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Healing and Insight: Buddhist Health and Wellness

From Triratna News on Tue, 29 Dec, 2015 - 16:05

Healing and Insight: Buddhist Health and Wellness

From Triratna News on Tue, 29 Dec, 2015 - 16:05

Originating in North America, Buddhist Recovery programmes have spread like wildfire over the past ten years. Noah Levine has created Refuge Recovery, Kevin Griffin has connected 12 Steps to the Dharma, and there are many other Buddhist Recovery variations out there. In Triratna we now have Eight Step Recovery (ESR) - Using The Buddha’s Teaching to Overcome Addiction, an initiative spearheaded by two Triratna Order Members, Dr. Paramabandhu Groves and Vimalasara (featured in this video).

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Rijupatha

Twelve Days of FBA - Day 4

From Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 29 Dec, 2015 - 11:00

Our treat for you on the Fourth Day of FBA is a playlist of spectacular mantras from the Free Buddhist Audio archives. The first track is an introduction by Sangharakshita on the meaning of mantras and their purpose in Buddhist practice. We hope you enjoy today’s gift!

Please make your donation today to support Free Buddhist Audio in 2016

As part of each day’s offering we’ve been asking you to consider making a generous one-time contribution or ongoing pledge...

Vimalasara

Healing and Insight

From Eight Step Recovery - Using the Buddha's Teachings To Overcome Addiction on Tue, 29 Dec, 2015 - 05:40

Healing and Insight

From Eight Step Recovery - Using the Buddha's Teachings To Overcome Addiction on Tue, 29 Dec, 2015 - 05:40

www.WorldwideInsight.org is pleased to announce the launch of its online channel, Healing & Insight: Buddhist Health and Wellness dharma teachings. Every Saturday beginning January 2nd, 11am Pacific time, 7pm Greenwich Mean time.

Free sign up and more information:

Worldwide Insight has offered an interactive live weekly Sunday dharma session, taught by renowned meditation teachers over the internet, for nearly a year now with great success. With nearly 5,000 people signed up from 70 countries and a growing weekly sangha...

Vimalasara

Buddhist Health and Wellness

From Eight Step Recovery - Using the Buddha's Teachings To Overcome Addiction on Tue, 29 Dec, 2015 - 05:30

Buddhist Health and Wellness

From Eight Step Recovery - Using the Buddha's Teachings To Overcome Addiction on Tue, 29 Dec, 2015 - 05:30

At the heart of Buddhist Recovery is ethics, placing positive values at the centre of our lives, awareness and kindness.
Launching Saturday January 2nd
Buddhist Health and Wellness - Healing and Insight.

11am Pacific Time

7pm Greenwich mean time

viriyalila

Vitality and Meaning: Practicing Dharma in the Modern World

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 28 Dec, 2015 - 22:07

Vitality and Meaning: Practicing Dharma in the Modern World

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 28 Dec, 2015 - 22:07

Vitality and Meaning: Practicing Dharma in the Modern World

Monday Nights at the Portsmouth Buddhist Center

In this series of engaging discussions, we’ll explore the practice of Buddhist ethics, meditation, and wisdom in relation to various aspects of modern life. How do our modern conditions compare with those at the time of the Buddha, 2500 years ago? How do the principles of Buddhist teaching apply to the particulars of modern life? How can we transform our lives to fully embody our highest ideals?

Feel free to...

viriyalila

Friends' Sunday Gatherings

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 28 Dec, 2015 - 22:04

Friends' Sunday Gatherings

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 28 Dec, 2015 - 22:04

All are welcome to our weekly Sunday gathering! Meditation starts at 10 am - simple instruction is given for beginners. After the sit, there is a tea break followed by an activity as listed below. Feel free to just come for the meditation, or the whole program. Offered by donation.

Jan 3: an introduction to the tiratna vandana (an ancient Buddhist chant)
Jan 10th: sutra discussion
Jan 17th: meditation discussion
Jan 24th: social tea...

viriyalila

Recovery Fridays

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 28 Dec, 2015 - 21:34

Recovery Fridays

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 28 Dec, 2015 - 21:34

All in the process of recovery from addiction are welcome to join us for ‘Recovery Friday’ evening, 7-9 pm. We will explore and practice the Buddha’s teachings to help overcome addictions. Offered for anyone dealing with addiction issues. This is not a substitute for any other program or therapy. This will be a safe, confidential, non judgmental space for us to learn about Buddhist teachings and meditation techniques that can provide an alternate view to recovery from addictions of all...

viriyalila

Darkness and Light: A Day Retreat

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 28 Dec, 2015 - 21:22

Darkness and Light: A Day Retreat

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 28 Dec, 2015 - 21:22

Darkness and Light: A Day Retreat - February 6, 10 to 4 pm

On this day retreat we will explore the realms of craving and desire. Through meditation, reflection and discussion we will draw out what these experiences mean to us and how they impact our lives and those around us.

The Buddhist Path offers practical and profound teachings that can help us see the truth of our human predicament and allow us to disentangle ourselves from the cycle of craving. In this workshop,...

viriyalila

Exploring Buddhism and Creativity: Development of Loving-kindness through Creative Endeavors

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 28 Dec, 2015 - 21:03

Exploring Buddhism and Creativity: Development of Loving-kindness through Creative Endeavors

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 28 Dec, 2015 - 21:03

Exploring Buddhism and Creativity: Development of Loving-kindness through Creative Endeavors

Day Retreat: Saturday, January 30th, 2016 9 am -4 pm

Have you ever created something and felt a connection to the people and world around you, a sense of generosity, and an experience of “being in the creative flow”? Answered yes or even no but still interested?

We are offering a unique opportunity to directly learn the connection between creativity and spiritual practice. In this exciting, perhaps even life-changing, workshop come explore your creative/spiritual self and...

viriyalila

Introduction to Meditation: Mindfulness

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 28 Dec, 2015 - 20:43

Introduction to Meditation: Mindfulness

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 28 Dec, 2015 - 20:43

Our next Introduction to Meditation will be on January 16, 10-1 pm. Come learn a foundational mindfulness meditation practice that you can build on and deepen for years to come. Offered by donation, $40-20. All are welcome!

portsmouth [at] thebuddhistcenter.com (subject: Intro%20to%20Meditation%20-%20January%2016%2C%202016) (Contact us for more information) | Register here

Learning this meditation may lead to:
~ a calmer, more focused mind
~ deeper levels of relaxation
~ greater discipline in...

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