Our Values

Our Values

Statement of intent to embrace diversity from the Trustees & Centre team of the Bristol Buddhist Centre

We welcome people in all their diversity. We are committed to respect and to uphold every individual’s dignity and agency, and to promote their spiritual growth. To this end we offer an open hand of friendship on the basis of unconditional loving-kindness. 

At the core of the Buddha’s teaching is the understanding that greed, hatred, fear and ignorance are the root poisons causing human suffering. As a community, we are committed to tread the path that exposes and undermines these poisons, both in our own lives and in the world, and to help us embrace and share the truth of our interconnectedness with all life.

We actively cultivate awareness to help us to uncover and recognize where we may be unwittingly expressing ignorance, prejudice, or unfair discrimination, whether individually, collectively, or through our organisational structures and processes. We are committed to educating ourselves and our community to identify, manage and diminish this risk. To this end, we embrace acceptance, appreciation, listening, witnessing, reflection and spiritual friendship in the hope that these qualities will expand our capacity for understanding, and empathy with all life.

Our values are expressed by the five ethical precepts taught by the Buddha:

Behaviour to avoid  Behaviour to develop
harming living beings  loving-kindness
taking the not-given  generosity
sexual misconduct  stillness, simplicity and contentment
false speech  truthful speech
taking intoxicants that cloud the mind  mindfulness; awareness

A more detailed exposition of these precepts can be found in the model_ethical_guidelines 

Find out more about Inclusivity & Access at the Centre here. If you need to discuss anything around inclusivity and access at the centre then do get in touch: info@bristol-buddhist-centre.org

Some specific expressions of our commitment to these values are given here:

Safeguarding Policies and Documents:

Safeguarding

Children – Safeguarding Policy

Vulnerable adults – Safeguarding Policy

Caring for teenagers

Managing those who may pose a risk

Bristol Buddhist Centre Ethical Guidelines

 

Chair’s name: Bhadra   Contact: bhadra@bristol-buddhist-centre.org

Safeguarding Lead: Samasuri    Contact: safeguardingbristolbuddhistcentre@proton.me

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