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Dh. Ratnashil recollecting mother's memories

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Sun, 18 Oct, 2020 - 17:42

Dh. Ratnashil recollecting mother's memories

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Sun, 18 Oct, 2020 - 17:42Dh Ratnashil recollecting early memories of his mother, without her encouragement would be difficult to find Sangha. Thanks Dh. Jnanpar for recording.

Sadayasihi

FBA Podcast: Not About Being Good - Beyond Guilt

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 17 Oct, 2020 - 05:10

Buddhist ethics are not about conforming to a set of conventions, not about ‘being good’ in order to gain rewards. Instead, living ethically springs from the awareness that other people are no different from yourself. You can actively develop this awareness, through cultivating love, clarity and contentment, which can ultimately help us to come into greater harmony with all that lives.

Arthapriya, a Public Preceptor who lives in Cambridge, takes a personal and Dharmic look...

SophieAnn

Mindfulness: A direct path to freedom - an online retreat

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 16:54

Mindfulness: A direct path to freedom - an online retreat

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 16:54

Maintaining steady, kindly awareness of changing phenomena is the essence of Satipatthana practice - the Buddha’s teaching on mindfulness in the service of liberation. Treat yourself to space, simplicity, beauty – inner and outer.

If you are training for ordination then please join Prasadavati, Maitrisiddhi, Maitrimala, Viryadhi for this journey into open-hearted wisdom from Saturday 21 November...

Sadayasihi

Public ordinations at Akashavana

From Triratna News on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 16:47

Public ordinations at Akashavana

From Triratna News on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 16:47

We are delighted to announce that three new Dharmacharinis were ordained at Akashavana on 16th October 2020.

Public preceptor: Paramachitta

Monica Tamarit becomes Kavyadhi (long first ‘a’ and long ‘i’) - a Sanskrit name that means ‘She whose wisdom is inspired, creative and poetic’.
Private Preceptor: Saddhakara

Carmina Amaya becomes Bhavati (long first ‘a’) - a Sanskrit name that means ‘She who is full of light’.
Private Preceptor: Saddhakara

Reme Rojo becomes Suriyadassana (long...

Paramachitta

Public ordinations at Akashavana

From Order Connection on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 16:47

Public ordinations at Akashavana

From Order Connection on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 16:47

Dear Order Members,

We are delighted to announce that three new Dharmacharinis were ordained at Akashavana on 16th October 2020.

Public preceptor: Paramachitta

Monica Tamarit becomes Kavyadhi (long first ‘a’ and long ‘i’) - a Sanskrit name that means ‘She whose wisdom is inspired, creative and poetic’.
Private Preceptor: Saddhakara

Carmina Amaya becomes Bhavati (long first ‘a’) - a Sanskrit name that means ‘She who is full of light’.
...

Read more about Public ordinations at Akashavana

Kulanandi

Forthcoming Ordination at Metta Vihara, Holland

From Order Connection on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 12:41

Forthcoming Ordination at Metta Vihara, Holland

From Order Connection on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 12:41

Dear Order members,

Sandra Lanckman from the Ghent Sangha, Belgium, will have her Private and Public Ordination during a short retreat at Metta Vihara in Holland, 28th October — 4th November.

Her Private Ordination will be on 31st October and her Public Ordination on 2nd November.

With metta,
Kulanandi

Read more about Forthcoming Ordination at Metta Vihara, Holland

Jinamati

Further Update on Prajnapriya's health

From Order Connection on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 12:37

Further Update on Prajnapriya's health

From Order Connection on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 12:37

Dear friends,

Thanks, again, for your kind words and thoughts, which have brought with them a mandala of warmth. Prajnapriya was discharged from hospital on Monday and is back at Vajraloka. The heart specialist didn’t want to take any action after the angiogram but will recall him to hospital in a month’s time for further assessment. Prajnapriya is now convalescing in a specially prepared room in the retreat centre building, eating regular meals, and the fire doors have been loosened...

Read more about Further Update on Prajnapriya's health

SophieAnn

Could you help support Taraloka through the Covid-19 pandemic?

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 15 Oct, 2020 - 16:51

Could you help support Taraloka through the Covid-19 pandemic?

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 15 Oct, 2020 - 16:51

Since March, Taraloka has been unable to run residential retreats, Finally, last weekend, our first, small, socially-distanced retreat was due to begin. Then, the Welsh Government declared our county, Wrexham, to be in strict lockdown again.

Now, we can’t even offer solitaries, donations from which, alongside those from online retreat attendees, had been seeing us through. Even when we can offer residential retreats again, social distancing means they will be for small numbers only, so we will be running them...

Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: In the Company of Padmasambhava

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 15 Oct, 2020 - 05:10

According to Tibetan tradition, in the bardo, an ‘intermediate state’ in the endless round of birth and death, we are free for an instant from that round. The Tibetan book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) describes six of these opportunities for escape from reactivity. Here Sangharakshita explores our resistance to facing death and the impact of the esoteric teachings of Padmasambhava.

From the talk Psycho-Spiritual Symbolism in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. part of the series ...

Centre Team

Buddhist Economics, Part 1 - Pre-Pandemic (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 33)

From Buddhist Centre Features on Wed, 7 Oct, 2020 - 20:50

We’re back with the first episode in a two-part conversation about what Buddhism has to say to 21st C. economics in the wake of populist political tides, globalization and, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic.

Listen to part 2 of this conversation

Vaddhaka is the author of The Buddha On Wall Street, a Buddhist critique of Neo-Liberal notions of capitalism. Expect a stirring, provocative discussion around the state of western democracies...

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