BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.8//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:20261021T151417Z 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\nBrin g your own lunch\n\nWhen is it helpful to think of practising the Dharma i n 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 wor kings of Dharma niyama processes in our lives?  At a certain point\, it b ecomes clear that - as Bhante says -  ‘it becomes no less difficult to speak of the spiritual life in terms of self-effort than to speak in term s of reliance on divine grace\, sometimes more difficult in fact.’ \n\n With his radical teaching of entrusting to Other Power\, Shinran explored the path of faith to its fullest extent in twelfth century Japan.  He ove rturns conventional tenets of Buddhism – and blows wide open our assumpt ions about how to live the Dharma life.  Yet he is simply drawing out and taking to their furthest 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-consci ousness as the Other Power.’  (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-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