Download
The Individual and the Spiritual Community Books
The beautifully produced books are available from Windhorse Publications. Please order them in advance of the course so that you can give copies to participants.
Note that you will need to order them in bundles of ten. And you might want to order extra for your bookshop – they’re a great way for people to encounter Bhante for the first time.
Purchase The Individual and the Spiritual Community books
We’d strongly recommend using the printed books. However, if you still need the eBook versions, here are the links. Please share the links themselves, rather than this page.
Document with facing pages (normal format)
Document with single pages (often easier to use for printing)
Ratnaguna on The Individual and the Spiritual Community
Other Resourses
Talk by Bhante
Aspects of the Higher Evolution of the Individual (1970)
Series by Bhante
The Individual and the World Today (1979)
Sangharakshita
Buddhism, World Pleace, and Nuclear War (1984)
Bhante
Download
The Individual and the Spiritual Community Book
The beautifully produced books are available from Windhorse Publications. Please order them in advance of the course so that you can give copies to participants.
Note that you will need to order them in bundles of ten. And you might want to order extra for your bookshop – they’re a great way for people to encounter Bhante for the first time.
Purchase The Individual and the Spiritual Community books
We’d strongly recommend using the printed books. However, if you still need the eBook versions, here are the links. Please share the links themselves, rather than this page.
Document with facing pages (normal format)
Document with single pages (often easier to use for printing)
Ratnaguna on The Individual and the Spiritual Community
Other Resourses
Talk by Bhante
The Individual and the World Today (1979)
Sangharakshita
Aspects of the Higher Evolution of the Individual (1970)
Series by Bhante
Buddhism, World Pleace, and Nuclear War (1984)
Bhante
The Individual, the Group, and the Spiritual Community
How to free yourself from group thinking and become independent
Being a Buddhist does not mean being part of a religious group, following its ideas and practices slavishly. It means learning how to see the world as it is, through your own eyes, and acting from that vision.
This is a hard thing to do, as our dependence on being part of a group is extremely strong. Individuals are therefore rare.
On this six-week course we’ll explore what it means to emancipate oneself from the need to belong to a group and become an individual, and how the spiritual community is not just another group, but a free association of individuals.
Participants will receive the book The Individual and the Spiritual Community as part of the course.
The Individual, the Group, and the Spiritual Community
How to free yourself from group thinking and become independent
Being a Buddhist does not mean being part of a religious group, following its ideas and practices slavishly. It means learning how to see the world as it is, through your own eyes, and acting from that vision.
This is a hard thing to do, as our dependence on being part of a group is extremely strong. Individuals are therefore rare.
On this six-week course we’ll explore what it means to emancipate oneself from the need to belong to a group and become an individual, and how the spiritual community is not just another group, but a free association of individuals.
Participants will receive the book The Individual and the Spiritual Community as part of the course.