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Be creative with your life. Amida will inspire you. Amida Trust is both a dedicated Pureland Sangha and also a wide and creative network of spiritually inclined ordinary people from many orientations. Out of this rich diversity has arisen devotional, inspirational, educational, social, community, campaigning, and cultural projects. To join Amida Trust one becomes a member of Amida-kai or of Amida-shu. Membership of the Kai is open to anybody sympathising with creative spirituality. Membership of the Shu is by invitation. |
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The Amida Order is a Pureland Buddhist Order, led by Dharmavidya David Brazier. We are culturally engaged in that we are not only engaged in socially useful or politically implicated actions; we are also engaged in the arts and letters and performance; we are concerned about the kind of values that underpin society, and especially that conduce to community; we are concerned to generate the conditions that give rise to creativity; we are interested in friendship, co-operation and synergism, and in unleashing the energy of people who have something to offer, helping them to become both true individuals and contributing members of 'rightly resolute groups'. We are not just into service delivery - in fact, we are hardly into that at all - we are more interested in how to help people to become creative and helping people to help other people...Amidism is well placed to bridge cultures and to help generate the meta-culture by which the future of our world may be enriched. Watch a video discussion about Cultural Engagement For more about
Pureland
Buddhism see Dharmavidya's
blog,
where he regular posts teachings and reflections; the Buddhism
group on our Friends of Amida Site, which has articles,
videos
and discussion threads about Buddhism. In our online
liturgy group you will find videos of services and chanting,
or for more cerebral reflection you can watch video recordings of our
monday evening Sutra
Study,
in which we are reading the Digha Nikaya. If you interested in learning more about Pureland Buddhism - consider taking our free online introductory course. The best way to get a sense of what we are about is to come and visit one of our centres in person, and experince the Amida culture, if you are geographically distant, or want to engage with other Amida members online, please join the Friends of Amida Network |
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