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A meditation toolkit for challenging times

From North London Buddhist Centre on Tue, 14 Apr, 2020 - 18:09

A meditation toolkit for challenging times

From North London Buddhist Centre on Tue, 14 Apr, 2020 - 18:09

Tuesday 14 April 19:00-21:00

Visuddhimati will lead an evening exploring how meditation can help us meet the ups and downs of life. The evening will include a session of meditation followed by discussion with some ideas for ways of practising relevant to times of challenge.
Join Zoom Meeting here: Meeting ID: 538 283 668.

And a going deeper meditation session every Tuesday from 21 April, 7-9 pm, Zoom link here. Meeting ID: 469 927 879; Password: 975344

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Windhorse Publi...

Week 4 of ‘Free the Dharma’: announcing this week’s free eBook

From Windhorse Publications on Tue, 14 Apr, 2020 - 17:27

Week 4 of ‘Free the Dharma’: announcing this week’s free eBook

From Windhorse Publications on Tue, 14 Apr, 2020 - 17:27

As the coronavirus situation rolls out across the world, there has been a proliferation of creativity – everything from amateur dramatics and puns to the broadcasting of art and music. Some high-profile musicians have been live streaming from their bedrooms.

Art in all its forms allows us to be fully human, to create meaning and to nurture what unites us. That’s why this week’s free eBook is The Poet’s Way by Manjusvara. You can download it here. It will be available until the...

Padmadaka

Ambedkar Jayanti! Support Karuna's Emergency Appeal

From Karuna Fundraisers on Tue, 14 Apr, 2020 - 03:14

Ambedkar Jayanti! Support Karuna's Emergency Appeal

From Karuna Fundraisers on Tue, 14 Apr, 2020 - 03:14

Sanghanath has been connected with Karuna throughout his life. When he was a child he benefited from a Karuna project in his village in India and now he works for the Karuna fundraising team here in the UK.

Today is “Ambedkar Jayanti” and, like many people across India and the rest of the world, Sanghanath will be celebrating Dr Ambedkar’s legacy today from home. Ambedkar not only gave India its constitution but he also did so much for the liberation of women,...

Centre Team

Celebrating Dr. Ambedkar's Birthday Online!

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Tue, 14 Apr, 2020 - 00:02

Celebrating Dr. Ambedkar's Birthday Online!

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Tue, 14 Apr, 2020 - 00:02

To celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Doctor B. R. Ambedkar, one of the great Buddhist leaders of modern times and the radical father of the Indian Constitution, a personal tribute from Sanghanath at the Karuna Trust about his enduring legacy as a champion of social justice for all humans.

Doctor Ambedkar’s relevance in India to the fight against caste prejudice is stronger than ever, especially amongst the former so-called “untouchable” Dalit peoples now converted to Buddhism to escape...

akasajoti

Nature Reflections from Taraloka

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 - 22:11

Nature Reflections from Taraloka

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 - 22:11

Steeped in her love of both the natural world and the Dharma, Maitridevi is offering us her ‘nature-thought-for-the-day’ reflections and short meditations every day this week, connecting us with some of the burgeoning spring-time life at Taraloka. She’s calling them ‘a naturalist-Dharma melange’!

You can find them over on Taraloka’s YouTube channel, along with a series of videos of Hridayagita teaching Tai Chi Shibashi, to support you to remain grounded, embodied, and sensitive to the...

Centre Team

Global Community India! (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 15)

From Community Highlights on Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 - 19:46

This week we are celebrating the anniversary of the birth of Doctor B. R. Ambedkar, one of the great Buddhist leaders of modern times and the radical father of the Indian Constitution. Today’s episode of the Toolkit Daily focusses on what it means to be a global community and explores Dr. Ambedkar’s vision of common humanity based around the evolution of just societies.

Our guests, Arun Bodh and Dayamudra, are from Jai Bhim International and Lokuttara Leadership...

The SoundCloud content at https://soundcloud.com/thebuddhistcentre/the-dharma-toolkit-daily-episode-15-global-community-india is not available, or it is set to private.

Centre Team

Painting Into Reality (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 14)

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sun, 12 Apr, 2020 - 01:05

Abhayavajra loves painting. He loves paint itself. And sees himself more like an archaeologist, revealing something urgent and crucial about the human condition by adding rather than scraping away layers.

A totally delightful conversation about the quest to integrate and unite Dharma practice with the steady, disciplined practice of an art form. We discuss how appreciating beauty itself is like a healing force at times of stress; and how art itself can be a properly adequate response to suffering in the kind...

The SoundCloud content at https://soundcloud.com/thebuddhistcentre/the-dharma-toolkit-daily-episode-14-painting-into-reality is not available, or it is set to private.

aryaketu

Aryaloka Corona Relief Emergency Appeal

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sat, 11 Apr, 2020 - 17:12

Aryaloka Corona Relief Emergency Appeal

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sat, 11 Apr, 2020 - 17:12

The Covid19 pandemic affects all of us and highlights our global interconnectedness. We are all suffering but those suffering most are those with the fewest resources – the poorest and most vulnerable in our societies. Nowhere more so than in India where the rapid nation-wide lockdown on 22 March has resulted in untold misery and hardship for many millions of daily labourers unable now to leave their homes to work and feed their families. Even worse hit are the many...

Ratnaprabha

Saturday morning meditation

From North London Buddhist Centre on Fri, 10 Apr, 2020 - 21:20

Saturday morning meditation

From North London Buddhist Centre on Fri, 10 Apr, 2020 - 21:20

10:30 am meditation every Saturday, please log in at 10:15 for 10:30.

Suitable for new and experienced meditators. This week (11 April) with Karunagita, finish about 11:30.

Zoom login each week here. If you can, please donate £5 or more here.

kusaladevi

Personal Reflections from the Week - Sailing the Worldly Winds Home Retreat

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Fri, 10 Apr, 2020 - 19:21

Personal Reflections from the Week - Sailing the Worldly Winds Home Retreat

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Fri, 10 Apr, 2020 - 19:21

It’s been quite a busy week for me - I started two new jobs in the last three weeks and have had various deadlines this week. But despite that, I have still enjoyed and benefited greatly from the Home Retreat. Thinking about Vajragupta’s reflections has given me a very particular focus to my Dharma practice this week, and helped me...

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