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Turning Obstacles Into the Path: The Great Gathering 30 May - 2 Jun

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Fri, 12 Jan, 2024 - 10:02
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Turning Obstacles Into the Path: The Great Gathering 30 May - 2 Jun

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Fri, 12 Jan, 2024 - 10:02

With urgency, humour and passion, Shantideva’s Bodhicaryavatara, ‘Guide to the Bodhisattva Path’ gives us a path of vision and a path of transformation.  How can we engage all of ourselves - messy, passionate, loving-hating beings that we are - in the quest for awakening for the sake of all that lives? And how can we turn obstacles into the path itself? 

For Dharmacharinis and women training for ordination.

Led by Subhadramati, Maitridevi, Karunadhi, Maitrisiddhi and Mahamani

All proceeds from this event will go to support Tiratanaloka Unlimited.

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Saddhammapradip

Dh Padmavajra visit

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Thu, 11 Jan, 2024 - 23:31
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Dh Padmavajra visit

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Thu, 11 Jan, 2024 - 23:31

It was great to have Dh Padmavajra after his last visit in 2011. 

Ratnasambhava, Guhyacitta and others in community has developed good friendship with Padmavajra. 

During first decade of retreat center Dh Padmavajra has led many retreat at retreat center. Remembering badminton he has played with Dh Chandrashil.

Feel great gratitude for his visit and connection with Retreat ...
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Dharmabytes: There’s Seeing, And Then There’s Really Seeing

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 11 Jan, 2024 - 11:00

Akashamitra introduces the Eight Ways of the Noble Ones with a talk on vision. Why does it start the path? Have we already had a path of vision experiences?

Excerpted from the talk Perfect Vision - How Far Can You Go? given at North London Buddhist Centre, 2020.

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Dassini

Area Order Weekend for Dharmacharis

From Order Connection on Thu, 11 Jan, 2024 - 09:25

Area Order Weekend for Dharmacharis

From Order Connection on Thu, 11 Jan, 2024 - 09:25

‘The Myth and Magic of Order Chapters’

At Adhisthana

The purpose of meeting in order chapters is to help us to get to know and trust our spiritual friends and to go for refuge more deeply.  They are usually regarded as a spiritual workshop with an emphasis on confession.

If we are in a chapter, how well is it working?

If we are not in a chapter, why have we made that choice?

How effective is it to meet on-line?

And is reporting-in the...
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When I Give, I Give Myself

From Sheffield Buddhist Centre on Wed, 10 Jan, 2024 - 00:00
A talk on the Perfection of Generosity, the first of the six Paramitas, which are Bodhisattva practises that lead us to the beyond. We may think we already know enough about generosity. Well think again! As one of the Perfections, this practice goes beyond ordinary giving. Bodhinaga illustrates the ideal with the lives of two Buddhists who gave themselves for the benefit of all.
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Celebration of Life for Satyamala

From Order Connection on Tue, 9 Jan, 2024 - 13:59

Celebration of Life for Satyamala

From Order Connection on Tue, 9 Jan, 2024 - 13:59

Dear friends,

Everyone is warmly invited to join us for a ritual and celebration of life for our friend Satyamala on Saturday 3rd February 2024 at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre. This is an opportunity to honour our connections with Satyamala, rejoice in her life and connect with metta to wish her well for the next stage of her journey.

Doors will open at 10.30am, and the event will start at 11.00am. We should end around 1pm and...
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Vilasamuni

2024 Dharma Life Course for Young Men

From Adhisthana on Mon, 8 Jan, 2024 - 12:56

2024 Dharma Life Course for Young Men

From Adhisthana on Mon, 8 Jan, 2024 - 12:56

27 August – 17 December 2024
Applications due Friday 1 March 2024

A four-month residential course providing you with an opportunity to live an intensive dharma life: living, practising, studying, and working together within the context of Adhisthana. 

Over 16 weeks you’ll receive a grounding in the principles and practice of Triratna Buddhism through retreats, study with experienced teachers and communal living. You’ll also participate in the life of the wider Adhisthana sangha: meditating together, performing ritual, developing kalyana mitrata and joining in...
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Vessantara

Death of Viracitta

From Order Connection on Mon, 8 Jan, 2024 - 12:15

Death of Viracitta

From Order Connection on Mon, 8 Jan, 2024 - 12:15

Dear Order Members,

We have been informed by his wife Ruth that Viracitta died peacefully in the night of Thursday 4th January. 

He first made contact with the West London Centre, where he worked as a gardener in an early right livelihood business. He was ordained by Bhante on the 1983 Tuscany ordination course. Soon after, he and Satyapala moved to Birmingham and co-founded the Birmingham Buddhist Centre. As well as his Dharma work there, he worked in computing to...
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Dharmbytes: Our Inner World

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 8 Jan, 2024 - 11:00

Vajrapriya takes the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path - rebranding it as the Meaningful Eightfold Path - and considers how its eight areas contribute to a meaningful life, and how following it eventually eliminates the whole problem of meaninglessness.

Excerpted from the talk entitled Living a Meaningful Life, part of the series Reality and what to do about it given at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2010.

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