The real meaning of mindfulness in the Sukhavati, Amida London
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Time: March 3, 2012 from 9:30am to 4:30pm
Location: Sukhavati (Amida London)
Street: 21 Suxxex Way
City/Town: Finsbury Park, London N7 6RT
Website or Map: http://www.amidalondon.org.uk/
Phone: 0207 263 2183
Event Type: day, seminar
Organized By: Sumaya
Latest Activity: Jan 20
Event Description
Mindfulness has become a popular concept that is increasingly widely used. However the essence of Buddhism is not a technique, but rather an attitude to life, an attitude that encompasses more than the present moment, more than oneself and more than what presents itself to consciousness. Mindfulness is a deeper and broader matter than we are often led to think. The mind that Buddha has in mind is something very big indeed. Suggested donation £15.
The Amida Trust is a non-profit organisation applying Buddhist principles to help sentient beings in an afflicted world. Members of the Trust include people of many faiths who sympathise with this project. The Amida Order is a corps of people committed to the religious life either as lay or ordained practitioners. Order members do much of the actual work of the Amida Trust since this work often requires high levels of commitment. However by no means all office holders or activists in Amida are Order members, or even Pureland Buddhists.
Amida Buddhism provides the frame within which we can turn our lives to useful purpose. We do not have to achieve and particular degree of spiritual accomplishment before we can make ourselves useful. we do not have to struggle to love ourselves - because we are loved already and received by the Buddha just as we are. We do not have to cultivate self-esteem, for the modest are always acceptable. We do not have to become enlightened - because it is precisely for ordinary beings such as ourselves that Amida Buddha made his great vows.
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