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Dharmabyte: Enlightenment is Possible

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 19 Apr, 2018 - 14:54

This FBA Dharmabyte is called ‘Enlightenment Is Possible’ by Saddhanandi from the talk Reflecting On the Life of the Buddha.

This is the first of four talks exploring Vasubandhu’s Four Factors. In his treatise Generating Bodhi Resolve, Vasubandhu describes them as able to generate the resolve to cultivate and accumulate the bases for the Arising of the Bodhicitta. You can find out more about them in Sangharakshita’s books The Meaning of Conversion in Buddhism...

Sasanaratna

Why Did We Forget Western Buddhism?

From Shabda Articles on Thu, 19 Apr, 2018 - 01:42

Why Did We Forget Western Buddhism?

I would like to start this article by asking the reader a question, “what is Western Buddhism and who are the Western Buddhists?” I suspect that many people reading this will assume that the term, “Western Buddhism,” can only refer to the work of Sangharakshita and that the most obvious example of Western Buddhists is our own sangha, the Triratna Buddhist Community. If we think of Buddhism, however, as an objective social phenomenon then strictly speaking...

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Confession

From Glasgow Buddhist Centre on Thu, 19 Apr, 2018 - 00:00

In this talk Dassini looks at the individual nature of practising ethics, the need for metta in response to guilt, how to make a confession effective, and the Four Powers of Confession.

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Confession

From Glasgow Buddhist Centre on Thu, 19 Apr, 2018 - 00:00

In this talk Dassini looks at the individual nature of practising ethics, the need for metta in response to guilt, how to make a confession effective, and the Four Powers of Confession.

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Satyalila

50 Years, 50 Voices: Ananda (Highlights)

From Buddhist Voices on Wed, 18 Apr, 2018 - 22:55

So my impression of Bhante was that he was a magician who had some secrets that I wanted to get…

Listen to the whole conversation with Ananda—and subscribe to the Buddhist Voices podcast for more full-length recordings from Fifty Years, Fifty Voices.

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Ananda’s Annals
In 1968 I was a 24 year old hippy living in a Buddhist commune in Purley. I was also a sound engineer working at the BBC. I was ordained into the Western Buddhist Order in April 1968.

In 1978...

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Karuna Looking for Volunteers for Phone Appeal

From Community Highlights on Mon, 9 Apr, 2018 - 15:52

Karuna Looking for Volunteers for Phone Appeal

From Community Highlights on Mon, 9 Apr, 2018 - 15:52

Karuna are looking for volunteers to join them for their telephone appeal, based in the Karuna office in North London as part of this year’s Buddhist Action Month.

Karuna works to end caste-based discrimination, poverty and inequality in India and Nepal. By providing tools, skills and support to grassroots organisations, Karuna can create community champions and build local networks. These networks then spread, benefiting even more people and sustaining the cycle of transformation. You can watch the...

Sadayasihi

New Inter-Buddhist Union formed in Ireland

From Triratna News on Mon, 9 Apr, 2018 - 16:37

New Inter-Buddhist Union formed in Ireland

From Triratna News on Mon, 9 Apr, 2018 - 16:37

Maitrikaya from the Dublin Buddhist Centre writes: “On March 24th 2018 at the historic Rotunda building in Dublin a meeting took place to establish the Irish Buddhist Union (IBU) to represent Buddhism in Ireland. The IBU is a new umbrella association of Buddhist Sanghas and Organisations in Ireland. It is envisioned as a fellowship of Irish Buddhists, intending to bring Buddhist ideas and principles to the attention of wider Irish society.

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Dharmabyte: Opening Up and Letting Go

From Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 18 Apr, 2018 - 16:32

In this Dharmabyte podcast, “Opening Up and Letting Go”, Yashobodhi talks about her personal connection to the tonglen practice and the seven point mind training and about practising tonglen in the moment.

From the talk ‘Remembering the Bodhichitta In Everyday Life’ given on a retreat in Taraloka.

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Dharmabyte: Experience, Then Understanding

From Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 18 Apr, 2018 - 16:24

In this Dharmabyte podcast Ratnaghosha brings us “Experience, Then Understanding”, a short excerpt from the talk entitled The Goal, the sixth talk given on the European Triratna Men’s Convention at Adhisthana on 19 August 2014.

The Men’s Convention, the first to be held at Adhisthana, was based on Milarepa’s final exhortation from “The Shepherd’s Search for Mind”, which provides a complete path, effortlessly combining devotion and meditation.

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Dharmabyte: Knowing the Dangers, Seeking the Noble

From Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 18 Apr, 2018 - 16:16

This FBA Dharmabyte podcast is entitled “Knowing the Dangers, Seeking the Noble” by Dhivan.

Here, Dhivan draws out some of the continuing significance of the story of the noble quest, as a kind of blueprint for the model of the Dharma life as heroic self-development.

From the talk The Buddha’s Noble Quest given at a Sangha evening at Bristol Buddhist Centre.

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