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Vajra Bell - Autumn 2015

From Vajra Bell on Wed, 30 Sep, 2015 - 22:53
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The Vajra Bell Autumn 2015 issue is here!

The focus of this issue is: “Self-Compassion: Learning to Turn Lovingkindness Inwards”.

You can download and view the PDF version of this issue of Vajra Bell by clicking on the link at the bottom of this post.

In this issue:

  • “Lovingkindness Squared: Cultivating Self-Compassion” by Dh. Bodhipaksa
  • “Metta: A Gateway to Self-Compassion and Insight” by Dh. Vimalasara
  • “The Practice of Self-Compassion” by Dh. Varada
  • “A Life Lesson from Behind Prison Walls” by Susan DePietro
  • “Compassionate Presence” Retreat Review by Mike Mappes
  • Updates from the Spiritual Vitality Council and Board of Directors of Aryaloka
    • ...
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Amaragita - A Meditation On Our Three Bodies

From Buddhist Centre Features on Tue, 29 Sep, 2015 - 17:56

A helpful introduction from Amaragita to the subtler reaches of body-based awareness meditation, bringing in a sense of our physical, emotional and mental ‘bodies’ as the basis for deep relaxation and resting in our experience.

Led as part of the 2015 Mothers Retreat at Taraloka Retreat Centre.

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akashavana summer highlight

From Akashavana on Tue, 29 Sep, 2015 - 16:31
  • all of us
  • last dinner
  • outdoor paella
  • viveka explaining something
  • and...
  • sees the light!

akashavana summer highlight

From Akashavana on Tue, 29 Sep, 2015 - 16:31

It’s full on at Akasavana! This seems to be the theme for ’ the land of luminous space’.
The number of people living in the community has doubled, which is going amazingly well…Hooray! On top of that we came to the end of a very successful retreat with the biggest number of women to date. Late July twenty eight Dharmacharinis arrived by bus from Tortosa to take part in a three week long retreat with Viveka and Singhasri.
Of course,...
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Two Special things this week

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 29 Sep, 2015 - 12:58

Two Special things this week

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 29 Sep, 2015 - 12:58

Just want to let you know about two things coming up:

This Saturday night all are invited to our ‘Govinda’s at The Beach’

Saturday October 3rd    6.30 pm        BYO vegetarian tucker to share 

We’ll eat dinner together at the long table (by candlelight) before reclining on the cushions to watch ‘The Shift’ 

See the trailer link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZDvgSrtHsw

Then on the weekend of November 6 – 8 we have our Coogee Meditation Retreat at our retreat centre on the banks of the Georges River in Minto Heights 

I’m currently working...
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The Possibility Of Practice

From Buddhist Centre Features on Tue, 29 Sep, 2015 - 00:13

The Possibility Of Practice

From Buddhist Centre Features on Tue, 29 Sep, 2015 - 00:13

If a talk could ever be described as beautifully bracing, this is it! Amaragita brings a sharp-edged mind and a long-term perspective to the whole question of what practice is. 

As you might expect, she also brings humour, warmth and kindness too, qualities that more than balance out the penetrating clarity and sometimes challenging questioning underpinning this exploration of the possibility of practice - for all, and especially for those raising families at any stage of life.

Amaragita offers three principles for...
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Sitting Still in the Turning World - Online Meditation

From Online Meditators on Mon, 28 Sep, 2015 - 18:07

Sitting Still in the Turning World - Online Meditation

From Online Meditators on Mon, 28 Sep, 2015 - 18:07

As part of our five-week series (you don’t need to attend them all!) this week - Tuesday 29th September - we’ll be ‘just sitting’ still together - just trying to be with our experience, whatever that is, and respond with a deepened sense of nourishing awareness and kindness.

Come and join us - and make the most of a space for your heart and mind…

Tuesdays 2.30pm EST / 7.30pm UK

How to connect
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Your Support Needed! Click To Help Colchester Buddhists Go Solar...

From Community Highlights on Mon, 28 Sep, 2015 - 17:45

Your Support Needed! Click To Help Colchester Buddhists Go Solar...

From Community Highlights on Mon, 28 Sep, 2015 - 17:45

Hey, everyone! Can you help us with something very specific?

Our great friends in Colchester Buddhist Centre - who helped pioneer the Sustainable Buddhist Centre Scheme - just need about 200 of us to vote for them in their noble environmental quest to win funding for solar panels at their Buddhist Centre! There are 250 of us in this group alone…

It’s all based on most votes received and ends in two days on the 30th. Colchester were doing well and were in...
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European Buddhist Union calls for compassion for refugees

From Triratna News on Mon, 28 Sep, 2015 - 13:42
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European Buddhist Union calls for compassion for refugees

From Triratna News on Mon, 28 Sep, 2015 - 13:42

Last weekend I represented Triratna at the 40th Annual General Meeting of the European Buddhist Union. at the Rigpa Centre in Berlin.

At the particular request of Hungarian and Austrian Buddhists, a subgroup including me drafted a statement to be published in the name of the EBU: ‘A compassionate response to the European refugee crisis’.

“[We] call upon the governments and peoples of all European countries to show compassion and generosity to those displaced through war and seeking a refuge in Europe, safe from violence. 

“As...
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Dharmabyte: Unified, not Unisex

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 Sep, 2015 - 11:00

Today’s FBA Dharmabyte continues our series of podcasts on the Six Emphases of Triratna in a talk entitled “Unified, not Unisex”. From the talk “The Six Distinctive Emphases of the FWBO”, here Sangharakshita outlines the Triratna principle of open ordination to men and women on equal terms, and an Order that accepts those of all lifestyles, races, classes and sexual orientations – a quite revolutionary stance in the Buddhist world.

Talk given at Padmaloka...
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Buddhists On the Refugee Crisis

From Community Highlights on Sun, 27 Sep, 2015 - 16:41

I’ve been at the European Buddhist Union AGM conference in Berlin representing Triratna this weekend. You can follow our coverage on Instagram and Facebook.

Here I’m talking to Martin Schaurhofer (Austrian Buddhist Society) and Žarko Andrićević (Ch’an, Croatia) about the current refugee crisis - and a Buddhist response.

Here is the EBU’s public statement 

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