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New Podcast: A Mythic Retreat Centre for Ireland

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sat, 29 Mar, 2025 - 18:29

In Triratna, learning to understand what is truly beautiful is seen as a path to Enlightenment itself. In this episode we find ourselves exploring this in an unexpected and extraordinary way at the seat of all Buddhist paths and myths, Bodh Gaya in India. Not far from the bodhi tree, where the Buddha’s great achievement is said to have taken place, you’ll find us deep in conversation with visitiing leaders from the Dublin Buddhist Centre about their vision of building...
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Punyamala

Forthcoming Ordinations at Akashavana

From Order Connection on Sat, 29 Mar, 2025 - 13:42

Forthcoming Ordinations at Akashavana

From Order Connection on Sat, 29 Mar, 2025 - 13:42

Dear Order Members,

I am delighted to be letting you know that the following 19 women will be starting their 11 week ordination course at Akashavana on the 7th of April.

Kate Fitzroy from Valencia

Emma Ward from Sheffield

Jenny Thomson from Sheffield

Idoia Acha from the LBC

Catrine Skeppar from the LBC

Tara Pollitt from the LBC

An Van Eyck from  the Low Countries/Tiratanaloka

Natalia Kieniewicz from Taraloka

Catherine Duncan from Manchester

Lena Pokorny from Scotland

Jessica Perena from Essen

Laura Smith from Leeds

Elise Marshall from Glasgow

Miriam Lynn from Cambridge

Miriam Brod from Cambridge

Jane Turner from Cambridge

Miia Chambers from North London

Jill...
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Feel the Fear and do it Anyway (FBA Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 29 Mar, 2025 - 10:00

Punyamala explores how we can bring our mindfulness to the crucial juncture in our experience, the gap between feeling and craving. This point - the point of freedom, also sometimes referred to as the battleground of the spiritual life - is where we can start to change the habits that bind us to the Wheel. It’s the point where we can move from the reactive mind to the creative mind, move closer to the Buddha. This talk...
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Dhammarati

Resignation of Danadasa

From Order Connection on Sat, 29 Mar, 2025 - 08:36

Resignation of Danadasa

From Order Connection on Sat, 29 Mar, 2025 - 08:36

Dear Order Members,
 
I’m sorry to let you know that Danadasa from San Francisco in the USA has written to me, resigning from the Order. 
In consultation with his Private Preceptor and others, I have replied to him, accepting his resignation. 

Danadasa was ordained on June 18th, 2011, at the San Francisco Buddhist Center. I was the Public Preceptor, and Viradhamma was the Private Preceptor. 

Danadasa has directly informed the people in the Order who he...
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Free Buddhist Audio

Ready Or Not, One Day We Shall Die

From Sheffield Buddhist Centre on Wed, 26 Mar, 2025 - 00:00
How can we, in our busy, everyday lives, transform our awareness and turn our minds towards awakening? This week 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.
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Join us for the Big Weekend! May 2-5

From Triratna News on Mon, 24 Mar, 2025 - 20:30

Join us for the Big Weekend! May 2-5

From Triratna News on Mon, 24 Mar, 2025 - 20:30

2–5 MAY | LED BY A TEAM OF POC ORDER MEMBERS

The National Gathering is the biggest event on the People of Colour calendar. It is four days of practising meditation, slowing down, teachings from highly experienced practitioners of colour and connecting with one another whilst living in community.

Retreatants gather from all around the UK and further for this annual event in the beautiful, peaceful, springtime blossoming grounds of ...
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Luke Penkett

Review: Living with Awareness by Sangharakshita (new edition 2025)

From Windhorse Publications on Mon, 24 Mar, 2025 - 15:23
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Review: Living with Awareness by Sangharakshita (new edition 2025)

From Windhorse Publications on Mon, 24 Mar, 2025 - 15:23

Sangharakshita’s much loved commentary on the Satipațțhāna Sutta, a Pāli text from the Majjhima Nikāya in which the Buddha explains the practice of mindfulness, has just been published in a brand-new edition! The material was originally delivered as a seminar at a men’s ordination retreat in Tuscany in 1982 and developed as a book by Dharmacharis Pabodhana and Jinananda published in 2003, it has been thoroughly revised and significantly enlarged for the new Classic Sangharakshita series (of which it is...
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No Protection Needed (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 24 Mar, 2025 - 14:44

Buddhism is sometimes seen as weak or negative. Using examples from the Pali Canon and Mahayana texts, this lecture shows that, on the contrary, heroic and positive qualities are essential in the Buddhist spiritual aspirant’s quest for Enlightenment. Here, Sangharakshita tells the story of Devadatta who was trying to kill the Buddha. Excerpted from the talk The Heroic Ideal in Buddhism given in 1969.

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