The Individual and the Spiritual Community
The Individual and the Spiritual Community
This six-week course aims to help communicate and understand Bhante’s teachings on the central place of both individuality and of the spiritual community. It draws upon a variety of Bhante's lectures and writings. On this page you will find resources to help you run this course, and a sample publicity blurb for your advertising.
This six-week course aims to help communicate and understand Bhante’s teachings on the central place of both individuality and of the spiritual community. It draws upon a variety of Bhante's lectures and writings. On this page you will find resources to help you run this course, and a sample publicity blurb for your advertising.
Teachers’ Notes
These notes cover all six weeks of the course
COURSE OVERVIEW
TEACHERS’ NOTES
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The Individual and the Spiritual Community eBook

We hope to have these booklets printed and available for sale in your bookshop soon.

In the meantime, please use and distribute this booklet for your course participants. Please use the links here for distribution, rather than this page.

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Ratnaguna on The Individual and the Spiritual Community
In this video Ratnaguna shares some reflections on the theme. The contents here are not necessarily directly related to leading the course, but provide a fascinating source of material for further study, either with your team or as an addition to the existing course. See the course notes for more details.
FURTHER REFLECTIONS

Other Resourses

Here you will find resources related to the material. Many of the talks listed here are highlighted in the teacher’s notes to help with specific sections of the course.
The Individual, the Group, and the Spiritual Community (1971)
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

Teachers’ Notes
These notes cover all six weeks of the course
COURSE OVERVIEW
TEACHERS’ NOTES
Download

The Individual and the Spiritual Community eBook

We hope to have these booklets printed and available for sale in your bookshop soon.

In the meantime, please use and distribute this booklet for your course participants. Please use the links here for distribution, rather than this page.

Document with facing pages (normal format)

Document with single pages (often easier to use for printing)

PDF
Download

Ratnaguna on The Individual and the Spiritual Community
In this video Ratnaguna shares some reflections on the theme. The contents here are not necessarily directly related to leading the course, but provide a fascinating source of material for further study, either with your team or as an addition to the existing course. See the course notes for more details.
FURTHER REFLECTIONS

Other Resourses

Here you will find resources related to the material. Many of the talks listed here are highlighted in the teacher’s notes to help with specific sections of the course.
The Individual, the Group, and the Spiritual Community (1971)
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

Sample Blurb for Publicity

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.
Sample Blurb for Publicity

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.