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Sighamanas METTA: Blazing like the Sun

From Triratna Young Buddhists on Mon, 11 Nov, 2013 - 12:05

Sighamanas METTA: Blazing like the Sun

From Triratna Young Buddhists on Mon, 11 Nov, 2013 - 12:05Talk given at the Young buddhist retreat in Adhisthana the 10th of November 2013.

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Chanting the Padmasambhava Mantra on the Urban Retreat

From Community Highlights on Sun, 10 Nov, 2013 - 18:04

An absolutely beautiful piece of chanting from the Young Buddhists weekend at Adhisthana as part of the Urban Retreat. Rather amazingly this has been listened to over 1000 times in less than half a day!

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Poems on Metta - Loving Kindness

From Community Highlights on Sat, 9 Nov, 2013 - 17:11

Poems on Metta - Loving Kindness

From Community Highlights on Sat, 9 Nov, 2013 - 17:11If you didn’t already catch this during the week, here’s a great video from Manidha and Alice in Seattle, USA using poems from different spiritual traditions to explore what metta (loving kindness) is!

Watch out for the outtakes at the end… :)

This piece was originally posted on the Urban Retreat 2013 space on the site.

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Vishvapani on BBC Thought for the Day - Remembrance Day Meditation

From Community Highlights on Sat, 9 Nov, 2013 - 17:00

Vishvapani on BBC Thought for the Day - Remembrance Day Meditation

From Community Highlights on Sat, 9 Nov, 2013 - 17:00You can listen to this short talk via the BBC over on Vishvapani’s Wise Attention blog (you may need to be in the UK to hear it). You can also hear it from anywhere via the Thought For the Day podcast.

Remembrance Sunday is an invitation to find a space in our harried lives for a silent opening to all that war has meant for the country: a national meditation on what Wilfred...

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A note for Firefox users

From Community Highlights on Sat, 9 Nov, 2013 - 11:52

A note for Firefox users

From Community Highlights on Sat, 9 Nov, 2013 - 11:52Hi all, a quick tech note for those using the Firefox/Mozilla web browser. The Buddhist Centre Online is now on a more secure web server that increases the privacy of this and other spaces on the site. We’ve had some reports that the special security certificate we’re using to guarantee this is registering - ironically! - as a potential problem in Firefox. We’re looking into it but we wanted to let you know that it’s fine to say “Yes” to...

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Online-Only Events for the Urban Retreat

From Loving Kindness - Blazing Like The Sun on Fri, 8 Nov, 2013 - 22:44

Online-Only Events for the Urban Retreat

From Loving Kindness - Blazing Like The Sun on Fri, 8 Nov, 2013 - 22:44You may have seen in the program for the retreat that as well as hosting the retreat materials here, we’ll also be doing some online-only events designed to help bring awareness of the practice into that aspect of our daily lives. We can easily spend so much time online - it’s a challenge to find mindful ways to engage amid so much distraction! And, of course, not everyone is near a Buddhist Centre… So we’re interested in new...

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Urban Retreat in Danish

From Loving Kindness - Blazing Like The Sun on Fri, 8 Nov, 2013 - 20:58

Urban Retreat in Danish

From Loving Kindness - Blazing Like The Sun on Fri, 8 Nov, 2013 - 20:58Further to Lokabandhu’s post yesterday about the Urban Retreat in German and Spanish, we’re delighted to pass on news that the retreat will also be available to Danish speakers, thanks to Advayasiddhi!

Urban Retreat 2013 på dansk

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Love FBA? Share It With The World!

From Lovers of FBA! on Fri, 8 Nov, 2013 - 19:15

Love FBA? Share It With The World!

From Lovers of FBA! on Fri, 8 Nov, 2013 - 19:15Free Buddhist Audio is looking for some new members of our community to share why they love our site. We are reaching out to our community of supporters to ask for your help - would you consider making an FBA Endorsement? Statements of support are between 150-180 characters in length, and include a photo of you, both of which will appear in random sequencing on the FBA site. Questions? viriyalila [at] freebuddhistaudio.com (subject: Endorsements%20for%...

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Urban Retreat Program (PDF version)

From Loving Kindness - Blazing Like The Sun on Fri, 8 Nov, 2013 - 11:22

Here’s a PDF version of the program for the retreat to complement the online version.

A note on using Issuu (the rather nice way we embed documents on The Buddhist Centre Online): you can usually download by clicking the Issuu document and, when it opens full-screen, choosing the ‘share’ icon (top right)…

File Name	Size
Urban Retreat - The Program.pdf	109.58 KB

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Introducing the team for the urban retreat…

From Loving Kindness - Blazing Like The Sun on Thu, 7 Nov, 2013 - 22:16

Introducing the team for the urban retreat…

From Loving Kindness - Blazing Like The Sun on Thu, 7 Nov, 2013 - 22:16Hello there, just wanted to introduce the “team” for the urban retreat, but before that here is a couple of responses to questions we’ve had about the event…

1) Is there any charge for the online urban retreat?
It is all free. We will have an appeal for some money on Wednesday and Friday to help pay for future online urban retreats. You are really welcome to contribute if you wish, but we are basically offering this for free…
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