The eighth in a series of eight talks given at the LBC's Dharma Night. An eight-week seminar exploring a practical path to Enlightenment using the five stages of spiritual life: integration, positive emotion, spiritual death, rebirth and spiritual receptivity. We'll be dedicating ourselves to day-to-day practice inspired by the Buddha's example.
From Triratna News on Sat, 9 Mar, 2013 - 05:11EcoDharma is a Triratna retreat centre situated in a beautiful and wild part of the Catalan Pyrenees in Spain. Their community and retreats focus on blending the Buddha’s teaching with the emerging ecological paradigms of our time: sustainability, low-impact living, interconnectedness, and an honouring of the inseparability of the transformation of self and world.
Last month they began a major new project - a forest garden, thanks to a grant from a Swiss-based foundation. Guhyapati, EcoDharma’s founder...
From Triratna News on Fri, 8 Mar, 2013 - 14:06Jenny writes from Triratna’s Leeds Buddhist Centre with news of some great local publicity, saying - “I don’t know if this is of any interest for the Buddhist Centre Online’s news section, but we have just had a full page in the Yorkshire Evening Post. It’s a very big thing for us of course, just thought I’d mention it! You’ll find it here. Best wishes, Jenny”
The piece includes comments by Uddyotani, Leeds’ chairwoman, who...
From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 7 Mar, 2013 - 15:44Our FBA Podcasts and Dharmabytes this month will be all about Art and Beauty as Pathways to Wisdom.
We begin the month with a full-length FBA Podcast from Maitreyabandhu’s Poetry East program offered at the London Buddhist Center: “Poetry East: Sasha Dugdale Interview.”
Sasha Dugdale is a poet and translator. She worked for the British Council in Russia in the 1990s where she set up the Russian New Writing Project with the Royal...
From Triratna News on Thu, 7 Mar, 2013 - 09:56Vidyaruchi writes with news of three interviews with Sangharakshita, made for India’s Lord Buddha TV station. He says - “Following the recent Order Convention at Bodh Gaya, we are pleased to present “United for the Dhamma”, a series of three interviews given by Urgyen Sangharakshita with Maitrivir-Nagarjuna, an Indian Dhammachari.
Made in the summer of 2011, their discussions touch on many of the issues, difficulties and opportunities facing those trying to practise and propagate...
A talk given by Vajratara and Padmavajra at Sangha Night, Sheffield Buddhist Centre 1st July 2008 starting a section on the Vajrayana as part of a series on Great Buddhist Texts.