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Shabda February 2024

From Order Connection on Thu, 1 Feb, 2024 - 14:36

Here is the latest edition of Shabda in five digital formats:

  • eBook Shabda .EPUB – read on most other eBook readers (eg Nook or Kobo, etc) and most eReader apps on tablets, smartphones etc.
  • eBook Shabda .MOBI – This format is now deprecated, but this can still be used on older Kindle devices, and some older eReader apps on tablets, smartphones, etc.
  • PDF Shabda – read with any PDF reader
  • HTML Shabda (zip file) – unzip, and then read with any web browser
  • Print Shabda:
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Chair's Letter – January 2024

From College of Public Preceptors on Wed, 31 Jan, 2024 - 20:00

Chair's Letter – January 2024

From College of Public Preceptors on Wed, 31 Jan, 2024 - 20:00

Dear Order members and friends,

December and January were relatively quiet months for me. Zoom meetings and emails tend to ease up over the festive season and I was able to spend two weeks in Wales doing house repairs and having some time to myself as well as catching up with family; it was my mother’s 95th birthday in early January.

The women’s Area Order weekend back at the beginning of December – which is traditionally...

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Donation based Integrative Medicine Consultation for Buddhafield Base

From Buddhafield on Tue, 30 Jan, 2024 - 13:28

Donation based Integrative Medicine Consultation for Buddhafield Base

From Buddhafield on Tue, 30 Jan, 2024 - 13:28

Is it time to sort out your health, whilst funding our Buddhafield Base Project?

Why not get guidance from a holistic doctor on how to optimise your lifestyle.

Offering lifestyle medicine consultations online or from her practice in Bath, Antonia is offering sessions on a donation basis raising funds for the Buddhafield Base Project (find out more about Base here: https://buddhafieldbase.com).

Find out more about Antonia’s offering here: https://holisticfamilypractice.co.uk/buddhafield-base-ambassador/

With deep gratitude to Antonia for being a Base Ambassador from all of us in...

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Maitriyogini

An immersion in the Dharma

From Adhisthana on Wed, 24 Jan, 2024 - 10:30

An immersion in the Dharma

From Adhisthana on Wed, 24 Jan, 2024 - 10:30

One day a devotee asked why it was that, while so many embarked on the spiritual life, so few seemed to make real progress. Ramdas’s reply was unequivocal. They failed to make any real progress for two reasons, he said. Firstly, because they have no clear idea of the
goal they wished to reach. Secondly, because they have no clear idea of how to get there.

From the young Sangharakshita’s account of his visit to Ramdas at Anandashram in South India during...

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Liz Evers

New book available for sponsorship: ‘First Aid Kit for the Mind’ by Vimalasara

From Windhorse Publications on Thu, 18 Jan, 2024 - 14:17

New book available for sponsorship: ‘First Aid Kit for the Mind’ by Vimalasara

From Windhorse Publications on Thu, 18 Jan, 2024 - 14:17

We would like to introduce you, and invite you to sponsor, the forthcoming book First Aid Kit for the Mind: Breaking the Cycle of Habitual Behaviors by Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John.

Do you struggle with how to respond to being triggered, or with painful habits that you just can’t shift? Help is at hand. Due to be published this May, this illustrated pocketbook will help give you courage to take your life back into your own hands. 

An award-winning author and speaker,...

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bethbuddhafield

Buddhafield - At Home with the Elements - Voices of the Rain

From Buddhafield on Sat, 13 Jan, 2024 - 12:54

Buddhafield - At Home with the Elements - Voices of the Rain

From Buddhafield on Sat, 13 Jan, 2024 - 12:54

“Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them. Sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever.” 

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, 2013

This year, At Home With the Elements invites us to open our hearts, minds, arms and all our senses to the voices of the rain: the wisdom and the nourishment of the rest of the natural world. What...

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Vilasamuni

2024 Dharma Life Course for Young Men

From Adhisthana on Mon, 8 Jan, 2024 - 12:56

2024 Dharma Life Course for Young Men

From Adhisthana on Mon, 8 Jan, 2024 - 12:56

27 August – 17 December 2024
Applications due Friday 1 March 2024

A four-month residential course providing you with an opportunity to live an intensive dharma life: living, practising, studying, and working together within the context of Adhisthana. 

Over 16 weeks you’ll receive a grounding in the principles and practice of Triratna Buddhism through retreats, study with experienced teachers and communal living. You’ll also participate in the life of the wider Adhisthana sangha: meditating together, performing ritual, developing kalyana mitrata and joining in with...

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Suddhayu

How to be as Kind as a Buddha — Practices to Cultivate Kindness for Self and Community

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 1 Jan, 2024 - 18:14

How to be as Kind as a Buddha — Practices to Cultivate Kindness for Self and Community

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 1 Jan, 2024 - 18:14

How to be as Kind as a Buddha —
Practices to Cultivate Kindness for Self and Community

Meditation, Dharma, Community —  every Sunday 10-11:45am ET,  in-person at Gateway Taiji or online on Zoom, beginning  January 7.

“Even as a mother protects with her life
Her child, her only child,
So with a boundless heart
Should one cherish all living beings:
Radiating kindness over the entire world
Spreading upwards to the skies,
And...

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