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Nothing more to say .....

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 19 Jul, 2016 - 05:53

Nothing more to say .....

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 19 Jul, 2016 - 05:53

Okay, so there were all these things I was thinking about saying in this week’s email
out …

Grant’s invocation to heed Pema Chodron’s advice that challenges in life don’t disappear until we learn the lesson they are there to teach us …..

And Asanka’s article about the various expressions of metta (karuna, mudita and upeksa) likened to a mother’s love for her child changing as he / she grows …..

Metta - mother’s unconditional love
...

Candradasa

Two Celebrations - One Sangha!

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Fri, 15 Jul, 2016 - 03:22

Two Celebrations - One Sangha!

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Fri, 15 Jul, 2016 - 03:22

Wherever you live on the Seacoast, we’re excited to invite you to join us at Portsmouth Buddhist Center each of the next two Sundays – 10am-12pm – for some great community celebrations…

Dharma Day (July 17th)
Every year, on or near the full moon in July, Triratna Buddhists around the world come together to connect and reflect together on the unbroken lineage of the Buddha’s teaching – the Dharma – as it’s come down to us, person...

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Liz joins FutureDharma Team

From Future Dharma on Wed, 13 Jul, 2016 - 15:35

Liz joins FutureDharma Team

From Future Dharma on Wed, 13 Jul, 2016 - 15:35

Liz Bassett joined FutureDharma Team in April. Working alongside our Lead Fundraiser, Amalavajra, Liz is our new Communications & Donor Care Manager.

A GFR Mitra, Liz has moved down from Glasgow, her sangha of 8 years, to live and work at Adhisthana. She has previously worked in the NHS as well as the charity and education sectors, and is very happy to be working for Triratna. Her first task is producing the new FutureDharma website that will go live...

Dhammalata

Not necessarily so

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 12 Jul, 2016 - 09:57

Not necessarily so

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 12 Jul, 2016 - 09:57

When Shunryu Suzuki, one of the most famous contemporary Zen teachers was asked his philosophy he used just three words …. ‘Not necessarily so’

In saying this he encapsulated the core teaching on offer for meditators that one should hold everything gently and leave space around even the most seemingly obvious truths.

Life is always much more layered and subtle than we are able to see and by consciously acknowledging that we don’t have things all figured out...

Candradasa

Vajra Bell - Summer 2016

From Buddhist Centre Features on Mon, 11 Jul, 2016 - 22:46

A beautiful new edition of the Triratna Dharma magazine from North America! Featuring great articles on love and wisdom from Amala and Kamalashila, tales from a pilgrimage to Kyoto, and notes on community connections from all across the region.

Read more Vajra Bell editions on Issuu

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Viveka - Mindfulness and the Creative Disruption of Bias

From San Francisco Buddhist Center on Sun, 10 Jul, 2016 - 23:11

Viveka - Mindfulness and the Creative Disruption of Bias

From San Francisco Buddhist Center on Sun, 10 Jul, 2016 - 23:11

Viveka exploring the theme of racism from the perspective of the Dharma and what the Buddha had to say about complex conditionality. A timely look at understanding - and ultimately undoing - the patterns that lead to prejudice and bias, of all kinds.

Specifically, this talk investigates:

Opening to the inter-personal, organizational, and societal conditioning that perpetuates racial bias.
Understanding ‘implicit bias’, which is how thoughts, feelings, emotions, and actions are influenced (largely unconsciously) by exposure to stereotypes and fears about targeted social groups.
How

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Adhisthana Dharma-Life Training Course

From Triratna Young Buddhists on Fri, 8 Jul, 2016 - 10:10

Adhisthana Dharma-Life Training Course

From Triratna Young Buddhists on Fri, 8 Jul, 2016 - 10:10

Adhisthana Dharma-Life Training Course

for Young Men

12/02/2017 to 02/07/2017

The course aims to give you a thorough grounding in the principles and practice of Triratna Buddhism and you will have the opportunity to live an intense and full-time Dharma life for 20 weeks. It will be fully residential, and you will be living in a designated community space at Adhisthana. Community living is an important part of the course and you will be sharing a room whilst you are here. As well as a series...

Candradasa

Community Morning - Keeping Things in Perspective

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Wed, 6 Jul, 2016 - 16:49

Community Morning - Keeping Things in Perspective

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Wed, 6 Jul, 2016 - 16:49

The world isn’t always a garden of delights, life isn’t always a holiday. We know this, right? Yet it’s so hard sometimes to remember it - and harder still to stay positive when we do! That’s where we need an active element of imagination in our meditation and Dharma practice. Remembering, imagining, perceiving things differently - and a whole world opens up…

This week as part of our ongoing series on practical imagination, we’ll be exploring the practice of ...

Dhammalata

Have you thought about living in a Buddhist Community?

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Wed, 6 Jul, 2016 - 07:56

Have you thought about living in a Buddhist Community?

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Wed, 6 Jul, 2016 - 07:56

Hi there Coogee Meditators

Please pardon my indulgence at taking up this week’s email with a plug but at breakfast time this morning we decided we would be happy to make our community a mixed community; men and women. So if it sounds like something you’d be interested in read on …….

Meditation is on this week as usual:

Thursday 7 - 8.30 pm

Sunday 8 - 8.50 am

Padmakini and Dharmalata

Have you thought about living in a Buddhist Community?

Sangharakshita, my Buddhist teacher encourages communal living. Why? Well I...

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Buddhafield Dharma: Buddhafield's first book!

From Triratna News on Tue, 5 Jul, 2016 - 21:18

Buddhafield Dharma: Buddhafield's first book!

From Triratna News on Tue, 5 Jul, 2016 - 21:18

Triratna has many Buddhist centres in cities across the world - and it has Buddhafield. Buddhafield is different; it’s a community of people dedicated to practicing and teaching the Dharma as far as possible in the open air, in the fields and woods and meadows of England. That gives it a unique ‘edge’: an unvarnished closeness to the elements, a connection with the Buddha and how he lived, an immediate appreciation of the natural laws of ecology… Necessarily seasonal...

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