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Continued Fund Raising for Suryavana Retreat Centre in Spain

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Sun, 16 Nov, 2025 - 08:25

Continued Fund Raising for Suryavana Retreat Centre in Spain

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Sun, 16 Nov, 2025 - 08:25

Suryavana is situated in Eastern Spain near Valencia. Since 2021 the retreat centre has been an independent Triratna project with the principal objective to serve the wider Spanish Sangha, as well as the Order here in Spain. On a “wing and a prayer” we bought the property in 2016 with two large loans. The project is currently thriving with a recent installation of a beautiful stupa and refurbishing a new ...

Centre Team

Monsters of the Mind (FBA Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 - 11:00

Sanghagita explores some of the most evocative and mysterious imagery from the Wheel of Life. In this talk, we’ll turn our attention to three realms that speak vividly to the struggles of human existence: the asuras, the pretas, and the hell realms. 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! This talk was given at ...

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Positive Spirals

From Sheffield Buddhist Centre on Wed, 12 Nov, 2025 - 00:00

Having found the space where freedom lives on the Wheel of Life, where do we go from here? Before us is a path of unfolding positive mental states each arising naturally from the state before it. This week we will be exploring the ascent of the spiral path – the positive counter-part to the cyclical Wheel of Life. We will look at how this vision of positive conditionality can help guide an ever-deepening spiritual practice. 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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Order Weekend - Nov 25

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Tue, 11 Nov, 2025 - 18:53

Order Weekend - Nov 25

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Tue, 11 Nov, 2025 - 18:53

Order Weekend for western region Order Members.

It was great to hear exploration of Order Members both Old and Young on Bhante talk about ‘The Tension between Practical and Academic approach to Buddhism’

Talks were given by Samsiddhi, Rutayin, Prajnaditya, Jnandhish and Manjuvaccha.

Saddhammapradip

Mexican Visitor's

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Tue, 11 Nov, 2025 - 18:45

Mexican Visitor's

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Tue, 11 Nov, 2025 - 18:45

Thank you Dh Aryanatha for arranging visit of our Mexican friends to Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat centre.

Saddhammapradip

Team Building Retreat - Nov 25

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Tue, 11 Nov, 2025 - 18:41

Team Building Retreat - Nov 25

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Tue, 11 Nov, 2025 - 18:41

It’s really great to see Nagasambhava and Maitreyin working hard for sustainability of our hostel project.

Similarly see efforts of all Hostel Warden joint together with Abhayraja and external NGO Mitcorp team Ms. Sheryljen.

Yashosagar

Reinstatement of Ratnachandra

From Order Connection on Tue, 11 Nov, 2025 - 11:15

Reinstatement of Ratnachandra

From Order Connection on Tue, 11 Nov, 2025 - 11:15

11th November 2025

Dear Sangha brothers and sisters,

Dhammachari Ratnachandra from Pune, India, was suspended from the Order approximately three years ago due to a serious ethical issue. Today I am pleased to inform you that, in my capacity as his Public Preceptor, and in consultation with Ratnachandra’s Private Preceptor, the Papadesana Kula, and the Chair and Deputy of the College of Public Preceptors, his suspension has been lifted.

The Chair and the members of the Indian Public Preceptors Kula, who know him well, are fully satisfied...

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The Symbol of the Wheel of Life (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 10 Nov, 2025 - 11:00

Maitreyi’s visit to the Mid Essex Buddhist Centre, talking about communicating through symbols, this time round through the hub of the wheel of life. Excerpted from the talk entitled Communicating Through Symbols: The Hub of the Wheel of Life given at Mid Essex Buddhist Centre, 2020.

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Vishvapani

Revisiting the Romantics by Vishvapani

From Community Highlights on Sat, 8 Nov, 2025 - 21:51

Revisiting the Romantics by Vishvapani

From Community Highlights on Sat, 8 Nov, 2025 - 21:51

Vishvapani in the recent edition of Tricycle:

Alfoxton Park in Somerset, southwest England, sits halfway up a long incline that rises from the Bristol Channel to the Quantock Hills. The main house, built in a neoclassical style in 1710, could be home to a Jane Austen heroine. But look more closely and you see crumbling plasterwork, decaying windows, and a tumbledown roof. I’ve come to know Alfoxton since 2020, when it became home to a community of Buddhists from the
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Candradasa

New Podcast: Portraits of Samadhi

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sat, 8 Nov, 2025 - 21:38

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Samādhi is the Sanskrit word for a state of peaceful, integrated absorption the mind can reach through meditation.

And people’s faces in meditation have been a source of fascination (and distraction) for documentary filmmaker Hartley Woolf since he began his own Buddhist practice. “I can’t help but enjoy taking in all the different expressions around me in the shrine room,” he says, “and wondering what’s going on inside the mind behind.”

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