On the First Rung

Anagarika Buddhadasa, a senior member of the Triratna Buddhist Order, writes of the circumstances leading up to his ordination into what was then known as the Western Buddhist Order. He also tells of his formative spiritual experiences whilst on solitary retreat in the wilds of Northern Scotland, and of his subsequent return to the South of England where he began to share responsibility for the welfare of the spiritual community of which he had become a member.