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The Call of Anxiety: Developing a Fearless Compassionate Heart

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sat, 31 May, 2025 - 00:32

The Call of Anxiety: Developing a Fearless Compassionate Heart

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sat, 31 May, 2025 - 00:32

The Call of Anxiety
Developing a Fearless Compassionate Heart

June 13-15th 2025
With Singhashri and Balajit

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Many meditators come to practice in the hope of reducing or even getting rid of difficult feelings like stress and anxiety. Yet, to feel anxiety about our lives and especially the current state of our world is a completely understandable and even appropriate response. So how do we learn to listen deeply to our anxiety without allowing it to overwhelm us?

Anxiety can have...

Rijupatha

Vajra Bell - Spring/Summer 2025 issue

From Vajra Bell on Thu, 29 May, 2025 - 19:02

The Vajra Bell Spring/Summer 2025 issue is here!

The focus of this issue is: “Sangha as a Force for Good in the World”.

You can download and view the PDF version of this issue of Vajra Bell by clicking on the link at the bottom of this post.

In this issue:

Sangha Connections
Sangha as a Force for Good in the World - by Suddhayu
The Dharma & the Worldly Winds of Politics - by Suryapala
100 Years: Celebrating Sangharakshita
Sangha Arts: Art as a Spiritual Practice

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Vajra Bell - Spring/Summer 2025 issue	20.12 MB

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The Water of Life (Parable of Herbs)

From Sheffield Buddhist Centre on Thu, 29 May, 2025 - 00:00

The Parable of the Herbs offers a vivid metaphor for how the Dharma nourishes all beings according to their unique capacities—like rain falling equally on grasses, shrubs, and trees. Sanghajiva will explore the profound meaning behind the parable: the Buddha’s wisdom flows impartially to all, yet each individual receives and grows according to their own nature and readiness. In this series we are exploring the profound teachings of the White Lotus Sutra, presented through a combination of poetry, drama, parables and what can seem like cosmic science fiction, and the way these have the potential to free us to take our practice of the Dharma to a new level.

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Maitriyogini

A different kind of summer at Adhisthana

From Adhisthana on Wed, 28 May, 2025 - 18:08

A different kind of summer at Adhisthana

From Adhisthana on Wed, 28 May, 2025 - 18:08

At the end of July, we’re running four events that break from our usual retreat format. They overlap and support each other, offering new ways to spend time and take part in life at Adhisthana. You’re welcome to come for just one, or stay on and take part in several. Check out the website for more info.

Luke Penkett

Review: Train Your Mind: Tibetan Exercises in Wisdom and Compassion by Dhirananda & Viryabodhi

From Windhorse Publications on Wed, 28 May, 2025 - 10:45

Review: Train Your Mind: Tibetan Exercises in Wisdom and Compassion by Dhirananda & Viryabodhi

From Windhorse Publications on Wed, 28 May, 2025 - 10:45

Training the Mind in Seven Points (Tibetan: Lojong) is an eleventh century Mahayana and Tibetan manual of practising and developing wisdom and compassion in order to think about and communicate with others, to respond to, not to react against, other living beings which are not necessarily human beings, rather than putting ourselves first.

Buddhism begins with compassion, and compassion begins with alleviating the suffering of others, rather than alleviating our own suffering. Through developing wisdom, we learn how to care for others...

Luke Penkett

Review: Sangharakshita, Living With Kindness by Sangharakshita (new edition 2025)

From Windhorse Publications on Wed, 28 May, 2025 - 10:34

Review: Sangharakshita, Living With Kindness by Sangharakshita (new edition 2025)

From Windhorse Publications on Wed, 28 May, 2025 - 10:34

Back in 1978 Sangharakshita gave a seminar on the Karaņiyā Mettā Sutta at Padmaloka, the men’s retreat centre in Norfolk. This was edited by Jinananda and Pabodhana and first published as Living with Kindness by Windhorse Publications in 2004. It was re-edited to appear in Pāli Canon Teachings and Translations, Volume 15 of the Complete Works series, and has now been reprinted as a standalone book for the new Classic Sangharakshita series, complete with new notes and index.

Living With Kindness is...

Saddhammapradip

Elders and Pioneer of Retreat Center

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Tue, 27 May, 2025 - 13:14

Elders and Pioneer of Retreat Center

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Tue, 27 May, 2025 - 13:14

Ratnasagar and Kumarjeev are elder and pioneer of retreat center. Ratnasagar has contributed to retreat center in mid 1980 to early 1990 as well as Kumarjeev has contributed to retreat center from mid 1990 to early 2000.

It was good to see both of them meet together by chance at retreat center. They both are encouraging figure from very early age.

Alway feel gratitude for their ...

Utpaladhi

Dana and Events Manager vacancy

From Order Connection on Tue, 27 May, 2025 - 12:55

Dana and Events Manager vacancy

From Order Connection on Tue, 27 May, 2025 - 12:55

The International Order Office has a vacancy for an Order member to join our small team, whose aim is to support and connect the Order, and to help it thrive. We organise international and UK and Ireland events for Order members, hold and develop the Order database, provide services such as kesas, membership cards, Order registration, and Shabda, and we communicate important news across the Order worldwide.

The Order Office supports the International Order Convenors’ work...

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Centre Team

The Preciousness of Human Birth (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 27 May, 2025 - 12:31

How can we, in our busy, everyday lives, transform our awareness and turn our minds towards awakening? Paranita talks about the practice of the ‘Four Mind Turning Reflections’, the four reminders that work on our minds to turn them towards liberation. We will hear about how to reflect on the preciousness of our human life, the inevitability of death, the truth of karma and the dangers of samsara, to bring about a radical shift in awareness. Excerpted...

Centre Team

An Ode to Joy (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 27 May, 2025 - 11:01

Smritiratna portrays rejoicing not as a mood but as a choice: a deliberate act. At least potentially we all have the power to rejoice, even when we are in the pits of despair. In this excerpt, he reflects on Beethoven who chose not to give in to deafness but to end his last symphony with an ode to joy. He sings the fifth section of the Sevenfold Puja ‘Rejoicing in Merits’ to Beethoven’s familiar tune. Excerpted the...

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