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This week's free eBook - The Breath

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 12:53
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This week's free eBook - The Breath

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 12:53

This week we’re giving away The Breath by Vessantara. You can download it here until 29 June. This is the first of the three short books we’ll offer over the coming weeks: The Breath, The Body and The Heart. Each one deals with a central area of mindfulness and meditation. 
 
I’ve been very aware of the connection between the breath and the first precept that we commit to practicing: I undertake to abstain from taking life; with deeds of loving kindness,...
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FBA Podcast: Entrance Into the Heart of the Mandala

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 20 Jun, 2020 - 14:00

Visuddhimati explores how we really need to know ourselves deeply and experientially to allow us to let go into the deep mystery at the heart of the mandala. She shares her reflections on initiation, spiritual death and rebirth, inspired by a Rilke poem. Using the structure of the Rilke poem she explores how engaging with images and allowing them to unfold their meaning within us, allows us to let go into wisdom.

The mandala symbolism...
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Blazing Like the Sun

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Sat, 20 Jun, 2020 - 13:37

Blazing Like the Sun

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Sat, 20 Jun, 2020 - 13:37

Join us this morning at 9 am EST for our Summer Solstice gathering, on Facebook live.

Develop an unlimited
heart of friendliness for
the entire universe…

The Buddha on kindness 

June 20, 2020 @ 9 am EST


 
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Bodhicitta Practice and Order Resources

From Order Connection on Fri, 19 Jun, 2020 - 16:47

Bodhicitta Practice and Order Resources

From Order Connection on Fri, 19 Jun, 2020 - 16:47

Sunday Order Bodhicitta Practice
…and some suggestions for the week ahead
 Sunday 21st June 

Two contradictory trends are discernible in spiritual life: withdrawing from the world and compassion for it. The arising of the Bodhicitta or ‘Will to Enlightenment’ resolves this dichotomy.
‘The Arising of the Bodhicitta - Sangharakshita’ (1965)

Please join for the two meditations this week led by:

Mahamati, UK – first meditation

Ratnashil, (Hindi and English) – second meditation

First meditation:                   Second meditation:
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Dharmabyte: The Archetype of Spaciousness

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 18 Jun, 2020 - 14:00

Dhatvisvari shares her personal journey of relating to the Mandala of the Five Buddhas. We hear about the dream she had on the eve of her ordination in which she met the white Buddha in the centre of the mandala, Vairocana.

From the talk entitled Vairocana given at Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2015.

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Closing the Home Retreat - Meditating in the Mandala

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Thu, 18 Jun, 2020 - 12:05

Closing the Home Retreat - Meditating in the Mandala

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Thu, 18 Jun, 2020 - 12:05

We hope you have enjoyed Meditating in the Mandala with us this week! 

Thank you so much to Tejananda for leading daily sessions, exploring a dynamic, embodied, somatic approach to meditation and Awakening. You can find the recordings of the daily Zoom sessions on the Home Retreat page. You can also find the recordings on this Youtube Playlist.

Please give now, so that we can offer home retreats and other resources to more people like you in the future.

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Final Day - Meditating in the Mandala Home Retreat

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Thu, 18 Jun, 2020 - 10:44

Final Day - Meditating in the Mandala Home Retreat

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Thu, 18 Jun, 2020 - 10:44

It’s the final day of the Home Retreat - Meditating in the Mandala: An Embodied Approach to Awakening! We hope you’ve enjoyed the Home Retreat this week, exploring the Dynamic Mandala and a Somatic approach to meditating.

Join Tejananda live today to draw together all the principles we’ve been exploring so far

USA 8am PST | México 10am | USA 11am EST | UK & IE 4pm | Europe 5pm CET

Today, Tejananda will be...
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For the Earth: The Earth is My Witness

From Buddhist Action on Wed, 17 Jun, 2020 - 12:13

For the Earth: The Earth is My Witness

From Buddhist Action on Wed, 17 Jun, 2020 - 12:13

For the Earth: The Earth is My Witness, by Aryadrishti, Sunday June 21st

USA 11am PST | México 1pm | USA 2pm EST | UK & IE 7pm | Europe 8pm CET

When Mara challenged the Buddha on the verge of enlightenment on his worth, he called the earth as his witness. The earth now is a witness to all the greed, hatred, and delusion of centuries of human occupation. Just as the Buddha saw...
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Tejananda Live Recordings now available - Meditating in the Mandala Home Retreat

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Wed, 17 Jun, 2020 - 11:28

Tejananda Live Recordings now available - Meditating in the Mandala Home Retreat

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Wed, 17 Jun, 2020 - 11:28

If you haven’t been able to meditate at the live Zoom sessions with Tejananda, then there’s good news. The video recordings of each day are now available on the Home Retreat page! Head over there to check them out.

You can still join the live sessions, today and tomorrow

USA 8am PST | México 10am | USA 11am EST | UK & IE 4pm | Europe 5pm CET

The link to connect to Zoom will be available on The Home Retreat page before the event

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Dharmabyte: Restoration to Wholeness

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 14:00

When the whole of oneself is present, something new comes into play - we become more than the sum of our parts. Here we have Ratnaguna describing the stages of integration and positive emotion in the Triratna system of practice.

From the talk entitled The Underlying Pattern of the Spiritual Life given at Manchester Buddhist Centre on 14th April 2012.

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