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Men's GFR Retreat - July 24

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Tue, 13 Aug, 2024 - 03:58
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Men's GFR Retreat - July 24

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Tue, 13 Aug, 2024 - 03:58

Men’s GFR Retreat on Kalyanmitra led by Dh Anomdassi and Mens Going for Refugee (GFR) team.

Dh Jinasen travel from Srilanka for retreat. Dh. Jinasen enjoying preparing evening meals for retreatant. It was great treat for retreat.

As Rainy season it was good to see retreatant during Meditation, Puja, hearing talks and doing discussion...
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A Body at Peace with Itself (FBA Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 10 Aug, 2024 - 11:00

Balajit starts by exploring different perspectives on what is the body and how limited views can limit our practice. He shares his own journey of discovery around what the body is, particularly during his years living at Vajraloka Retreat Centre. The talk then looks at what it might mean for the body to be truly, profoundly and deeply at peace with itself. Given at Manchester Buddhist Centre, 2017.

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Sensation Is Always Now

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 8 Aug, 2024 - 11:00

Dhammagita talks about the importance of the body and its sensations in informing and enabling our practice, taking us to the truth, overcoming conditioning and embracing vulnerability. Excerpted from the talk Body of Awakening given at Taraloka Retreat Centre 2018.

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Start by Becoming a Capable Person

From Sheffield Buddhist Centre on Thu, 8 Aug, 2024 - 00:00
This week at Sangha Night Viamaldasa will explores the introductory advice of the Buddha's teaching in the Karaniya Metta Sutta "Start by becoming a capable person." In a famous passage in the Itivutakka The Buddha compares Metta to the radiance of the sun and moon. He says that metta ‘shines and burns and blazes forth in surpassing all other acts of good’ and that ‘Whoever sets their mind to make goodwill grow Boundless’ ...will become Enlightened! In this Sangha Night series we will be using another famous teaching on metta, The Karaniya Metta Sutta, to take a really good look at the Metta Bhavana practice, both on the cushion and in daily life. Over the coming weeks we will be asking ‘Can metta really be a path to Enlightenment?’ and we will come to realise that The Buddha’s path to liberation can also be seen as ‘Living with Kindness’.
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Autumn Term in Frome

From Frome Triratna Group on Wed, 7 Aug, 2024 - 16:42

Autumn Term in Frome

From Frome Triratna Group on Wed, 7 Aug, 2024 - 16:42
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Ordination at the Manchester Buddhist Centre

From Order Connection on Mon, 5 Aug, 2024 - 15:01

Ordination at the Manchester Buddhist Centre

From Order Connection on Mon, 5 Aug, 2024 - 15:01

Dear Order Members,

I am delighted to announce that the Public Ordination of ex-Cia Vinten of the Manchester Buddhist Centre, UK, took place on Sunday 4th August 2024 following a special short Ordination Retreat at Adhisthana. 

She first came along to the original Manchester Buddhist Centre in 1981, where she met Suvajra and Ratnaguna, and they were both present at the ceremony. Among other guests there were 41 Order Members there, and it was quite an afternoon. 

She was given the...
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Cultivating a New Default Setting

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 5 Aug, 2024 - 11:00

Vidyamala explores how a Mahayana approach of cultivating Bodhicitta is a brilliant way to ‘flip’ our habitual self-centredness and cultivate a new default setting of continually thinking of others. Excepted from the talk Citta and Bodhicitta given at Rivendell as part of the series An Exploration of the Satipatthana Sutta 2018.

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Somatic Going for Refuge (FBA Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 3 Aug, 2024 - 11:00

Singhashri reminds us of Bhante’s emphasis on the development of the true individual, positive group and spiritual community. She then links an embodied and relational approach to our individual and collective going for refuge, encouraging us to explore how a direct experience of safety, dignity and belonging in the sangha might support collective awakening. She ends by sharing specific ways we may practice “somatic going for refuge” which she describes as not a new level of going...
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Death of Tarakarunya

From Order Connection on Fri, 2 Aug, 2024 - 18:13

Death of Tarakarunya

From Order Connection on Fri, 2 Aug, 2024 - 18:13

Dear Order friends

During the early hours of this morning, 2nd August 2024, the authentic gem who was Tarakarunya (‘she who has or is the compassion of Tara’) died peacefully at Garside Care Home, London. A number of sangha members had been with her on the previous evening and into the early hours, chanting her beloved Green Tara and Shakyamuni mantras, reading her favourite version of the Heart Sutra, the blessing verses and passing on messages of love to her. A beautiful shrine and...
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Ordinations at Padmaloka

From Order Connection on Fri, 2 Aug, 2024 - 18:06

Ordinations at Padmaloka

From Order Connection on Fri, 2 Aug, 2024 - 18:06

Dear Order Members,

I am delighted to announce the ordinations of the following five men at Padmaloka on Friday 2nd August 2024.

with metta,

Dharmadipa

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Public preceptor Satyaraja

Tim Wright becomes Danacharin “He who practises giving”

Private Preceptor Sujana

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Steve Odell becomes Upayalila “He for whom skilful means is play”

Private Preceptor Jinapalita

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David Float becomes Shubhadasa “He who is a servant of beauty”

Private Preceptor Priyananda

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Damien Dufourd becomes Padmanara “Man of the Lotus”

Private Preceptor Padmavajra

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Ian J D becomes Shraddhin “He who has trusting faith and confidence”

Private Preceptor Danapriya

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