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The Ordination ceremony in Sangharakshita's System of Spiritual Practice
Over the summer months of 2011, Subhuti and Sangharakshita engaged in a series of discussion focusing on the spiritual rite of Ordination in the Buddhist tradition.
"The individual undergoing ordination is usually profoundly affected by the symbolic resonance of all that happens and will sense the tying together of many threads of meaning and purpose. They will usually feel that their whole experience within the Triratna Community has been a training for this moment: and one who has been ordained will spend the rest of their life as Sangharakshita's disciple, working out the full implications of what was germinal in that ceremony..."
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Re-imagining the Buddha
Towards the end of August, 2010, Subhuti and Sangharakshita had a series of discussions centred on the topic of the imagination.
"Where reason has flown as high as it may, it is the illumined imagination that must take over and continue..."
In his preface to the paper Sangharakshita wrote:
I am extremely grateful to Subhuti for not just writing up our discussions but for presenting them in a more organised and systematic manner. The title he has given to this article, ‘Re-imagining the Buddha’, very well encapsulates the overall thrust of our discussion.
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Re-imagining the Buddha (PDF format)
In and around producing this seminal paper, Subhuti also gave a series of talks on the same theme:
Talks on Imagination on Free Buddhist Audio
Revering and Relying upon the Dharma
The essay on the imagination follows on from previous conversations between Urgyen Sangharakshita and Subhuti, also recorded in Subhuti's article Revering and Relying upon the Dharma
Refering to this Subhuti has said:
"I set out Sangharakshita's thoughts on the nature of Right View. I tried to show how pratītya-samutpāda is not a theory about reality but a description of the conditioned relationships that we can observe underlying everything..."
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Revering and Relying upon the Dharma (PDF format)
Remorse and Confession in the Spiritual Community
As part of his work as International Chapter convenor Subhuti led workshops on meeting with other Buddhists as a spiritual practice. These explorations are synthesised in his classic essay: Remorse and Confession in the Spiritual Community
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