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Windhorse:evolution - Keeping a Buddhist business on course when the going gets tough

From Windhorse Evolution on Mon, 9 Jun, 2014 - 10:36

This is a pdf of our latest magazine! In it we explore our practice of team based right livelihood at Windhorse:evolution, particularly at this time where we have to work hard to increase sales and stay in business, so that this precious context can survive.

Articles include an update on the state of the business from Keturaja, and a report from James about setting up our excellent new retail website. Our new head of wholesale, John, tells us his...

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Rijupatha

Dharmabyte: The Mind is Everywhere

From Free Buddhist Audio on Fri, 6 Jun, 2014 - 20:13

From the fabulous talk, “What is Mind?” we bring you a sparkling Dharmabyte entitled: “The Mind Is Everywhere”. Using Milarepa’s song, the Shepherd’s Search for Mind, Dhammadinna takes us on a wild, and very specific ride, in defining subjective versus objective mind. You cannot understand the mind, because that would be the mind knowing itself!

This is the first talk in a series of talks from the Order Convention in...

Yashobodhi

Plans for the new building for the WLBC and a message from Paramananda

From West London Buddhist Centre on Thu, 5 Jun, 2014 - 13:39

Plans for the new building for the WLBC and a message from Paramananda

From West London Buddhist Centre on Thu, 5 Jun, 2014 - 13:39

Here are some pics to give you an idea what the new premises will look like. We’ll have the ground floor and the lower ground floor…

Paramananda (our chair) writes:

Although many of you will have already heard, I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you about our new centre. We have exchanged contracts, and are hoping that we will be moving in the autumn into the new...

Vimalasara

Eight Step Recovery Meetings

From Eight Step Recovery - Using the Buddha's Teachings To Overcome Addiction on Thu, 5 Jun, 2014 - 04:45

Eight Step Recovery Meetings

From Eight Step Recovery - Using the Buddha's Teachings To Overcome Addiction on Thu, 5 Jun, 2014 - 04:45We have received several requests on a meeting format for Eight Step Recovery – Using The Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction. Already we have heard of groups setting up in the UK and Canada which are working the steps with a wide range of addictions. We hope groups will continue to spring up all over the globe. When the book goes into second edition we will include a meeting format as we can see that this was an aspect...

shraddhavani

What will go in the stupa?

From The Stupa Project on Wed, 4 Jun, 2014 - 22:34

What will go in the stupa?

From The Stupa Project on Wed, 4 Jun, 2014 - 22:34The most important items to be placed in the stupa will be three small containers (tsa-tsas) holding ashes of the late Dhardo Rinpoche, who died in 1990. It will also contain two relics – a bone of Tsongkhapa, founder of the Gelugpa order of Tibetan Buddhism, and the hair of a dakini. These two items were some of the late Dhardo’s most treasured personal belongings and were a gift of the current tulku (reincarnation) of Dhardo...

Munisha

West London Buddhist Centre in Vogue

From Triratna News on Wed, 4 Jun, 2014 - 18:26

West London Buddhist Centre in Vogue

From Triratna News on Wed, 4 Jun, 2014 - 18:26A member of Triratna’s West London sangha, in Britain, was flipping through the latest edition of British Vogue when her eye fell on a an advertisement for the new building to which the new West London Buddhist Centre is to move this autumn. Number 1, Westbourne Gardens, in London W2, features nine luxury apartments with underground car parking, starting at £1.65 million.

As the WLBC’s Yashobodhi wrote on Facebook, “We’ll only have the ground- and lower-ground floors,...

Munisha

The Resurrection of FWBO Newsreel 2

From Community Highlights on Wed, 4 Jun, 2014 - 10:53

The Resurrection of FWBO Newsreel 2

From Community Highlights on Wed, 4 Jun, 2014 - 10:53Continuing our re-release of Clear Vision’s FWBO Newsreels from the 1990s, we bring you Newsreel 2 (55 mins) released in spring 1992, with reports on

the FWBO in Australia (Melbourne and Sydney)
Order conventions
the launch of Facing Mount Kanchenjunga
major changes at the Croydon Buddhist Centre
Kalyanavaca’s ordination at Taraloka, and
a special feature on Sangharakshita’s January tour of India

Over 20 years ago, Clear Vision was founded by Mokshapriya to produce professional video for the FWBO, later to become Triratna. As well as videoing...

Munisha

Munisha explains BAM for non-Buddhists

From Buddhist Action Month 2014 on Tue, 3 Jun, 2014 - 18:46

Munisha explains BAM for non-Buddhists

From Buddhist Action Month 2014 on Tue, 3 Jun, 2014 - 18:46Hi! I’m co-Chair of the Network of Buddhist Organisations UK, which is running BAM in partnership with Triratna. Here’s what I wrote about BAM for the website of Together in Service, the multifaith social action project of which BAM is a part.

Buddhism generally has a very positive image in the UK, as a peaceful, meditative lifestyle. At the Network of Buddhist Organisations UK, we’d like to mess that up a...

Candradasa

Una guía acerca de hacerse mitra en la Comunidad Budista Triratna

From Bienvenido a las páginas en español on Tue, 3 Jun, 2014 - 17:18La palabra sánscrita ‘mitra’ simplemente significa ‘amigo’. Hacerse mitra es profundizar tu relación de amistad con la Orden Budista Triratna, lo que puede ocurrir cuando tu compromiso con sus ideales, valores y prácticas ha alcanzado un cierto nivel. Un mitra es alguien que ha hecho lo que nosotros llamamos un compromiso ‘provisional’ de practicar el Dharma en el contexto de nuestra comunidad espiritual. Esto implica un compromiso con el budismo, de practicar el camino Budista como se enseña en nuestra...

Dhivan

Valuable New Perspectives on Mindfulness

From Western Buddhist Review on Tue, 3 Jun, 2014 - 12:15

Valuable New Perspectives on Mindfulness

From Western Buddhist Review on Tue, 3 Jun, 2014 - 12:15Here is a very thorough and appreciative review of Anālayo’s fine new book concerning mindfulness in early Buddhist teachings.

Anālayo, Perspectives on Satipaṭṭhāna
Windhorse Publications, Cambridge, 2013, 319pp., £15.99pb, also in ebook format

Review by Dh Ālokadhāra

It is now just over ten years since Windhorse published Anālayo’s book Satipaṭṭhāna: the direct path to realization, described at the time by Christopher Titmus as ‘an indispensable guide… surely destined to become the classic commentary on the...

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