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People Just Want to Be Happy (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 - 12:59

Peace, happiness, contentment we all want it, but where and how to find it. The Buddhist tradition would say that it is in how we relate to our experience that either satisfaction or grasping can be found. Does this stand up, how do we do it, what difference does it make in the world. Dharmashalin talks here about the essential problem of life. Excerpted from the talk Finding Peace In a Frantic World given...

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Three Points of Transition (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 - 12:04

In this masterly lecture to an American conference audience, Sangharakshita reminds us of the basic conceptual formulation of the Buddha’s enlightenment experience. The twelve negative and twelve positive nidanas (‘links’) represent two trends - reactive and progressive - within the same conditionality. Excerpted from the talk entitled The Twenty-Four Nidanas given as part of the series Two Lectures to a Conference on the Nature of Reality: Buddhism as Transformation, 1994.

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UK & Ireland Combined Order Convention – 19th to 24th August 2026

From Order Connection on Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 - 11:15

UK & Ireland Combined Order Convention – 19th to 24th August 2026

From Order Connection on Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 - 11:15

Booking for the 2026 UK & Ireland Order Convention is now open. All details via the Convention webpage.

Coming together on Convention is an opportunity for us to gather as a spiritual community, and reconnect with the depth of our shared Going for Refuge in a way that feels right for each of us. It’s an occasion to strengthen friendships, appreciate one another’s practice, and open ourselves to collective inspiration that can nourish and sustain us.

By stepping...

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Join the ECA Development Team

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 - 10:21

Join the ECA Development Team

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 - 10:21

The European Chairs Assembly (ECA) Development Team is expanding, and we are looking for motivated Order Members to join us.

Our Vision: Building the Buddhaland

The Development Team serves as the incubator for new ideas and projects within Triratna. We see ourselves as pioneers and engineers for change—working not just to maintain the status quo, but to innovate and ensure the Dharma thrives in the modern world.

We strike a unique balance in our work: we pursue professional excellence and strategic action, but we do...

Saddhammapradip

Know your Mind - Nov 25

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 - 05:01

Know your Mind - Nov 25

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 - 05:01

Women Going for Refugee Retreat led by Dhni. Suprabha. Subject for retreat was Know your Mind. Thanks for Support by Vidyadharini, Vajradharini and other.

It was good to See Dhni. Shubhajaya on retreat supporting.

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working retreat at Akashavana

From Akashavana on Wed, 26 Nov, 2025 - 17:18

working retreat at Akashavana

From Akashavana on Wed, 26 Nov, 2025 - 17:18

This month we’re really happy to share a guest blog from Dharmataru…

Now sitting in my kitchen in Nottingham looking at the grey gloom outside the memory of Akashavana and the bright blue sky is still very strong for me. I got back a week ago from an 8 day work retreat. I was the only ‘punter’ and spent these days as an additional member of the community alongside Padmasakhi, Bodhipaksini and Vidyachandra.

The main focus of the retreat was to give energy and...

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From Spiral to Mandala

From Sheffield Buddhist Centre on Wed, 26 Nov, 2025 - 00:00

At this Tuesday's Sangha Night, Nagavajri will evoke the 5 Buddha Mandala and help us feel into how the culmination of the spiral path could open up for us. During this theme we'll be looking at The Wheel of Life, a living symbol that encompasses the entirety of existence. We'll learn how to escape from the prison and sufferings of Samsara, towards ever increasing positive and expansive states of being, towards the ultimate goal of Awakening. We'll be taking a contemporary look at this ancient symbol, visiting it's realms and their beings from the depths of the hell realm to the heights of the heavenly abodes, and asking what do these realms look like in our modern society and world? Expect support for home practice, practical ideas of how to bring these traditional teachings into your everyday life, and reflections on how to make your Great Escape!

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Aryajit

Freedom to Grow: A weekend for Fathers

From Triratna News on Mon, 24 Nov, 2025 - 14:39

Freedom to Grow: A weekend for Fathers

From Triratna News on Mon, 24 Nov, 2025 - 14:39

Freedom to Grow: A weekend for Fathers
Fri 9 - Sun 11th, January 2026
Padmaloka Retreat Centre

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As fathers, we live within many layers of relationships – family, work, and society – all of which shape our sense of self. But how do we balance these roles while deepening our connection to the Dharma?

On this retreat, we’ll explore what it means to be part of a spiritual community while living within a family context. Through practice,discussion, and shared experience,...

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Animals, Humans and Heavenly Beings (FBA Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 22 Nov, 2025 - 11:00

In the game of life we wander between realms, moving from lower states to higher as our actions affect the state of our mind. Pradaya tours of the third ring of the wheel of life, the six realms of worldly existence which depict the kinds of world we can live in according to our state of mind. His talk focuses on the worlds of animals, gods and humans, informing us on how to recognise which realm we’re...

Ksantikara

Join the North London Buddhist Centre Team: Marketing & Fundraising Coordinator

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 - 17:21

Join the North London Buddhist Centre Team: Marketing & Fundraising Coordinator

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 - 17:21

We’re looking for a Mitra who has asked for ordination into the Triratna Buddhist Order or an Order Member to join us in early 2026 as our new Marketing & Fundraising Coordinator.

It is an exciting time to join the North London Buddhist Centre team - we have over 100 mitras (over a third of which have asked for ordination), 26 engaged local order members, a large five story building, a harmonious Sangha, a rebrand project in process, a website in...

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