Dragon Bell Temple

14/05/2026

https://dragonbelltemple.org.uk/may-newsletter/

03/04/2026

https://dragonbelltemple.org.uk/april-newsletter/

Dragon Bell Temple newsletter April 2026 What’s coming Website calendar 20-24th May Residential retreat at Eden Rise is May 20-24th. Places are available. 7th June Reverend Master Daishin Morgan will be visiting the first weekend in June. The temple will hold a morning meeting Sunday 7th, where he...

18/02/2026

https://dragonbelltemple.org.uk/february-news/

The calendar for March and April is now live on the website Dragon Bell will be closed 13th-28th April, while I am assisting with the Jukai retreat at Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey. There are places available for our Eden Rise residential retreat, 20th-24th May. Book yourself a place by getting in to...

21/12/2025

https://dragonbelltemple.org.uk/december-news-2/

December news Dear friend, Seasons greetings and perhaps a belated best wishes to you for the Buddha’s Enlightenment (December 8th in our tradition and many others). I’m glad to say that we held our December residential retreat at the beginning of the month. It doesn’t make sense to me to say...

12/11/2025

https://dragonbelltemple.org.uk/november-news-2/

We’re coming up to three months being here in the Willows and the temple is quite well settled. The schedule of events is up and running, we’ve held full day, half day, morning and evening meetings and the usual morning zazen sessions available on Zoom. The calendar for December is published her...

30/10/2025

https://dragonbelltemple.org.uk/loving-impermanence/

Loving Impermanence Impermanence is an inescapable feature of a compassionate reality. The ability to adapt, make, and use things, is a quality human beings possess. On the most basic level, manipulating stuff is essential for wellbeing and survival, and this is nothing but impermanence too. Obstruc...

23/09/2025

https://dragonbelltemple.org.uk/october-and-november-events/

The calendars for October and November are posted on the calendar page I look forward to people coming to the temple to practice of the way of the Buddha together. In Gassho Willard

03/09/2025

https://dragonbelltemple.org.uk/do-be-doing/

Do Be Doing No amount of doing can produce a fulfilling life. Doing is either an expression of fulfilment, or it is contributing to creating an illusion of it. The manifesting of fulfilment is vastly different from actions that are chasing reward. Of necessity, the former is doing without need, so i...

28/08/2025

https://dragonbelltemple.org.uk/september-news-2/

The Temple’s new address: 7 The Willows Shillingford St George Exeter EX2 9QS We moved in on Saturday 8th, there was a good crew of eight for what turned out to be a long day, thank you all. The following 10 days or so has been fairly non-stop too, much has been done and thank […]

04/08/2025

https://dragonbelltemple.org.uk/sickness-old-age-and-death/

Sickness, old age and death Sickness, old age and death are not party poopers. If you see these as ruining the show and fear there imminence, then you have a problem that is a self imposed problem. A problem that is being created through ignorance. Thankfully, awareness of a problem, includes awaren...