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Letter from the Chair – December 2024

From College of Public Preceptors on Sat, 30 Nov, 2024 - 09:34

Letter from the Chair – December 2024

From College of Public Preceptors on Sat, 30 Nov, 2024 - 09:34

Dear Order members and friends,


A year ago at the College’s annual international meeting I was surprised when my fellow College members asked me to take over from Ratnadharini, in a year’s time, as the next College Chair. However, I quite quickly adjusted and have spent much of the last year reflecting on what this responsibility requires of me, and preparing to take it on. I am grateful to Ratnadharini for her support in this handover - I admired her chairing...
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The Awakening Mind (FBA Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 30 Nov, 2024 - 06:00

The Enlightenment of the Buddha was an irreversible breakthrough into a new kind of consciousness for the world. All our practice flows from this endless stream of wisdom and compassion, flowing throughout the history of humanity. Dhammarati explores this momentous event, and its implications for us today. This talk was given on Buddha Day Festival at the

London Buddhist Centre, 2022.

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Affirming One Another (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Fri, 29 Nov, 2024 - 11:56

The spiritual community is held as one of the three essential elements of the spiritual life. Paramananda talks about building Sangha and the importance of living and practising in relationship with other people. Excerpted from the talk The Sangha Jewel given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2014.

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Manchester Buddhist Centre is looking for a Women’s Mitra Convenor

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Fri, 29 Nov, 2024 - 11:26[edit]

Manchester Buddhist Centre is looking for a Women’s Mitra Convenor

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Fri, 29 Nov, 2024 - 11:26[edit]

Manchester Buddhist Centre is entering a new and exciting phase. Working with our new Chair, Lokeshvara, the MBC Trustees have recently concluded we will have to move from our current premises and find a new home for our sangha. We have set a two year time frame on making this transition. You will be very much involved in helping us make this transition.

Our sangha is lively and engaged, with an increasing number of young women getting involved. We have 86 women mitras, 45 of whom have asked for...
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Recording of Memorial Service and Practice Day for Kamalashila

From Triratna News on Thu, 28 Nov, 2024 - 22:03

Recording of Memorial Service and Practice Day for Kamalashila

From Triratna News on Thu, 28 Nov, 2024 - 22:03

The recording of Yashobodhi and friends at the North London Buddhist Centre for the online live stream of a memorial service and practice day for Kamalashila.

© 2024 Photo courtesy of Viramati
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Full-time Executive Assistant to the International Council

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Thu, 28 Nov, 2024 - 15:35
  • IC meeting in November 2022

Full-time Executive Assistant to the International Council

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Thu, 28 Nov, 2024 - 15:35

Are you inspired to work at the heart of Triratna?

There are various groupings of senior Order members who have overlapping responsibilities that, between them, cover the whole Order and Movement […]. There needs to be some liaison between them all so they are not each just going their separate ways or coming into some sort of conflict… We definitely need such a structure if we are to be effective… 

Sangharakshita, What is the Western Buddhist Order? 2009

This is your chance to make a...
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Rivendell Retreat Centre seeking a new Chairperson

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Thu, 28 Nov, 2024 - 12:37

Rivendell Retreat Centre seeking a new Chairperson

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Thu, 28 Nov, 2024 - 12:37

Rivendell is a beautiful Triratna Retreat Centre set in the heart of Sussex dedicated to providing the conditions in which the Dharma is communicated and Sangha is created.

We would like to hear from Order Members with the experience and confidence to lead the Rivendell Team, exemplify community life, and develop the annual retreat programme.

We are looking for someone who:

  • enjoys meeting the varied challenges of life at a retreat centre
  • has a positive and effective Buddhist practice 
  • wants to live in a small community and practice Team-Based Right Livelihood
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'Wisdom Takes the Form of Light': Shinjin As Faith, Bodhicitta and Wisdom

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 28 Nov, 2024 - 00:00
Talk 3 of 8. The Buddha as presence and absence. What happens when the conditioned mind lets up for a bit? Experiences of beauty, openness, love, desire to go for refuge and devotion naturally arise; we experience contact with ‘amida’, the quality of limitlessness. Are those experiences ‘ours’ – or something else? For experienced Dharma practitioners.
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Shinjin: Failure of Self and Going For Refuge

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 28 Nov, 2024 - 00:00
Talk 4 of 8. ‘Like the cherry blossom, the heart planning on tomorrow is ephemeral indeed. What sudden storm may not arise in the middle of the night?’ Like Shakyamuni Buddha, Shinran’s deep sense of the uncertainty and unreliability of the existential situation drives his going forth. Yet ‘going forth’ isn’t ultimately from a place or a context: it’s going forth from the mind that grasps, including within the Dharma life. For experienced Dharma practitioners.
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Everything Happening In Relation: Shakyamuni and the Pure Land Tradition

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 27 Nov, 2024 - 00:00
Talk 1 of 8. The life of Shakyamuni as relationality, and the growth of the Pure Land mythic world. How do we see the life of the Buddha? As the myth of the solitary hero, or as a story of conditionality: awakening arising through our relations with others? How do processes of transformation arise? They arise within relatedness, because that’s the nature of reality itself. For experienced Dharma practitioners.
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