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Watch This Space For Live Coverage of the 2018 Order Convention in India!

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 1 Feb, 2018 - 10:00

Watch This Space For Live Coverage of the 2018 Order Convention in India!

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 1 Feb, 2018 - 10:00

Over the next week or so we’ll be offering online coverage from the 50th Anniversary Order Convention from Bodhgaya, India.

Most of the Convention will be public, and (the internet gods permitting!) we’ll share content – talks, mantras, podcasts, pictures, videos, livestreams – on The Buddhist Centre Online, and around our social media channels.

We’ll be getting things underway with a live stream of Public Ordinations that will take place on Saturday under the Bodhi tree at the Mahabodhi temple, commemorating the spot where Buddha is said...

Sangharakshita

Rainbows in the Sky

From Shabda Articles on Wed, 31 Jan, 2018 - 15:51

Rainbows in the Sky

From Shabda Articles on Wed, 31 Jan, 2018 - 15:51

Open to all - see https://www.sangharakshita.org/writings.html

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!

So wrote Wordsworth in 1802. More than two hundred years later my heart, too, leaps up when I see a rainbow, as does the heart of anyone who is capable of responding...

Read more about Rainbows in the Sky

Rijupatha

Tuesday Meditation: Exploring the Dhyanas

From Online Meditators on Tue, 30 Jan, 2018 - 17:02

Tuesday Meditation: Exploring the Dhyanas

From Online Meditators on Tue, 30 Jan, 2018 - 17:02

The dhyanas (or jhanas) are concentrated mental states where distracted mind falls away, a more refined awareness steps in, and deep contentment is cultivated. In this four-week series we’ll explore the dhyanas in meditation and try to catch a glimpse of them for ourselves.

Meditation sessions begin at 2:30pm ET / 7:30pm UK on Google Hangout, and the series will be on the following dates:
Jan 30
Feb 6
Feb 13
Feb 20

>> Join...

Dhammalata

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...

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