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6. Karuna Or Compassion: You Need Buckets of Metta

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Tue, 23 Sep, 2025 - 00:00
How can we meet suffering with metta? Opening up to metta that is 'beyond me', and meeting all the different emotions that arise in us in relation to painful experience. Honest, moving, sometimes funny. From the 'Living in the Mandala: Brahma Viharas' retreat at Taraloka.
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7. Karuna Bhavana Led Meditation

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Tue, 23 Sep, 2025 - 00:00
Karuna isn't empathy! Maitrisiddhi introduces the Karuna Bhavana meditation and leads it through, inviting us to connect with the limitless metta of Amitabha Buddha. From the 'Living in the Mandala: Brahma Viharas' retreat at Taraloka.
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2. What IS Arising? Receptive Metta Bhavana

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Tue, 23 Sep, 2025 - 00:00
The metta bhavana practice has two aspects - active intention to wish well, and receptive awareness - noticing our actual emotional responses. Maitrisiddhi introduces and leads through a practice emphasising the receptive aspect. From the 'Living in the Mandala: Brahma Viharas' retreat at Taraloka. NB: If you're wondering what the background sounds are, it's someone in a Spitfire doing acrobatics in the sky overhead!
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4. Choosing Metta - No Matter What Anyone Else Is Doing

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Tue, 23 Sep, 2025 - 00:00
Metta as clarity; metta that does not depend on 'you'. Metta as active wishing, and metta as 'being with'. From the 'Living in the Mandala: Brahma Viharas' retreat at Taraloka.
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1. Emotions That Are Aligned with Reality

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Tue, 23 Sep, 2025 - 00:00
Authentic and fresh! An introduction to the Brahma Viharas. Maitrisiddhi talks about the link with insight, what they are, and how to work with all the different emotions, skilful and unskilful, that arise in our minds. From the 'Living in the Mandala: Brahma Viharas' retreat at Taraloka.
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Transforming Gods and Demons

From London Buddhist Centre on Tue, 23 Sep, 2025 - 00:00
Suryagupta’s talk explores the story of Padmasambhava, the great tantric master invited to Tibet when Buddhism could not take root through reason and philosophy alone. She describes how Padmasambhava confronted and transformed the unseen forces of Maras, demons, and gods, turning their energies towards the Dharma rather than away from it. The talk urges us to face our own inner and collective forces with courage, love, ritual, and devotion, calling on Padmasambhava’s blessing for personal and societal transformation.
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Ananda Och Buddha

From Stockholms buddhistcenter on Tue, 23 Sep, 2025 - 00:00
I en serie om Buddhas tidigaste lärjungar berättar Achaladaya om Ananda, som var Buddhas kusin och följeslagare de sista 25 åren av Buddhas liv. Achaladaya berättar om varför han fastnat för Ananda och hur han, som var så vänlig och mänsklig, fångat honom rentav mer än Buddha. Han berättar också om Anandas vänlighet, hur omtyckt han var, samt hur han var favorit bland de kvinnliga lärjungarna (han var instrumentell för att kvinnor skulle bli ordinerade). Han berättar om hur en målning på Buddha och Ananda, av Amitajyoti, blivit en inspiration för honom. Achaladaya leder också en metta-bhavana, kanske mer likt hur man gjorde det på Buddhas tid. Givet på Stockholms Buddhistcenter, 22 september 2025.
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The Precious Guru, An Intro to Padmasambhava

From Glasgow Buddhist Centre on Mon, 22 Sep, 2025 - 00:00
This talk launches a month dedicated to Padmasambhava at the Glasgow Buddhist Centre. It will culminate in the Padmasambhava Day Festival on the 28th September
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Reordination of Amritketu

From Order Connection on Sat, 20 Sep, 2025 - 15:04

Reordination of Amritketu

From Order Connection on Sat, 20 Sep, 2025 - 15:04

Dear Order Members

Jai Bhim, Namo Buddhaya. It gives me great pleasure to formally announce that Dhammachari Amritketu, who had resigned from the Order two years ago, has now been reordained. After all matters were duly and appropriately resolved, the Public Preceptors’ Kula, with the approval of the College President, have welcomed him back into the Order.

On 18th September, at the Urgyen Sangharakshita Retreat Centre, a ceremony was conducted with his Private Preceptor, Jnanadhvaja, and Public Preceptor Yashosagar,...

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Themes From The Bardo Thodol (FBA Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 20 Sep, 2025 - 11:00

Satyaraja offers this practical exploration of some themes from the Bardo Thodol, or the Great Liberation through Hearing in the Intermediate State. The talk was given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2022.

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