<p><strong><span style="color: #00ccff;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">I try to raise my income from donations - it frees my motive for teaching. The Triratna Charity helps by collecting dana from this page and transferring it to me. &nbsp;</span></em></span></strong></p> <p><span style="color: #00ccff;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">&nbsp;</span></em></span><em><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">The move to London has proved costlier than I thought, so next year's target has gone up - I'm hoping to raise &pound;9,000, which will cover my rent, council tax, food, bills, clothes, teeth, glasses and travel. &nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Note that the 'raised so far' figure includes&nbsp;supporters standing orders &amp; dana from centres. &nbsp;</strong><span style="color: #000000;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Thanks everyone!</strong></span></span></em></p> <p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>ABOUT KAMALASHILA: "</strong>Since my ordination at age 24, I have spent my life helping establish Sangharakshita's approach to Buddhism in the UK and other parts of the world.&nbsp; I have been especially associated with meditation teaching and practice. &nbsp;As I get older I want to live on retreat, take my Dharma practice further, and teach. &nbsp;I'll be 63 in April 2012 and ... I don't want to waste the time I have left!</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">It feels very good indeed to be based in London. &nbsp;Here I can work&nbsp;for the needs of the Order and movement, writing, leading retreats, offering talks and study seminars, being a friend and working as a public preceptor. &nbsp;Since I've been back in the UK I have totally rewritten my meditation book, to be published in April 2012 under a new title:&nbsp;<strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Buddhist Meditation: Tranquillity, Imagination &amp; Insight. &nbsp;</strong>It will be available in print and eBook versions. &nbsp;Over the autumn I start work on a book on the Elements, which could be finished by the Spring. &nbsp;</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">The rest of the year will be taken up with leading retreats and other events. &nbsp;</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>I have also set up a new website,&nbsp;<strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><a title="Open the Dharma Door" href="http://www.dharmadoor.org">Dharmadoor.org</a>&nbsp;</strong></strong>which showcases my approach to Buddhism and give various ways to connect with the Dharma and with me personally. Please <a title="Open the Dharma Door" href="http://www.dharmadoor.org">have a look </a>at Dharma Door - there's a lot of new material on&nbsp;there."</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">Your generosity enables me to work for free and to share what I want to do in the movement. &nbsp;It also allows the places I work to raise more for their projects.&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">Could you help support me? &nbsp;I'd also be pleased to hear from you even if you can't, or don't want to contribute. &nbsp;</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">All good wishes for the coming year, Kamalashila</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>