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Do you notice the bad bricks?

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 30 Jan, 2018 - 00:45

Do you notice the bad bricks?

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 30 Jan, 2018 - 00:45

Two offerings for you this week:

Saturday night (Feb 3) 7pm Coogee Croquet Clubrooms

Showing some of short films from Tricycle Magazine’s Buddhist Film Club

BYO Vego food and drinks to share

and

One of the fellas who comes along to our Monday Night Men’s Dharma Study at The Sydney Buddhist Centre shared this Ajahn Brahm clip with us and it brought tears to my eyes so I thought I’d share it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiu7iHzYQhQ

Hope you...

Sadayasihi

5 Years of The Buddhist Centre Online: #1 New Online Spaces and Physical Places

From Buddhist Centre Features on Mon, 29 Jan, 2018 - 17:56

5 Years of The Buddhist Centre Online: #1 New Online Spaces and Physical Places

From Buddhist Centre Features on Mon, 29 Jan, 2018 - 17:56

“Civic spaces are an extension of the community. When they work well, they serve as a stage for our public lives. If they function in their true civic role, they can be the settings where celebrations are held, where exchanges both social and economic take place, where friends run into each other, and where cultures mix.” [1]

Since The Buddhist Centre officially launched 5 years ago many web spaces have sprung into being which allow greater community building across Triratna as...

Candradasa

Now We Are 5: Happy Birthday To The Buddhist Centre Online!

From Buddhist Centre Features on Mon, 29 Jan, 2018 - 13:12

Now We Are 5: Happy Birthday To The Buddhist Centre Online!

From Buddhist Centre Features on Mon, 29 Jan, 2018 - 13:12

The Buddhist Centre Online is officially 5 years old this month! We first started conversations about what to do with Triratna’s web presence in 2008 and launched some limited public test spaces in 2011, gradually adding social media channels for the project and starting to experiment with content for it all. But it wasn’t till January 2013 that we launched the site as it is today, and we’re going to mark our first big birthday each month with a series of looks...

Maitrimati

The Great Gathering - A Greater Love: Maha Maitri

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Sat, 27 Jan, 2018 - 15:07

The Great Gathering - A Greater Love: Maha Maitri

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Sat, 27 Jan, 2018 - 15:07

Taraloka 7th-10th June

“If you take friendship seriously, you bring in, sooner or later, the whole of the Dharma.” At the first Great Gathering for nearly ten years, come and celebrate Triratna’s unique emphasis on the practice of friendship as a path.

Our teacher Sangharakshita has said: “It is in friendship (maitri) that we may find the emotional equivalent of the intellectual understanding of the doctrine of ‘no self’”, and that if we were to really practise the first precept -...

Munisha

Meeting Ratnadharini 22-29 March

From Orden i Sverige on Thu, 25 Jan, 2018 - 10:54

Meeting Ratnadharini 22-29 March

From Orden i Sverige on Thu, 25 Jan, 2018 - 10:54

Dear Friends,

As previously advertised Ratnadharini will visit Stockholm (as president) 22nd to 29th March 2018. When he returns from India, Prasadacarin will arrange the programme for her visit, so if you would like to meet her, or have any other suggestions for an event during her stay, //prasadacarin [at] gmail.com" rel="nofollow">please let him know.

Her visit includes an Order day open to all Order members in Sweden, 10-4 on Saturday 24th March at Stockholm Buddhist Centre. catherine.hopper [at] gmail.com...

Munisha

Inte för sent att boka Nordisk ordenshelg 22-25 februari

From Orden i Sverige on Thu, 25 Jan, 2018 - 10:46

Inte för sent att boka Nordisk ordenshelg 22-25 februari

From Orden i Sverige on Thu, 25 Jan, 2018 - 10:46

Vill du vara med på Nordisk Ordenshelgen 22-25 februari at Dharmagiri så boka du nu!

https://stockholmsbuddhistcenter.se/nordic-order-weekend-22-25-feb/

We start with dinner on Thursday evening, and finish around noon on the Sunday.

The focus for the Regional Order Weekend will be the living current of our practice.

We will start Friday morning with reporting in, with focus on the living current of our practice in our lives, where possible set in a mythic context. We might carry on reporting in in the afternoon as needed. In the evening we...

Dhammalata

Meditation This Week

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Thu, 25 Jan, 2018 - 03:41

Meditation This Week

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Thu, 25 Jan, 2018 - 03:41

Apologies for the late email this week but I’ve been sorting out who might be able to lead our regular meditation sits while both Padmadakini and I are on (two different) retreats.

So …..

Tonight (Thursday) no meditation

Sunday 8- 9 am (led by Jim who is a highly experienced teacher and practitioner of meditation)

And …..

Please put Saturday week into your diaries and join us at the Croquet Club for The Short Buddhist Film Festival

7 pm and...

Centre Team

Abhaya On Beauty and The Imagination as Ways to Liberation - New Podcast

From Buddhist Centre Features on Wed, 24 Jan, 2018 - 14:51

A deep-dive of a conversation between Abhaya and Satyalila, framing the practice of the Dharma as a path towards beauty, letting go, and liberation of the heart and mind.

Abhaya speaks frankly about the very early days of the FWBO (now Triratna) and how his understanding of Urgyen Sangharakshita’s systematic approach has evolved alongside his personal connection to his teacher and friend. We also hear how his early inspiration around the Tibetan text translated as ‘Self Liberation Through Seeing with Naked...

Liz_Bassett

A Library for Cuernavaca Centre, Mexico

From FutureDharma on Tue, 23 Jan, 2018 - 13:42

A Library for Cuernavaca Centre, Mexico

From FutureDharma on Tue, 23 Jan, 2018 - 13:42

Deepening Dharma practice, building sangha, outreach to other people - all of these are happening in Mexico at the Cuernavaca Buddhist Centre thanks to gifts to FutureDharma Fund.

The Cuernavaca sangha have worked together to create a library full of Dharma books and electronic resources.

They tell us that the political situation in Mexico has led to much social inequality. Many young people have never had the opportunity to use a library. The sangha have created the library as a place of inspiration...

punyamala

Some Thoughts on Motherhood: the Path of Loving and Letting Go by Punyamala

From Adhisthana Kula on Tue, 23 Jan, 2018 - 10:00

Some Thoughts on Motherhood: the Path of Loving and Letting Go by Punyamala

From Adhisthana Kula on Tue, 23 Jan, 2018 - 10:00

In this article, I want to explore my experience of being a Dharmacharini and a mother. The lifestyle that we live is significant as it creates the conditions in which we shall be practicing the Dharma and not all life styles are equally supportive of spiritual practice. The conditions in which we live will unquestionably have an effect on our Dharma life. Being a Buddhist in a secular, material society is hard. Being a mother is demanding so anyone who...

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