BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.6//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17882@sheffieldbuddhistcentre.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261031T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261101T170000 DTSTAMP:20260708T145947Z URL:https://www.sheffieldbuddhistcentre.org/events/self-power-and-other-po wer-in-the-dharma-life-shinran-the-buddha-and-bhante-led-by-maitrisiddhi/ SUMMARY:Self-Power and Other-Power in the Dharma life: Shinran\, the Buddha and Bhante - Led by Maitrisiddhi\; For Going for Refuge Mitras and Order Members  DESCRIPTION:Weekend retreat at the Buddhist Centre for Going for Refuge Mit ras and Order Members\n\nSat 31 Oct &\; Sun 1 Nov\n\n10am - 5pm\n\nWhen is it helpful to think of practising the Dharma in terms of ‘me making an effort’?  And when could we simply open more fully to our connection with the Buddhas\, or trust in the mysterious workings of Dharma niyama p rocesses in our lives?  At a certain point\, it becomes clear that - as B hante says -  ‘it becomes no less difficult to speak of the spiritual life in terms of self-effort than to speak in terms of reliance on divine grace\, sometimes more difficult in fact.’ \n\nWith his radical teachin g of entrusting to Other Power\, Shinran explored the path of faith to its fullest extent in twelfth century Japan.  He overturns conventional tene ts of Buddhism – and blows wide open our assumptions about how to live t he Dharma life.  Yet he is simply drawing out and taking to their furthes t limits some essential teachings of the Buddha\, and\, later\, Bhante.\n\ n‘In the last resort\, emancipation depends upon the irruption into the universe of a factor that confronts our ego-consciousness as the Other Pow er.’  (Sangharakshita)\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\n \n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.sheffieldbuddhistcentre.org/wp-conte nt/uploads/2026/07/Self-Other-Power-website-1.png CATEGORIES:Diary Date,Retreat END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261025T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR