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Vajra Bell - Summer 2016

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
    • ...
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Prajnaketu

Adhisthana Dharma-Life Training Course

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

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...
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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 ...
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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
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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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2016 Village Retreats

From Buddhafield Family Friendly Village on Tue, 5 Jul, 2016 - 19:27

2016 Village Retreats

From Buddhafield Family Friendly Village on Tue, 5 Jul, 2016 - 19:27

More information and bookings here

Join us!

Spread the word!

Bring your friends!

Bring your generations!

Or just bring yourself and join our open hearted community. You don’t need to have children of your own to come. All welcome!

But book early as it does often fill up.

 
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THE HEART OF ART

From Triratna East Surrey on Mon, 4 Jul, 2016 - 08:51

THE HEART OF ART

From Triratna East Surrey on Mon, 4 Jul, 2016 - 08:51

Heart of Art Exhibition

4-14 July 2016

The Heart of Art is an emerging group of friends who wish to explore the Arts as a vehicle of spiritual development. We have been working together for ten months, one outcome of which will be our first Art Exhibition at the Croydon Clocktower.

We would like to invite the Sangha to our private view on Saturday 9th of July from 1-3 pm. The Exhibition serves to launch the project, which is soon to include a Drumming Circle, Singing, Dance,...
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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.

Terms and...

File NameSize
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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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...

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