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All three International Retreat talks on video now

From Buddhist Action Month 2014 on Sat, 31 May, 2014 - 13:57

All three International Retreat talks on video now

From Buddhist Action Month 2014 on Sat, 31 May, 2014 - 13:57Thanks to Clear Vision, the videos of the three main talks from the recent International Retreat 2014 are now available to view on VideoSangha.net, all addressing the topic of practical response to suffering in the world.

Watch them here.

Munisha

The videos of the three main talks from International Retreat 2014

From Triratna News on Sat, 31 May, 2014 - 13:43

The videos of the three main talks from International Retreat 2014

From Triratna News on Sat, 31 May, 2014 - 13:43All three main talks from the Triratna International Retreat 2014 are now available to view on VideoSangha.net, thanks to the Clear Vision team’s hard work.

The retreat theme being “The Bodhisattva’s Reply”, the talks are all about our practical responses to suffering in the world. Thoroughly recommended, and especially if you are interested in Triratna’s participation in the UK’s pan-Buddhist Buddhist Action Month, which begins tomorrow and has already spread to our sanghas in Sweden and...

Munisha

All three main talks on video now

From International Retreat 2014 on Sat, 31 May, 2014 - 13:32

All three main talks on video now

From International Retreat 2014 on Sat, 31 May, 2014 - 13:32All three main talks from the International Retreat are now available to view on VideoSangha.net, thanks to the Clear Vision team’s hard work.

Watch them here:
Vajragupta: “The Bodhisattva’s reply” (53 mins)
Vaddhaka: “Going beyond capitalism: a Buddhist perspective” (1 hour)
Mokshini: “Altruism, actually: Getting out and doing It” (57 mins)

VideoSangha.net is a mine of Triratna/FWBO video old and new, provided for us by Clear Vision, Triratna’s audio-visual media project....

Munisha

Music from the clear-up team's campfire

From International Retreat 2014 on Sat, 31 May, 2014 - 13:13

Music from the clear-up team's campfire

From International Retreat 2014 on Sat, 31 May, 2014 - 13:13For most of us the International Retreat is long over, but the doughty clear-up team have only just left, after a further week’s work dismantling the marquees, showers, toilets and kitchen.

Happily we can know something of their playtime too, with this great little recording from Suvajra. It’s Sumana’s folk setting of Sangharakshita’s poem, “Secret Wings” about our resistance to acknowleding our own spiritual potential.

Sumana main voice and banjo; guitar Joe Richardson: backing vocals Joe Hill and Shantikara.

Suryaprabha

QAWWALI IN DAPOLI

From Lights In The Sky on Thu, 29 May, 2014 - 17:25

http://vimeo.com/96750007

QAWWALI IN DAPOLI

From Lights In The Sky on Thu, 29 May, 2014 - 17:25THE FIRST of two pieces of qawwali music I filmed in Dapoli, Konkan, India at the BH hostel in 2006. Probably in a room after puja on an all ages retreat during a traditional Indian holiday. It is just as I filmed it. It could be a Sufi-Buddhist fusion though I don’t understand the words they are singing. However, the youthful, even intoxicated male energy comes over as clearly now as that time. By the way, virtually...

Rijupatha

Dharmabyte: The Wisdom Hearer

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 29 May, 2014 - 15:34

Our FBA Dharmabyte today, “The Wisdom Hearer”, is an excerpt from the fabulous talk “The Sound of Reality” by Padmavajra. In this section we hear Hakuin’s poem of Awakening along with Padmavajra’s reflections on the nature of sound, impermanence and insubstantiality. Vanish into emptiness and silence!

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lokabandhu

Triratna ceremonies in Finnish

From Suomi on Wed, 28 May, 2014 - 23:05

Here are downloadable copies of three core Triratna ceremonies in Finnish -

Pyhitysseremonia - The Dedication Ceremony
Lyhyt Puja - The Short Puja
Seitsenkertainen Puja - The Sevenfold Puja (including the Precepts and the Heart Sutra)

Many thanks to Sarvamitra for contributing them.

For Buddhist texts in 30 other languages see thebuddhistcentre.com/translations.

File Name	Size
Pyhitysseremonia - The Dedication Ceremony	210.39 KB
Lyhyt Puja - The Short Puja	211.07 KB
Seitsenkertainen Puja - The Sevenfold Puja	401.07 KB

Munisha

Highlights from the International Retreat 2014

From Buddhist Action Month 2014 on Wed, 28 May, 2014 - 12:13

Highlights from the International Retreat 2014

From Buddhist Action Month 2014 on Wed, 28 May, 2014 - 12:13It’s possible (just about, in theory) that you’ve missed the coverage of the International Retreat 2014, which ended yesterday at Adhisthana, in bright sunshine and very good heart. Its title was The Bodhisattva’s Reply - to the world’s suffering. Essentially, the retreat was about Buddhist social action.

The retreat media team covered the event thoroughly in pictures, audio and video. You can:

catch all the highlights of this great event here, including audio of all main talks.
scan back through

Munisha

Highlights from the International Retreat 2014

From Triratna News on Wed, 28 May, 2014 - 11:58

Highlights from the International Retreat 2014

From Triratna News on Wed, 28 May, 2014 - 11:58The International Retreat ended yesterday at Adhisthana, in bright sunshine and very good heart.

The retreat media team covered the event thoroughly in pictures, audio and video. You can:

catch all the highlights of this great event here, including audio of all main talks.
scan back through the detailed coverage.

Videos of all main talks will be available shortly, Herefordshire broadband being far too rural to allow uploading till the Clear Vision team get back to Manchester!

Munisha

A personal view of the International Retreat

From International Retreat 2014 on Wed, 28 May, 2014 - 11:39

A personal view of the International Retreat

From International Retreat 2014 on Wed, 28 May, 2014 - 11:39Mariana Hermoso is a young film-maker from Mexico City. She’s also one of the eight women taking part in the Young Women’s Dharma Life Course at Adhisthana and doing a huge amount of work on the International Retreat. She offers her impressions of last weekend.

After a week of hard organisational work led by the Buddhafield and Adhisthana teams, the fourth Triratna International Retreat took place at Adhisthana.

Between 6 and 6:30 in the morning, the...

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