‘I find it difficult to say just when I decided that my future lay in the West and not, as I had hitherto supposed, in India. Perhaps it was not so much a question of a decision taken at a particular point in time as of a realization that dawned on me gradually, after I had been at the Hampstead Buddhist Vihara for a year or more... I saw with increasing clarity that for the present, at least, I could 'work for the good of Buddhism' more effectively in England than in India. By the time Terry and I Ieft for Greece, therefore, I had decided that I would be returning to India only to pay my friends and teachers there a farewell visit, and to explain to them what my plans were. I would be leaving in mid-September, and be away for four months. Terry would be accompanying me, and we would go by air.’

Sangharakshita, Moving Against the Stream, (CW23), p.325