- I belong to the Amida Order and my local sangha is in London at Sukhavati.
- What is your interest in Amida Trust
- Amida-shu is my sangha.
- How did you find this web site?
- Told by other friends
- What country are you living in?
- UK
- What is the nearest town to where you live? If in UK, please give first half of your postcode. Thank you.
- London
- Are you a member of an Amida group/Congregation
- London
- Have you visited
- The Buddhist House, Amida London
- What other interests do you have, eg Arts, Gardening and so on.
- Music (classical piano), gardening (mad keen obsessive), psychotherapy (in training - just), cooking, some writing, design.
Comment Wall (10 comments)
- At 10:31pm on September 23, 2009,
Tara said…
- Hello Tony, hope you are well. I also hope you are coming to the course block in October, it would be good to catch up. Namo Amida Bu x
- At 8:49pm on May 15, 2009,
Hussam Al-Nawab said…
- Hi Tony - Just wanted to say that I really enjoyed your presence on the course block last week. I also loved the singing night which you contributed to with some sensitively timed maraca playing! So thanks too for that.
Hope you are feeling much better,
Namo Amida Bu,
Hussam
- At 5:11pm on March 31, 2009,
richard meyers said…
- Hi Tony,
I hope this reaches you hale and enjoying your garden! As I write I gaze out of the window at ours - Ruth's little spring border is jumping with colour already. (She's the real gardener in this house, I tend to do the donkey work, fetching and carrying.) Nonetheless, I'm proud of how our little garden (60' X 20' (ish)) looks and sadly get more than a frisson of superiority gazing at my neighbours from this upstairs view!
I may make it to Modgala's relaxation/meditation group on Thursday depending on how wacked I feel after work. The trouble is it's a bit too effective and it's hard to drag myself off home afterwards! I'm really enjoying the returning warm weather and the accompanying birdlife etc.
Namo Amida Bu
Richard
- At 10:30am on March 12, 2009,
Leo Kouwenhoven said… - Hi Tony. Lovely to see you last weekend. I have not yet posted some of my paintings and drawings but will do that this weekend. All the best for you. Namo Amida Bu
- At 11:18pm on March 11, 2009,
richard meyers said…
- Hi Tony,
SJP = St James Church Piccadilly. I worked there for a while as a volunteer stuffing envelopes etc for the London branch of the Creation Spirituality (nothing to do with 'creationism') movement, now known as 'Greenspirit'.
Best wishes.
- At 7:23pm on March 11, 2009,
richard meyers said…
- Hi Tony, We met first at the the Fear retreat in Sukhavati then subsequently at the meditation and relaxation evening - I had wanted to come last thursday but I was nackered after a tough volunteer day at the park. Anyway hopefully will make it tomorrow. I'm having a ball buzzing round this website, so much interesting stuff. I must take a look at your Healing Garden site. Hope this finds you well.
- At 2:38pm on May 18, 2008,
Modgala Duguid said… - Hi Tony,
Glad you made it onto ning - do .lets have some discussion on the london group!
- At 9:11pm on May 17, 2008,
Dharmavidya said… - One little hint - there are two little buttons at the extreme top left - an envelope and a little person - they are worth checking from time to time since if people message you or send friend invites that's where they appear. Namo Amida Bu.
- At 8:26pm on May 17, 2008,
Sahishnu (Joy Marston) said… - Thanks for the invite, pleased to accept.
NA
- At 7:50am on May 17, 2008,
Dharmavidya said…
- So glad that you made it onto Ning - well done! Now we just need a nice picture of you too. Namo Amida Bu. Hope you enjoy Ning - there seem to be quite a few people joining. It'll take a bit of time to get to know them all. Love - Dharmavidya
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