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'First Aid Kit For The Mind' Book Launch

From Windhorse Publications on Thu, 9 May, 2024 - 14:27

'First Aid Kit For The Mind' Book Launch

From Windhorse Publications on Thu, 9 May, 2024 - 14:27

Don’t miss our live book launch of First Aid Kit for the Mind on Zoom! Join us for an engaging session with Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason John in conversation with Candradasa, scheduled for 7 PM (UK) on May 15th. 

Other time zones: 11am USA PST | 2pm USA EST | 8pm Europe (CET) | 11:30pm India | 4am Australia (AEST) | 6am New Zealand (NZST)

Join us on Zoom⁠

This one-hour event promises a conversation...
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People of Colour Big Weekend at Adhisthana, UK

Fri, 19 Apr, 2024 - 18:01

People of Colour Big Weekend at Adhisthana, UK

Fri, 19 Apr, 2024 - 18:01

A unique opportunity to spend a long weekend surrounded by nature, meditating, relaxing and connecting with other people of colour. Chat to new and old friends over a cuppa or a walk in the Malvern hills, and with opportunities to go deeper in periods of silence.

The retreat is led by a wonderful team of experienced practitioners who will share their wisdom through talks, led-discussions and guided meditations, and this year will feature an exciting international guest speaker joining us from overseas.

People of...
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Munisha on the EBU Podcast

Sat, 13 Apr, 2024 - 16:32

Munisha on the EBU Podcast

Sat, 13 Apr, 2024 - 16:32

European Buddha is the podcast run by the European Buddhist Union (EBU), looking at current affairs and various aspects of the EBU’s work.

This month’s interviewee is Munisha, who lives in Sweden and runs Triratna’s Liaison office, responsible for Triratna’s relations and co-operation with other Buddhist groups, mainly in the UK and Europe. In this capacity she has worked with the EBU since 2012 and was elected to the EBU council as vice...
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A Slow Look at Hobbema's Dutch Landscape

Tue, 6 Feb, 2024 - 21:19

A Slow Look at Hobbema's Dutch Landscape

Tue, 6 Feb, 2024 - 21:19

Yashobodhi leads us in a mindful look at Hobbema’s ‘Avenue at Middelharnis’ for the UK National Gallery.

The composition of this painting was a powerful influence on later artists. It was admired by Van Gogh, who emulated its effects in several paintings after he first saw it in the National Gallery in 1884, and it probably also inspired Camille Pissarro’s ‘The Avenue, Sydenham’. David Hockney even made his own version in 2017, ‘Tall Dutch Trees...
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JOIN THE NEW LIFE WITH FULL ATTENTION COURSE ONLINE

Fri, 2 Feb, 2024 - 11:19

JOIN THE NEW LIFE WITH FULL ATTENTION COURSE ONLINE

Fri, 2 Feb, 2024 - 11:19

Using mindfulness as a tool we can learn to work with thoughts to become more creative and energetic, and better able to face life’s challenges.

Life with Full Attention is a practical course that puts mindfulness back into its Buddhist context. While considering the demands of modern life, the course guides us towards the limitless potential of our mind and reality itself.

For the first time, this course will be accompanied by a Life With Full Attention app that’s been specifically designed...
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Windhorse Publications turns 50

From Windhorse Publications on Thu, 25 Jan, 2024 - 12:30
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Windhorse Publications turns 50

From Windhorse Publications on Thu, 25 Jan, 2024 - 12:30

This year is going to be significant for Windhorse Publications. After 50 years in operation, we have a lot to celebrate!

Back in the 1970s, what is now Windhorse Publications started out as a scattering of right livelihood businesses including typesetters, printers, distributors and publishers. At first, its newsletters and journals were published under the name Friends of the Western Buddhist Order. It then became Windhorse Press in the early 1970s when it began publishing full length books, starting with The Essence...
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New book available for sponsorship: ‘First Aid Kit for the Mind’ by Vimalasara

From Windhorse Publications on Thu, 18 Jan, 2024 - 14:17

New book available for sponsorship: ‘First Aid Kit for the Mind’ by Vimalasara

From Windhorse Publications on Thu, 18 Jan, 2024 - 14:17

We would like to introduce you, and invite you to sponsor, the forthcoming book First Aid Kit for the Mind: Breaking the Cycle of Habitual Behaviors by Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John.

Do you struggle with how to respond to being triggered, or with painful habits that you just can’t shift? Help is at hand. Due to be published this May, this illustrated pocketbook will help give you courage to take your life back into your own hands. 

An award-winning author and speaker,...
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Dharmbytes: Our Inner World

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 8 Jan, 2024 - 11:00

Vajrapriya takes the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path - rebranding it as the Meaningful Eightfold Path - and considers how its eight areas contribute to a meaningful life, and how following it eventually eliminates the whole problem of meaninglessness.

Excerpted from the talk entitled Living a Meaningful Life, part of the series Reality and what to do about it given at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2010.

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FBA Podcast: Four Noble Truths - Satipatthana Sutta

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 6 Jan, 2024 - 11:00

Vajradevi ends a series of talks on the Satipatthana Sutta, looking at the Four Noble Truths, and focusing on the first two. Talk given at Shrewsbury Triratna Buddhist Centre, 2018.

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