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Looking After Each Other – a focus on mental health

In addition to our regular work (explore our website www.abhayaratnatrust.org for details), during the first half of 2021, the Abhayaratna Trust is focusing on an important area of wellbeing in the Order – mental health. We’ll be posting a series of interviews intended to open a deeper conversation amongst Order Members, and posting resources on a dedicated webpage.

This month, Sīlajāla, currently volunteering with the Trust, responds to questions from Taradakini, the Trust’s grants and care co-ordinator.

Jina VamsaMarch 4, 2021 Comments

Sheffield Local Care Network

Upeksaraja has been volunteering with the Abhayaratna Trust to run a pilot scheme for the Local Care Network in Sheffield. Here is a short report on how things have been going with the scheme there.

Jina VamsaSeptember 23, 2020 Comment

Welcome to Utpalavajri

"I’m very happy to have joined the team to offer the skills I have and participate in the life of the Order in this way. I didn’t realise how much the Abhayaratna Trust did before I joined.

Jina VamsaJuly 1, 2020 Comment

Covid-19 Emergency Funding to Triratna Projects and People in India.

From The Abhayaratna Trust, FutureDharma Fund / India Dhamma Trust and The Karuna Trust.

In response to the coronavirus pandemic that is putting many people and communities in desperate circumstances in India, a number of appeals have been initiated by Triratna Trusts and individuals both in the East and the West.

Jina VamsaJune 16, 2020 Comment

Rejoicing in Shantiprabha's Merits

“Shantiprabha is a very kind man who cares about the welfare of individual Order members. He’s been able to express this repeatedly and admirably in the past 12 years

Jina VamsaMay 20, 2020 Comment

At the Crossroads

As practitioners we are bound to encounter terrain that is difficult to navigate. In one of the talks that Prakasha gave at the Order Convention in August last year he quoted Carl Jung; “to become enlightened we need to make the darkness conscious.” The light is in the darkness, he said. If we are able to turn towards the underlying fear that is causing our anxiety, if we are able to be with it and see it for what it is, then we will have transformed it.

Jina VamsaApril 22, 2020 Comment

Local Care Network; Training Day

As you may be aware, The Abhayaratna Trust is embarking on a new project called The Local Care Network (LCN) project to help develop and embed a more explicit and organised culture of care and support in the Order for Order members who need it,

Jina VamsaFebruary 25, 2020Comment

Thank you and best wishes to Ratnachuda

As many people will know, Ratnachuda has been a dedicated servant to the Three Jewels spanning many years; his willingness to help others has touched many people's lives.

Taradakini McloughlinJanuary 22, 2020Comment

Local Care pilot scheme

Mahasraddha at the European Chairs Assembly, talking about the pilot scheme for a Local Care Network which is being initiated by The Abhayaratna Trust.

Jina VamsaJanuary 16, 2020 Comment

Thank you to Vidusi

We are very grateful to Vidusi for her work as an Abhayaratna Trustee over the last 6 years. During this time she has attended regular Trustee meetings in Birmingham and helped make decisions on giving grants to those who have applied, as well as on Trust policy.

Jina VamsaNovember 5, 2019Comment

Without a culture you don’t have a community

It seems to me that without a culture you don’t have a community. I understand a culture to be to do with how we relate to each other. It is the flowering of our practice. I suppose you could say that our community is the flowering of our practice and it will wither and not open unless we care for each other.

Taradakini McloughlinJuly 9, 2019 Comment