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Dharmabytes: Refraining from Anger

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 13 Feb, 2023 - 06:00

More counter-cultural stuff here, shouldn’t we always express how we feel? Shantideva seems to be saying something else when he encourages us to be ‘like a block of wood’… Maitrisara offers thoughts on patience and anger as described in the Bodhicaryavatara. 

Excerpted from the talk Like a Block of Wood, part of the series The Bodhicaryavatara, given at Birmingham Buddhist Centre, 2019.

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Forthcoming Ordination in Australia

From Order Messenger on Sun, 12 Feb, 2023 - 17:06

Forthcoming Ordination in Australia

From Order Messenger on Sun, 12 Feb, 2023 - 17:06

Dear Friends,

Angela Riley from Melbourne, Australia will be privately ordained by Chittaprabha during an (invitation only) Order retreat from 25th February - 9th March 2023. 

Her Public Ordination will be conducted by Maitripala at the Melbourne Buddhist Centre from 1pm - 4pm AEDST on Sunday 12th March. 

Everyone is welcome to attend the Public Ordination. 

With metta,

Maitripala
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Amaradaya

UK & Ireland Combined AOWE,17 – 20 August 2023, Adhisthana

From Order Messenger on Sat, 11 Feb, 2023 - 14:03

UK & Ireland Combined AOWE,17 – 20 August 2023, Adhisthana

From Order Messenger on Sat, 11 Feb, 2023 - 14:03

Touching a Mystery
Led by the Adhisthana Teaching Community

‘There are moments when criticism of a particular kind – the only kind I care for – utterly absorbs me. I feel I am touching a mystery … a darkness that is secretly alive and thrilling to the sense. This, I like to believe, is the reflection in myself of the darkness which broods over the poet’s creative mind.’ 
John Middleton Murry

This quote from Middleton Murry, gives...
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saddhāruci

Triratna Latinoamérica OM

From Community Highlights on Fri, 10 Feb, 2023 - 22:55

Triratna Latinoamérica (group) OM

From Community Highlights on Fri, 10 Feb, 2023 - 22:55

Espacio para mantenernos comunicados como Miembros de la Orden del Área de América Latina.
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Centre Team

Forever Friends (The Buddhist Centre Podcast, Episode 437)

From Buddhist Centre Features on Fri, 10 Feb, 2023 - 21:39

A real beauty of a ‘lost’ episode from our archives! Recorded in a very lovely garden in Mexico in 2019, with nature sounds all around, Bodhikamala and Sanghadhara, who’ve been soul mates of a sort since before the age of 10, explore with us their long history of friendship as young people. A shared love of the arts, of musicals, and Harry Potter brought them together in summer camp and, eventually, led them to explore Buddhism together. Now as ordained...
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Centre Team

FBA Podcast: Reflections From the Bodhicaryavatara

From Free Buddhist Audio on Fri, 10 Feb, 2023 - 22:32

Jvalamalini offers suggestions to bear in mind when reading the Bodhicaryavatara, and a few reflections from the text on how to regard self and others. 

“In the same way that the hands and other limbs are loved because they form part of the body, why are embodied creatures not likewise loved because they form part of the universe?” 

“‘If I give, what shall I enjoy?’ Such concern for one’s own welfare is fiendish. ‘If I enjoy, what shall I give?’ Such concern...
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Centre Team

Forever Friends (The Buddhist Centre Podcast, Episode 437)

From Buddhist Centre Features on Fri, 10 Feb, 2023 - 21:39

A real beauty of a ‘lost’ episode from our archives! Recorded in a very lovely garden in Mexico in 2019, with nature sounds all around, Bodhikamala and Sanghadhara, who’ve been soul mates of a sort since before the age of 10, explore with us their long history of friendship as young people. A shared love of the arts, of musicals, and Harry Potter brought them together in summer camp and, eventually, led them to explore Buddhism together. Now as ordained...
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Tejasiddhi

Memorial for Vidyasiddhi at Rivendell

From Order Messenger on Fri, 10 Feb, 2023 - 14:44

Memorial for Vidyasiddhi at Rivendell

From Order Messenger on Fri, 10 Feb, 2023 - 14:44

Dear friends, 

We will be having a memorial event at Rivendell on the 20th March to celebrate Vidyasiddhi’s life - it felt appropriate that this event take place on the vernal equinox. He had a strong connection with Rivendell and he really wanted this to be marked in some way, so it would be lovely if you were able to come and be part of this event (see below).

Jnanottara will lead the afternoon and the provisional timings are:

12:30-13:00 Arrival

13:00 Shared lunch (there will be soup, but please...
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Amaradaya

Last week for booking Order Study: The Promise of a Sacred World

From Order Messenger on Fri, 10 Feb, 2023 - 10:31

Last week for booking Order Study: The Promise of a Sacred World

From Order Messenger on Fri, 10 Feb, 2023 - 10:31

‘In this sacred world, practice overflows in grateful, joyous surplus […] Our practice thus becomes an offering, a turning over of merits to others that may inspire them to open themselves to embrace and be embraced by their ultimate concern.’ Nagapriya

Sundays: February 19, 26, March 5, 12, 19, 26
Sessions (1.5 hrs): USA PST 12:00 | México 14:00 | USA EST 15:00 | IE & UK 20:00 | Europe CET 21:00 | Australia...
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Free Buddhist Audio

Transforming Self and World

From Birmingham Buddhist Centre on Fri, 10 Feb, 2023 - 00:00
In this sangha night talk, Maitrisara introduces the sangha night theme for the year: Transforming self and World. Taking inspiration from Sangharakshita’s 1995 book Transforming Self and World: Themes from the Sutra of Golden Light, Maitrisara explores what that theme means and where it comes from. Reflections on how we approach the challenges of the world in a skilful way and with and Buddhist perspective, and finally introducing some of the various ways in which the theme will be evoked during the course of the year.
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