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Thanissara (Linda Mary Peacock Weinberg)
From an Anglo-Irish family in London, started Buddhist practice in the Burmese school in 1975. She was inspired to ordain after meeting Ajahn Chah and spent 12 years as a Buddhist nun, initially as a mae chee (eight precept nun), then as a nun in the siladhara order, based on the ten precept ordination. She one of the first women to take ordination in the UK. During her monastic life she became interested in the placement of the feminine within Buddhism and helped found Dhamma retreats for families and children. She was a founding member of Chithurst Monastery and Amaravati Buddhist Monastery. Thanissara has facilitated meditation retreats internationally the last 25 years and has an MA in Buddhist Ps ...more

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Revolutionary Spirituality: Navigating the Collapse of Empire and the Fight for Collective Liberation.

Friends, this will be my last post via this blog. I have transitioned to Substack, so please do join me there if you’d like to stay in touch with my work.
https://thanissara.substack.com/

Graphic by Kareem Ghandour & Annika Slabbert

I wrote this article to context Sacred Mountain Sangha and Sacred Justice Coalition’s event, on the same theme as the title of this article. Toge

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Average rating: 4.16 · 108 ratings · 11 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Time to Stand Up: An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth -- The Buddha's Life and Message through Feminine Eyes 4.19 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Listening to the Heart: A Contemplative Journey to Engaged Buddhism by Kittisaro, Thanissara 4.10 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Heart Of The Bitter Almond Hedge Sutra 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freeing the Heart: Dhamma Teachings From The Nuns' Community At Amaravati & Cittaviveka Buddist Monasteries by Forest Sangha Nuns (Editor), Thanissara (Contributor), Sister Kovida (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Garden of the Midnight Rosary 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What’s required is to find some sort of balance. If we’re always engaged in the world, responding to others, doing good works, it’s very easy to become so invested in a particular outcome that we lose our equanimity. We can become consumed by stress because we can’t fix all that is wrong. The world is as it is. So we need that inner perspective that enables us to let things be, that allows us to step back.”
― Thanissara

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39 postsThanissara's Blog

Revolutionary Spirituality: Navigating the Collapse of Empire and the Fight for Collective Liberation.

Combine EditionsThanissara’s books

39 posts
Thanissara's Blog

Combine Editions
Thanissara’s books