Break out - intro course Mondays 3rd August to 7th September, 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Peace House, 19 Paradise St, Oxford, OX11LD
Suggested donation £30-60
Looking to overcome your limitations? Want to live more creatively? This six-week course introduces the core teachings of the Buddha and how we can use them to free up our energy, our imaginations, and our lives. The course will involve instruction in developing mindfulness and deep positive emotion through meditation, as well as investigating some of the key principles...
Here is a file of the responses to the commonality paper last year. All the responses are included here, except those that only appeared in Shabda and one or two who asked for their response not to be included.
We are posting it for the sake of transparency so you can read what else was said. We haven’t tidied them up and they are not in any order, plus the format and length vary considerably, and they are a mix of...
There really are so many paths we can take and ways we can respond. Meditation doesn’t take away these challenges but it does provide a more calm, quiet space in which to reflect on them and gestate kind and creative options that take all involved into consideration.
Meditation makes us less habitual and more creative.
VIDEO: “The Growth Fetish”; an exploration of the effects of growth on nature and the environment by Vaddhaka, author of The Buddha on Wall Street and Chairman of the Tallin Centre in Estonia gives a talk during BAM 2015.
Triratna is placing greater emphasis on introducing the system of spiritual practice at all levels. Here are some thoughts and suggestions on how to bring spiritual death into our lives on a day to day basis.
Drawing on two stories from the pali canon, a decisive moment in our engagement with buddhism is when we realise it is not just what we get but also what we can give. A short talk exploring that theme, originally given to a male audience.
Training our minds is not just what happens on the cushion. Where and how can we make a difference to our experience? In this short talk we hear about the, potentially, quick win of transforming envy into appreciation.
