Jai Bhim Network

I had tried to put too much into the day; like an overfilled suitcase that won’t close, bits of my life were bursting out of the seams, trailing behind me in the street. I had the slightly unfocussed look of someone who is almost on top of things. Delayed leaving work, I was late getting to the BBC and late arriving at the Buddhist Centre. As I drove in, I reflected that this was not the best night to welcome four visitors to the continuation Buddhism class – especially when one of them was Subhuti, the man who has arguably done more to shape the FWBO than any other individual. I found them in Earth:

- Subhuti, would you like to lead anything?
- I’d like not to lead anything

(Damn, I was going to have to lead the meditation. Why had I let Hasavajra have his turn last week?)

Subhuti was in Manchester with two mitras from Hungary, Janesh and Tibor, who work with the marginalised gypsy community. To address issues of exclusion, they founded the Ambedkar High School, named after Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar.

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Subhuti taught us at his visit to Sajókaza on Diwali time the cycle of samsara and the spiral of emancipation as it is written in the Pali Canon: Samyutta Nikaya XII. 23. Upanisa sutta last three paragraphes:

Just as when, brethren, on some hilltop when rain is falling in thick drops, that water, coursing according to the slope, fills the hillside clefts and chasms and gullies, these being filled up fill the tarns, these being filled up fill the lakes, these being filled up fill the little rivers, these being filled up fill the great rivers, and the great rivers being filled up fill the sea, the ocean.

Even so, brethren, there is causal association of activities with ignorance, of consciousness with activities, of name-and-shape with consciousness, of the sixfold sense-sphere with name-and-shape, of contact with the sixfold sense-sphere, of feeling with contact, of craving with feeling, of grasping with craving, of becoming with grasping, of birth with becoming.

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Get the Flash Player to see this player. Subhuti, having finished his program in Sajókaza, has flown to India. He will participate at a meditation till morning on the night of Full Moon the 13th December with 500 young activists of National Network of Buddhist Youth in Nagpur. The youngsters want to call the meditators to Diksha Bhumi as the venue of their program.

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