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Why Restorative approach?

From Adhisthana Kula on Thu, 15 Jun, 2017 - 17:34

Why Restorative approach?

From Adhisthana Kula on Thu, 15 Jun, 2017 - 17:34

Why Restorative approach?

In March this year, the Preceptors’ College committed to a number of steps that they would be taking in the coming months. They included:

encouraging and assisting the establishment of the facts about our past, including about Bhante, openly acknowledging what has happened and putting it on record;
actively seeking to resolve any harm that has been done, using the principles of the Dharma, with outside experienced guidance where appropriate.

We’d like to give a bit more information about a way in which we are...

Nandavajra

Interested in living and working at Taraloka?

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Thu, 15 Jun, 2017 - 14:15

Interested in living and working at Taraloka?

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Thu, 15 Jun, 2017 - 14:15

Interested in living and working at Taraloka?

Two roles – FINANCE and HOUSEKEEPING

Taraloka offers a unique context for women to live a full-time Dharma life, for being of service to others and for personal and collective transformation.

We’re looking for TWO new members of the Operations Team to start work in January 2018. The Operations Team collectively hold responsibility for the practical running and support of the retreat centre for example cooking, cleaning and support behind the scenes. As...

Lottie

Buddhist Action Day at North London.

From Buddhist Action on Thu, 15 Jun, 2017 - 10:44

Buddhist Action Day at North London.

From Buddhist Action on Thu, 15 Jun, 2017 - 10:44

On Saturday 24th June we’ll be having a whole day of Buddhist Action! With meditation, guerrilla gardening, a vegan lunch and more.

akasajoti

As Long As Space Abides...: Blazing in the Fires of Sunyata

From Adhisthana on Thu, 15 Jun, 2017 - 00:07

As Long As Space Abides...: Blazing in the Fires of Sunyata

From Adhisthana on Thu, 15 Jun, 2017 - 00:07

We’ve been in silence together today and followed a more meditative programme, absorbing the rich input of the last days. It’s as if an atmosphere of gentleness, quiet, and ease has pervaded Adhisthana, which seems unlikely in the midst of a landscaping project and a busy, living and working community; but it is so. There’s been the usual exchange of cheeky smiles, and I’ve enjoyed seeing people sitting and moving around the site absorbed in their own reflections. This practice...

akasajoti

Realisation of Metta

From Adhisthana on Wed, 14 Jun, 2017 - 14:54

Realisation of Metta

From Adhisthana on Wed, 14 Jun, 2017 - 14:54

“True wisdom never rests in itself very long, there is always this movement towards suffering through compassion.”

Saddhaloka’s presentation on Metta and Wisdom, where he spoke of the unity of the dual aspects of the path – samata and vipassana, wisdom and compassion, merit and insight – and described how they are really a part of a single process, with reference to some stories of the Buddha’s life and the teachings of Atisha on sunyatakarunagarbha.

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akasajoti

Bodhicitta Practice – Dhammarati – Blazing in the Fires of Sunyata OM

From Adhisthana on Wed, 14 Jun, 2017 - 14:10

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 Dhammarati leading through the practice with a 20 minute introduction to the practice describing it’s roots in the Tharpe Delam, and an emphasis on direct experience.

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Dhammalata

Practice, Study, Realise

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Wed, 14 Jun, 2017 - 01:56

Practice, Study, Realise

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Wed, 14 Jun, 2017 - 01:56

WORKING WITH NATURE WEEKEND

A really wonderful opportunity to come on retreat on a budget!
Practice, study, realise ……..
Please join us
Any questions just let me know (Dharmalata)
Friday, 23 June 2017 - 7:00pm - Sunday, 25 June 2017 - 3:00pm

An opportunity to engage with the beautiful bushland at Vijayaloka, on the outskirts of Sydney. We meditate and spend time together practicing and helping care for and enhance the retreat centre facilities and grounds.

Experience Level:

All...

akasajoti

The Essence of Wisdom and Compassion: Blazing in the Fires of Sunyata

From Adhisthana on Tue, 13 Jun, 2017 - 23:16

The Essence of Wisdom and Compassion: Blazing in the Fires of Sunyata

From Adhisthana on Tue, 13 Jun, 2017 - 23:16

The theme of today has been the connection between metta and wisdom - the realisation of metta. Saddhaloka gave a presentation this morning where he spoke of the dual aspects of the path – samata and vipassana, wisdom and compassion, merit and insight – and described how they are really a part of a single process. There is an aspect of seeing into the truth of things, where ultimately there is no knower, or known, or act of knowing, just...

Munisha

'Untouchable': a play about Dr Ambedkar

From Triratna News on Tue, 13 Jun, 2017 - 23:14

'Untouchable': a play about Dr Ambedkar

From Triratna News on Tue, 13 Jun, 2017 - 23:14

Padmadaka is director of Triratna’s Karuna Trust. He writes to let us know about ’Untouchable’, a new play about the life of Dr Ambedkar (including an appearance by a certain ‘Private Lingwood’) to be performed for the first time, in London, at the RADA festival, 30th June-8th July. More details here.

“ ‘Untouchable’ is directed by Kathryn Hunter, a theatre and film actor, and longstanding supporter of the Karuna Trust’s work with the poorest people in India and Nepal. Together...

akasajoti

The Wise Have No Cause To Find Fault: Blazing in the Fires of Sunyata

From Adhisthana on Tue, 13 Jun, 2017 - 21:07

The Wise Have No Cause To Find Fault: Blazing in the Fires of Sunyata

From Adhisthana on Tue, 13 Jun, 2017 - 21:07

The third presentation on the Blazing in the Fires of Sunyata retreat, held at Adhisthana in 2017, on the theme of Metta and Bodhicitta.

Parami presented Hri and Apatrapya, the two Lokapalas, unfolding a single line in the Karaniya Metta Sutta: “One should not pursue the slightest thing for which other wise men might censure them.”

Both Hri and Apatrapya express a positive sense of remorse and regret, one in relation to our own inner ethical sensitivity, the other in relation to the...

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