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'Tiny homes' for San Francisco's homeless

From Triratna News on Sun, 18 Jun, 2017 - 23:49

'Tiny homes' for San Francisco's homeless

From Triratna News on Sun, 18 Jun, 2017 - 23:49

It’s 50 years since San Francisco’s ‘Summer of Love’, and with Buddhist Action Month in full swing across many countries, it’s a great moment to celebrate American Order member Vimalamoksha and his Tiny Homes Project, making innovative small wooden mobile homes for those living on the streets of San Francisco. Video by Prasadachitta.

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Triratna International Gathering 24th-28th August 2017

From Triratna News on Sat, 17 Jun, 2017 - 23:09

Triratna International Gathering 24th-28th August 2017

From Triratna News on Sat, 17 Jun, 2017 - 23:09

Triratna Buddhist Centres from across Europe, Adhisthana and Buddhafield are joining forces for the fifth Triratna International Gathering Thursday 24th August to Monday 28th August 2017 at Adhisthana, UK. The title of the event is ‘Our Future Dharma: What the World Needs Now’.

The International Gathering is a very special opportunity to experience a large outdoor gathering of people from all over the Triratna world, mostly (but not all) camping, in beautiful countryside. Come and get an inspiring, deep and moving sense of the wider Triratna...

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Triratna 50th anniversary celebrations

From Triratna News on Fri, 16 Jun, 2017 - 23:44

Triratna 50th anniversary celebrations

From Triratna News on Fri, 16 Jun, 2017 - 23:44

Clear Vision’s latest NewsByte video reports on some of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the founding of Triratna (as the FWBO) on 8th April 1967.

We visit the joint northern English centres’ celebration at Sheffield Buddhist Centre, the events at Adhisthana and Dhanakosa (UK) and the mainland European celebrations held at Essen (Germany). We hear about the culture and zeitgeist of Britain in the late 1960s, in which the FWBO and WBO were created. And we hear from Ratnaguna...

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Invitation to online reflection group, 4 Noble Truths.

From Buddhist Action on Fri, 16 Jun, 2017 - 22:10

Invitation to online reflection group, 4 Noble Truths.

From Buddhist Action on Fri, 16 Jun, 2017 - 22:10

Hello dear ones,

In honour of the month of Buddhist action we invite all of you to realize a weekly reflection about the Four Noble Truths.

Each week we will upload our reflection to a shared folder on Internet, where we can also see what our companions have thought. The idea is to deepen in the Dharma and later learn from other points of view on the same subject.

There is no experience needed to participate, and each week goes together with extracts of the Noble...

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Goodbye from Blazing in the Fires of Sunyata

From Adhisthana on Fri, 16 Jun, 2017 - 19:00

Goodbye from Blazing in the Fires of Sunyata

From Adhisthana on Fri, 16 Jun, 2017 - 19:00

This is the last post from the week’s retreat on Blazing in the Fires of Sunyata. Thank you for following! It’s been very satisfying to know that we’re reaching some more people around the world and sharing some glimpses and content from what’s happening at Adhisthana.

You can find all of the posts and presentations from the week here.

We’ll be doing the same again from the Manjughosa Stuti Sadhana retreat later on in the year; and...

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Coming-of-age ritual in Essen, Germany

From Triratna News on Fri, 16 Jun, 2017 - 17:05

Coming-of-age ritual in Essen, Germany

From Triratna News on Fri, 16 Jun, 2017 - 17:05

Jnanacandra is Chair of Triratna’s Essen Buddhist Centre, in Germany. She writes about their recent Jugendfeier – a rite of passage for adolescents – held on 5th June for four teenage boys. Open the pictures fully to see the very evident love and appreciation of the boys and their parents!

“This beautifully designed ceremony ritually marked the end of the boys’ childhood and their embarking on the path toward adulthood. About 60 people were present, mostly from the boys’ families,...

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Willingly Inviting Ruin: Blazing in the Fires of Sunyata

From Adhisthana on Fri, 16 Jun, 2017 - 16:51

Willingly Inviting Ruin: Blazing in the Fires of Sunyata

From Adhisthana on Fri, 16 Jun, 2017 - 16:51

Lokeshvara speaks of the culmination of metta in Equanimity, and describes two ways of seeing Upekkha – as the outward radiation of goodwill that makes no distinction between living beings; and as the inner attitude of complete equanimity as life flows in, the attitude when abandoning the welcoming and rebelling of the worldly winds.

He expresses very personally, and insightfully, his own practice of developing this second aspect of equanimity, as a practice of ‘willingly inviting ruin”, referring to this poem by...

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Bodhicitta Practice - Parami - Blazing in the Fires of Sunyata OM

From Adhisthana on Fri, 16 Jun, 2017 - 16:26

Each afternoon of the retreat is devoted to the Bodhicitta practice, variations on a theme, led by a few members of the team drawing on their own approaches and inspirations.

Here we have Parami leading through the practice with a brief introduction.

+follow Adhisthana here and on Facebook to hear, see, and read more of the story of Blazing in the Fires of Sunyata.

Read more about Bodhicitta Practice - Parami - Blazing in the Fires of Sunyata

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West London Buddhist Centre Buddhist Action Day

From Buddhist Action on Fri, 16 Jun, 2017 - 07:20

West London Buddhist Centre Buddhist Action Day

From Buddhist Action on Fri, 16 Jun, 2017 - 07:20

Do join us @ the WLBC tomorrow (Saturday) 10.30-4.30pm, for A Buddhist Action Day including local engagement with the nearby ‘Meanwhile Gardens’ Project in the afternoon. Followed by a film showing and discussion of the beautiful and thought provoking ‘Nostalgia for the Light’, 6-9pm.

‘…whatever you do to one jewel affects the entire net, as well as yourself. You cannot damage one strand of …the web that is the universe without injuring all others in it, whether that injury is known...

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The Luminous: Blazing in the Fires of Sunyata

From Adhisthana on Thu, 15 Jun, 2017 - 23:46

The Luminous: Blazing in the Fires of Sunyata

From Adhisthana on Thu, 15 Jun, 2017 - 23:46

There has been so much beauty today that I can’t do justice to, and wish I could. Such a high quality of communication between us all in our last discussion group, sensitive, alive and mirror-like to one another; sitting in our closing circle this evening, hearing each person rejoice and share what they had enjoyed and benefitted from during the retreat; the final Bodhicitta mantra in perfect harmony. A lotus-bed of many beings growing towards the light in our own...

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