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Puja pour Bhante

From Centre bouddhiste Triratna de Paris on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 22:22

Puja pour Bhante

From Centre bouddhiste Triratna de Paris on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 22:22

Lors de la soirée de la Sangha, mercredi, nous avons fêté les 89 ans de Sangharakshita (avec un jour de retard), en faisant comme nombre de centres Triratna dans le monde une puja en son honneur.

Nous étions sept, et ce nombre était parfait puisque j’avais choisi pour thème la poésie de Bhante, et avais sélectionné sept de ses poèmes, chacun d’entre eux ayant une relation avec une...

Munisha

New phase for Adhisthana

From Triratna News on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 18:35

New phase for Adhisthana

From Triratna News on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 18:35Vidyatara reports from Adhisthana.

Adhisthana - Triratna’s spiritual home - is about to enter an exciting new phase. Since the doors opened in August 2013, we have hosted more than 50 retreats, meetings and courses for over 1000 members of the Order and Community, from as far away as Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, the USA and Canada.

Adhisthana is not just a building project! With building work on the Sangharakshita Library and Exhibition Centre moving towards completion,...

Dhivan

New article on exploring the formless realms

From Western Buddhist Review on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 18:17

New article on exploring the formless realms

From Western Buddhist Review on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 18:17I am delighted to present a new article by Dharmacari Satyadhana for Western Buddhist Review. It is a translation and commentary on a discourse from the Middle-length sayings of the Buddha, ‘The Shorter Discourse on Emptiness’, in which the Buddha teaches Ananda about how to dwell in the realization of ´sūnyatā or emptiness, by dwelling successively in each of a series of increasingly refined realizations called ‘the formless realms’. But the article is more than this - it...

Christine

Sun Sept 21 > Uniting Buddhist Voices with the People's Climate March and Earth Summit in NYC

From Earth Metta Sangha on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 10:38

Sun Sept 21 > Uniting Buddhist Voices with the People's Climate March and Earth Summit in NYC

From Earth Metta Sangha on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 10:38On September 21^st, thousands of people around the world will take to the streets in order to motivate the world’s leaders (at the Earth Summit in New York City) to take ambitious action on the climate crisis. Potentially the biggest united campaign of our time, Buddhist voices have much to add.

On this day, we’ll engage in ritual across both spiritual and worldly realms. Following a morning of meditation, discussion and puja at the Centre (yet to be determined),...

Christine

New Name For Group: Karaniya Metta Kula

From Earth Metta Sangha on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 10:24

New Name For Group: Karaniya Metta Kula

From Earth Metta Sangha on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 10:24At our first “Beyond BAM” meeting (Aug 14), one of the goals was to choose a new name for the group. Shining out for its inclusivity, simplicity, and straight-forwardness, those in attendance decided unanimously on “Karaniya Metta Kula”. This famous sutta, which literally means “beautiful metta”, elegantly summarizes all the ways by which we can have a positive influence on the world around us, whether through meditation:
And think of every living thing without exception: the weak and the strong,...

Rijupatha

Dharmabyte: Unmindfulness Defined

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 28 Aug, 2014 - 19:25

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Forgetfulness and distraction are the rule in ordinary life, but awareness and a ‘fullness of mind’ is at the heart of human growth and development. Sangharakshita gives us today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “Unmindfulness Defined,” from the 1968 talk “Levels of Awareness: Right Mindfulness”. This talk is part of the series “The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path”.

Munisha

Ecodharma activist training goes trans-European

From Triratna News on Thu, 28 Aug, 2014 - 00:30

Ecodharma activist training goes trans-European

From Triratna News on Thu, 28 Aug, 2014 - 00:30The Ecodharma Centre is a Triratna retreat centre in Catalunya, Spain. Since 2009 an important strand of Ecodharma’s work has been the development of Dharma-based courses for social and environmental activists.

Now Ecodharma is running “Training for Trainers” courses for people who want to provide similar training for grassroots activists in their own countries across mainland Europe.

“Our work with social activists is a secular reworking of much of the Buddhist-inspired material we have developed within...

Munisha

Ordination at Adhisthana, UK

From Triratna News on Wed, 27 Aug, 2014 - 00:18

Ordination at Adhisthana, UK

From Triratna News on Wed, 27 Aug, 2014 - 00:18Jill Vernon of the West Midlands Sangha, UK, was publicly ordained at Adhisthana on Monday 25th August.

She becomes Moksapuspa (dots under each ’s’ and long final ‘a’), which means in Sanskrit ‘She who is a flower of liberation’. The westernised spelling is Mokshapushpa. Her private preceptor was Suchitta and her public preceptor Parami.

The ordination took place on the first day of the Women’s European Order Convention, following a small private ordination retreat at Taraloka. The...

Munisha

Happy Birthday, Bhante Sangharakshita!

From Triratna News on Tue, 26 Aug, 2014 - 18:00

Happy Birthday, Bhante Sangharakshita!

From Triratna News on Tue, 26 Aug, 2014 - 18:00Our founder and teacher, Urgen Sangharakshita, celebrates his 89th birthday today. The event falls on the first full day of the European Women’s Order Convention, being held at Adhisthana.

Many happy returns, Bhante.

Wish Sangharakshita Happy Birthday on Twitter and Facebook.

(The pictures are from Adhisthana where today the Dharmacharini Order Convention presented him with an 89th birthday cake. And a recent image of Bhante with a gift of a bowlful of waterlily flowers.)

Dhammalata

Training the Mind

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 26 Aug, 2014 - 12:04

Training the Mind

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 26 Aug, 2014 - 12:04To meditate is to train the mind. We all accept that one must train the body if we are to be an athlete or even simply enjoy a fit and well body that can serve our needs. And we accept that to play a musical instrument well and thereby provide joy to self and others one must put in many hours of practice…

Well meditation is no different. Consider these verses the Buddha spoke from the Dhatuvibhangha Sutta:

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