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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...

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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Centre Team

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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FBA Podcast: Four Noble Truths - Satipatthana Sutta

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 6 Jan, 2024 - 11:00

Vajradevi ends a series of talks on the Satipatthana Sutta, looking at the Four Noble Truths, and focusing on the first two. Talk given at Shrewsbury Triratna Buddhist Centre, 2018.

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Dharmabytes: A Noble Mind

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 4 Jan, 2024 - 11:00

Munisha gave this Buddha Day talk to the Swedish sangha, via Zoom, in May 2020, in the early months of the Covid 19 pandemic. The talk is in English with occasional brief translation of terms into Swedish. Excerpted from the talk entitled Becoming Noble, for Stockholm Buddhist Centre, 2020.

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Saddhammapradip

A First Sermon Painting

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Thu, 4 Jan, 2024 - 06:51

A First Sermon Painting

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Thu, 4 Jan, 2024 - 06:51

Ramesh Thorat, an artist friend from Mumbai, has donated his painting ’A First Sermon’ as present for New Year.

Our really great gratitude to Ramesh who consistently supports us in various ways, helping us develop the aesthetic dimension of the retreat center through his friendship with Ratnasambhava and Guhyacitta.

Saddhammapradip

Dh Akashanand Ritual

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Thu, 4 Jan, 2024 - 06:33

Dh Akashanand Ritual

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Thu, 4 Jan, 2024 - 06:33

Dhammachari Akashanand was order member from Ulhasnagar. He was Ordain on 9th March 1990 by Dh Subhuti.

We was one active order member from Ulhasnagar. He has passed on 29th Dec 2023. He was retired from MTNL. Has carried out responsibility as Chairman of Ulhasnagar for many years. He was kalynamitra for many.

He is four daughter and grand childrens.

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The Heart of Buddhism

From Sheffield Buddhist Centre on Thu, 4 Jan, 2024 - 00:00

New Year, new Sangha Night theme. With this one we're going right to the core, and will be exploring what is perhaps the most fundamental, uncompromising and sublime expression of the Buddhist vision of life, the Bodhisattva Ideal. Satyajyoti will begin by opening the door at least a little bit for us into this realm of wisdom and compassion, and how we might begin to transform our lives in the light of this Ideal right now.

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Maitriyogini

Freed from the Burning House

From Adhisthana on Wed, 3 Jan, 2024 - 10:30

Freed from the Burning House

From Adhisthana on Wed, 3 Jan, 2024 - 10:30

It can effect your dream life, it can effect your meditation, it can effect your life. If you really enter into the imaginative, dream world of the Lotus Sutra, it starts to affect how you experience the world around you.

Ratnaghosha on the White Lotus Sutra.

A practice-focused retreat at Adhisthana, available in person and online.

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