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Happy Birthday, Adhisthana! The Sangharakshita Library takes shape

From Triratna News on Fri, 1 Aug, 2014 - 17:19
  • The Sangharakshita Library building
  • Yashodeva lays the floor
  • New library roof
  • The happy men: Yashodeva and Ajjavin
  • View from library window
  • The shelving from Foyles
  • The main house with Sanghadeva's plantings
  • Wheatfield opposite Adhisthana
  • Vajra. firepit and Coddington church
  • Winter woodpile
  • Wetland sewage system

Happy Birthday, Adhisthana! The Sangharakshita Library takes shape

From Triratna News on Fri, 1 Aug, 2014 - 17:19Adhisthana is one year old this weekend!

To mark the first anniversary of the opening weekend, we present a picture show: Adhisthana at high summer.

Amid Herefordshire’s wonderful landscape, the Sangharakshita Memorial Library is gradually taking shape. The building will eventually house Bhante’s library and an exhibition space.

The old central arched portion of the library roof - translucent and leaky, patched with mastic, shaded with adjustable louvres which didn’t work - has now been...
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Autumn Magazine & Programme

From London Buddhist Centre on Thu, 31 Jul, 2014 - 17:42
The magazine starts with the poet Michael Symmons Roberts talking about the sacred nature of things and what we are drawn towards. Subhadramati offers one of her own poems which gives a glimpse into her world. Continuing the literature theme, Ollie Brock has reviewed the book The Science Delusion which explores the nature of belief and sciences role in that. On another subject, Satyadasa launches into the relationship between the inner mind and the outer world and explores the area...
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Dharmabyte: Meeting Another’s ‘Environment’

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 31 Jul, 2014 - 16:52
Today’s FBA Dharmabyte is a curious exploration entitled “Meeting Another’s ‘Environment’.” Sharing the teaching of Lin Chi on ‘environment’ and how we meet a whole container of history, memories, emotions when we meet another. With stories about Hakuin, the Samurai and the Order Member Saghasen in India, this little excerpt packs a punch!

From the talk “The Bliss Bestowing Hands of the True Individual” of the ...
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Avalokiteshvara Mantra By Fire at the ECA

From Community Highlights on Thu, 31 Jul, 2014 - 00:17
The closing Avalokiteshvara mantra from the final evening of the Triratna European Chairs’ summer assembly… We moved from the meetings space to the bonfire where the song of compassion for the world met the great flame of impermanence. Meetings and partings…

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Avalokiteshvara Mantra By Fire

From European Chairs' Assembly on Wed, 30 Jul, 2014 - 23:41
The closing Avalokiteshvara mantra from the final evening of the Triratna European Chairs’ summer assembly for 2014… We moved from the meetings space to the bonfire where the song of compassion for the world met the great flame of impermanence. Meetings and partings…

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A new magazine for the LBC

From London Buddhist Centre on Wed, 30 Jul, 2014 - 17:26
  • LBC Autumn Magazine/Programme Cover

A new magazine for the LBC

From London Buddhist Centre on Wed, 30 Jul, 2014 - 17:26
The magazine starts with the poet Michael Symmons Roberts talking about the sacred nature of things and what we are drawn towards. Subhadramati offers one of her own poems which gives a glimpse into her world. Continuing the literature theme, Ollie Brock has reviewed the book The Science Delusion which explores the nature of belief and sciences role in that. On another subject, Satyadasa launches into the...
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Aryaloka's stupa: taking a stand on samsara

From Triratna News on Wed, 30 Jul, 2014 - 10:31
  • The stupa grows
  • Mantras
  • Order members at the enthronement
  • The urn

Aryaloka's stupa: taking a stand on samsara

From Triratna News on Wed, 30 Jul, 2014 - 10:31Further to our previous news post, The Dhardo Rinpoche stupa at Aryaloka Retreat Center in New Hampshire, USA is rapidly taking shape, with the completion of the base, or “lion throne” portion.

This lion throne contains a large sealed urn with contents representing aspects of samsara, some of them rather intriguing! Here are a few of them.
  • An old police service revolver and ammunition
  • A knife
  • Some coral
  • Gold chains
  • Silver and amber items
  • Dirt from the homes of wealthy people
  • Horse and alpaca fur
  • A hammer
  • Garden tools
  • A symbolic hatchet
    • ...
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Four Virtuous Qualities

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 29 Jul, 2014 - 00:52

Four Virtuous Qualities

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 29 Jul, 2014 - 00:52Did you ever watch ‘Monkey’ when you were much younger than you are now?

I did ….

I loved it and particularly hung out for the Buddhist words of wisdom they would put at the end of each program ….

Here’s a clip I just took from Facebook …. Just a good laugh really

Monkey meets the Buddha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTxPlUnDQ1U

But seriously …… Here’s a few Buddhist thoughts from my...
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Dharmabyte: Seeing the Mind By Not Seeing It

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 Jul, 2014 - 16:32
Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “Seeing the Mind by Not Seeing It,” is an excerpt from the 1965 talk, “Seeing Into One’s Own Nature and Realising Buddhahood” by Sangharakshita. We are instructed by the Buddha that ‘Mind cannot be seen,’ and yet the Zen Master directs us to ‘See the Mind’. How is the contradiction to be solved?

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FBA Podcast: Hopeful Buddhist Response to Environmental Crisis

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 Jul, 2014 - 16:14

FBA Podcast: Hopeful Buddhist Response to Environmental Crisis

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 Jul, 2014 - 16:14This week’s FBA Podcast comes to us from Amalaketu entitled “A Hopeful Buddhist Response to Environmental Crisis”. How, as Buddhists, can we respond appropriately to the current environmental crisis. Talk given on Sangha Night at Norwich Buddhist Centre on 1st July 2014.

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