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Moving from darkness to light - being on retreat in India

From Triratna News on Thu, 11 Oct, 2012 - 08:12

Moving from darkness to light - being on retreat in India

From Triratna News on Thu, 11 Oct, 2012 - 08:12Bhaja Retreat Centre - funded by Triratna’s Karuna Trust - is located in a rural area between Pune and Mumbai. Away from the crowded slums India, Bhaja is a rural idyll located between Pune and Mumbai (in western India).

Imagine living in a one room shack, amidst hundreds if not thousands of others with corrugated roofs that trap the harsh Indian sun. There is no running water, you have to walk a mile or more to collect that, to...

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Padmasambhava Day 2012

From Sheffield Buddhist Centre on Wed, 10 Oct, 2012 - 11:23

Padmasambhava Day 2012

From Sheffield Buddhist Centre on Wed, 10 Oct, 2012 - 11:23Padmavajra has been a devotee of the ‘Precious Guru’, Padmasambhava, for over 35 years and is a very inspiring practitioner and speaker. To help us celebrate Padmasambhava Day at Sheffield Buddhist Centre, Padmavajra explores Padmasambhava as ‘teacher’, and 5 different types of teacher/teaching.

lokabandhu

Vegan talks from the Sheffield Vegan Feast day

From Vegan Buddhist on Wed, 10 Oct, 2012 - 09:26

Vegan talks from the Sheffield Vegan Feast day

From Vegan Buddhist on Wed, 10 Oct, 2012 - 09:26Kate Arrowsmith

The Sheffield Buddhist Centre recently held a ‘Vegan Feast day’ - here’s alionk to three short talks given on the day. Just follow the link http://www.sheffieldbuddhistcentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Vegan-Feast-Day-2-edit.mp3 .

Viryabodhi

Violence and religion

From Stockholms buddhistcenter on Tue, 9 Oct, 2012 - 07:26

Violence and religion

From Stockholms buddhistcenter on Tue, 9 Oct, 2012 - 07:26Last night Ratnaguna gave this wonderful talk at the Stockholms Buddhistcenter. You can download it from fba.
http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=LOC1400

The poem he ends with got a little cut off, right at the end. Here it is in full:

The Place Where We Are Right
by Yehuda Amichai

From the place where we are right
Flowers will never grow
In the spring.

The place where we are right
Is...

lokabandhu

Karuna creates new Dhamma Seed Fund

From Triratna News on Tue, 9 Oct, 2012 - 05:36

Karuna creates new Dhamma Seed Fund

From Triratna News on Tue, 9 Oct, 2012 - 05:36Day 2 of our ‘India Week’ on Triratna News features the Karuna Trust’s new ‘Dhamma Seed Fund’, set up to make grants to new Buddhist groups across India, however small. It complements the larger ‘Dhamma’ grants given to other parts of the Triratna Buddhist community in India, notably our main retreat centres there, Bhaja and Bor Dharan. The new fund is closely linked to the work of the Nagarjuna Training Institute, Triratna’s campus facility in India...

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Violence and Religion - a Buddhist View

From Stockholms buddhistcenter on Tue, 9 Oct, 2012 - 00:00

In this challenging talk Ratnaguna explores some of the causes of violence, giving examples of violence in the Buddhist tradition. He also talks about the Buddha's own radical non-violent approach, mirrored in Dalai Lama's, Thich Nhat Hanh's and Sangharakshita's words. He ends with encouraging us to take up five practical and helpful precepts. (given 8-10-2012 and part of a series on 'Buddhism and the big questions.')

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Candradasa

Death and the Self, and the Buddha's Unanswered Questions

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 8 Oct, 2012 - 18:47

This is – as usual! – a brilliant and entertaining talk from Vaddhaka on the 10 (sometimes 14) unanswered questions I mentioned in passing in my first talk on ‘Religion Without God. I’ll probably refer to these again later in the series so I thought I’d post this talk here as a reference and resource. It also includes the wonderful story of the Buddha’s teaching about removing the poisoned arrow from your eye, as...

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viriyalila

Right Realism, Money and the Game of Life

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 8 Oct, 2012 - 18:02

Right Realism, Money and the Game of Life

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 8 Oct, 2012 - 18:02New Talk from Windhorse Evolution

In ‘Right Realism, Money and the Game of Life’, given at Windhorse Evolution in Cambridge, Saddharaja talks about his impressions of visiting India and witnessing the rise of economic development of the sub-continent. He explores some history of the business relationship that has existed between India and the UK - over hundreds of years.

He goes on to explore the importance of personal money within the lives of...

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