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Chös Khor Ling the Great Difference Between Us As Marpa House and Rectory Lane Other Buddhist Centres Is That We, the Lay Students, All Ashdon of Us, Run It chös khor marpa house news ling Winter 2011/2012 BUDDHIST MEDITATION AND RETREAT CENTRE Summer 2016 Summer is Here (and Now) From The Trustees • From The Committee The Celebration of Vajrayana Buddhism Coming to the West Chime Rinpoche at the Buddhist Society A Welsh Idyll • Tibetan Alphabet Construction • Goodbye Yasuko Nomura chös Trustee News his time of our 50th-year celebration gives us room Tto think. We are an unusual centre. We often have odd tales of how we came to this place, nestled invisibly khor in Ashdon. Some of us experienced being inexplicably drawn here. Many felt 'magnetised' so that we cannot and do not want to ever part. From the centre, from ling our Lama, from each other. This is not a floppy fantasy relationship. It is viscerally BUDDHIST real, exposing our flaws, our upsets and the flaws of MEDITATION AND others. Sometimes we want to be shot of it all and RETREAT CENTRE wallow in the world's outside 'delights'. Sometimes we drift away long distances – but, like planets, we orbit our sun. Some are quite a long way out, like Pluto. I prefer a different metaphor – that we are bound by an elastic cord that lengthens and lengthens but eventually reaches its limit and back we zoom. Reality is frustrating because we know enough to realise that the outside 'delights' do not lead to any safe place. Somehow, some secret is only found here. This isn't the transitory brainwashing of a cult. This is no restricted, gated community from which we cannot escape. Indeed Marpa House is so intense that it is almost impossible to remain living here for more than a year or two. No one converted us. The teachings, this centre, this Lama awoke something that was already present inside us. Marpa House Chös Khor Ling The great difference between us as Marpa House and Rectory Lane other Buddhist centres is that we, the lay students, all Ashdon of us, run it. Although rooted in the Kagyu tradition of Saffron Walden the Vajrayana, the tradition of oral transmission from teacher to student, we stand apart from the formalities Essex CB10 2HN and discipline of any monastic order or any other centre. t: 01799 584415 Buddhism doesn't have bishops or cardinals laying down e: [email protected] overarching precepts – each person has their own w: www.marpahouse.org.uk separate journey, to 'work out their own salvation with If you have something you would diligence'. At Marpa House, more than any other centre I know, we see the traditional rules more as signposts. like to go in the Newsletter please contact Janet Scott We make the mistakes that we have to make, to learn e: janadanjan@gmailcom out our safe passage. Many of us have been on staff, Registered Charity No 1090628 Committee or Board of Trustees, stitching into the Marpa House structure the fabric of our knowledge and experience. Every tiny bit of us is vital to having a living, evolving Centre that works. We are doing this knowledge and your good heart. on our own. Having farewelled Paul from the Committee in All of this flows from Rinpoche's guidance. He our last newsletter, we now sadly farewell the gave this centre to us and trusted us to make irrepressible Amy. A huge whirlwind of non- it work, saying it is up to us what we do. Once, fracked Texan energy. Please always be close when we were repainting the Shrine Room, to help out, Amy, please. he said that it was entirely for us to choose the colours – it could be white if we wanted, Roger Britton (Chair of the Trustees) though he did want retreat rooms without windows (not possible with fire regulations). His common theme is to emphasise practice instead of froth, substance, not just words. This doesn't mean having to do prostrations or the Four Foundations. Or retreats or mantras. Or pilgrimages. Or having to do anything. We choose. We do have to choose. We are each sown with the seed of our own path. All our paths are different, but always rooted in the awareness of Here and Now. It is extraordinary to observe how Rinpoche's teachings ebb and flow into the waters of the Nyingma and the Kagyu, the Gelug and the Staffing Opportunities at Marpa House Sakya, the Zen. Those present in the early days 2 of Marpa House observed Chime Rinpoche's We need volunteers to come on staff in fine subtlety in his choice of teachers for it. We 2016. are learning to find that subtlety. You can volunteer for up to one year Running Marpa House is to live within it, to and would receive a small honorarium visit it, to support it, to want it to be here for to cover basic living costs. All meals and us and for those yet to find it. accomodation are provided free of charge. To practise at Marpa House is to find peace (most of the time, anyway). At some point, we will be on our own, standing on our own two feet. Lama Chime has shown us this path out of This is a great opportunity to spend our pain. He has helped us to survive. It is up time in a beautiful Dharma centre, to to us whether to follow it, to do more than receive teachings from visiting teachers just survive. and to practise in a lovely and peaceful environment. If you are interested in The Committee recently recommended that finding out more, please contact the we hold all residential fees static for a third Secretary: year, and we will trial a reduced-fee retreat – made possible because of recent large t: 01799 584415 donations. Our purpose is to encourage and e: [email protected] make it easier for you to visit and stay. Come w: www.marpahouse.org.uk whenever you can. Share your time, your spiritual home function and survive. Committee News Within the sangha, I see a lot of talent and hese last six ideas. If you don’t have the time to become Tmonths have a committee member, but have an idea for been a great time an event or something you would like to for the sangha as do, please get in touch and perhaps we can a whole. We can work together in some capacity to make it all be very proud happen. of the way we pulled together Karrim Rabi-laleh (Chair of the Committee) to help Lama Chime Rinpoche celebrate his 50 years of teaching in the West. We must give a big thank you to all of those who helped out at the event itself and especially to Paul Wootton and Anne-Marie Scott. Without their direction and hard work, I am sure the Celebration would not have Chime Rinpoche Is a run so smoothly or been such a success. In fact, when Rinpoche thought it was too Shortcut to Laughter 3 much to tackle, Paul's initial insistence that it happen and monetary contribution set off The cherry tree under which I sit the whole thing. Entangles its branches in the long grass beneath. To add to this, during the final preparations There is white blossom, a dandelion, for our big event, the way the Committee Even a bird’s feather. and Trustees pulled out all the stops to organize this year’s May Teaching in three In the same way Lama Chime weeks gives me confidence that Marpa Entangles our minds in sensation; House will go on long into the future. I am All life noticed and accepted, sure that Chime Rinpoche was very happy Everything sharp and lucid, to see us all working and pulling together as Everything makes us laugh. one big family. I cannot tell the truth about the Lama. There is a lot of change within the This is what a worm sees. Committee. We are losing Amy Corzine, A worm looks at creation. who has made such a difference over the That is a big eyeful for a worm. last three years, and for that, we thank her. We have welcomed Vicki Tofts to our Ann Brunskill ranks and she is already a great asset to the Committee and House. I am sure her dedication, hard work and wisdom will be tested and developed over the next few years. I have only really started finding my feet as the Chairman, but I am grateful for the opportunity to attempt to make my The 50th Anniversary of Vajrayana Buddhism Coming to the West arrived at the Friends Meeting House Kagyu Samye Dzong in London. I early, just before the main flow of attendees appeared for the 50th anniversary A video by HH Tai Situpa Rinpoche drew 4 commemoration of the arrival of Vajrayana attention to the historical significance of Buddhism into Western culture – its vanguard Lamas Akong, Trungpa and Chime and a being three special individuals: the ‘Three short documentary by filmmaker Piotr Obal Young Tulkus’ Akong, Chogyam Trungpa and described the life and teaching career of Chime. At the door I was met by smiling, Chime Rinpoche. Other speakers, including cheery volunteers garnished with red ID the President of The Buddhist Society Dr. lanyards, blurry-eyed from their early start to Desmond Biddulph, Chairman of The Tibet the day, yet full of energy. Society Fredrick Hyde-Chambers, OBE, and author/scholar/translator Ken Holmes, told of Inside, I looked around the room to see a the political and social upheavals surrounding mix of familiar and new faces, listening to the tulkus' appearance in England.
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