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November 2017

From Eight Step Recovery - Using the Buddha's Teachings To Overcome Addiction on Tue, 19 Sep, 2017 - 07:00

November 2017

From Eight Step Recovery - Using the Buddha's Teachings To Overcome Addiction on Tue, 19 Sep, 2017 - 07:00

If you are in recovery - work in the field of recovery and want to know all about Mindfulness Approach to addiction come join me NOVEMBER 6TH - 8TH - Mindfulness Based Addiction Recovery Course.

I will be in Manchester the UK - hope to see some of you.

Dhammalata

Starting from where we're at ....

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 19 Sep, 2017 - 04:00

Starting from where we're at ....

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 19 Sep, 2017 - 04:00

Looking after our mind, taking responsibility for it …… it’s what meditation is about. And it needs some care, diligence and plenty of patience. And we need to start from where we’re at.

Meditation can be one of the conditions of our life that we can gradually take care of and nurture. We start from where we are and gradually apply ourselves to stillness, peace and a kind and friendly attitude.

Like a garden or a potted plant, it won’t...

Windhorse Publi...

Mindful Emotion Reviews Are Positive

From Windhorse Publications on Mon, 18 Sep, 2017 - 11:29

Mindful Emotion Reviews Are Positive

From Windhorse Publications on Mon, 18 Sep, 2017 - 11:29

Dr. Paramabandhu Groves has been busy touring UK and Ireland Triratna Buddhist Centres from Brighton to Glasgow to Dublin. He has been giving talks and leading meditations in kindness. Windhorse Publications published his book, co-authored with psychologist Dr. Jed Shamel, Mindful Emotion: A Short Course in Kindness in March this year. So far, reviews have been glowing.

Sarah Bargiela reports in the Journal of Mental Health:
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Centre Team

Great Faith, Great Wisdom, Day 6 - Rainy Season Retreat 2017 by Ratnaguna

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Sat, 16 Sep, 2017 - 15:23

All this week, Ratnaguna and the Bristol Triratna sangha have turned their urban Centre into a realm for exploration of Sukhavati, the Pure Land of Amitabha. Now on the last day of our retreat, we meet the Buddha. This is what the retreat has been building up to…

With readings from the Guan Jing and from the Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava.

Recorded as part of Ratnaguna’s retreat on Great Faith, Great Wisdom at Bristol Buddhist Centre, Sept 2017.

Talk 9: The Buddha Beyond the Buddha
Ratnaguna...

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Great Faith, Great Wisdom, Day 5 - Rainy Season Retreat 2017 by Ratnaguna

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Thu, 14 Sep, 2017 - 22:04

On the 5th day of the Rainy Season Retreat, Ratnaguna takes us into the world of the the Sutra on the Visualisation of the Buddha Amitayus, or Guan Jing. Some wonderful guided meditations, conversation, and another excellent talk await…

The Guan Jing or Sutra on the Visualisation of the Buddha Amitayus - Introduction and Reading, Queen Vaidehi’s Predicament Followed by a Visualisation of the Setting Sun
Ratnaguna starts the fifth day of the retreat with a brief introduction to the Guan...

akasajoti

Bodhicitta, Six Elements, and the Manjughosa Stuti Sadhana - Led Meditations OM

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 14 Sep, 2017 - 18:33

A selection of guided meditations from the recent Manjughosa Stuti Sadhana retreat at Adhisthana available on SoundCloud, led by Subhuti + Mahamati.

Find links to the audio + video recordings of the series of talks given by Subhuti, here.

Download this series of meditations (requires Order login on Free Buddhist Audio with the same account you use on The Buddhist Centre Online.)

Read more about Bodhicitta, Six Elements, and the Manjughosa Stuti Sadhana - Led Meditations

akasajoti

A Cloud of Worship: the Manjughosa Stuti Sadhana retreat at Adhisthana

From Adhisthana on Thu, 14 Sep, 2017 - 18:20

A Cloud of Worship: the Manjughosa Stuti Sadhana retreat at Adhisthana

From Adhisthana on Thu, 14 Sep, 2017 - 18:20

About 60 Order Members gathered at Adhisthana last week for a retreat on the Manjughosa Stuti Sadhana, spending each day moving through the system of practice and building up the Sadhana. Each afternoon in the Sangharakshita Library, before the image of Manjughosa that presides there, Subhuti gave a talk articulating six different aspects of the unfolding drama of the Sadhana, which correspond to the stages of the system of practice - Reverence, Solidarity, Wise Attention, The Illumined Image, Dwelling in Reality + Dedication.

It was...

akasajoti

A Cloud of Worship: the Manjughosa Stuti Sadhana retreat at Adhisthana

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 14 Sep, 2017 - 18:18

A Cloud of Worship: the Manjughosa Stuti Sadhana retreat at Adhisthana

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 14 Sep, 2017 - 18:18

It...

Centre Team

Great Faith, Great Wisdom, Day 4 - Rainy Season Retreat 2017 by Ratnaguna

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Wed, 13 Sep, 2017 - 20:20

Day 4 brings us a bumper crop of great Dharma exploration and evocation from Ratnaguna and friends in the Bristol sangha as they deepen into their retreat together.

Talk 6: The Sutra as a Practice of Annussati - Recollection of the Three Jewels
Ratnaguna introduces the practice of reading the longer Sukhavativuyha Sutra as a recollection of the Buddha, Dharma and arya-Sangha.

Reading from the Longer Sukhavativyuha Sutra - The Living Beings of the Buddhafield
Ratnaguna briefly recaps...

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Great Faith, Great Wisdom, Day 3 - Rainy Season Retreat 2017 by Ratnaguna

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Tue, 12 Sep, 2017 - 21:34

Two more recordings from Ratnaguna’s beautiful retreat, going on all week in Bristol, UK, with the Triratna community in the heart of the city. A great fifth talk, and a different approach from the first day’s visualisation to imagining Sukhavati, the great jewelled realm of Amitabha.

Talk 5: The Mystery of the Pure Land
This talk corrects some common misunderstandings about the Pure Land texts. The sutras are not to be read as philosophy but...

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