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Emptiness and the Nature of Mind: Meditation Intensive Online Led by Tejananda with Upekshanandi

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sat, 27 May, 2023 - 12:35

Emptiness and the Nature of Mind: Meditation Intensive Online Led by Tejananda with Upekshanandi

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sat, 27 May, 2023 - 12:35

A Home Retreat: 24 – 28 November, 2023

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Our deepest and truest nature, right now, is the Dharma. We can imagine – and ultimately experience – this as the total openness of the ‘Dharma body’, which is pure emptiness: empty of any divided-ness whatsoever.

Our world is literally made up from this total openness, together with the illuminating clarity of awareness and unlimited, spontaneous ‘compassionate energy’. Traditionally, the union of these is referred to as...

Utpaladhi

Order Harmony Online Consultation: Order Survey

From Order Connection on Wed, 24 May, 2023 - 11:24

Order Harmony Online Consultation: Order Survey

From Order Connection on Wed, 24 May, 2023 - 11:24

Dear Friends in the Order,

On February 1st 2023, we published an announcement regarding Addressing Issues With Order Harmony Online.

In that message to the Order we let you know of the decision to pause Threads, until we had the chance to conduct an Order wide consultation on the issues that arise in our communication online. We are doing that in various ways:

an online survey
an online Order Forum
we have also invited you to get in touch with us via the Order Office email and your

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'Teachers of Enlightenment' and going for refuge as part of a global sangha - a conversation with Vajratara

From Windhorse Publications on Wed, 24 May, 2023 - 11:37

'Teachers of Enlightenment' and going for refuge as part of a global sangha - a conversation with Vajratara

From Windhorse Publications on Wed, 24 May, 2023 - 11:37

Listen to this episode +much more!

The Dharma is a universal teaching and an array of practices for liberation. In history, it is embodied by teachers who respond to the particular forms of suffering and bondage that they are born into, human and social.

In its spread between India and what could broadly be called the West, the Triratna Buddhist movement and order is rather unique in contemporary convert Buddhism.

In this episode, Dhammamegha is in conversation with Vajratara about...

Maitriyogini

Looking back on Adhisthana's 2022 International Course: A film by Prasadachitta

From Adhisthana on Fri, 26 May, 2023 - 12:10

Looking back on Adhisthana's 2022 International Course: A film by Prasadachitta

From Adhisthana on Fri, 26 May, 2023 - 12:10

Last year, we had the privilege of hosting a one-month international course for Order Members from around the world, aiming to provide training, support, and the opportunity to forge deep friendships and connections within the international sangha.

Led by a team of Order members who live and work at Adhisthana, participants delved into the four lineages - inspiration, teachings, practices, and responsibility. There was also training in leading study groups and creating a culture of feedback; hopefully giving participants the confidence and...

Maitriyogini

Online Course: Breathing into Liberation | Register before 4 June

From Adhisthana on Fri, 26 May, 2023 - 16:02

Online Course: Breathing into Liberation | Register before 4 June

From Adhisthana on Fri, 26 May, 2023 - 16:02

Six weeks exploring Anapanasati, Dhammarati introduces this sutta, which will take us from the simplest possible experience of breathing right through to exploring the nature of liberation. The course is on a dana basis.

Week 1 | The ‘Preliminary Practices’ | 5 June

Week 2 | Breathing with the Body | 12 June

Week 3 | Breathing with feelings | 19 June

Week 4 | Breathing with the mind | 26 June

Week 5 | Live Q&A with Dhammarati | 3 July

Week 6 | Breathing with wisdom | 10 July

Zac

FBA Podcast: Order Approaches to Insight

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 27 May, 2023 - 06:00

Vijayamala addresses the 2022 UK & IE Triratna Buddhist Order convention, exploring what breaking through and seeing the nature of reality means for us as an Order. The Buddha went forth to seek an end to suffering, to go beyond what binds us to the samsaric world. The theme of this event also encompasses ‘going beyond’ and the ways in which we are approaching that as an Order.

Part of the series Going Forth,...

Nagamudra

Death of Vajrasara

From Order Connection on Fri, 26 May, 2023 - 18:18

Death of Vajrasara

From Order Connection on Fri, 26 May, 2023 - 18:18

Dear fellow Order members,

We are writing to let you know the sad news that our dear Vajrasara died yesterday, Thursday 25th May, around 6pm, at home as she had wanted. Nagamudra, Moksanandi, and Vajrasara’s sisters Kamalini and Clare were in the house with her. After a lot of suffering, she was ready to go. She died peacefully and in awareness, saying she was ‘letting go’, and ‘bye bye’.

This morning the chapter, Clare, and Sangha...

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Aryajaya

Touching the Mystery: UK & Ireland Combined AOWE 17 – 20 August 2023, Adhisthana

From Order Connection on Fri, 26 May, 2023 - 16:37

Touching the Mystery: UK & Ireland Combined AOWE 17 – 20 August 2023, Adhisthana

From Order Connection on Fri, 26 May, 2023 - 16:37

‘There are moments when criticism of a particular kind – the only kind I care for – utterly absorbs me. I feel I am touching a mystery … a darkness that is secretly alive and thrilling to the sense. This, I like to believe, is the reflection in myself of the darkness which broods over the poet’s creative mind.’
John Middleton Murry

In a talk given by Bhante on Padmasambhava Day in 1979 he says that our...

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Vidyamala

Memorial for Maitrilila

From Order Connection on Thu, 25 May, 2023 - 17:44

Memorial for Maitrilila

From Order Connection on Thu, 25 May, 2023 - 17:44

Maitrilila died on April 12th in Germany and we are very pleased to organise an online memorial service for anyone who would like to come from both the Buddhist and Breathworks communities. There have already been events in Germany to remember this wonderful woman but we want to offer an English-speaking space for her many friends.

Maitrilila was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist community in 2018 and was a founder of Breathworks in Germany along with her partner, Abhayada.
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Zac

Dharmabytes: Closer to Truth Through Silence

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 25 May, 2023 - 06:00

On a Silent Retreat at Taraloka, Samantabhadri honours silence as significant spiritual practice where we dwell more deeply with ourselves, with others, with nature and the objective world, and within a developing atmosphere. All this opens a vision of experiencing ‘Reality as it is’ (Sangharakshita). From the talk Silence: Practice and Vision given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2022.

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