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Connect, Meditate, Connect - Tuesday Sits Online Through The Holidays

From Online Meditators on Mon, 21 Dec, 2015 - 23:15

Connect, Meditate, Connect - Tuesday Sits Online Through The Holidays

From Online Meditators on Mon, 21 Dec, 2015 - 23:15

For the next four weeks, to see us through the solstice holiday season and beyond, we’re renewing our invitation to meet with others online, connect with them, meditate in good company, go deeper yourself, and connect on a different level that can help sustain you through the long winter/summer days wherever you are…

Join us for adventures in connectivity and stillness…

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...
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Dharmabyte: Before Dawn

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 21 Dec, 2015 - 11:00

We’ve been moved to share an abundant handful of Sangharakshita’s writings and poems this month. Today’s FBA Dharmabyte is a poem entitled “Before Dawn”. Selected from “Hercules and the Birds”, read by the author and published by Windhorse Publications, Glasgow, 1990.

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Six Ordinations at Adhisthana December 2015

From College of Public Preceptors on Mon, 21 Dec, 2015 - 10:12
  • In the Sangharakshita Libraray

Six Ordinations at Adhisthana December 2015

From College of Public Preceptors on Mon, 21 Dec, 2015 - 10:12

On Saturday 19th December 2015, six women were publicly ordained at Adhisthana.

In the photo, left to right back row - Karunabala, Dharmasetu, Prabhakari, Dayakarini. Front row - Varasakhi, Parami, Punyamala, Mokshadipa.

Public Preceptor Parami:

Sue Bower becomes Karunabala: a Sanskrit name meaning “One whose Strength is from Compassion”. (dot under the ’n’, long second ‘a’.)...
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FBA Podcast: Revisiting the New Society

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 19 Dec, 2015 - 11:00

Today’s FBA Podcast is a tribute to our teacher, Bhante Sangharakshita, given by Parami entitled “Revisiting the New Society”, the third talk of The Order as Practice – Shifting Paradigms retreat. Parami talks about the first verse of the Dasadhamma Sutta – “I am no longer living according to worldly aims and values.” She revisits Bhantes vision of the New Society, sharing her inspiration and love for the radical and transformative power of...
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Is Buddhist healthcare chaplaincy for you?

From Triratna News on Fri, 18 Dec, 2015 - 19:19

Many of you were inspired by Clear Vision’s NewsByte video about Amitasurī’s work as a Buddhist healthcare chaplain in a hospital in Manchester, UK, earlier this year. 

If you’re in Britain, here’s an opportunity to find out more about this work and see whether it is something you’d like to take further. The Healthcare Chaplaincy Faith and Belief Group are offering a ‘Starting out in Healthcare Chaplaincy’ course in Manchester, UK, February-April 2016.

Open to those of any faith or belief group,...

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The young Buddhists: Triratna's secret

From Triratna News on Thu, 17 Dec, 2015 - 18:55
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The young Buddhists: Triratna's secret

From Triratna News on Thu, 17 Dec, 2015 - 18:55

Presenting Triratna to the European Buddhist Union meeting in Berlin in September, I mentioned Triratna’s recent success in attracting more young people. With most sanghas ageing, people wanted to know our secret.

One answer is that we appointed a Young Buddhist co-ordinator to encourage young Buddhist activities and help other young Buddhists develop the confidence to lead.

Prajnaketu is the new, full-time Young Buddhist Co-ordinator appointed to the Development Team who work for Triratna’s European Chairs’ Assembly. He...
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Dharmabyte: Life is King

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 17 Dec, 2015 - 11:00

We’ve been moved to share an abundant handful of Sangharakshita’s writings and poems this month. Today’s FBA Dharmabyte is a poem entitled “Life is King”. Selected from “Conquering New Worlds”, read by the author and published by Windhorse Publications, Glasgow, 1986.

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Who are the Development Team?

From Triratna News on Tue, 15 Dec, 2015 - 23:58
  • The Development Team

Who are the Development Team?

From Triratna News on Tue, 15 Dec, 2015 - 23:58

The Development Team are five Order members supported by Triratna’s European Chairs’ Assembly (ECA) to provide central services to Triratna in Europe – also enjoyed around the wider Triratna world. (Pictured, left to right: Munisha, Amalavajra, Nandavajra, Prajnaketu and Mokshini.)

We’re a warm, friendly virtual team, meeting on Skype or in person every few weeks to check in and organise our work.

Team Leader is Nandavajra, who lives in Devon, UK, and describes himself as “a grizzled but youthful Triratna veteran who...
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Christmas recipes and food ideas

From Vegan Buddhist on Tue, 15 Dec, 2015 - 12:24

Christmas recipes and food ideas

From Vegan Buddhist on Tue, 15 Dec, 2015 - 12:24

Whether you’re eating with fellow vegans/veggies or sharing the holiday with meat eaters, why not offer some lovely, kind and inclusive food that everyone can eat? I cook vegan every year for ‘mixed’ friends and family, all of whom love the all vegan dinner, desserts and everything! 

http://www.viva.org.uk/christmas 

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