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Keeping The Dragons In Mind

From The Urban Retreat 2015 - November 21-28 on Sat, 28 Nov, 2015 - 02:28

Keeping The Dragons In Mind

From The Urban Retreat 2015 - November 21-28 on Sat, 28 Nov, 2015 - 02:28

This is a blog based on notes for a short talk I gave here on the New Hampshire Seacoast to help launch the Urban Retreat. It was supposed to be about internationality in our spiritual community and the conditions that support it. I hope, in the end, it was.

I’ve been working a lot of late. It’s an amazing privilege - one I’d do well to recall at every opportunity - to get to travel around the...
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Day 8: Transference of Merit and Self-Surrender (Text)

From The Urban Retreat 2015 - November 21-28 on Fri, 27 Nov, 2015 - 20:06

The verse “Transference of Merit and Self -Surrender” expresses the wish that the benefit that we have gained through the efforts of our practice may serve for the benefit of all beings, not just ourselves. It is the last verse of the Triratna Sevenfold Puja. 

Within Triratna, it is frequently recited at the end of a practice day, a meeting, or a retreat to conclude the event. You may wish to use it to dedicate you efforts for the wellbeing  of all every evening...
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Resignation of Dharmachari Uttama

From Order Connection on Fri, 27 Nov, 2015 - 15:08
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Resignation of Dharmachari Uttama

From Order Connection on Fri, 27 Nov, 2015 - 15:08

Dear Friends,

Dharmachari Uttama from Finland has informed us that he has decided to resign from the Order. As his Public Preceptor I have accepted his resignation. His resignation letter is provided below.

With metta,
Padmavajra

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Hello Saddhaloka,

Thank you for the mail, its good to hear from you. 

With this email, I Veli-Pekka Teromaa resign from Triratna Buddhist Order. 

I wish that the order continues to flourish and enables its members to deepen their practice for the sake of infinite sentient beings.

I would like to thank...
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Every offering a treat

From Leeds Buddhist Centre on Fri, 27 Nov, 2015 - 10:19

Every offering a treat

From Leeds Buddhist Centre on Fri, 27 Nov, 2015 - 10:19

Mandy Sutter takes the biscuit


Thinking about playfulness this week has cast some of my regular activities in a new light.
 
For instance, when I go out of the house and leave Fable (the dog) I always give her two biscuits. She likes Winalot Shapes. There are six different ones – a star, a flower, a house, a bone, a heart and a fish, all different colours.
 
Over the last few months I’ve started...
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Amoghasiddhi and Yashosagar On the Caste System In India

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Fri, 27 Nov, 2015 - 00:00
We have been very fortunate to have Amoghasiddhi and Yashosagar in Croydon as part of the Urban Retreat 2015. They talk about working with the Caste system in India and about the influence of Dr. Ambedkar on their lives and on their communities.
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L'énergie pour le bien

From Centre bouddhiste Triratna de Paris on Thu, 26 Nov, 2015 - 14:20

Aujourd’hui c’est Arthakusalin, à Gand en Belgique, qui nous offre des réflexions sur l’énergie pour le bien dans le contexte du plus grand mandala.
 

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lenergie_pour_le_bien_darthakusalin_transcription_en_francais.pdf67.03 KB
Conférence d'Arthakusalin sur l'énergie11.15 MB
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a million, billion, trillion thank you's

From Leeds Buddhist Centre on Wed, 25 Nov, 2015 - 18:21

a million, billion, trillion thank you's

From Leeds Buddhist Centre on Wed, 25 Nov, 2015 - 18:21

Undermining our desperate need to ‘fit-in’ 


At Saturday’s retreat, Uddoytani asked us to think of ways of introducing playfulness into our lives. We pinned suggestions on the walls for everyone to read and ultimately wrote them down on individual coloured paper ‘wheels of fortune’ that we’d made.

One suggestion was ‘give exaggerated thanks’.

Yesterday I enjoyed exaggeratedly thanking my partner Tim every time he made me a cup of tea. He laughed every time....
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Vigil in support of refugees, 11/24

From Aryaloka Engaged Buddhism on Wed, 25 Nov, 2015 - 17:32

Vigil in support of refugees, 11/24

From Aryaloka Engaged Buddhism on Wed, 25 Nov, 2015 - 17:32

At last night’s vigil in support of refugees, representatives of Seacoast faith communities (Jewish, UCC, Quaker, Buddhist) personally thanked Senator Shaheen for her opposition to the House bill which calls for halting admission to Syrian and Iraqi refugees. Sen Shaheen wasn’t there, but her staff member welcomed us warmly and posed for a photo.

There were about 20 people present at the Dover vigil. Other vigils took place in Nashua and Manchester.
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Alimentacion, Mindfulness Y Las Cuatro Nobles Verdades

From Centro Budista de Valencia on Wed, 25 Nov, 2015 - 00:00
Esta charla formó parte de un Taller de mindfulness y alimentación que se impartió en el Centro Budista de Coyoacán el 10 de noviembre de 2015. En ella se aborda cómo la alimentación es una fuente de sufrimiento y cómo las cuatro nobles verdades pueden ayudarnos en este área de práctica.
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Vision For a Divided World

From London Buddhist Centre on Wed, 25 Nov, 2015 - 00:00
All that is solid melts into air, all that is Dharma melts into friendship. Maitreyabandhu presents a fresh vision of the ideal of sangha - fellowship - with particular emphasis to the danger of individualism that is engulfing and atomising our modern world. From November 22nd 2015.
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