March 21st, 2010
Buddhas in the Swiss Alps (yes, the background is real!)
From 22-24 January 2010, 12 friends took the New London Buddhist Centre road show to Zürich and Amden in Switzerland. Each of our road shows is unique, and following the success of Graz last November, we wanted to continue to make good connections and create positive impressions for the success of the New London Buddhist Centre project. The theme for this road show was “James Bond”. The program also featured typical Swiss cuisine, cheese fondue with powerful pear schnaps, a fantastic party, full English breakfast and of course Buddhist teachings – given by travelling Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Amden, Buddhist, retreat, road show, Steve James, Stupas, Switzerland, Tara, Zürich
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March 16th, 2010
Lama Ole Nydahl made this statement in a teaching in San Fransico in 1995 which perfectly expresses the essence of Diamond Way Buddhism.
Lama Ole Nydahl in San Francisco 1995
“We want to produce Buddhism, not consume it. We want each of us to develop into a temple and not create one somewhere outside. We want to allow each of us to possess the ability to really benefit others. Because we do not want to believe or believe in a fanatic way, we really want to develop everyone’s potential and everyone’s power. You have to understand that you have to stay conscious and to keep producing Buddhism in your lives.
You are Buddhism. Buddhism is not something outside, it is not something else. Buddhism is the way you eat, drink, make love, think, feel; all this is Buddhism. Never have there been so many educated, independent people with so much ability as we find today. This has never happened before. For the first time in history we are on a world-wide scale, held together by friendship and idealism that can produce this wonderful thing called Mahamudra communities. Where we are all really close together, we are already friends, trusting each other back from former lives. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Blessing, Buddhism, friendship, idealism
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March 15th, 2010
Prepared by Dr. Peter Malinowski
Dr. Peter Malinowski
Dr. Peter Malinowski is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the School of Natural Sciences & Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University. He is also a close student of Lama Ole Nydahl, a founding member of the Liverpool Diamond Way Buddhist Centre, travelling teacher, trustee of Diamond Way Buddhism UK, and has been instrumental in the establishment of Diamond Way Buddhism in the UK, particularly in the North of England, since 2001. In this brief article he presents an overview of contemporary research into the psychological and physiological effects of Buddhist meditation.
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Tags: brain, Buddhist, Buddhist Meditation, health, Liverpool, Meditation, Peter Malinowski, physiology, psychology, Science, scientific, well being
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March 13th, 2010
Gerd Boll, a Travelling Teacher from north Germany and close student of Lama Ole Nydahl, answered this question during a lecture in the London Diamond Way Buddhist Centre during his last visit to the UK in October 2009
Travelling Teacher Gerd Boll
Q: When did basic ignorance start?
A: There are two answers. The official answer of the Gelugpa School is that it never started. The cause of our confusion in this lifetime was in a previous lifetime, and so on, so confusion was always there. The yogi’s answer is that it starts NOW. Time is a timeless illusion, it doesn’t exist, it is only a habit of thinking.
Time cannot be proven. Even photos don’t prove the past. They only create an idea of “past”. Everything happens here and now. The future is nothing other than the summary of our wishes, it’s just an idea. The present is also only an idea. It is impossible to “catch” the shortest possible moment because there is no indivisible moment. It would need to connect with other moments to create a “time chain” and if it connects with former and later moments it has to have a beginning and an end. If it has a beginning and an end it must have a middle. It has three particles, so it can be divided. Every subsequent smaller particle will also have three particles because the beginning of the “new” middle touches the end of the “old” beginning and the end of the “new” middle touches the beginning of the “old” end. In this way it can be divided without end, so there is no shortest possible moment. Time is an illusion. There is no time. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: basic, Enlightenment, Gerd Boll, ignorance, illusion, reflection, time
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March 10th, 2010
In our second retrospective post, we would like to share some inspiring impressions of H.H. 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje’s second visit to the UK at the invitation of Diamond Way Buddhism UK, in June 2007.
Reports of other visits of the 17th Karmapa to London can be found here (2005) and here (2009).
Poster for 17th Karmapa in London August 2007
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Tags: Black Hat, Bodhisattva Promise, Buddha, Buddhism, Buddhist Refuge, Chinese, Compassion, Daily Mirror, Dharma, e-blessing, Empowerment, Kagyu Lineage, London, Meditation, Metro, MySpace, non-political, The Times, Trinley Thaye Dorje, White Tara, Wisdom, yidam
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March 7th, 2010
In this post we recollect Lama Ole Nydahl’s first visit to Edinburgh. Martin Dahms, who comments later in the post, was one of the founders of the original Edinburgh Diamond Way Buddhist Group which was active between 2000 and 2003.
Edinburgh Skyline
On Tuesday 28 March 2000, Lama Ole Nydahl gave a talk at Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Gardens lecture theatre, entitled “Basis, Way and Goal in Diamond Way Buddhism”. The talk was an introduction to Diamond Way Buddhism, in which Lama Ole pointed to the Buddha nature as the basis for our development, gave an overview of the methods the Buddha taught to remove the veils which prevent us from experiencing this potential, and explained how the goal – enlightenment – is the full development of mind’s inherent qualities. The lecture was attended by several friends who travelled from London, elsewhere in the UK and abroad, as well as many locals, including inquisitive members of what Lama Ole wryly described in his lecture as a nearby “Presbyterian Buddhist Centre”!
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Tags: Arthur's Seat, Blessing, Buddha, Edinburgh, Enlightenment, Holyrood Park, Kagyu Lineage, Karma, Martin Dhams, Meditation, presbytarian buddhist centre, skyline
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March 2nd, 2010
We would like to share some inspiring impressions of H.H. 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje‘s first two visits to the UK, which happened before this blog was established. Gyalwa Karmapa’s first historic visit was in August 2005, when he stayed for four days in London at the invitation of Diamond Way Buddhism UK. He was joined by Lama Jigme Rinpoche, Lama Ole and Hannah Nydahl and other distinguished lamas who were part of the travelling entourage of the 16th Karmapa in the UK during the 1970s.
Reports of other visits of the 17th Karmapa to London can be found here (2007) and here (2009).
Flyer 1 for 2005 course (front)
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Tags: Black Crown, Black Hat, Blessing, bodhisattva, Bodhisattva Promise, Buddhist Refuge, Dhagpo, Empowerment, Guru Yoga, Kagyu, Lama Jigme Rinpoche, London, Marpa, Meditation, Metro, Rumtek Monastery, St Ethelburga's, The Times
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February 27th, 2010
The Blogosphere: can you spot the DWBUK Blog at the top-right of the image?
Here at the Diamond Way Buddhism UK Blog we’re excited to see that other Diamond Way Buddhist friends and centres around the world are blogging about their activities. Our favourites – so far – are…
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Tags: Athens, blog, blogspot, Canada, Edmonton, Europe Center, Gdansk, Greece, Poland
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