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Ratnakumar - Changing Self, Changing World (Full Interview)

From Buddhist Voices on Tue, 10 May, 2022 - 17:00

I asked him, if I would go there, will I get food? And he said “Yes, obviously there will be a feast and you can have enough to eat.’ And I thought then, ’I’ll go.’

In 1998 when Ratnakumar was 13 years old, one of his cousins asked him if he’d like to go to a public meeting. That meeting just so happened to be an anniversary celebration for the birthday of Dr. Bimrao Ambedkar, the great leader of India’s Dalit community...

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Resignation of Rijusiddha

From Order Connection on Tue, 10 May, 2022 - 11:08

Resignation of Rijusiddha

From Order Connection on Tue, 10 May, 2022 - 11:08

Dear Friends,

Rijusiddha has written to me (his public preceptor) and Satyaraja (his private preceptor) resigning from the Order. Both Satyaraja and I have accepted his resignation. His letter of resignation is below.

Much metta,

Padmavajra

Dear Friends in the Order

It is with a sense of gratitude and freedom that I am writing to resign as an Order Member from Triratna.

It is not with any sense of regret or animosity to the Order and I am hugely grateful for the time I have been involved and has been an invaluable part of starting...

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Hymn till Buddha, med levande musik

From Stockholms buddhistcenter on Tue, 10 May, 2022 - 00:00

En introduktion till och läsning av en Hymn (eller hyllning) till Buddha" och hans egenskaper, skriven av Matrceta som levde under det första århundrandet v.t. En viktig och poetisk text som hade stort inflytande på sanghans praktik under de kommande århundranden. Efter en introduktion till texten, läser Viryabodhi ett antal verser, som följs av en kort kontemplation, sedan spelar Helga Hullman ett kort musikstycke på fiol och efter det en stunds tyst kontemplation. I den andra delen fortsätter läsningen, kontemplatiomplation, musik etc.

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Dharmabyte: What Is Deeply True

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 9 May, 2022 - 06:00

When the Buddha finally sat down under the Bodhi tree and saw deeply into the nature of things, what had brought him to that point? And what happened next? Vishvapani focusses in on the Buddha’s experience after Enlightenment, bringing his nuanced, perceptive reading to the words the Buddha himself is said to have employed in order to best evoke his experiences as he struggled to give voice to them.

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FBA Podcast: What The World Needs Now - An International Community And A Transcendental Vision

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 7 May, 2022 - 06:00

Subhuti offers a brilliantly evocative and personal call to connection, across all boundaries and conditionings. *** What the World Needs Now: Triratna’s Gift is a day celebrating our Dharma community’s contribution to the world. A vision of truth, communicated in a culture of kalyana mitrata (beautiful friendship) for the benefit of all.

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Kalyana-Mitrata Och Vaenskap Inom Triratna

From Stockholms buddhistcenter on Sat, 7 May, 2022 - 00:00

Denna Dharmakväll på Stockholms Buddhistcenter hade vi en kalyana-mitra-ceremoni för Marcus L. Viryabodhi gav ett kort föredrag om kalyana-mitrata och andlig vänskap, där han bl.a. lyfte fram hur vänskap är en central del i alla viktiga ceremonier inom Triratna. Ceremonin ägde sedan rum inom ramen för en sjufaldig puja. Måndagen den 2 maj.

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Ordination at Budakoda, Tallinn, Estonia

From Triratna News on Fri, 6 May, 2022 - 13:21

Ordination at Budakoda, Tallinn, Estonia

From Triratna News on Fri, 6 May, 2022 - 13:21

I am very happy to announce the public ordination of the former Kaido Kangur from Tartu, Estonia at Budakoda, Tallinn today, Sunday 1st May 2022.

Kaido becomes Shantamani, he who is a peaceful jewel.

Vajragupta was the Private Preceptor, and Saddhaloka was the Public Preceptor

With metta,

Saddhaloka

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Ordination at Budakoda, Tallinn, Estonia

From College of Public Preceptors on Fri, 6 May, 2022 - 13:19

Ordination at Budakoda, Tallinn, Estonia

From College of Public Preceptors on Fri, 6 May, 2022 - 13:19

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Mind Or Matter? Scientific Materialism and Its Discontents

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Fri, 6 May, 2022 - 00:00

In this series of three workshops, Viraydeva will unpack a fundamental Buddhist idea: the world as we know it is determined not by objective facts, but by the mind. Drawing on his recent conversation with philosopher Bernardo Kastrup, Viryadeva guides us beyond the maze of our in-built assumptions about reality, into the heart of Buddhist wisdom. In this session, he tries to clarify and draw out the implications of our society's default view: scientific materialism. He tries to show how, while this view is powerful and compelling, it has implications - philosophical and practical - that are hard to accept... as Buddhists, but also as human beings.

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Mind Or Matter? Mind-Only and the Whirlpool of the Self

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Fri, 6 May, 2022 - 00:00

In this series of three workshops, Viraydeva is unpacking a fundamental Buddhist idea: the world as we know it is determined not by objective facts, but by the mind. In this second session, drawing on his recent conversation with philosopher Bernardo Kastrup, Viryadeva shows us how we can move away from thinking of everything as made of matter, towards a "mind-only" perspective. What would it be to imagine the world as made entirely of experience? Does this make the world of people and things disappear? Viryadeva draws on Kastrup's work and Buddhist philosophy to build new metaphors for answering these difficult questions, in service of the path to awakening.

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