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Dharmabytes: The Great Love

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 13 Nov, 2023 - 11:00

Our teacher Sangharakshita has said: “It is in friendship (maitri) that we may find the emotional equivalent of the intellectual understanding of the doctrine of ‘no self’”. The gift of these teachings can help us move beyond self-clinging into a deeper and far more mysterious connection with one another; a Greater Love.

From the talk Spiritual Friendship and the Heart’s Release by Maitreyi given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2018.

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Four Myths + Five Farewells

From College of Public Preceptors on Tue, 14 Nov, 2023 - 10:18

Four Myths + Five Farewells

From College of Public Preceptors on Tue, 14 Nov, 2023 - 10:18

Over the weekend, the College were joined by a number of retired Public Preceptors: Suvajra, Padmasuri, Sanghadevi, Saddhaloka; with Manjuvajra, Subhuti and Srimala visiting for some elements of the programme and to spend time together as ‘College Elders’. 

Jnanavaca led three sessions of stimulating, interactive study on the ‘four myths of the spiritual life’. He explored this model that Subhuti conceived and introduced in a talk on an international Order convention in 2003 (and was more recently explored by Jnanavaca and Maitreyabandhu...
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Ratnadharini

The Next Chair of the College of Public Preceptors

From Order Connection on Wed, 15 Nov, 2023 - 08:49

The Next Chair of the College of Public Preceptors

From Order Connection on Wed, 15 Nov, 2023 - 08:49

Dear Order Members,

I’m writing from Adhisthana during the annual international meeting of the Preceptors’ College, where you may be aware we have been deciding who will take over from me as Chair of the Preceptors’ College when I step down in a year’s time.

I’m delighted to let you all know that there was a clear consensus to invite Mahamati to become the next College Chair. Happily, Mahamati was able to respond wholeheartedly, and will...
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Dr B. R. Ambedkar Memorial

From Order Connection on Tue, 14 Nov, 2023 - 11:16

Dr B. R. Ambedkar Memorial

From Order Connection on Tue, 14 Nov, 2023 - 11:16

It is an immense pleasure to inform you all that we are going to unveil a bust of Dr Ambedkar at Adhisthana during the Public Preceptor College meeting on 14 November. 

It has been in the Indian Order members’ minds to have a statue of Dr Ambedkar at Adhisthana to mark his significance within the Order and movement. Bhante was very much keen to have the bust at Adhisthana. He wanted it to be beautiful! We tried our best to get one. We got...
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Resignation of Nirmala

From Order Connection on Tue, 14 Nov, 2023 - 10:30

Resignation of Nirmala

From Order Connection on Tue, 14 Nov, 2023 - 10:30

Dear Order Members,

Dharmachari Nirmala, from the Ruhe District of Germany, has written to me as his Public and Private Preceptor to inform me that he is resigning from the Triratna Buddhist Order. 
 
After correspondence between us, he has confirmed that his resignation is definite and I have accepted this. 

In regard to his Order name he said: “I leave it to people to call me as they like it. For those who got to know me as Nirmala...
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La meditación y charla: La Comunidad

From on Mon, 13 Nov, 2023 - 12:31

La meditación y charla: La Comunidad

From on Mon, 13 Nov, 2023 - 12:31

Uno de los valores del budismo es la comunidad. Se podría decir que no puedes ayudarte a ti mismo sin ayudar a los demás y no puedes ayudar a los demás sin ayudarte a ti mismo. Estamos interconectados con otras personas. Para hacer del mundo un lugar mejor tenemos que trabajar con nuestra mente y tratar de ayudar a los demás. La Comunidad Triratna es un movimiento de personas que intentan hacer ambas cosas y, a través de la cooperación,...
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Dharmabytes: The Great Love

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 13 Nov, 2023 - 11:00

Our teacher Sangharakshita has said: “It is in friendship (maitri) that we may find the emotional equivalent of the intellectual understanding of the doctrine of ‘no self’”. The gift of these teachings can help us move beyond self-clinging into a deeper and far more mysterious connection with one another; a Greater Love.

From the talk Spiritual Friendship and the Heart’s Release by Maitreyi given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2018.

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Science and Buddhism II: Understanding one's mind

From Adhisthana on Sun, 12 Nov, 2023 - 20:30

Science and Buddhism II: Understanding one's mind

From Adhisthana on Sun, 12 Nov, 2023 - 20:30

Scientists themselves have increasingly seen the importance of ‘the observer’. Science is for human beings, so it needs to understand what it is to be human, what self-awareness is, and what the range of human needs are (scientists tend to stop at the survival (medicine), and material (technology) needs.) But above all because immediate experience is all we have! All else is inferred, models, theories, assumptions, attempts at communication etc.

So take mental processes seriously. And take seriously the mental processes of others — there is a real...
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FBA Podcast: The Sevenfold Puja: Salutation

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 11 Nov, 2023 - 11:00

Here Suryaka offers reflections on the third verse of Triratna’s Sevenfold Puja, Salutation, by exploring the range of possible responses we can have to Buddhism, from contentment with worldly life, to intellectual agreement with Buddhism, or to the wholesale devotion exemplified by Shantideva. This is the third talk in a series at the Manchester Buddhist Centre on the Sevenfold Puja, 2010.

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