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FBA Podcast: Adventures In the Pure Land – Beauty

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 23 Mar, 2015 - 22:39

FBA Podcast: Adventures In the Pure Land – Beauty

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 23 Mar, 2015 - 22:39

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The Pure Land Sutras are described as practices, not texts to be read and understood, but rather engaged with as if a piece of music, inviting us to awaken our imagination. Ratnaguna gives us a in depth look at the beauty in the Sukhavati Sutras in this week’s FBA Podcast: “Adventures In the Pure Land – Beauty.” This is...
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Tuesday Meditation - March 24th 2015

From Online Meditators on Mon, 23 Mar, 2015 - 21:42

Tuesday Meditation - March 24th 2015

From Online Meditators on Mon, 23 Mar, 2015 - 21:42

Rounding off our coverage of the Urban Retreat led by Ratnavandana on the Living In The Mandala - The Brahma Viharas, we’ll be revisiting this important suite of practices again this week. Meditation will be facilitated by Rijupatha.

Come and join us for a different kind of space in your day and in your heart…

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Day 6: A Personal Take On Upekkha

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Mon, 23 Mar, 2015 - 21:27

Continuing the series of personal talks on each of the Brahma Viharas from the 2015 Rainy Season Retreat, Ratnavandana shares an intensely honest, psychologically intimate, beautifully forensic history of her personal relationship to the practice of upekkha (equanimity) throughout her spiritual life. We hear about ways to assess what’s going on in the subtler realms of our experience - and how to look to move beyond them so we too can live like a river…

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Mind In Harmony by Subhuti - Free Excerpt

Mind In Harmony by Subhuti - Free Excerpt

From Community Highlights on Mon, 23 Mar, 2015 - 16:31

Subhuti’s Mind in Harmony: A Psychology of Buddhist Ethics is now available on the Windhorse Publications website in both paperback and eBook format. It has been funded by many generous Mind in Harmony sponsors, who make publishing new Dharma books possible. Although the book is now out, Windhorse are still just under £500 short of their full target, so more donations would be very...
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Day 6: Guided Upekkha Bhavana Meditation (Cultivation of Equanimity)

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Sun, 22 Mar, 2015 - 18:59
Ratnavandana introduces and guides us through the practice of cultivating equanimity. Not a cool, detached state but a deep warm engagement with the practice of love, compassion and joy held in the perspective of the Buddha’s insights into the nature of reality itself…

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New Chair and Deputies for the Triratna Preceptors’ College

From Triratna News on Sun, 22 Mar, 2015 - 15:58
  • Paramabandhu, Saddhaloka, Ratnadharini
  • Dhammarati passes on the Chair to Saddhaloka

New Chair and Deputies for the Triratna Preceptors’ College

From Triratna News on Sun, 22 Mar, 2015 - 15:58The Preceptors’ College has a new Chair and three new Deputy Chairs.

The College’s main job is overseeing the Triratna ordination process, but it also sees its role within the Community as passing on the spirit of the Triratna Buddhist Order by preserving, sustaining, developing and communicating Bhante’s particular presentation of the Dharma.

After an evening of celebration and rejoicing on March 14, Saddhaloka took over as Chair of the Preceptors’ College from Dhammarati following his...
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Day 6: Guided Meditation - Sitting In The Mandala (With Ratnasambhava Mantra)

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Sun, 22 Mar, 2015 - 15:31
Ratnavandana introducing Day 6 of the urban retreat on the Brahma Viharas - Living In The Mandala. Today we’re sitting with the great golden Buddha of the South, archetypal Buddha of abundance and spiritual richness. A good way to start things off…

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Day 8: meditating, rejoicing, puja to Bhante, and clear up!

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Sat, 21 Mar, 2015 - 20:53

Day 8: meditating, rejoicing, puja to Bhante, and clear up!

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Sat, 21 Mar, 2015 - 20:53

Late post today - it’s been a full last day.

We had our usual silent meditative morning, with more beautiful words from Ratnavandana. The shrine room felt very still as we sat with her open approach to practising with all the brahma viharas again.

After lunch - and much rejoicing in Ratnavandana, the team, and the retreat - we did a puja to Sangharakshita, ending with dismantling the central five Buddha shrine. I...
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Day 5: A Personal Take On Mudita by Sanghaketu

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Sat, 21 Mar, 2015 - 20:43
An infectiously delightful talk by Sanghaketu on the subject of joyful resonance with others (mudita). He really gets into his subject here! And his sense and experience of gladness comes across beautifully through laughter and reflection on the boon of good friends.

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Day 5: A Puja To Amoghasiddhi

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Sat, 21 Mar, 2015 - 18:18
A strong, stirring puja dedicated to Amoghasiddhi, the archetypal, unstoppable green Buddha of the North. This ritual features dedicated sections and readings that call forth Amoghasiddhi’s great qualities of fearlessness as well as the magical realm he inhabits. We are also treated to words enjoining us to practise empathy and sympathetic joy (mudita) in all our relationship. This puja includes some beautiful mantra chanting and lovely verses to Green Tara, Amoghasiddhi’s consort, used to help face and overcome our fears…...

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