From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 21 Jan, 2013 - 16:44Our Weekly Free Podcasts, released every Saturday, gives our listeners a variety of topics to explore from our vast Buddhist library. This month we’ve been exploring how the Buddha’s teachings can really radically change the world.
Here Vajragupta explores the potential of the Buddha’s teachings to transform society, starting with seeing how the Dhamma has helped millions of people who’ve suffered under the Hindu...
Manjuvajra sets the scene for this series of 8 talks with the questions 'Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going?' and starts to answer them by setting our lives in the context of the miracle of evolution over 13 billion years - this is our inheritance - are we making the most of it?
In this series of five talks given on a Going for Refuge retreat, Padmavajra attempts to explore some aspects of Sangharakshita's insights into the Bodhicitta, as well as how we might live a life devoted to living from the Bodhicitta.
Talk 1: Going for Refuge and the Arising of the Bodhicitta
The centrality of Going for Refuge; the levels of Going for Refuge; the dimensions of Going for Refuge; the Arising of the Bodhicitta as the altruistic dimension; avoiding pseudo-spiritual self-referential aestheticism; Self and Other and the nature of spiritual development.
In this series of five talks given on a Going for Refuge retreat, Padmavajra attempts to explore some aspects of Sangharakshita's insights into the Bodhicitta, as well as how we might live a life devoted to living from the Bodhicitta.
Talk 2: The Bodhicitta - A supra-personal spiritual force
Bodhicitta in Bhante's Awakening of the Bodhi Heart; Bhante's commentary on pseudo-Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana; the Bodhicitta an irruption of the Transcendental; Bodhicitta as a supra-personal force; examples from Bhante's life; Bodhicitta and the Spiritual Community; The Order as the Eleven-Headed and Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara.
From Triratna News on Fri, 18 Jan, 2013 - 06:32Amalavajra writes with news of an extraordinary response to the recently launched ‘Self-Reliant India’ fundraising campaign he’s currently coordinating on behalf of Triratna’s India Dhamma Trust. He says -
“Within six weeks, Order Members from around the world have given £75,000 in one-off gifts to seed fund three new fundraising projects initiated by Triratna’s Indian Ordination Teams.
Whilst many of us strongly support Triratna’s Dharma work in India, there is also a feeling that more funds...
From The Coding Kula! on Thu, 17 Jan, 2013 - 19:34Message in a Binary Bottle is an awesome wee piece by Cabel Sasser on finding hidden coder messages in old video games. It’s my *subtly coded* way of a) saying Happy New Year to all members of the Coding Kula after my much needed two month break, b) getting to post this amazing picture (which is an image for how doing this project feels at times!), and c) renewing our request for help with specialist areas on the...
From Online Meditators on Thu, 17 Jan, 2013 - 14:31***UPDATED*** Happening today!
NB. We’ll post the live link to join the hangout on our Google + page around 11.15/4.15/9.45!
Hi all, we’ll be doing a second online sit this week, same time as last: Thursday 17th January, 11.30am EST, 4.30pm UK, 10pm Maharashtra time. We’d love you to join us!
Since Skype had trouble handling our numbers last time, we thought we’d try out Google Hangout, which you can access...
From North London Buddhist Centre on Wed, 16 Jan, 2013 - 17:07Subhuti visited the NLBC in November 2012 bringing with him three guests, Amoghasiddhi, Yashosagar and Amrutdeep: Preceptors visiting from India. The four Dharmacaris talk about their inspirations in the Dharma Life. The Indian Preceptors offer some delightful critical feedback on the Western Sangha.
Manjuvajra sets the scene for this series of 8 talks with the questions 'Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going?' and starts to answer them by setting our lives in the context of the miracle of evolution over 13 billion years - this is our inheritance - are we making the most of it?
In this series of five talks given on a Going for Refuge retreat, Padmavajra attempts to explore some aspects of Sangharakshita's insights into the Bodhicitta, as well as how we might live a life devoted to living from the Bodhicitta.
