Golden Buddha Centre

15/05/2025

You can also browse the library. Everyone is welcome.

14/03/2025

What was interesting for me on this particular retreat was that I suddenly saw the very angry person who never seemed to get his own way, as a cat. ‘Funny,’ I thought one day, ‘If he were a cat, I …

20/02/2025

So what differentiates a Right Livelihood business from any other? It has to be the dharma element, a basic code of practice within oneself. It isn’t a question of just saying, ‘Oh, we’re a Buddhis…

05/02/2025

I have included an extract from Bodhidharma’s work here, as it is less widely known.

29/01/2025

This pure awareness is not detached or indifferent.

04/12/2024

This sutta uses the metaphor of crossing a dangerous flood (ogha) to represent transcending samsara. The Buddha’s method—neither striving too hard nor being completely passive—illustrates the…

30/09/2024

‘Awareness (Sati) — Sati-panna; awareness and wisdom — sati-sam-pajanna: awareness and clarity of consciousness, or full awareness.’ Everyday Buddhism

30/07/2024

Important: Early Morning Meditation Sessions at the Golden Buddha Centre, Totnes will begin on Thursday, 1st August.

(Doors open at 7:00 am and close at 7:14 am to ensure the meditation begins promptly at 7:15 am.) These early morning sessions are aimed at individuals with some experience in meditation and who wi…

12/07/2024

An allegory on truth and interpretation. A group of six blind men endeavour to describe an elephant.

13/06/2024

Buddhist film (about 80 minutes).

27/05/2024

That’s when they need you and you will have something to offer that will help them.