E-Vam Institute 2020: Working Group Model E-Vam Institute is seeking to increase community participation, where the bulk of the tasks and activities of the institute will be the responsibility of collaborative working groups made up of community members. This document aims to provide a brief overview of how this will work. This document, compiled by…
In order to facilitate healthy, open and balanced discussion at community meetings, we ask that community members reflect on and practice the following principles: Dismantle conversational power structures Recognise the hidden conversational architecture of the group: Who leads the conversation? Whose opinions incite head nods and agreement and whose seem to go unnoticed? Who speaks…
Lena As a human in the time of coronavirus, I feel frazzled. The sand constantly shifting beneath my feet– which as a practitioner I recognise as impermanence – is made less subtle and more gross at this time. There is a constant flow of new information which I’m forced to collate and adapt my behaviour.…
Part II of transcript of a talk given by HH Sakya Trizin in 1988 at E-Vam Institute Next we need to contemplate impermanence. Although we have gained this precious human birth at the moment, it is not going to last forever. Everything that is created by causes and conditions is impermanent. As it is said…
ONE STUDENTS REFLECTIONS ON THE 2020 EASTER RETREAT by Sheryl Foo My Easter tradition is packing up the car and heading off from the Mornington Peninsula to Healesville, attending the annual Evam Buddhist Retreat at Maitripa Centre. And as tradition has it, my excitement builds as I exit freeways and highways to then hit the…