MISSION STATEMENT

The Bede Griffiths Cyber Ashram is a loose internet community of men and women whose lives have been inspired by the life and work of Father Bede Griffiths. We are dedicated to the vision of Father Bede and draw together in cyber space for mutual contact and support and to integrate this experience into our lives.

We are a broad contemplative cyber community, seeking to live the experience of Father Bede's wisdom and compassion, and to support the renewal of contemplative inter-faith life sustained by regular contact. Father Bede not only brought the gift of the Indian spiritual insights and traditions to enrich and deepen the Western Christian tradition. He also had a vision of the renewal of contemplative life. We believe one way in which the contemplative life can be fostered is through a cyber network, sustained by regular contact and occasional coming together in silence and meditation.

We are not dedicated solely to the preservation of one man's name, but also to taking forward Father Bede's vision of contemplative renewal based on finding the one reality beyond all duality. We seek a balance between silence and celebration, between community and time apart.

We are a group of seekers who genuinely want to worship God but in a new, yet ancient way.