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Croydon Sangha Swimathon

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Tue, 6 May, 2014 - 13:14

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Tue, 6 May, 2014 - 13:14Satyadakini and a group of sangha members will be taking part in a sponsored swim at Crystal palace on Sunday 22nd June. The funds raised will go towards our Wish-Fulfilling Jewel Appeal . If you would like more details or would like to make a donation, check out the fundraising page at MyDonate below.

https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/sanghaswimathon

Munisha

Reporting from the Young Women’s Dharma Life Course

From Triratna News on Tue, 6 May, 2014 - 00:09

Reporting from the Young Women’s Dharma Life Course

From Triratna News on Tue, 6 May, 2014 - 00:09In February this year, eight women aged 22-44 from Poland, Germany, Mexico, the UK and USA arrived at Adhisthana for the first-ever Young Women’s Dharma Life Course. They are now about halfway through their five months.

Watch a 7-minute video they made about themselves.

Claudia Krüger is from Essen in Germany. She writes: “The large field, on which many tents will be put up during the International Retreat later this month, offers...

Rijupatha

Dharmabyte: Life As An Order Member

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 5 May, 2014 - 17:49

In today’s FBA Dharmabyte, we hear Aryabandhu speaking about “Life As An Order Member.” One year after ordination, Aryabandhu talks about his experience of life as an order member. The third in a series of four talks given to men training for ordination on the ‘What Is the Order’ retreat.

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Abhayamati

Vegan Day: Green Light for Action and Compassion

From Cambridge Buddhist Centre on Mon, 5 May, 2014 - 16:01

Vegan Day: Green Light for Action and Compassion

From Cambridge Buddhist Centre on Mon, 5 May, 2014 - 16:01A Bodhisattva helps suffering beings without hesitation because he has the clarity, the means and the open heart.
Explore the joy and challenges of becoming a vegan. There will be a talk and discussion to clarify our mind, a session of meditation to coax our heart, a poetry event to awaken our imagination and delicious vegan food, the means to alleviate the suffering of sentient beings.

10:30 Introduction to Loving Kindness meditation

11:15 Talk by Amalasiddhi

12:00...

lokabandhu

Going beyond BAM

From Triratna News on Mon, 5 May, 2014 - 05:46

Going beyond BAM

From Triratna News on Mon, 5 May, 2014 - 05:46Friday’s post on Triratna News reported on the upcoming BAM - Buddhist Action Month, rolling out across the UK throughout June. Alongside BAM, Triratna is also launching two parallel initiatives: ‘Beyond BAM’ and the ‘Sustainable Centres Project’.

Beyond BAM looks to have an impact beyond the month of June and is asking “could, or should, Triratna projects commit to making some long-term, permanent changes to how they operate?...

RCheesley

Recruiting a web development apprentice at Virya Group

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Sun, 4 May, 2014 - 19:31

Full time apprenticeship opportunity based in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK

Design and develop a wide range of web applications
Contribute to Open Source projects to improve web technologies worldwide
Learn a range of coding languages including HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript and more
Work on a range of dana-based projects

Virya Group are a new Anglo-Dutch Joint Venture business led by CEO Ruth Cheesley (a GFR Mitra from Ipswich), which has evolved from the company Virya Technologies and...

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Munisha

Buddhist animator seeks team

From Triratna News on Sun, 4 May, 2014 - 13:00

Buddhist animator seeks team

From Triratna News on Sun, 4 May, 2014 - 13:00Seen the “What meditation isn’t” animation on our homepage this week? It’s the work of Stephen Heppell, a mitra training for ordination at the London Buddhist Centre.

“I’ve always been passionate about Team Based Right Livelihood”, he says, “and have always loved creativity so I thought I’d try and bring these interests together in the form of Moving Vision Motion Graphics, a video production company. I’ve set it up with two aims:

To be a Team-Based

Rijupatha

FBA Podcast: A System of Training

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 3 May, 2014 - 12:37

FBA Podcast: A System of Training

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 3 May, 2014 - 12:37In this week’s FBA Podcast Dhammarati delivers “A System of Training.” Here Dhammarati explores the Triratna system of practice itself - its background in practice, its relationship to tradition, and its implications for the very nature of spiritual life. An encouraging, grounded, flexible take on the rigorous, meaningful, and rewarding challenges of a lifetime of working with the mind and the heart.

Talk given at the national Order weekend, February 2008

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Munisha

Book your place on the International Retreat!

From Triratna News on Sat, 3 May, 2014 - 00:07

Book your place on the International Retreat!

From Triratna News on Sat, 3 May, 2014 - 00:07There are still some places left on the biggest open Sangha gathering of the Triratna year - the Triratna International Retreat. Many preparations are afoot for this year’s retreat, happening for the first time in the green and lovely setting of Adhisthana, UK, the new heartland of the Order and Bhante Sangharakshita’s home.

Book now!

Exploring the theme of ‘The Bodhisattva’s Reply’, and emphasising aspects of Triratna’s own distinctive reply to the needs...

Singhamanas

What Meditation Isn't

From London Buddhist Centre on Fri, 2 May, 2014 - 12:58

What Meditation Isn't

From London Buddhist Centre on Fri, 2 May, 2014 - 12:58Great new piece made for our Breathing Space project as we kick off a new venture taking Minfulness into London Schools.

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