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A heads up about an issue with our email

From Windhorse Publications on Fri, 4 Dec, 2020 - 16:00

A heads up about an issue with our email

From Windhorse Publications on Fri, 4 Dec, 2020 - 16:00

We currently have an issue with our email. Many of the messages we are sending are either being returned to us undelivered or are being sent to the recipient’s junk folder. This applies to automatic emails sent by our website (for example, when you place an order) as well as responses to customer enquiries.

If you’ve contacted us in the past few days and haven’t heard back from us, or if you’ve placed an order on our website and haven’t...
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Breathing In the World: A Journey into the Heart of Tonglen

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Fri, 4 Dec, 2020 - 10:55

Breathing In the World: A Journey into the Heart of Tonglen

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Fri, 4 Dec, 2020 - 10:55

A four-week course led by Yashobodhi 

Starting Sunday 6th December
Sundays: 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th December
(each session will be done twice to accommodate time zones)

‘Early’ session:  UK & IE 09:00 | Europe CET 10:00 | India 13:30 | Australia EST 20.00 | New Zealand 22.00

‘Late’ session: USA PST 11:00 | México 13:00 | USA EST 14:00 | UK & IE 19:00 | Europe CET 20:00 |

A last-minute reminder about this course, starting Sunday 6th December.

Tonglen is a meditation method that originates in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. In...
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Making mantras much lovelier on Zoom

From Order Connection on Wed, 2 Dec, 2020 - 10:14

Hi friends,

Leading a Zoom retreat for women in Sweden last week I wondered about how to make Zoom mantras more enjoyable. It’s so sad hearing just one other voice. Well, I wondered, could we sing along with some recorded mantras, perhaps?

So I looked on Free Buddhist Audio and discovered that the wonderful women’s community at Taraloka had actually recorded several 5-minute mantras specifically for online pujas!

Maybe they could do some more, and maybe more of you who live in communities could record some?

It works...
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Vajra Bell Fall/Winter 2020 Issue

Vajra Bell Fall/Winter 2020 Issue

From Vajra Bell on Tue, 1 Dec, 2020 - 18:24

The Vajra Bell Fall/Winter 2020 issue is available now!

You can view the issue online by clicking image to the left. You also can view and download here as a pdf. 

The focus of this issue is: ‘Climate Crisis: It’s really happening’

In this issue: 

  • Anālayo: Grounding Our Activism in Ethics and Compassion 
  • Vessantara: 20 Suggestions for ‘Dealing with Overwhelm’
  • Gunopeta: Eco-Anxiety
  • Aryadrishti: The Earth is My Witness
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Guided Meditations from the College Meeting OM

From College of Public Preceptors on Tue, 1 Dec, 2020 - 17:31

During the College Meeting, Subhuti led study on the Bardo Thodol, and guided two meditations based on the text. In the first, he leads through the Six Element Practice, using some verses from the Bardo Thodol to expand on the stage focused on consciousness; in the second, he draws on the text to guide a meditative reflection on the Bardo of Reality.

The recordings of these are available here for the Order, along with the Tharpe Delam Guru Yoga led by Padmavajra, and...
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We've got lots of great reading for you!

From Windhorse Publications on Tue, 1 Dec, 2020 - 16:30

We've got lots of great reading for you!

From Windhorse Publications on Tue, 1 Dec, 2020 - 16:30

We’ve got lots of great reading lined up for you this week: we’re discounting eleven life-enhancing paperbacks in our Monthly Sale for December and we’ve got a link to the latest issue of Vajra Bell magazine. 

Announcing our Monthly Sale for December

Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, this time of year is a popular time for visiting friends and family and exchanging gifts, so we thought we’d bear that in mind when choosing which paperbacks to discount in our December sale. We’re calling this month’s...
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Shabda December 2020

From Order Connection on Tue, 1 Dec, 2020 - 12:07

Here is the latest edition of Shabda in five digital formats:

  • eBook Shabda .EPUB – read on most other eBook readers (eg Nook or Kobo, etc) and most eReader apps on tablets, smartphones etc.
  • eBook Shabda .MOBI – read on any Kindle, and some eReader apps on tablets, smartphones, etc.
  • PDF Shabda – read with any PDF reader
  • HTML Shabda (zip file) – unzip, and then read with any web browser
  • Print Shabda: Print your own (and your friends’) Shabdas. Save time and postage costs.

Terms and...

File NameSize
ePub (eBook Readers, Smartphones, and Tablets1.31 MB
mobi (Kindles and eReaders)1.08 MB
PDF for digital (Computers and eReaders)1.14 MB
HTML (Web Browsers)144.6 KB
PDF for printing792.63 KB
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Chairs' Letter - November 2020

From College of Public Preceptors on Mon, 30 Nov, 2020 - 23:40

Chairs' Letter - November 2020

From College of Public Preceptors on Mon, 30 Nov, 2020 - 23:40

Dear Order members and friends,

Thinking back over my first year as chair of the College: I took on the responsibility in November 2019 as we marked the first anniversary of Bhante’s funeral, and in spite of having been a fairly active Deputy prior to that, it’s still taken some growing into. I wanted more channels of communication with the Order generally, and in January 2020 I began writing these monthly letters. 

In March our Area...
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Collected Pujas by Dhiramati new edition

From Triratna InHouse Publications on Mon, 30 Nov, 2020 - 11:33

Collected Pujas by Dhiramati new edition

From Triratna InHouse Publications on Mon, 30 Nov, 2020 - 11:33

Dhiramati’s pujas to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are a Buddhafield favourite - and there’s a great new edition just out of his Collected Pujas!  
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Some resources on Forgiveness

From Order Dharma (test space) on Thu, 26 Nov, 2020 - 15:18

Some resources on Forgiveness

From Order Dharma (test space) on Thu, 26 Nov, 2020 - 15:18

Back in August (2020) we had our first online order convention.  The final ritual of the combined convention was a forgiveness ritual led by Malini from her home on Waiheke island in New Zealand.

Forgiveness, what it means, why it is not easy, and how it actually ‘works’ as a faculty of consciousness has long interested me. All the way back to meeting some of the people behind the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Cape Town, South Africa in 1998. I read...

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