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4 new mitras at Centro Budista de Cuernavaca

From Centro Budista de Cuernavaca on Wed, 25 May, 2016 - 16:32

4 new mitras at Centro Budista de Cuernavaca

From Centro Budista de Cuernavaca on Wed, 25 May, 2016 - 16:32

On Buddha Day, May 22, 2016, we welcomed four more mitras into the Triratna Mitra Sangha here in Mexico witnessed by around 100 people.

These wonderful people are:

Edith Palacios

Oscar Villegas

Paul Klein

Rodrigo Morales

Paul´s mother, Sabine, is already a mitra within our community and Rodrigo is just 15. We don´t know but he may be the youngest mitra in the world…

Dhivan Thomas Jones

Advice from the Zen Master – Don’t be a Jerk

From Western Buddhist Review on Wed, 25 May, 2016 - 11:58

Advice from the Zen Master – Don’t be a Jerk

From Western Buddhist Review on Wed, 25 May, 2016 - 11:58

In this post we present a delightful review by Vidyavajra of a new book that tries to put Dōgen’s master-work, the Shōbōgenzō, into vernacular English – with some success, it would seem.

Brad Warner, Don’t Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dōgen, Japan’s Greatest Zen Master, New World Library, 2016 (£13 pback).

review by Vidyavajra

On the cover is a comic book depiction of a godzilla-like monster with beams of fire coming from its eyes, crossing a Hokusai-like sea of waves, towards a medieval Japanese village....

Dhammalata

The Sound of the Bell

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Mon, 23 May, 2016 - 22:55

The Sound of the Bell

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Mon, 23 May, 2016 - 22:55

In Buddhism, the sound of the bell is considered to be the voice of the Buddha. Stop talking. Stop thinking. Come back to your breathing. Listen with all your being.

—Thich Nhat Hanh

Hope you can join us for meditation this week

Thursday 7 - 8.30 pm

Sunday 8 - 8.50 am

And I am really hoping as many of you as possible will join us for our next...

Padmapriya

TEA AND TREE RETURNS

From Triratna East Surrey on Mon, 23 May, 2016 - 22:21

TEA AND TREE RETURNS

From Triratna East Surrey on Mon, 23 May, 2016 - 22:21

https://spark.adobe.com/page/LWfYe/

Padmapriya

The path

From Triratna East Surrey on Mon, 23 May, 2016 - 22:19

The path

From Triratna East Surrey on Mon, 23 May, 2016 - 22:19

Candradasa

Tuesday Meditations for the New Season - Spring 2016

From Online Meditators on Mon, 23 May, 2016 - 20:36

Tuesday Meditations for the New Season - Spring 2016

From Online Meditators on Mon, 23 May, 2016 - 20:36

We’re just starting a new series of Tuesday sits for experienced meditators. If you want to join our regular band of lovely friends from all around the world, come and connect!

Tuesdays, 2.30pm EST / 7.30pm UK

How to connect
Add us to your circles on Google + and join the Hangout. We’ll be online 10 minutes before and we’ll sit for about 40 minutes, with an introduction and space for optional discussion afterwards.

This class - like all...

Candradasa

Gender Diversity In Triratna - The Video Interview!

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sun, 22 May, 2016 - 23:55

Gender Diversity In Triratna - The Video Interview!

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sun, 22 May, 2016 - 23:55

The film of Parami’s interview with Kamalanandi and Padmavyuha about gender diversity in Triratna on the occasion of the first residential retreat for gender diverse people in our community. A timely and topical discussion about the issues raised in society generally by changes in awareness around gender – and in a particular Buddhist culture as it expands its sense of itself to be more inclusive and more forward thinking about a crucial area of personal identity. The implications for ideas of...

Centre Team

The Buddha As the Symbol of Awakening

From Community Highlights on Sun, 22 May, 2016 - 12:57

Happy Buddha Day 2016!

To mark this great festival day, Padmavajra evokes the qualities of the Buddha, and explores how seeing into the marks of existence is the best way to realise who and what the Buddha really was.

Buddha Day Talk given in Birmingham, UK, 2016

(Picture by Bodhidasa in Sydney, Australia)

Download and donate to FBA!

mokshini

Join the Triratna Sustainable Buddhist Centre scheme

From Buddhist Action Month 2016 on Sat, 21 May, 2016 - 08:39

A growing number of Triratna Buddhist centres have already completed the ten-point action points entailed in joining the list of certified Sustainable Buddhist Centres: Amsterdam, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Colchester, Essen, Metta Vihara, Norwich, Sheffield, Taraloka and Tiratanaloka.

Sadhu!

If your Buddhist Centre has not yet gone down this path, why not suggest it to your trustees/council?

File Name	Size
sustainable buddhist centre guide	336.3 KB
sustainable bc certificate	150.12 KB

Munisha

Breathworks and the UK's 'Mindful Nation' report

From Clear Vision Trust on Thu, 19 May, 2016 - 12:51

Breathworks and the UK's 'Mindful Nation' report

From Clear Vision Trust on Thu, 19 May, 2016 - 12:51

The latest NewsByte video from Clear Vision covers Breathworks’ involvement in the northwest England launch of the UK’s ‘Mindful Nation’ report (11 minutes).

Order members Taravandana and Singhashri explain the pioneering nature of this report, making the UK the first country in the world to introduce mindfulness to across many areas of public life and policy, including education and the health and prison services.

This regional launch follows the national launches at Westminster in October last year, and in...

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