by Vishvapani | Feb 8, 2018 | Sangha Night, Talks
Buddhists often talk about Enlightenment, but what does it mean? The Buddha is the object of faith in Buddhism, so in what are we placing our faith? Vishvapani (who has written a book about the Buddha) explores these questions and talks about what faith in the Buddha...
by Vishvapani | Feb 8, 2018 | Sangha Night, Talks
Faith is ‘the first of the five spiritual faculties’ taught by the Buddha; but in English it has many associations – ‘blind faith’, ‘leaps of faith’, faith as the alternative to ‘reason’ and so on. Vishvapani speaks about what faith means for Buddhists in...
by Vishvapani | Jan 30, 2018 | Featured, Thought for the Day
Education focuses more and more on learning skills. The Buddhist idea of ethics as skilfulness makes a link between ordinary skills and he rely of ethics and spiritual life. Skill and Skilfulness - Thought for the Day 30.01.2018 by Vishvapani...
by Vishvapani | Jan 22, 2018 | Reviews
Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey Luarth Press, 2017 Poverty Safari starts with an account of something that’s becoming very familiar to me: going into a prison to run a group (I teach mindfulness). What McGarvey adds to my understanding of that situation is an...
by Vishvapani | Nov 29, 2017 | Buddhism, Buddhist World, Featured
What did the Buddha look like? And why does it matter? At the Rediscovering the Buddha Seminar in Bangkok Vishvapani joined leading scholars to advise a Thai artist on the Buddha’s appearance. 23-28 November 2017 I have just returned from Bangkok, where...
