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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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Mind Or Matter? Awakening and the Restructuring of Mind

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 final week, drawing on his recent conversation with philosopher Bernardo Kastrup, Viryadeva shows what a mind-only perspective means for practising the Buddhist path. How does the structure of consciousness need to change for a mind to "wake up"? And how does this affect our understanding of what Buddhism is really telling us about the evolution of life, the universe and everything?

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Discovering the Wish Fulfilling Jewel

From Tiratanaloka on Thu, 5 May, 2022 - 20:11

We recently had a enriching and inspiring online weekend on the symbolism of the jewel in Buddhism. Forged deep in the ground under the influence of strong pressures, the jewel emerges as something of beauty and value. In the same way, under the influence of the Dharma, something of great beauty is created or, we could say, discovered. The nature of our own mind, luminous bright and with a sensitivity to life and a beautiful aspiration towards the truth. How...

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Summer Reading Circles

From Buddhist Action on Thu, 5 May, 2022 - 16:36

Summer Reading Circles

From Buddhist Action on Thu, 5 May, 2022 - 16:36

Would you like to read a transformational book about race, by a Buddhist author, over the summer?

We’re offering opportunities to explore two wonderful works, within supportive online Reading Circles with other Triratna sangha members. And at the end of each cycle, the authors will join us for a conversation!

June & July: ‘The Race Conversation’ by Eugene Ellis is a deeply compassionate book that illuminates why having conversations about race can be difficult, and how we can have more healing encounters with each other...

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Dharmabyte: All Human Beings Are In Us

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 5 May, 2022 - 06:00

We are all human beings, all human beings are in us. Subhuti offers a brilliantly evocative and personal call to connection, across all boundaries and conditionings. In order to be deeply challenged, in order to transcend our self view, we need to go for refuge with people different from ourselves.

Excerpted from the talk What the World Needs Now: Triratna’s Gift, An International Community and A Transcendental Vision given on Triratna Day, April...

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