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Shabda July 2016

From Order Connection on Fri, 1 Jul, 2016 - 12:08

Here is the latest edition of Shabda in five digital formats:

eBook Shabda .EPUB – read on most other eBook readers (eg Nook or Kobo, etc) and most eReader apps on tablets, smartphones etc.
eBook Shabda .MOBI – read on any Kindle, and some eReader apps on tablets, smartphones, etc.
PDF Shabda – read with any PDF reader
HTML Shabda (zip file) – unzip, and then read with any web browser
Print Shabda: Print your own (and your friends’) Shabdas. Save the Order’s postage costs.

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File Name	Size
ePub (for eBook Readers, Smartphones & Tablets)	1.46 MB
mobi (Kindle and eReaders)	1.2 MB
PDF for Digital (Computers and eReaders)	1.24 MB
HTML (Web Browsers)	159.44 KB
PDF for printing (identical with paper Shabda)	897.5 KB

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Candradasa

Community Morning - Soaring, Resonating

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Thu, 30 Jun, 2016 - 20:38

Community Morning - Soaring, Resonating

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Thu, 30 Jun, 2016 - 20:38

This week we’ll be continuing our exploration of the role of imagination in Dharma practice - using the Brahma Viharas series of meditations as a basis for looking at how we respond to whatever arises via the mind and the five senses through the course of our days.

Mudita (‘sympathetic joy’) is an attitude to others we can cultivate anytime. The quality we’re looking for can be rendered as a “joyful resonance”. The image is of the lark ascending, the...

Dhammalata

A Perfect Mind

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Wed, 29 Jun, 2016 - 12:52

A Perfect Mind

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Wed, 29 Jun, 2016 - 12:52

Meditation doesn’t make everything perfect but it does help us meet everything with an increasingly perfect mind ………..

Hope you can join us for meditation this week

Thursday 7 - 8.30 pm

Sunday 8 - 8.50 am

Much metta

Dharmalata and Padmadakini

guhyapati

Buddhist Action All Year

From Buddhist Action Month 2016 on Tue, 28 Jun, 2016 - 16:57

Buddhist Action All Year

From Buddhist Action Month 2016 on Tue, 28 Jun, 2016 - 16:57

It’s almost the end of Buddhist Action Month, but Engaging as Buddhists goes on all year. Its not always easy. It takes skill, energy, resources and courage. This is why the Ecodharma Centre is supporting Buddhist Action through our Engaged Buddhist Training and other courses bringing the Dharma to empower social change.

Here’s our new video on Engaged Buddhist Training!

Dhivan Thomas Jones

Faith and Imagination in Pure Land Buddhism

From Western Buddhist Review on Tue, 28 Jun, 2016 - 12:05

Faith and Imagination in Pure Land Buddhism

From Western Buddhist Review on Tue, 28 Jun, 2016 - 12:05

Dharmacārī Saccanāma reviews a ground-breaking new book on Pure Land Buddhism, with new translations of sūtras, and finds much to appreciate and enjoy:

Ratnaguna & Śraddhāpa

Great Faith, Great Wisdom: practice and awakening in the Pure Land sūtras of Mahāyāna Buddhism

Windhorse Publications, Cambridge 2016, £14 pback, also in ebook

Review by Saccanāma

There is a debate going on in Buddhist publishing at present: titles such as Buddhism Without Beliefs, After Buddhism and Buddhism is a Religion: You can Believe It indicate the nature of that debate. On one...

RCheesley

Virya Group recruiting a Lead Designer

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Tue, 28 Jun, 2016 - 09:28

Virya Group recruiting a Lead Designer

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Tue, 28 Jun, 2016 - 09:28

Are you passionate about your work? Are you obsessed with details? Do you understand the importance of creating valuable and meaningful experiences? Are Adobe Creative Suite or Open Source alternatives like Gimp, Inkscape your Swiss Army knives for designing appealing products? Are you able to communicate your creative ideas with clarity and explain your decisions to colleagues and clients based on your extensive experience and well-founded research?

If the answer to these questions is YES, we’d love to speak with you!

The position

We are...

Tejopala

BAM Melbourne - Sangha climate action planning

From Buddhist Action Month 2016 on Sun, 26 Jun, 2016 - 04:00

BAM Melbourne - Sangha climate action planning

From Buddhist Action Month 2016 on Sun, 26 Jun, 2016 - 04:00

On June 26 there will be an action planning day. This will be a chance for interested people to brainstorm what the Melbourne Sangha could do collectively rather than simply as individuals to be as effective as possible in addressing the climate crisis. It will start with a short talk by Tejopala on climate change and the five precepts.

Candradasa

Community Morning - Compassion In Tough Times

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Fri, 24 Jun, 2016 - 14:24

Community Morning - Compassion In Tough Times

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Fri, 24 Jun, 2016 - 14:24

Isn’t the world a complicated place? It’s not always easy to know what to do about it. As we continue our series looking at imagination as a key aspect of practice, let’s get together this Sunday morning and spend some time in each other’s good company exploring compassion as a profound act of creativity. We’ll practice the karuna bhavana and look at how positive empathy can change both our own experience and the world around us.

Meet at the ...

The Abhayaratna...

Chanting Challenge, Wills Cafe, and get involved!

From Abhayaratna Trust on Fri, 24 Jun, 2016 - 11:00

Chanting Challenge, Wills Cafe, and get involved!

From Abhayaratna Trust on Fri, 24 Jun, 2016 - 11:00

I have recently come on board at the Abhayaratna Trust in the role of Supporter Care and Publicity, working alongside Taradakini in a small but lively team of two based in Scotland. I feel grateful to have this opportunity - a job that allows me to give something back to the Triratna community, and to the Order that sustains the Dharma and Sangha on which I thrive.

Taradakini and I have been having a lot of fun over the past two weeks...

Christine

June 26 @ 13:15 in Great Hall > Meditate for Peace, for Nuclear Disarmament, for Mass Investment in Renewables and Green Jobs

From Buddhist Action Month 2016 on Wed, 22 Jun, 2016 - 15:44

June 26 @ 13:15 in Great Hall > Meditate for Peace, for Nuclear Disarmament, for Mass Investment in Renewables and Green Jobs

From Buddhist Action Month 2016 on Wed, 22 Jun, 2016 - 15:44

On June 26, Sheffield Buddhist Centre will join the international Triratna Buddhist Community to demonstrate our desire for peace, and our opposition to nuclear power. Santasiddhi and Christine will lead the event, which may be akin to a ”love-in” as prescribed by Sangharakshita in his 1984 talk on “Buddhism, World Peace, and Nuclear War” (*).

The meditation will take place in the Great Hall during Summer Fair at 13:15.

In 2016, parliament will vote whether to replace and modernise the UK’s nuclear weapons system called Trident. It’s made up of four submarines – one of which is on...

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