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Solidarity with India: A Session of Meditation and Puja from the Manchester Buddhist Centre

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sun, 2 May, 2021 - 15:32

Solidarity with India: A Session of Meditation and Puja from the Manchester Buddhist Centre

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sun, 2 May, 2021 - 15:32

Ratnasagara, Shakyajata and Mahabodhi with an event to show solidarity with our brothers and sisters in India.

Give direct within India to Trailokya Buddha Mahasangha Sahayak Gana

Re-watch on YouTube

Twelve members of our Order have died of #COVIDー19 in the past few weeks in India. They are:

Danavajra, ordained 2003, aged 78, from Amaravati
Khemaprabha, ordained 1993, aged 93, from Pune
Amoghabhadra, ordained 1993, aged 51, from Corona relief team
Shilavajra, ordained 2017, from Uttar Pradesh
Jnanaghosh, ordained 2019, aged 38,...

Shantavira

Shabda May 2021

From Order Connection on Sat, 1 May, 2021 - 13:32

Here is the latest edition of Shabda in five digital formats:

eBook Shabda .EPUB – read on most other eBook readers (eg Nook or Kobo, etc) and most eReader apps on tablets, smartphones etc.
eBook Shabda .MOBI – read on any Kindle, and some eReader apps on tablets, smartphones, etc.
PDF Shabda – read with any PDF reader
HTML Shabda (zip file) – unzip, and then read with any web browser
Print Shabda: Print your own (and your friends’) Shabdas. Save time and postage costs.

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File Name	Size
ePub (eBook Readers, Smartphones, and Tablets	1.35 MB
mobi (Kindles and eReaders)	1.11 MB
PDF for digital (Computers and eReaders)	1.21 MB
HTML (Web Browsers)	159.65 KB
PDF for printing	1.02 MB

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Amrutdeep

Chairs' Letter - April 2021

From College of Public Preceptors on Fri, 30 Apr, 2021 - 18:40

Chairs' Letter - April 2021

From College of Public Preceptors on Fri, 30 Apr, 2021 - 18:40

Dear Order Members and Friends,

I have asked each of my deputies to contribute to these letters, and it seemed appropriate that Amrutdeep would write this month, from India. Amrutdeep was ordained in 1992 and has been a Public Preceptor for eight years, and I’ve very much enjoyed and appreciated getting to know him as we work alongside each other in the College. He is thoughtful and wise, kindly and ethical, and tireless in his practice of the...

Centre Team

India Covid-19 Emergency: A Co-ordinated Triratna Fundraising Response

From Triratna News on Thu, 29 Apr, 2021 - 19:35

India Covid-19 Emergency: A Co-ordinated Triratna Fundraising Response

From Triratna News on Thu, 29 Apr, 2021 - 19:35

From The Abhayaratna Trust, FutureDharma Fund / India Dhamma Trust and The Karuna Trust

In this message, we’d like to clarify how the Abhayaratna Trust, Karuna Trust and FutureDharma / IDT are working together and in collaboration with our partners in India to coordinate relief to people and projects affected by the devastating second wave of COVID in India.

Many of you are giving to the Abhayaratna Trust, Karuna and other appeals. It is a credit to our Order and Movement that...

Dayajoti

Be the Ground: Buddhafield Fundraiser

From Buddhafield on Wed, 28 Apr, 2021 - 21:52

Be the Ground: Buddhafield Fundraiser

From Buddhafield on Wed, 28 Apr, 2021 - 21:52

Could you be part of the ground from which we grow, by giving regularly to us? https://chuffed.org/project/buddhafield is our fundraiser page.

Buddhafield offers so much of what is needed in this century: the Buddha’s liberating teachings, in authentic community, living close to nature: powerful antidotes to the current epidemics of lack of meaning, social isolation, and alienation from the natural world.

Sangharakshita saw Buddhafield as one of the two most important developments to have taken place in the last 25 years within the Triratna community. ...

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Our Breathing Body Online Retreat with Paramananda and Bodhilila

From West London Buddhist Centre on Mon, 26 Apr, 2021 - 12:02

Our Breathing Body Online Retreat with Paramananda and Bodhilila

From West London Buddhist Centre on Mon, 26 Apr, 2021 - 12:02

Here, reciting his poem ‘Perhaps’, Paramananda extends an invitation to the sangha:

“Come and join Bodhilila and myself for our online retreat, Our Breathing Body starting on 2 May. This will be an opportunity to explore how the breath can help us open our minds and our hearts to the world.”

Booking: https://westlondonbuddhistcentre.com/event/our-breathing-body-online-meditation-retreat/

Maitriyogini

Duty and Delight | Hidden Gems

From Adhisthana on Sat, 24 Apr, 2021 - 10:14

Duty and Delight | Hidden Gems

From Adhisthana on Sat, 24 Apr, 2021 - 10:14

What does it mean to really beleive that friendship is the whole of the spiritual life? How will that change how we act?

Being willing to help each other is part of the central enterprise of the spiritual life - to grow. By being with people who we are not hiding anything from, it can connect us to ourselves more, and point us toward the wonder and mystery of what it is to be a human being.

Dhammarati and Saddhaloka discuss some of the jewels to be found in this study material for the online...

viriyalila

Meditating in Nature

From East Coast US Climate Action on Wed, 21 Apr, 2021 - 22:46

Amala offers two guided meditations intended to accompany you in practicing outdoors in nature.

These were recorded as part of the On Two Wings: Holding Love and Concern for the Earth retreat, April 2021.

File Name	Size
Outdoor Walking Meditation (audio)	9.46 MB
outdoor_walking_meditation_text.pdf	58.38 KB
Sitting with Nature (audio)	19.49 MB
Sitting with Nature (text)	53.43 KB

viriyalila

On Two Wings | Holding Love and Concern for the Earth

From East Coast US Climate Action on Tue, 20 Apr, 2021 - 03:13

On Two Wings | Holding Love and Concern for the Earth

From East Coast US Climate Action on Tue, 20 Apr, 2021 - 03:13

Holding both great love and great concern is a path that can lead us to wisdom and to joy. We can strengthen these two wings with awareness in nature. Nature is always with us, just as the Buddha and the possibility of awakening are always with us.

This spring retreat, coinciding with Earth Day, continues our series on Dharmic responses to environmental crises. We will cultivate our depth of heart to experience upekkha, or the Brahmavihara of equanimity. We will also practice two joys: the joy...

Maitriyogini

Friendship: Duty, Delight and Freedom

From Adhisthana on Sat, 17 Apr, 2021 - 12:50

Friendship: Duty, Delight and Freedom

From Adhisthana on Sat, 17 Apr, 2021 - 12:50

What kind of friend are you? What kind of friend would you like to be?

Is there any limitation to the heights that faithful friendship can reach?

Explore the possibilities of friendship with brothers and sisters in the sangha, through looking at traditional understandings of friendship in society and the spiritual life.

We will draw primarily on The Duties of Brotherhood in Islam seminar, with supporting material from the seminar on the Sigalavada Sutta. Both texts were studied by Sangharakshita in 1983. With The Duties of Brotherhood in Islam, he took...

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