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Manchester Buddhist Centre is looking for a Women’s Mitra Convenor

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Fri, 29 Nov, 2024 - 11:26[edit]

Manchester Buddhist Centre is looking for a Women’s Mitra Convenor

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Fri, 29 Nov, 2024 - 11:26[edit]

Manchester Buddhist Centre is entering a new and exciting phase. Working with our new Chair, Lokeshvara, the MBC Trustees have recently concluded we will have to move from our current premises and find a new home for our sangha. We have set a two year time frame on making this transition. You will be very much involved in helping us make this transition.

Our sangha is lively and engaged, with an increasing number of young women getting involved. We have 86 women mitras, 45 of whom have asked for...

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Recording of Memorial Service and Practice Day for Kamalashila

From Triratna News on Thu, 28 Nov, 2024 - 22:03

Recording of Memorial Service and Practice Day for Kamalashila

From Triratna News on Thu, 28 Nov, 2024 - 22:03

The recording of Yashobodhi and friends at the North London Buddhist Centre for the online live stream of a memorial service and practice day for Kamalashila.

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'Wisdom Takes the Form of Light': Shinjin As Faith, Bodhicitta and Wisdom

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 28 Nov, 2024 - 00:00

Talk 3 of 8. The Buddha as presence and absence. What happens when the conditioned mind lets up for a bit? Experiences of beauty, openness, love, desire to go for refuge and devotion naturally arise; we experience contact with ‘amida’, the quality of limitlessness. Are those experiences ‘ours’ – or something else? For experienced Dharma practitioners.

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Shinjin: Failure of Self and Going For Refuge

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 28 Nov, 2024 - 00:00

Talk 4 of 8. ‘Like the cherry blossom, the heart planning on tomorrow is ephemeral indeed. What sudden storm may not arise in the middle of the night?’ Like Shakyamuni Buddha, Shinran’s deep sense of the uncertainty and unreliability of the existential situation drives his going forth. Yet ‘going forth’ isn’t ultimately from a place or a context: it’s going forth from the mind that grasps, including within the Dharma life. For experienced Dharma practitioners.

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Everything Happening In Relation: Shakyamuni and the Pure Land Tradition

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 27 Nov, 2024 - 00:00

Talk 1 of 8. The life of Shakyamuni as relationality, and the growth of the Pure Land mythic world. How do we see the life of the Buddha? As the myth of the solitary hero, or as a story of conditionality: awakening arising through our relations with others? How do processes of transformation arise? They arise within relatedness, because that’s the nature of reality itself. For experienced Dharma practitioners.

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2 Short Talks - Midnight Star - Devotion to Tara

From Sheffield Buddhist Centre on Wed, 27 Nov, 2024 - 00:00

Bathe in the loving balm of Green Tara on this special Sangha Night. Join us to continue our series on teachers from the refuge tree, this time with a special night devoted to a refreshing fountain of wisdom and love from the Bodhisattva sangha. The Midnight Star is a refuge for us wherever and however we are. If we ask, Tara comes. Always. She offers us a diamond-like beauty in the night sky, a point to steer by and a place of heart's solace and safety in the travails of samsara. She will be evoked in two short talks and in a hauntingly beautiful puja to the Midnight Star - the "Victory banner of the supreme Dharma / The raised standard of the Victorious Ones".

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Buddhism and UFOs: A Mind-Blowing Connection!

From Community Highlights on Tue, 26 Nov, 2024 - 15:41

Buddhism and UFOs: A Mind-Blowing Connection!

From Community Highlights on Tue, 26 Nov, 2024 - 15:41

Are UFOs real? And what could they possibly have to do with Buddhism? This video takes you on a journey into the mysterious liminal realm—a space where the boundaries between the material and the imaginal blur. By exploring the connection between UFO encounters and spiritual experiences, we uncover how these phenomena point to deeper dimensions of human consciousness. Discover why reconnecting with this realm is essential for modern society and how it can transform our understanding of reality.

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Relaxed and at Ease (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 26 Nov, 2024 - 15:36

Suryagupta describes the qualities of the Buddha in this talk on the subject of Metta (loving-kindness) and insight/wisdom. Excerpted from the talk Metta to Insight given at London Buddhist Centre, 2018.

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With Hands Folded in Reverence

From Community Highlights on Tue, 26 Nov, 2024 - 13:29

With Hands Folded in Reverence

From Community Highlights on Tue, 26 Nov, 2024 - 13:29

Poetry and verse were a lifelong love of Sangharakshita. His deep reverence for the Buddha was often expressed in his poetry. This programme explores Bhante’s thoughts on the importance of devotion whether expressed through writing, adorning shrines, puja or in other ways.

Paramartha considers the books of verse that Sangharakshita kept with him throughout his life including a text that proved an important source of inspiration, encouragement and guidance not only in his early years in India but throughout his life.

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Danashura's Funeral

From Order Connection on Mon, 25 Nov, 2024 - 14:34

Danashura's Funeral

From Order Connection on Mon, 25 Nov, 2024 - 14:34

Dear Friends,

I’m writing to let you know about the funeral for Danashura, which will be hosted at Padmaloka Retreat Centre in the UK on Friday 6th December.

We have set up an event page on our website for information: Danashura’s Funeral

You don’t need to book on the event, but please let us know via email or phone if you would like to attend.

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