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The Path of Practice vajraFALL 2016 bell spreading the dharma keeping sangha connected The Path of Practice: Some ‘Divinity Shaping Our Ends’ by Dh. Maitreyabandhu page 06 The Dance of the Dharma by Dh. Lilasiddhi page 10 Also in this issue: Sangha Connections, page 19 Aryaloka Stupa: Your Support Needed, page 25 vajrabell VAJRA BELL KULA CO-EDITOR: Mary Schaefer [email protected] CO-EDITOR: David Watt [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Susan DiPietro [email protected] COPY EDITOR: Dh. Vihanasari [email protected] ARTS EDITOR: Deb Howard [email protected] WRITER: Bettye Pruitt [email protected] DESIGNER: Callista Cassady [email protected] SANGHA NOTES CONTRIBUTORS Gary Baker, New York Sangha Aryaloka Buddhist Retreat Center [email protected] 14 Heartwood Circle Paramita Banerjee, Vancouver Buddhist Centre [email protected] Newmarket, NH 03857 603-659-5456 Peter Ingraham, Aryaloka Buddhist Center [email protected] Sabrina Metivier, Nagaloka Buddhist Center [email protected] · www.aryaloka.org [email protected] Mary Salome, San Francisco Buddhist Center [email protected] Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/Aryaloka Samatara, Rocky Mountain Buddhist Center [email protected] Mike Mappes, Khante Outreach ...or on the Aryaloka Facebook Group: [email protected] facebook.com/groups/AryalokaSangha BOARD OF DIRECTORS Connect at The Buddhist Centre Online: TheBuddhistCentre.com/Aryaloka Dh. Dayalocana (Interim Chair) Barry Timmerman (Secretary) Elizabeth Hellard (Treasurer) Dh. Amala Dh. Rijupatha Jean Corson ARYALOKA STAFF Tom Gaillard Daniel Kenney Dh. Shrijnana, Executive Director Alisha Roberts Vanessa Ruiz, Office Manager Dh. Bodhana, Kitchen Manager SPIRITUAL VITALITY COUNCIL Dh. Lilasiddhi, Cleaning Coordinator Dh. Amala (Chair) Dh. Rijupatha, Web Master and Publicity Designer Dh. Vidhuma (Vice Chair) Dh. Shantikirika, Buddhaworks Manager Dh. Arjava Dh. Dayalocana Dh. Khemavassika Dh. Shrijnana Dh. Surakshita © 2016 Aryaloka Buddhist Center page 2 aryaloka.org table of contents fall 2016 04 Arts at Aryaloka 06 19 05 Path of Practice Introduction 06 Some ‘Divinity Shaping Our Ends’ by Dh. Maitreyabandhu 10 The Dance of the Dharma by Dh. Lilasiddhi 14 Sangha Notes, by Sangha Note Contributors 19 Sangha Connections: Interveiw with Dh. Padmatara by Bettye Pruitt 21 Buddhaworks 22 From the Editors 24 Spiritual Vitality Council Board Notes Poetry Corner 10 25 Aryaloka Stupa: Your Support Needed by Barry Timmerman 14 26 Upcoming Events, Classes and Retreats 28 Generosity Reflections on Generosity in Action by Tom Gaillard COVER IMAGE: Peter Hershey 25 unsplash.com/@peterhershey aryaloka.org page 3 arts at aryaloka The Stitchfold Path: ‘Coloring the Buddha’ Quilt Show The next exhibit in the art gallery show continues through November meditation develops the patience at Aryaloka will be textile artwork 14 with an artist reception Saturday, and mindfulness she needs to do the created by Akashavanda. This show November 5, from 3 to 5 p.m. detailed sewing, and the practice of will feature a collection of quilts that Akashavanda made her first quilt dana inspires her to make and donate celebrate the Buddha, Dharma and seven years ago after her first grand- quilts to charity. She quilts for fun and Sangha through vibrant color and son was born. She had not sewn to explore new and interesting ways a bit of sparkle. Akashavanda loves anything since high school but was to express her faith and love of the playing with color and texture to immediately hooked on quilting. Her Dharma using fabric. translate traditional Buddhist images love of fabrics and color is appar- Viewing times are Monday through and symbols into a contemporary ent in her quilt creations. Buddhist Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. rendering. Beginning October 10, the practice informs her art. She says that — Deb Howard Arts Study Group: Zen and Creativity “The creative process, like a Recently, we looked at a more would like to participate, read the spiritual journey, is intuitive, practical lesson in the “Jeweled upcoming chapter and bring com- non-linear and experiential. It Mirror” chapter: how to develop a ments and questions for discussion. points us toward our essential creative feedback group where the Contact Kiranada: kiranada@ nature, which is a reflection of audience can express their feelings myfairpoint.net or Deb Howard: the boundless creativity of the for artwork – not ideas, criticism or [email protected] for specifics universe.” opinions – and learn how to hear about the chapter schedule and — Daido John Loori what is said and stay with the direct meeting times. We meet through experience. early winter, finishing our last chap- The Art Study Group continues Group participants who are not ter “Indra’s Net” on December 13. to meet every Friday morning in visual artists find it refreshing that — Dh. Kiranada Exeter, NH, looking into the illusive Loori’s words resonate with those connections between Dharma, art who have movement, poetry and and meditation. meditation practices as well. Loori’s Daido Loori’s remarkable book words shed light on various ele- The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your ments that anchor our creative side Artistic Life has given us numerous in the world. His work “dissolves the opportunities for lively discussion. barriers between art and spiritual- Some highlights include the “Seeing ity and opens up the possibility of with the Whole Body and Mind” meeting life with spontaneity, grace chapter where we looked at the and stillness.” merging of subject/object, seer/ Future chapters consider those seen, of self and the other, “the “Barriers” as well as “Zen Aesthet- essential experience of enlighten- ics,” “Expressing the Inexpressible” ment.” and “The Dancing Brush.” If you page 4 aryaloka.org The Triratna Path of Practice A Comprehensive Approach to Spiritual Development Integration Spiritual Receptivity Developing Peace: No More Effort: getting to know oneself, bring- spontaneous compassionate action ing all one’s energies together Just sitting meditation behind spiritual purpose Samatha, mindfulness meditations Spiritual Rebirth Positive Emotion Experiencing Developing Happiness: Freedom: positive connection with of heart and mind: oneself and others; skillful a new way of being or postive emotion Sadhana and Metta and Brahma Viharas Buddhanusati meditations meditations Spiritual Death Developing Understanding and Wisdom: direct knowing, transformation through insight, letting go Insight practices The Triratna Path of Practice is a comprehensive view of the whole of the spiritual life from a Buddhist perspective and represents the crystallization of a lifetime of teachings by Urgyen Sangharakshita. The Path of Practice describes the crucial elements that, taken together, compose a life of happiness, purpose, freedom, equanimity and inner peace. The Vajra Bell continues its exploration of the Path of Practice. Dh. Maitreyabandhu is the author of three books on Buddhism, including The Journey and the Guide: A Practical Course in Enlightenment, regarded by many as a lively and accessible approach to the Path of Practice. He graciously accepted our invitation to contribute on this topic, and gave us permission to publish a piece he wrote for The London Buddhist, a publication of the London Buddhist Centre. Dh. Lilasiddhi takes a closer look at Spiritual Receptivity, Rebirth and Spontaneous Compassionate Response. — Editors aryaloka.org page 5 Some ‘Divinity Shaping our Ends’ By Dh. Maitreyabandhu The interest, the pastime, was to learn if there had been any divinity shaping my ends and I had been building better than I knew. — Robert Frost in a preface to a selection of his poems, 1942 Other people’s confidence can astound me. They often seem to know who they are and what their life consists of. They know what they want and why they want it. They can come up with ready-made opinions about war and global warming. Of course, to meet me, I’m much the same. Poet Robert Frost But if I’m honest with myself, I can’t decide. As life changes – as moods, locations and other people change – I of Reason” resonates with me. In poet, George Herbert, for instance – change, too. My estimation of myself the poem, when Job meets God in whose beautiful plainspoken verse fluctuates. My self-sense changes heaven, he says to his wife: anticipates Frost’s – is a conversation depending on who I’m with. Despite Here’s where I lay aside with God. A Herbert poem is a well- nearly 30 years of Buddhist practice My varying opinion of myself swept room in which he meets I still don’t really know who I am, And come to rest in an official verdict. Divinity (here in the guise of “Love”): what life is, or what I really think. Of This must be one of the attractions Love bade me welcome: yet my course I know myself in the everyday of God – a dream of perfect soul drew back, sense, but when I look more deeply, objectivity, in which someone can Guilty of dust and sin. the wires of motivation run off into finally tell us: “This is what you’re like. But quick-ey’d Love, observing me the dark. What I thought was truth This is your true worth. This is what grow slack turns out to be the skewed thinking your life has really been about.” From my first entrance in, of a bad mood. What I’d taken to Christianity tends to locate meaning Drew nearer to me, sweetly be aspiration was merely a passing outside the self in this way – all true questioning, bright idea. meaning comes from God. The If I lack’d any thing. So Robert Frost’s poem “A Masque poetry of the 17th century Welsh —”Love (III)” by George Herbert page 6 aryaloka.org For Frost the self is something our understanding never fully apprehends. The real self – whatever that is – is always on the other side of some sort of barrier, so that “we only ever experience it partially, indirectly.
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