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A Tokyo Mitra Ceremony

From Triratna Tokyo on Fri, 17 Feb, 2023 - 09:45

A Tokyo Mitra Ceremony

From Triratna Tokyo on Fri, 17 Feb, 2023 - 09:45

Saturday 18th February 2023, 11:30am, we celebrated Susana Kumagai’s Mitra Ceremony, Tokyo.

Becoming a Mitra in Triratna is making a commitment to the Buddhist Path.

Commitment, because in life, what we get out of it depends on what we put in. Particularly in the spiritual life.

You will probably have noticed this in your meditation practice, to take just one example. If we sit down to meditate without fully committing ourselves to the practice, we are likely to drift and daydream. But when we sit down...

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A Love Supreme: Exploring The Religion of Art Through John Coltrane

From Birmingham Buddhist Centre on Fri, 17 Feb, 2023 - 00:00

At Birmingham Sangha Night and as part of the Transforming Self and World Series, Matty explores Triratna’s emphasis on the arts in the dharma life through Coltranes's masterpiece "A Love Supreme".

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Dharmabytes: Patience is the Greatest Asceticism

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 16 Feb, 2023 - 06:00

Sahajatara offers an introduction to the six paramitas as she touches into the development of forbearance with humour, realism and dakini-inspiration.

From the talk Forbearance and Energy In Pursuit of the Good given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2021.

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Virya: Finding Ourselves In the Service of Others

From Stockholms buddhistcenter on Wed, 15 Feb, 2023 - 00:00

Amaladipa speaks very personally and movingly about her practice of virya, drawing on her experience of childhood suffering, her 30-year career in the probation service and, latterly, her experience of living with a spinal injury. This talk was given on Zoom at Stockholm's Dharma night.

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Virya: Finding Ourselves In the Service of Others

From Stockholms buddhistcenter on Wed, 15 Feb, 2023 - 00:00

"Why bother?" Amaladipa asks,speaking very personally about the practice of virya, drawing on her own experience of childhood suffering, her career in the probation service and, latterly, her spinal injury. Talk given on Zoom to the Stockholm sangha's Dharma night, June 2021.

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Dreaming The Real: Join online for an evening of poetry

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Tue, 14 Feb, 2023 - 03:00

Dreaming The Real: Join online for an evening of poetry

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Tue, 14 Feb, 2023 - 03:00

Dreaming the real poetry night - with friends and special guests from around the country Friday 7.00-9.00pm 17 February - a fundraiser for the Croydon Buddhist Centre (CBC)

15 poets from all over the country will be reading for your enjoyment. Warm up the cold February evening by coming and supporting these varied poets at different stages of exploration in their...

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Dharmabytes: Refraining from Anger

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 13 Feb, 2023 - 06:00

More counter-cultural stuff here, shouldn’t we always express how we feel? Shantideva seems to be saying something else when he encourages us to be ‘like a block of wood’… Maitrisara offers thoughts on patience and anger as described in the Bodhicaryavatara.

Excerpted from the talk Like a Block of Wood, part of the series The Bodhicaryavatara, given at Birmingham Buddhist Centre, 2019.

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Forthcoming Ordination in Australia

From Order Connection on Sun, 12 Feb, 2023 - 17:06

Forthcoming Ordination in Australia

From Order Connection on Sun, 12 Feb, 2023 - 17:06

Dear Friends,

Angela Riley from Melbourne, Australia will be privately ordained by Chittaprabha during an (invitation only) Order retreat from 25th February - 9th March 2023.

Her Public Ordination will be conducted by Maitripala at the Melbourne Buddhist Centre from 1pm - 4pm AEDST on Sunday 12th March.

Everyone is welcome to attend the Public Ordination.

With metta,

Maitripala

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UK & Ireland Combined AOWE,17 – 20 August 2023, Adhisthana

From Order Connection on Sat, 11 Feb, 2023 - 14:03

UK & Ireland Combined AOWE,17 – 20 August 2023, Adhisthana

From Order Connection on Sat, 11 Feb, 2023 - 14:03

Touching a Mystery
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‘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

This quote from Middleton Murry, gives a...