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Design Competition: A New Logo for Eight Step Recovery

From Windhorse Publications on Fri, 3 Mar, 2017 - 14:44

Design Competition: A New Logo for Eight Step Recovery

From Windhorse Publications on Fri, 3 Mar, 2017 - 14:44

Design Competition: A New Logo for Eight Step Recovery

Now closes 25 April, 2017

Can you help us find a logo for our book, Eight Step Recovery? The winner gets a £100 gift token for books and/or CDs purchased from the Windhorse Publications website.

Eight Step Recovery: Using the Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction by Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John and Dr. Paramabandhu Groves is one of our top selling books. Vimalasara is highly active and runs workshops on addiction recovery, in addition to giving talks...

Mangala

Ode on Friendship seminar notes - Padmaloka 13/2/83. Mangala

From Shabda Articles on Fri, 3 Mar, 2017 - 12:45

Ode on Friendship seminar notes - Padmaloka 13/2/83. Mangala

From Shabda Articles on Fri, 3 Mar, 2017 - 12:45

Below are the notes I made during a seminar led by Bhante at Padmaloka on 13/2/83. The text he used was “An Ode on Friendship” by Dr Johnson and it was the first time Bhante had led study on a non-Buddhist text.

The seminar shows very clearly the great value Dr Johnson (and Bhante) place on friendship and as such is well worth looking at and hopefully being inspired by. It also shows that Bhante never promoted homosexuality as an end in itself,...

Read more about Ode on Friendship seminar notes - Padmaloka 13/2/83. Mangala

mokshini

Buddhist Action Month 2017 - preparing the ground!

From Buddhist Action on Thu, 2 Mar, 2017 - 13:41

Buddhist Action Month 2017 - preparing the ground!

From Buddhist Action on Thu, 2 Mar, 2017 - 13:41

Re-posted from the BAM 2016 space:

Buddhist Action Month 2017 is three months away but here is something to literally prepare the ground for it: a tree planting and meditation retreat, organised by Satyadasa from the LBC with Trees for Life in the Highlands - it sounds great!

This is the event page on the LBC site where you’ll find more info:

Re-wilding the Mind

Dates are from 27/05/2017 to 03/06/2017, and it is led by Satyadasa

mokshini

Buddhist Action Month 2017 starts here

From Buddhist Action Month 2016 on Thu, 2 Mar, 2017 - 13:35

Buddhist Action Month 2017 starts here

From Buddhist Action Month 2016 on Thu, 2 Mar, 2017 - 13:35

Dear friends,

it feels a bit like spring as I write this, and perhaps that is an auspicious time to turn our minds to Buddhist Action Month 2017.

I know that some Triratna Centres and their respective ‘engaged Buddhist’ groups have already got plans for June and what they want to see happening during Buddhist Action Month; but for others this might be a first reminder that it is not too soon to turn our minds to the early summer and start thinking what...

Sanghanistha

Men's Eastern Region Order Weekend Programme OM

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 2 Mar, 2017 - 13:27

Men's Eastern Region Order Weekend Programme OM

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 2 Mar, 2017 - 13:27

Celebrating Dhardo Rimpoche - The Bodhisattva Precepts

3rd - 5th March

Click here to book

Friday

18.30 Supper
20.00 Introduction to Weekend in Shrineroom followed by Puja

Saturday

6.30 Rise
7.00 Double Meditation
9.00 Breakfast
10.30 - 12.45 Study Groups
(Tea Break 11.30 -11.45)
13.00 Lunch
14.30 - 15.30 Optional Open Q&A Session
16.30 Bodhicitta Practice led by Satyaraja
18.00 Supper
19.45 Green Tara Sadhana led by Manjusiha followed by Puja

Sunday

6.30 Double Meditation
9.00 Breakfast
10.30...

Read more about Men's Eastern Region Order Weekend Programme

mokshini

Event Planning Guide

From Buddhist Action on Thu, 2 Mar, 2017 - 13:25

You can also find this Event Planning Guide in the Buddhist Action Month Handbook 2016

File Name	Size
BAM event planning guide	102.63 KB

mokshini

A very short History of Buddhist Action Month in the UK

From Buddhist Action on Thu, 2 Mar, 2017 - 13:06

A very short History of Buddhist Action Month in the UK

From Buddhist Action on Thu, 2 Mar, 2017 - 13:06

A Short History of BAM

BAM is the UK’s Buddhist Action Month - a festival of Buddhist social action held across Britain every June. Conceived by the Network of Buddhist Organisations UK (NBO) (www.nbo.org.uk), it keeps expanding.

It all started with …

A Year of Service and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, 2012
As part of national celebrations marking the Diamond Jubilee, 2012 saw Buddhists taking part in the year-long national UK inter-faith project, ‘A Year of...

Nandavajra

Vajrasana Retreat Centre: opportunity to join the residential team

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Wed, 1 Mar, 2017 - 18:55

Vajrasana Retreat Centre: opportunity to join the residential team

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Wed, 1 Mar, 2017 - 18:55

Vajrasana Retreat Centre is looking for a new member to join the residential team

The newly rebuilt Vajrasana Retreat Centre is now fully open and running a large programme of retreats. There is an on-site residential community of Dharmachari’s (Abhayavajra, Jnanaruchi and Saddhaketu) and an opportunity to join this team has become available.

The LBC is now inviting expressions of interest from any male Order member or experienced GFR Mitra who would be interested in living and working at Vajrasana.

The suitable candidate will...