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A New Title and New Website

From Windhorse Publications on Thu, 31 Mar, 2016 - 12:01

A New Title and New Website

From Windhorse Publications on Thu, 31 Mar, 2016 - 12:01

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new website at www.windhorsepublications.com. After one year of hard work, our Web Developer Akasapriya has done a sterling job of producing a site that is both easier to use and pleasing to look at.

The launch of our website coincides with the release of our newest title, Great Faith, Great Wisdom, by Ratnaguna and Śraddhāpa. We love the cover by Dhammarati, which is based on a folding screen attributed to...

Munisha

Maitreyabandhu talks to Archbishop Rowan Williams, poet

From Triratna News on Wed, 30 Mar, 2016 - 23:35

Maitreyabandhu talks to Archbishop Rowan Williams, poet

From Triratna News on Wed, 30 Mar, 2016 - 23:35

On 19th March, Poetry East, at the London Buddhist Centre, UK, welcomed poet Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury. (Video 44 minutes)

Maitreyabandhu interviewed him. He writes: “We invited Dr Rowan Williams - Archbishop of Canterbury 2002-12, currently Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge - to talk about poetry, faith, religion and suffering. Here he is in the main shrine room of the LBC, talking to me about his life, his poetry and his faith. He read from his two collections of poetry with ...

Munisha

Valencia Buddhist Centre @ 25

From Triratna News on Wed, 30 Mar, 2016 - 11:46

Valencia Buddhist Centre @ 25

From Triratna News on Wed, 30 Mar, 2016 - 11:46

El Centro Budista de Valencia, Spain, was 25 years old in November last year. In the latest NewsByte video from Clear Vision, we see the celebrations and hear Moksananda and Parami talk about the centre’s early days as Triratna’s first centre in a Spanish-speaking country – in Spanish and English with subtitles.

As Moksananda said in his anniversary talk, Valencia Buddhist Centre is “a context, a vehicle, for the Three Jewels: for the Enlightened mind of the Buddha,...

Vimalasara

Mindfulness Based Addiction Recovery

From Eight Step Recovery - Using the Buddha's Teachings To Overcome Addiction on Wed, 30 Mar, 2016 - 04:17

Mindfulness Based Addiction Recovery

From Eight Step Recovery - Using the Buddha's Teachings To Overcome Addiction on Wed, 30 Mar, 2016 - 04:17

I hope some of you will join me in the Online Mindfulness Based Addiction Recovery Course MBAR. During the month of July I will be delivering a four week course, with interactive sessions weekly on how to work with our thoughts and cultivate sobriety of mind. A mind free of the proliferation of thoughts.

This Saturday April 2nd I will explore the second reminder - Impermanence and the inevitably of death. Together we will penetrate into the nature of this truth, to help us...

shraddhavani

Learn to Meditate at Portsmouth Buddhist Center!

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Tue, 29 Mar, 2016 - 17:30

Learn to Meditate at Portsmouth Buddhist Center!

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Tue, 29 Mar, 2016 - 17:30

Many Upcoming Opportunities

Meditation is really very simple, and it can be a greatly helpful tool in the life of anyone who chooses to make it a part of what they do on a regular basis. We teach traditional Buddhist meditations, but you do not need to be a Buddhist to practice and benefit from them. Our basic meditation workshops, Saturdays 10AM - 1PM, focus on either Mindfulness of Breathing or the Loving Kindness/Metta Bhavana meditation. Our four-week courses, Thursdays 7-...

sanghadhara

Valencia 25th Anniversary - NewsByte (con subtitulos en español)

From Clear Vision Trust on Tue, 29 Mar, 2016 - 13:47

Valencia 25th Anniversary - NewsByte (con subtitulos en español)

From Clear Vision Trust on Tue, 29 Mar, 2016 - 13:47

In November 2015, the Valencia Buddhist Centre celebrated its 25th anniversary.

It was the first Triratna Buddhist Centre in a Spanish-speaking country.

Munisha

Two PowerPoints about Triratna

From Triratna in the Buddhist World on Tue, 29 Mar, 2016 - 11:21

Below are pdfs of two PowerPoint presentations for talks I have given about Triratna in the last six months.

The first - What is Triratna? - is a talk I gave to the European Buddhist Union in Berlin in September 2015.

The second - Triratna in the Buddhist world - was given to Triratna’s European Chairs’ Assembly (ECA) in January 2016.

The ECA comprises Chairs of all Triratna centres and enterprises in Europe, who meet for a week in January and July/August every year, at Adhisthana.

To further their business between meetings, they...

File Name	Size
What is Triratna? PDF	5.43 MB
Triratna in the Buddhist world PDF	5.97 MB

Dhammalata

Taking a Moment

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Mon, 28 Mar, 2016 - 23:45

Taking a Moment

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Mon, 28 Mar, 2016 - 23:45

Anywhere Anytime

This morning I was sitting in the passenger seat of my mate’s Kombi in Burleigh Heads. I was waiting for him and Gina to come out as he was taking us to the Gold Coast Airport for an early flight back to Sydney. We have had a very enjoyable weekend staying with him and his family and spending a good day with him yesterday at the Byron Bay Bluesfest.

So there I was on a beautiful, still and...

shraddhavani

Introduction to Buddhism 4-week Course

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 28 Mar, 2016 - 22:47

Introduction to Buddhism 4-week Course

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 28 Mar, 2016 - 22:47

This course is a practical exploration of the Dharma — the core teachings of the Buddha. Topics include the life of the Buddha, the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, ethics, meditation, and Buddhist visions of reality, Includes meditation practice and is suitable for all levels of experience. Thursday evenings 7-9 PM.

Offered by donation. $80-40 suggested for the entire course. Attend one or all sessions. Two opportunities this Spring:

May 26 - June 16 Register here

Munisha

Cuernavaca: an eternal spring of Dharma in Mexico

From Triratna News on Wed, 23 Mar, 2016 - 23:50

Cuernavaca: an eternal spring of Dharma in Mexico

From Triratna News on Wed, 23 Mar, 2016 - 23:50

The Centro Budista de Cuernavaca is about an hour south of Mexico City. Founded in the historic centre of the city in 2013 by Akashavajri, Saddhajoti, and Nagapriya, to accommodate its growing sangha it recently moved to a comfortable house with a large garden and several rooms for a small residential community; not to mention a swimming pool too!

Nagapriya is a British Order member, and the Centre’s first Chair. He writes: “There is a high level of interest in Buddhism...

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