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Recovery Day Retreat: Finding Freedom

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Wed, 25 Mar, 2015 - 12:12

Recovery Day Retreat: Finding Freedom

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Wed, 25 Mar, 2015 - 12:12

Saturday, April 25th | 10am – 4pm

Come explore recovery from addictions through the lens of Buddhist teachings and practices. This day will be dedicated to meditation, discussion and friendship and is not meant as a substitute for any existing program or therapy of recovery and is open to anyone dealing with addictions in all it’s forms. A vegetarian meal will be offered and the cost of the day is based on donations. Facilitated by Narottama and friends.

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Day 6: A Puja To Ratnasambhava

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Tue, 24 Mar, 2015 - 22:46

Rounding off day 6 of Living In The Mandala we have another puja that steers to the deep when it comes to evoking the guardian Buddha of the moment, in this case Ratnasambhava - the Jewel-Born, archetypal Buddha of abundance, spiritual riches and the South…

Complete with flute-accompanied mantra!

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A Workshop On Patience

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Tue, 24 Mar, 2015 - 15:35

A Workshop On Patience

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Tue, 24 Mar, 2015 - 15:35

Come and join me at Aryaloka this Saturday, 9am-1pm, to explore Shantideva’s famous work, the Bodhicaryavatara - and specifically the chapter on patience (kshanti)… We’ll be using our voices as well as our minds to try and bring to life these wonderful, subtle verses that carry much for any contemporary Dharma farer to dwell upon…

Patient endurance is the best way to make things good… (The Buddha, ‘Dhammapada’)

A chance to cultivate the heart of patience this weekend!

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Ancient Wisdom Series - The Bodhicaryavatara: Cultivating the Heart of Patience

From Aryaloka Buddhist Center on Tue, 24 Mar, 2015 - 15:30

Come and join us this Saturday, 9am-1pm, to explore Shantideva’s famous work, the Bodhicaryavatara - and specifically the chapter on patience (kshanti)… We’ll be using our voices as well as our minds to try and bring to life these wonderful, subtle verses that carry much for any contemporary Dharma farer to dwell upon…

Patient endurance is the best way to make things good…

The Buddha, ‘Dhammapada’

Come and cultivate the heart of patience this weekend!

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Control

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 24 Mar, 2015 - 00:21

Control

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 24 Mar, 2015 - 00:21

Likewise, I am unable to restrain external phenomena, but I shall restrain my own mind. What need is there to restrain anything els

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Just as, to protect our feet, we cannot cover the world in leather but...

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Dharmabyte: Two Routes to Samatha

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 23 Mar, 2015 - 23:00

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In today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “Two Routes to Samatha”, Viveka describes the many mindfulness practices and two routes to samatha. From the talk “Mindfulness as Sadhana” given at the Triratna Buddhist Order Convention 2005.

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FBA Podcast: Adventures In the Pure Land – Beauty

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 23 Mar, 2015 - 22:39

FBA Podcast: Adventures In the Pure Land – Beauty

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 23 Mar, 2015 - 22:39

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The Pure Land Sutras are described as practices, not texts to be read and understood, but rather engaged with as if a piece of music, inviting us to awaken our imagination. Ratnaguna gives us a in depth look at the beauty in the Sukhavati Sutras in this week’s FBA Podcast: “Adventures In the Pure Land – Beauty.” This is...

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Tuesday Meditation - March 24th 2015

From Online Meditators on Mon, 23 Mar, 2015 - 21:42

Tuesday Meditation - March 24th 2015

From Online Meditators on Mon, 23 Mar, 2015 - 21:42

Rounding off our coverage of the Urban Retreat led by Ratnavandana on the Living In The Mandala - The Brahma Viharas, we’ll be revisiting this important suite of practices again this week. Meditation will be facilitated by Rijupatha.

Come and join us for a different kind of space in your day and in your heart…

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Day 6: A Personal Take On Upekkha

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Mon, 23 Mar, 2015 - 21:27

Continuing the series of personal talks on each of the Brahma Viharas from the 2015 Rainy Season Retreat, Ratnavandana shares an intensely honest, psychologically intimate, beautifully forensic history of her personal relationship to the practice of upekkha (equanimity) throughout her spiritual life. We hear about ways to assess what’s going on in the subtler realms of our experience - and how to look to move beyond them so we too can live like a river…

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Mind In Harmony by Subhuti - Free Excerpt

From Community Highlights on Mon, 23 Mar, 2015 - 16:31

Subhuti’s Mind in Harmony: A Psychology of Buddhist Ethics is now available on the Windhorse Publications website in both paperback and eBook format. It has been funded by many generous Mind in Harmony sponsors, who make publishing new Dharma books possible. Although the book is now out, Windhorse are still just under £500 short of their full target, so more donations would be very...

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