Can ritual help us put the conditions in place through which bodhicitta may arise? In this week’s FBA PodcastUsing Ritual to Cultivate Bodhicitta Vijayasri explores our reactions to the idea of ritual and how rituals can become meaningless. We then look at the concept of ritual as “entering into a realm of the imagination where we encounter Buddhas and Bodhisattvas”.
This talk was given at the Croydon Buddhist Centre in April...
Help Windhorse Publications market and sell life-changing books in 2019
Windhorse Publications is looking for an Order member or someone in the Triratna ordination process for the position of Communications Coordinator. The Coordinator develops digital and print marketing campaigns so as to increase sales of Windhorse books on the website, and develops publicity campaigns, specifically with online and social media contacts, Triratna centre bookshops, the general press, Buddhist press, and the book trade.
3 or 4 days per week, negotiable and dependent on experience. ...
Help Windhorse Publications market and sell life-changing books in 2019
Windhorse Publications is looking for an Order member or someone in the Triratna ordination process for the position of Communications Coordinator. The Coordinator develops digital and print marketing campaigns so as to increase sales of Windhorse books on the website, and develops publicity campaigns, specifically with online and social media contacts, Triratna centre bookshops, the general press, Buddhist press, and the book trade.
3 or 4 days per week, negotiable and dependent on experience. ...
Today’s FBA Dharmabyte is a full description of The Sevenfold Puja. From the talk entitled Poetry and Devotion in Buddhism: the Sevenfold Puja by Sangarakshita. The central problem of spiritual life is the mobilisation of our emotional energies, so that what we know can be put into practice. Energies may be blocked, wasted or too coarse, and the Buddhist puja takes us through a series of devotional moods to help liberate them. ...
We wanted to write to give you some more information about the process leading to our recent notice of Suvajra’s suspension – and to apologise sincerely for the way in which we communicated this news. We recognise that we could have done better with our initial email and post here on The Buddhist Centre Online, and we ask forgiveness of anyone who has been distressed by hearing such an upsetting piece of news in this way.
What does an effective Buddhist practice look like as a parent amidst a family household life? How do we keep alive our values and bring them to the joys and challenges of parenting? In this talk Amaladhi gives us an inside view of life as an Order Member and parent of her young and energetic son, discussing how she engages with parenting as a practice. Whether you are a parent or not she offers a thought provoking exploration of the...
