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Tacoma: new centre in the northwest USA

From Triratna News on Wed, 23 Mar, 2016 - 15:14

Tacoma: new centre in the northwest USA

From Triratna News on Wed, 23 Mar, 2016 - 15:14

In Tacoma, Washington, Triratna has a new centre in the northwest of the USA. The Tacoma Buddhist Center was officially born on 8th March this year, a sister to the nearby Seattle Buddhist Center and the Portland Buddhist Center in Oregon - and, indeed, Vancouver Buddhist Center over the border in Canada.

See Tacoma on a map.

Tacoma’s centre has been Manidha’s vision for many years. She writes: “I always imagined building a community...

Munisha

Is Triratna's equal ordination really unique in the Buddhist world?

From Triratna in the Buddhist World on Tue, 22 Mar, 2016 - 18:19

Is Triratna's equal ordination really unique in the Buddhist world?

From Triratna in the Buddhist World on Tue, 22 Mar, 2016 - 18:19

Recently someone asked me whether it is true that Triratna is unique in the Buddhist world in ordaining women and men equally, as we often say. Here is my reply, which does not claim to be definitive.

“In bhikkhuni (female) ordination (Theravada and Mahayana) women have to be ordained by women and then also by men, whereas bhikkhus (men) are ordained only by men. ie there is a double ordination for women but not for men.

Its lineage having died out, the ‘double’ Theravada bhikkhuni ordination has...

Munisha

Growth Fund 2016 open for applications

From Triratna News on Tue, 22 Mar, 2016 - 17:37

Applications are invited to the Growth Fund, closing date 9th May 2016.

The Growth Fund is a small fund made available by Triratna’s European Chairs’ Assembly (ECA) every year, for local projects leading to a growth in numbers of people having access to Triratna classes in basic meditation and Dharma.

Mokshini writes from the ECA’s Growth Fund Committee with more detail.

“This year we have a total of around £6,418 to give away in small amounts of up to £1,000 each to Triratna projects around the world (excluding India, for which Karuna...

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Dhammalata

It's Almost Easter!

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Mon, 21 Mar, 2016 - 22:36

It's Almost Easter!

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Mon, 21 Mar, 2016 - 22:36

Easter always feels like the end of summer to me. As a surfer I used to note that the water got colder and those balmy summer conditions were fading fast …..

And hey, we’re at the end of the first quarter of the new year!

Shakespeare had quite a bit to say about the elasticity of time; we experience it so differently depending on the pleasantness or unpleasantness of what’s happening. For a boy walking to school his moments of...

Padmapriya

Tea and tree

From Triratna East Surrey on Sat, 19 Mar, 2016 - 19:08

Tea and tree

From Triratna East Surrey on Sat, 19 Mar, 2016 - 19:08

Meditation, Tea Ceremony, introduction to Bonsai Art

Padmapriya

Meditation, Tea Ceremony and Introduction to Bonsai Art

From Triratna East Surrey on Sat, 19 Mar, 2016 - 08:16

Meditation, Tea Ceremony and Introduction to Bonsai Art

From Triratna East Surrey on Sat, 19 Mar, 2016 - 08:16

Buddhists down the millennia have always found ways to bring there practise into daily life and there daily life into there practise. We will spend a day looking and experiencing two iconic ways which have been elevated to both a high art and express the deepest spiritual values of both Buddhist and Taoist traditions.

Both Bonsai (the art of ornamental and miniature trees) and the Tea ceremony have played a significant roll in Buddhist practise. The tea ceremony exemplifies Mindfulness, Bonsai expresses...

Munisha

Bhante’s Complete Works well on their way

From Triratna News on Thu, 17 Mar, 2016 - 19:51

Bhante’s Complete Works well on their way

From Triratna News on Thu, 17 Mar, 2016 - 19:51

In the summer of 2015 Triratna people worldwide raised well over £100,000 for Sangharakshita’s 90th birthday, for the publication of his Complete Works, in hardback, softback and digital format. As Triratna publishers Windhorse Publications report, this mammoth project, anticipated to end in 2021, is well under way: the first volume will appear in October this year. Windhorse director Priyananda reports.

“In the next five years we will publish all the published work of our founder....

Munisha

NewsByte: Mexico City's retreat marathon

From Triratna News on Wed, 16 Mar, 2016 - 16:33

NewsByte: Mexico City's retreat marathon

From Triratna News on Wed, 16 Mar, 2016 - 16:33

The latest NewsByte from Triratna video project Clear Vision offers a snapshot of a thriving Triratna sangha in Central America, capable of organising five back-to-back/simultaneous retreats over Christmas. (10 minutes)

Follow Clear Vision on The Buddhist Centre Online.

Saccanama

Satyaraja and Kamalashila talk about meditation

From College of Public Preceptors on Wed, 16 Mar, 2016 - 13:27

In the last of our audio interviews from the March 2016 Preceptors’ College meeting, Satyaraja and Kamalashila share some reflections about their personal practice of meditation. It’s a lovely discussion between two people who are dedicated to meditation as a key way to work with the mind and discover more deeply the nature of it. We hear particularly about the devotional aspects of meditation, which is another way into the idea of insight itself. And about meditation retreats - solitary and...

Candradasa

Meditative Discussions On The Lakshanas

From Order Dharma on Tue, 15 Mar, 2016 - 17:13

Here are the edited and remastered audio recordings from the day looking at the three characteristics or marks of conditioned existence… Each session begins with an introduction by Kamalashila, then some discussion, then a meditation, then further discussion.

The first session on anatta unfortunately wasn’t recorded - included here is a brief reconstruction of the main points around which the meditation and subsequent discussion took place.

The original audio was quite noisy but...

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