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Singhashri — Fri, 27 Mar, 2020 - 17:00

Great to see such a huge response! Please can you add the North London Buddhist Centre to the list?

Centre Team — Fri, 27 Mar, 2020 - 17:21

Yes, no problem Singhashri - just send on the details to the above email and we’ll get them online.

aparajita — Fri, 27 Mar, 2020 - 23:19

When I look at the NLBC website I see no obvious mention of any online activities - that’s why it hasn’t been included so far.

Munisha — Mon, 30 Mar, 2020 - 09:19

Hello from Stockholm!

Here in Sweden things are rather different: there’s no lockdown and the Stockholm Centre is still open but almost nobody is going there and we’re doing everything online even if also doing it at the Centre. Just two people attended Dharma night last Monday but 31 came on Zoom and some of them were taking part from far away places. Now, normally there are just about 12 locals present in person, so clearly there is much to gain from this new approach.

Sadhu to everyone being so creative and generous to others. May the world be as well and happy as possible in this terrible situation. May all of us, Friends, Mitras and Order members, breathe in and breathe out with metta for all suffering beings.

Metta,
Munisha

Mahabodhi — Tue, 31 Mar, 2020 - 15:51

Could I plug my daily meditations on Facebook Live here? I am currently leading a session involving a theme, bodywork and a meditation for around an hour at 7.30 UK time every morning. I intend to lead these sessions for the foreseeable future. Today I added in meditations (sitting together, bells only) at 12.30pm and 5.30pm, and may add more in future. It is going well, currently I’m up to around 4000 views on Facebook.

Today was Day 15. Each week has a theme. In the first week it was about getting started; with various kinds of bodywork and our tradition meditations. Last week I went into the Five Buddha Mandala, and the verses that refer to ‘the Bardo’s Dangerous Pathway.’ This week I am going into the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, beginning today with ‘Contemplation of the Body.

To join in the sessions live you just need to access my Facebook page here

https://www.facebook.com/mahabodhi.burton.33

The sessions should stay there indefinitely (I hope). Or if you do not do Facebook you can access them on my YouTube channel at

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvmXLZ9eXjnqjaYLrzdxE-Q?fbclid=IwAR0nZk…

With metta

Mahabodhi

Please pass this information on to others in Triratna.

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Amalavajra — Fri, 3 Apr, 2020 - 16:19

Four areas that the FutureDharma team and donors are helping with:

1. Hiring Kusaladevi to support centre fundraising

2. Coordinating the Triratna Money Group together with Windhorse Trust. Chairs are especially interested in Danayutta’s cash flow model to help them figure out if under different scenarios they would fall into the red or not.

3. 100% Funding Sikkha to share best practice in online Dharma teaching.

4. £60,000 this year to The Buddhist Centre Online