Sangarakshita Puja (Eng/De)

IN ENGLISH + AUF DEUTSCH

Every year we have this collective ritual in most of the Triratna centres worldwide. It is a ritual that not only celebrates Sangharakshita’s birthday but also marks the continual changes going on within our Sangha. It is a timeless ritual marking the passing of time, recording those changes through photographs and the signatures in the anniversary log-book: a log-book of a community over 108 years. 

Programm:

17.00​​   Meditation

18.00 ​ Shared dinner (bitte bringt etwas Veganes mit)

19.00​  Talk By Padmavajra on Bhante Sangharakshita 

20.00​​  108 Year Birthday Puja for Bhante Sangharakshita led by Lalitaratna

Extract from Nagabodhi’s Introduction to the new book: ‘Sangharakshita - the boy, the monk, the man’

“The Budha discovered ‘rediscovered’ as he put it, something quite simple. No matter how easy or tough things are, whether in our personal lives or out in the world, we each have the uniquely human capacity to recognize and take responsibility for our states of mind. With intelligence, commitment and support we can even transform them. We may not know it, but we really are free to react or create, to hate or to love. …

Sangharakshita mined his own genius and tapped into his own mysterious sources of energy to bring the Buddha’s message into the modern world. He did it in his way, by talking and teaching meditation, of course, but above all by being himself, being a friend. Whatever his limitations or complexity, he trusted himself as an authentic ‘carrier’ of the Buddha’s compassionate spirit, and so made it his focus to connect with people and form community. In doing so he managed to remind enough of them, of us, of the journey, we could be making, alone and together, within and without.”