Three vacancies in Friends Organic

Friends Organic is urgently looking for enthusiastic and friendly people to work in its team-based, right-livelihood business. We are an eco-friendly, organic, vegetarian, wholefood shop, linked to the London Buddhist Centre. We are looking for two full-time team-members and one part-time person (3days a week).

Friends Organic has been around for almost 30 years and has always operated on the basis of Buddhist principles. We would therefore prefer applicants who are Buddhist, as we wish to continue running the business on the same basis.

Please visit our website at: http://www.friendsorganic.co.uk/ for more information.

Job applicants should contact:
The Manager
Friends Organic,
83 Roman Road,
London
E2 0QN

Tel. 0208 980 1843

Would you like to live in a men's Buddhist community in London?

Sukhavati currently has 2 spaces.

Based above the London Buddhist Centre (LBC), Sukhavati is a community of 9 practicing Buddhists. We are a friendly group of men who enjoy living together and aim to support each other in our practice and to overcome differences through communication. The community has a long and distinguished history going back 30 years. It is being refurbished at the moment and should be shiny and new by this August. We're looking for people who would enjoy living with others and who are willing to engage in communal life.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who wants to experience the richness of the LBC mandala. The LBC is at the heart of a thriving local sangha and close by is the lovely Victoria park. We are very close to a tube station with good connections to central London.

Interested?

Contact us to find out more or come and visit us!

Sukhavati
51 Roman Road
Bethnal Green
London
E2 0HU
Tel. +44 (0)208 980 5972

The LBC at 30: looking for Men and Women of Vision

The London Buddhist Centre is the FWBO's largest and most successful Buddhist Centre. It is thirty in November and is currently in the middle of the most exciting phase since its inception. We are improving all six floors of the Centre in a building project costing over £1.5m so that we can reach out to even more people.

We are:

- creating Breathing Space, a 'mindfulness for health' centre
- creating an access from Roman Road - making the centre's work much more visible
- building a new glass-atrium entrance, thereby enlarging our reception and bookshop
- making the centre much more accessible for people with disabilities
- completely refurbishing the community on the top three floors
- providing central heating to both communities above the LBC for the first time.

The new office for the LBC team has recently opened - alongside 'The Sangharakshita Study Room' - providing a beautiful and bright new environment in what was Bhante's flat.

We are looking for men and women of vision and commitment to join us.

Do you want to:

- play your part in an enthusiastic team of Order Members and Mitras trying to realise Bhante's vision?

- teach meditation and Dharma, or learn how to teach?

- lead or support retreats at Vajrasana, our retreat centre?

- learn to teach Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy or other 'mindfulness for health' initiatives.

- help to manage and expand Breathing Space, which is attracting significant funding and media interest (Guardian, The Times, The FT, The BBC, CNN)?

- actively go out to 'hard to reach' groups and help them benefit from the Dharma?

- help run the expanded LBC bookshop?

- work in the women's team at the Wild Cherry restaurant or take part in one of our other businesses, which we are also hoping to expand and revitalise?

- develop new projects and initiatives for Dharma work?

We have places for men on the Centre Team and for men and women in our businesses. We believe that we have a precious opportunity for the LBC to expand and to become a much greater force for good. We need your energy to help make it happen.

Contact us -

Maitreyaraja (020 8709 9984)

or Vidydaka (020 8709 9983) by 30 June.