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15 Points For Friendship

Review by Free Buddhist Audio.

A useful look at the role friendship plays in our lives as practising Buddhists, following a classic ‘15 Points’ model… A good-humoured, honest approach to understanding what the Buddha means when he talks about spirtual friendship being the whole of the spirtual life.
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Paramabandhu

Mindfulness For Just About Everything

Review by Free Buddhist Audio

A timely and invaluable talk from Paramabandhu. Drawing on many years of experience as a consultant psychiatrist and Dharma teacher, he invites us to consider the lessons Buddhist techniques around meditation and mindfulness training can bring to the field of mental health - especially to problems with depression and addiction. The talk evokes the Buddha in the Satipatthana Sutta to explore the four traditional foundations of mindfulness and discuss their potential use...
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Candradasa

Summary - Day 3 of the Triratna International Council: Intensifying Practice

From Community Highlights on Mon, 18 Feb, 2013 - 19:19

Summary - Day 3 of the Triratna International Council: Intensifying Practice

From Community Highlights on Mon, 18 Feb, 2013 - 19:19Dassini and Dhammarati evoking the second full day of work of this international gathering. News of moving talks, unexpected songs, beautiful invisibly given gifts, and inspiring presentations on the transformative effect of the Dharma on some of the poorest, most oppressed people in India…

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Candradasa

India Boo No. 4 - Dharmashuri and the other Nagaloka

From Community Highlights on Mon, 18 Feb, 2013 - 16:41
Here at Nagaloka on day 3 of the Triratna International Council we’re delighted to hear from the Chair of the OTHER Nagaloka! Dharmashuri founded Nagaloka Buddhist Center in Portland, Maine on the eastern seaboard of the USA and tells us about having a ‘sister Center’…

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Flower mandala

From Community Highlights on Mon, 18 Feb, 2013 - 16:20

Flower mandala

From Community Highlights on Mon, 18 Feb, 2013 - 16:20
Every day, starting afresh using petals and stamens, young women at the Nagarjuna Institue here at Nagaloka make a flower mandala for us as a beautiful gift for the shrine room. Incredibly generous and very moving. We’ll try and post each day’s as it appears…
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Opportunities at Windhorse:evolution

From Windhorse Evolution on Mon, 18 Feb, 2013 - 10:25

Opportunities at Windhorse:evolution

From Windhorse Evolution on Mon, 18 Feb, 2013 - 10:25Windhorse:evolution has opportunities for men and women who wish to deepen their Dharma practice in the context of a Triratna sangha workplace. Positions are available at our Cambridge headquarters and there are opportunities to live in a residential spiritual community if needed. Windhorse:evolution aims to provide supportive conditions in which to practise Right Livelihood both in the workplace and also within the wider context of the Cambridge Buddhist Centre and local Buddhist Sangha.

Remuneration is available on a wage/salary...
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Summary - Day 2 of the Triratna International Council

From Community Highlights on Sun, 17 Feb, 2013 - 18:25

Summary - Day 2 of the Triratna International Council

From Community Highlights on Sun, 17 Feb, 2013 - 18:25Vajragupta takes a quick time-out to run through the day’s work as night falls on Nagaloka - the first full set of sessions since we all arrived yesterday from far-flung corners of the globe. The theme of the day was ‘making connections’ - and we had the excellent Maitrisara and Viveka helping us do just that with each other in a variety of helpful ways…
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The 'Hanging Garden' Shrine Room

From Community Highlights on Sun, 17 Feb, 2013 - 15:46

The 'Hanging Garden' Shrine Room

From Community Highlights on Sun, 17 Feb, 2013 - 15:46All big Triratna gatherings tend to start and end each day in the shrine room. But this shrine room is a bit extraordinary…!
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India Boo No. 3 - Viradhamma from San Francisco

From Community Highlights on Sun, 17 Feb, 2013 - 14:28
Viradhamma has come literally half way around the world to attend the International Council - here he is talking about why, with delightful interruptions from two local boys, next to the statue of Dr. Ambedkar…

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