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Taking Responsibility for Our Mental States (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Tue, 30 Dec, 2025 - 11:08

An alive and dynamic spiritual community is vital to the individual flourishing of those that participate in it. In this keynote talk Paramabandhu gives his reflections on over 30 years of practising within the LBC Sangha. Excerpted from the talk As Fire Tests Gold given at London Buddhist Centre, 2021.

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Living in the Present (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 29 Dec, 2025 - 11:24

A thoughtful, sympathetic talk by Srivati on the most delicate of tasks in any life - how to live in the present moment. Exploring the subtle aspects of past and present, of memory and expectation, we encounter impermanence as the touchstone of our experience through storytelling (Bahiya of the Bark Garment) and the practice of writing - especially poetry. A lovely set of challenges to become ‘citizens of the present’ and inhabit properly our own potential for...

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Think Deeply, Stand Up and Celebrate (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 29 Dec, 2025 - 11:14

In this talk, given at a sangha retreat for the Oslo Sangha, Gunaketu gives an inspiring talk about creating spiritual community. He starts with the end in mind: Becoming our best self. Exploring and cultivating this is a prerequisite for becoming a true individual and creating a spiritual community. From the talk entitled The Meaning of Spiritual Community, 2025.

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Sunday gatherings — Sailing the Worldly Winds: A Buddhist Path through the Ups and Downs of Life

By Suddhayu on Sat, 27 Dec, 2025 - 18:05

Sunday gatherings — Sailing the Worldly Winds: A Buddhist Path through the Ups and Downs of Life

By Suddhayu on Sat, 27 Dec, 2025 - 18:05

The title for our upcoming program comes from the book by Triratna Order member Vajragupta, Sailing the Worldly Winds: A Buddhist Path through the Ups and Downs of Life* (Windhorse Publications, 2011). With Vajragupta’s guidance, we’ll be building on the Buddha’s teaching on how to become less reactive to “worldly conditions” that buffet us day in and day out — gain and loss, praise and blame, fame and infamy, pleasure and pain. Following his inspiring metaphor of sailing with the...

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Subduing the Demons and Building the Monastery (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 27 Dec, 2025 - 11:00

In this talk, Dharmasara relates the story of how Padmasambhava subdued the demons of Tibet to build Samye monastery. The monastery works as a symbol for a flourishing spiritual community which is not affected by the destructive forces in the world but instead puts them to the service of the Dharma. To subdue our own gods and demons, we have to become true individuals, and true individuals are what constitute the spiritual community. This talk was given...

Akashavana

December at Akashavana

By Padmasakhi on Thu, 25 Dec, 2025 - 14:05

December at Akashavana

By Padmasakhi on Thu, 25 Dec, 2025 - 14:05

December and the whole community are finally all back together after travelling in various directions over the past few weeks. Things are beginning to stir around the Mas de Flara front as we begin to explore what will be the best use of this beautiful farmhouse sitting between the current community house and the retreat centre. It will be exciting to see what the next phase of Akashavana will offer. Watch this space!

Solstice saw us making our way in the semi...

Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center

Mix Mitra retreat - Dec 25

By Saddhammapradip on Wed, 24 Dec, 2025 - 16:23

Mix Mitra retreat - Dec 25

By Saddhammapradip on Wed, 24 Dec, 2025 - 16:23

Mix Mitra Retreat led by Prajnaditya on Ideal of Human Enlightenment.

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Women Mitra Retreat - Nov 25

By Saddhammapradip on Wed, 24 Dec, 2025 - 15:46

Women Mitra Retreat - Nov 25

By Saddhammapradip on Wed, 24 Dec, 2025 - 15:46

Women Mitra Retreat led by Dhni Tarahridya supported by Akashgita and others.

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Dhyāna and Insight with Tejananda

By Dayaketu on Tue, 23 Dec, 2025 - 02:18

Dhyāna and Insight with Tejananda

By Dayaketu on Tue, 23 Dec, 2025 - 02:18

🧘☸️ Join us exploring the depth of calm and clarity

On this retreat, I will be offering embodied approaches to dhyāna (jhāna) that people have found to be helpful and effective. This may well involve questioning both our own views and approaches, as well as some of what the tradition has to say about dhyāna.

Dhyāna is far more than samatha, or mental calm. Recognising the liberative potential of the first dhyāna was the key to the Buddha’s own awakening and he...