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Letter from the Chair of the College – February 2025

From College of Public Preceptors on Sat, 1 Feb, 2025 - 00:00

Letter from the Chair of the College – February 2025

From College of Public Preceptors on Sat, 1 Feb, 2025 - 00:00

Dear Order members and friends,

In 1949, when visiting Bodhgaya for the first time, Sangharakshita wrote a poem called ‘The Birthplace of Compassion’. Now, seventy-five years later, on the centenary of his birth, I send this letter from this very place, where around 800 members of the Order that Sangharakshita went on to found, are gathered for an International Order Convention.

Here, where the Goatherd’s banyan-tree
O’ershadowed, was, to world forlorn,
The first child of Enlightenment,
Compassion,...
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Suddhayu

Living Creatively in the World As It Is — a series of practice days exploring the Buddha’s ennobling truths, for women*

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Tue, 28 Jan, 2025 - 16:47

Living Creatively in the World As It Is — a series of practice days exploring the Buddha’s ennobling truths, for women*

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Tue, 28 Jan, 2025 - 16:47

The Buddha’s core insight into the conditioned nature of existence is most famously expressed in his teaching of the Four Noble Truths. These are not  abstract beliefs to be adhered to religiously. Rather they are observations grounded in direct experience and intended to inspire and guide us in exploring how to live wholeheartedly and even joyfully in the complicated context that is human society. In this sense, we can think of them as “ennobling truths” — an alternative translation of...
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Maitriyogini

Stories of Sangharakshita

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Sat, 18 Jan, 2025 - 11:00

Stories of Sangharakshita

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Sat, 18 Jan, 2025 - 11:00

Padmavajra shares some key moments with Sangharakshita from his long life in the order touching on some important lessons that still have relevance for him today.
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maitripushpa

Weekend retreat with WLBC at Vajrasana

From West London Buddhist Centre on Sat, 11 Jan, 2025 - 16:40

Weekend retreat with WLBC at Vajrasana

From West London Buddhist Centre on Sat, 11 Jan, 2025 - 16:40

Become more alive and less toxic, more whole and less fragmented.  Retreats allow us to take a break from our regular routine and create more space in both our inner and outer lives. Spending time in the countryside, we can connect with nature and enjoy the positive conditions that arise as we come together as a community, practising together, sharing meals, sharing talks and sharing walks with others on the retreat.

Come to enjoy the budding of spring in the Suffolk surroundings...
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maitripushpa

Paramananda Meditation Day Retreats, Sundays 10.30am-1.30pm

From West London Buddhist Centre on Sat, 11 Jan, 2025 - 16:26

Paramananda Meditation Day Retreats, Sundays 10.30am-1.30pm

From West London Buddhist Centre on Sat, 11 Jan, 2025 - 16:26

A precious opportunity to spend meditating with others and exploring what comes up. Paramananda is a practitioner of great depth, breadth and a sense of humour and down-to-earthness that helps us to have the courage to just be. You never now what path he will invite you to journey on!

He is generously running six sessions throughout this year. Mark them in your calendar and book them here now.

26th January, 16th March, 27th April, 29th June, 12th October, 16th November
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maitripushpa

Breathworks Mindfulness for Stress 8-week course

From West London Buddhist Centre on Sat, 11 Jan, 2025 - 16:06

Breathworks Mindfulness for Stress 8-week course

From West London Buddhist Centre on Sat, 11 Jan, 2025 - 16:06

Gain the skills to reduce your stress and anxiety for a calmer, brighter life.

This course runs over eight Thursdays, 23rd January to 20th March 7.00-9.30pm (no session 13th February) at the West London Buddhist Centre.

The Breathwork’s Mindfulness for Stress course has been running for decades and helped thousands of people to reduce stress and to increase the quality of their lives.

During the course you will learn mindfulness skills to cope with and reduce your stress and anxiety. You will gain tools...
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Sadhana Convention (2024) OM

From Adhisthana on Fri, 10 Jan, 2025 - 11:34

Link: Sadhana Convention (2024)

Password: yidam24

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With talks from Prakasha and different led Sadhana practices and devotion each day, a retreat to refresh and deepen your inspiration for sadhana and yidam practice.

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This online retreat resource is Order-only. Please do not share the link or password outside the Order.

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LIFE with full ATTENTION

From Frome Triratna Group on Tue, 7 Jan, 2025 - 17:43

  • Mindfulness Course

    Mindfulness Course

LIFE with full ATTENTION

From Frome Triratna Group on Tue, 7 Jan, 2025 - 17:43

A New Year a New You?

We start with good intentions but to keep them up we usually need some help.
Mindfulness helps us work with our thoughts, be more creative, energetic and better able to face life’s challenges.

It is a meditation course based on Buddhist principals, designed for both practice on the cushion and life out in the world. 
Suitable for those new to meditation and those with some experience wishing to more fully establish their practice.

More information and booking.
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Suddhayu

Finding Your Roots in Buddhist Community

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 30 Dec, 2024 - 21:30

  • PBC Winter 2025

    PBC Winter 2025

Finding Your Roots in Buddhist Community

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 30 Dec, 2024 - 21:30

When we begin practicing Buddhism, it may not be immediately clear how one develops connection in the sangha (sangha = spiritual community). And yet, participation in community is a central emphasis in Buddhist teaching.  Since the very beginning, becoming a Buddhist has been framed as “going for refuge to the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha,” or more broadly, to the possibility of Enlightenment, the Path to get there, and the community of those making the effort to walk the...
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The Yogi's Joy (2024) OM

From Adhisthana on Sun, 22 Dec, 2024 - 16:29

Link: The Yogi’s Joy (2024)

Password: milarepa

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Milarepa’s songs can nourish us with fresh inspiration, open our hearts, and guide us into the nature of mind to find our freedom. During this retreat, Vessantara explored some of the songs from the chapter The Song of a Yogi’s Joy.* He focused particularly on the instructions about meditation and insight, including Milarepa’s teaching about ‘The Nails (or Key-Points) of View, Meditation and Conduct’.

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This online retreat...

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