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An Invitation

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Wed, 20 Jan, 2016 - 02:54

An Invitation

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Wed, 20 Jan, 2016 - 02:54

Dear Coogee Meditators


In ad dition to the regular meditations we offer we also have bi-weekly Dharma study. It follows on after the Sunday morning sit and it runs from 9 until 10.30 am


If you want to learn more about Buddhist teachings you are very welcome to join. We do ask that you commit to each series and we are about to commence a new one based on the book above (more information and link to a film clip...
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Buddhafield 2016!

From Community Highlights on Tue, 19 Jan, 2016 - 18:15

Buddhafield 2016!

From Community Highlights on Tue, 19 Jan, 2016 - 18:15

Satydarshin over at Buddhafield has provided this most excellent graphic overview of the events planned so far in 2016.

Download and keep! 

Further information 
www.buddhafield.com/festival
www.buddhafield.com/gea
www.buddhafield.com/retreats
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Earth Metta – A Buddhist Response to Environmental Issues (March 18-20, 2016)

From Earth Metta Sangha on Mon, 18 Jan, 2016 - 22:58

Earth Metta – A Buddhist Response to Environmental Issues (March 18-20, 2016)

From Earth Metta Sangha on Mon, 18 Jan, 2016 - 22:58

Earth Metta – A Buddhist Response to Environmental Issues

With Sahajatara & Amalaketu

March 18 - 20 | £155/135

”The gift you carry for others, is not an attempt to save the world but to fully belong to it. It is not possible to save the world by trying to save it. You need to find what is genuinely yours to offer to the world, before you make it a better place.” - Bill Plotkin

Although at the time of the Buddha there were none of the...
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Sitting Deeply, Being At Ease...

From Online Meditators on Mon, 18 Jan, 2016 - 20:36

Sitting Deeply, Being At Ease...

From Online Meditators on Mon, 18 Jan, 2016 - 20:36

It’s harder than it sounds, right? :) And yet we know it’s possible, every day… We might sit more deeply in our experience, we might move towards a greater sense of ease with how we carry ourselves through the world. 

Over the next weeks we’ll be continuing our collective practice of simply sitting together, being with each other in meditation around the world, bearing each other in mind and in heart. 

Come and sit with...
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The Complete Works Retreat Podcast

From Buddhist Centre Features on Mon, 18 Jan, 2016 - 19:43

Satyalila reporting from an inspiring retreat at Adhisthana in the UK for a group of volunteers who came together to help Vidyadevi and Kalyanaprabha with editorial work on the first two of the twenty-seven volumes that will make up the entire Complete Works of Sangharakshita. And to to collectively dedicate their efforts - spiritual and practical. 

We hear about some of what’s involved - from the intricacies of critical diacritics in Pali and Sanskrit terms, to the considerable detective...
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Bed and Breakfast Retreat in Nottingham

From Clear Vision Trust on Mon, 18 Jan, 2016 - 16:30

Bed and Breakfast Retreat in Nottingham

From Clear Vision Trust on Mon, 18 Jan, 2016 - 16:30

In November 2015, Nottingham Buddhist Centre hosted its 5th B&B retreat, with sangha members opening up their homes to friends and strangers from other Triratna sanghas. 

Centre Chair Arthabandhu tells us how the event is growing year upon year!
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Dublin Young Buddhists - the Culmination of Metta

From Triratna Young Buddhists on Mon, 18 Jan, 2016 - 15:17

Dublin Young Buddhists - the Culmination of Metta

From Triratna Young Buddhists on Mon, 18 Jan, 2016 - 15:17

Friday 22nd January, 7.30pm Dublin Buddhist Centre

This month the Young Buddhist Group will continue with exploring the great Pali text of the Karaniya Metta Sutta - the Buddha’s teaching on Metta. This month we will focus on the culmination of metta, looking at Metta’s boundless and limitless nature.

There will be an opportunity to meditate, hear some Dharma, discuss your thoughts, chats, drink tea and most importantly, to develop friendliness and friendship.

All levels of experience welcome.

For ages 35 and under.
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From Buddhist economics to a new Dharma politics

From Western Buddhist Review on Fri, 15 Jan, 2016 - 10:59

From Buddhist economics to a new Dharma politics

From Western Buddhist Review on Fri, 15 Jan, 2016 - 10:59

The following is an important and original combination of a review of Vaddhaka’s book The Buddha on Wall Street, and an article exploring some political implications of Vaddhaka’s Buddhist critique of neo-liberal capitalism.

A review-article of Vaddhaka Linn, The Buddha on Wall Street, Windhorse Publications, Cambridge, 2015

by Manjusiha

Bryan Magee, in Confessions of a Philosopher, says, of Schopenhauer and Hegel, ‘I do not think anything in the whole history of philosophy compares with this invective by one now world-famous philosopher against another’ (1998, p.466). The feud between philosophers...
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Triratna Young Buddhist Calendar 2016

From Triratna Young Buddhists on Thu, 14 Jan, 2016 - 16:58

Triratna Young Buddhist Calendar 2016

From Triratna Young Buddhists on Thu, 14 Jan, 2016 - 16:58

Loads happening this year with young Buddhists in UK and Europe - #Roadtrip!

Young Order Leadership Training Weekend 22nd-24th of January at Adhisthana, UK

youngtriratna [at] gmail.com (Young Facilitators’ Training Weekend) 26-8th of February at Adhisthana, UK

Generosity Unleashed Young Buddhists Retreat 25-8th of March at Metta Vihara, Netherlands

Awakening the King Young Men’s Retreat 15th-22nd of April at Padmaloka, UK

“Find the Truth, and then live by it” Young...
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I want a magic bullet!

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Wed, 13 Jan, 2016 - 07:23

I want a magic bullet!

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Wed, 13 Jan, 2016 - 07:23

I often, like really often, catch myself wanting life’s challenges sorted out in my time and on my terms. 

Practice is slowly teaching me that this is unhelpful, wishful thinking and a better strategy is just to sit with life’s complexity and conundrums and let common sense and reality gradually emerge. 

I also learn that sometimes there is no outcome that will sit in the middle of the way I’d like it to be and that’s okay; perhaps even better!

Meditation helps me to work patiently...

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