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Vidyasiddhi's Health - an update

From Order Connection on Fri, 18 Nov, 2022 - 18:43

Vidyasiddhi's Health - an update

From Order Connection on Fri, 18 Nov, 2022 - 18:43

18th November 2022

Dear Order members,

As you may know, Vidyasiddhi was diagnosed with serious cancer just over a month ago. He is now in a hospice in Cambridge where he is receiving end of life care. 

Last Friday 11th November, he and I were driven to Rivendell by Vajrasiddhi for a week retreat with Atula and Mandarava on myth where we shared a room. He loved their retreats on myth and it was the thing he most...
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Dharmabyte: Maturing The Heart

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 17 Nov, 2022 - 06:00

In a sutta from the Udana, Meghiya overestimates his spiritual development and sees the goal in terms of his own individual, personal development. Vadanya shares some reflections on the Meghiya Sutta on the theme of learning about yourself in solitude as well as in relationship to others in the Sangha.

From the talk Meghiya and The Path - Beyond Individualism given at Sheffield Buddhist Centre, 2007.

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Death of Lalitavyuha

From Order Connection on Wed, 16 Nov, 2022 - 17:39

Death of Lalitavyuha

From Order Connection on Wed, 16 Nov, 2022 - 17:39

Dear Friends,

Lalitavyuha died this morning at 11:42 GMT. He was in hospital in Brighton and had been receiving palliative care since Saturday. 

Santacitta and his daughter Katherine were with him, reading from the Bardo Thodol. He was very peaceful over these last few days.

Green Tara is his yidam.

Born 3rd July 1947
Ordained 8th June 1990
Died 16th November 2022

A notice will be sent out once the funeral...
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‘Our compassion is inconsistent and limited’ (Talk 6 of 8)

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 16 Nov, 2022 - 00:00
‘Our compassion is inconsistent and limited’: Shinran, metta and bodhicitta Seeing our limitations clearly, without judgement - yet opening to metta that is limitless - metta that can never be “ours”. And what is blind belief, and how can we tell the difference between that and faith? Talks suitable for experienced practitioners only, as a sound base of experience and Dharma knowledge is taken for granted. Given on the 2022 Taraloka retreat ‘True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante’, which explored Shinran’s classic text ‘Tannisho’. Talks begin with a section of this text. *Maitrisiddhi gave talks on the same themes in 2021. While there is overlap, there is also new material in each talk.*
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‘True entrusting that is as firm as a diamond….’ (Talk 7 of 8)

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 16 Nov, 2022 - 00:00
‘True entrusting that is as firm as a diamond….’: Shinran and irreversibility. What effect would it have on us, to trust that our connection with the Dharma will take us all the way to Enlightenment? Talks suitable for experienced practitioners only, as a sound base of experience and Dharma knowledge is taken for granted. Given on the 2022 Taraloka retreat ‘True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante’, which explored Shinran’s classic text ‘Tannisho’. Talks begin with a section of this text. *Maitrisiddhi gave talks on the same themes in 2021. While there is overlap, there is also new material in each talk.*
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‘Alice through the Looking-Glass’ (Talk 8 of 8)

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 16 Nov, 2022 - 00:00
‘Alice through the Looking-Glass’: a summary of Shinran’s approach to the Dharma life, outlines of how we might live it, and tentative suggestions about how to communicate about it within Triratna! Talks suitable for experienced practitioners only, as a sound base of experience and Dharma knowledge is taken for granted. Given on the 2022 Taraloka retreat ‘True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante’, which explored Shinran’s classic text ‘Tannisho’. Talks begin with a section of this text.
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‘Beyond description, explanation and conception’ (Talk 3 of 8)

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 16 Nov, 2022 - 00:00
‘Beyond description, explanation and conception’. True entrusting or ‘shinjin’ – what is it? Exploration of faith as wisdom, and wisdom as faith. Dharma practice as gifted to us. Talks suitable for experienced practitioners only, as a sound base of experience and Dharma knowledge is taken for granted. Given on the 2022 Taraloka retreat ‘True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante’, which explored Shinran’s classic text ‘Tannisho’. Talks begin with a section of this text. *Maitrisiddhi gave talks on the same themes in 2021. While there is overlap, there is also new material in each talk.*
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‘Since I am absolutely incapable of any religious practice…’ (Talk 4 of 8)

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 16 Nov, 2022 - 00:00
‘Since I am absolutely incapable of any religious practice…’: Shinran and Going for Refuge. The existential situation and the self as false refuge. True entrusting and Going for Refuge – same or different? Talks suitable for experienced practitioners only, as a sound base of experience and Dharma knowledge is taken for granted. Given on the 2022 Taraloka retreat ‘True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante’, which explored Shinran’s classic text ‘Tannisho’. Talks begin with a section of this text. *Maitrisiddhi gave talks on the same themes in 2021. While there is overlap, there is also new material in each talk.*
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‘When we think good thoughts we think we are good’ (Talk 5 of 8)

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 16 Nov, 2022 - 00:00
‘When we think good thoughts we think we are good’: Shinran and ethics Shinran at his most controversial – is he throwing ethics out of the window? Or is he asking us to take a wisdom perspective? Points of contact and contrast between Japanese Shin and early Buddhism. Talks suitable for experienced practitioners only, as a sound base of experience and Dharma knowledge is taken for granted. Given on the 2022 Taraloka retreat ‘True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante’, which explored Shinran’s classic text ‘Tannisho’. Talks begin with a section of this text. *Maitrisiddhi gave talks on the same themes in 2021. While there is overlap, there is also new material in each talk.*
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‘Just say the nembutsu…’ (Talk 1 of 8)

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 16 Nov, 2022 - 00:00
‘Just say the nembutsu…’ Introductory talk. Where did Shinran and the Japanese Shin tradition spring from? An overview of ‘recollection of the Buddha’ through the centuries until its flowering as Japanese Shin in medieval Japan. Talks suitable for experienced practitioners only as a sound base of experience and Dharma knowledge is taken for granted. Given on the 2022 Taraloka retreat ‘True Entrusting: Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante’, which explored Shinran’s classic text ‘Tannisho’. Talks begin with a section of this text. *Maitrisiddhi gave talks on the same themes in 2021. While there is overlap, there is also new material in each talk.*
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