| The Buddhist Centre

Sudaka

Suryavana is available for rent with or without cooks to host your events and retreats

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Wed, 13 Apr, 2022 - 21:09

Suryavana is available for rent with or without cooks to host your events and retreats

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Wed, 13 Apr, 2022 - 21:09

Hi everyone

We have a great off-grid and luxurious venue (10 ensuite bedrooms) here in 14 hectares of almond and olive terraces. In mostly sunny Spain, Suryavana is perfect to host your retreats or events. Ideal for example as a place to do Reunion retreats or Meetings, Yoga retreats and so on. There is a pool and its wonderfully quiet!
Only one hour from Valencia

Do get in touch if...

Centre Team

Karuna USA! (The Buddhist Centre Podcast, Episode 426)

From Buddhist Centre Features on Mon, 11 Apr, 2022 - 20:06

This week’s episode is a brilliant, edited conversation from the launch of Karuna USA live in New York City, featuring speakers from India, America and the UK.

Karuna USA believes that every individual deserves a decent life and the opportunity to achieve their potential, regardless of caste, race or ethnicity.

Social and economic systems with high levels of inequality hurt everyone’s progress. That’s a fact. Working together we can challenge these systems and ensure access to...

Centre Team

A new website for Sangharakshita's life and work!

From Triratna News on Tue, 12 Apr, 2022 - 00:04

A new website for Sangharakshita's life and work!

From Triratna News on Tue, 12 Apr, 2022 - 00:04

The Urgyen Sangharakshita Trust has just launched the brand new Sangharakshita.org - a place to learn about Sangharakshita’s life and access his teachings.

🏠 The Home page introduces people to Sangharakshita.

🙏 The Life page tells the story of his life using a variety of media. The first chapter is available now and we’ll be releasing another each week over the next 5 months.

📚 The Teachings pages provide access to his work. Check out the Articles page to read Sangharakshita’s late writings,...

Centre Team

Karuna USA! (The Buddhist Centre Podcast, Episode 426)

From Buddhist Centre Features on Mon, 11 Apr, 2022 - 20:06

Social and economic systems with high levels of inequality hurt everyone’s progress. That’s a fact. Working together we can challenge these systems and ensure access to...

Zac

Dharmabyte: The Bodhisattvas Are Necessary

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 11 Apr, 2022 - 06:00

Aryajaya explores Sangharakshita’s relationship to his teachers, who form the lineage for the Triratna Buddhist Order. A lovely exploration of the experience of relationship to the Bodhisattvas of Buddhist tradition via meditations passed from teacher to disciple, evoking a wide open sense of connection to the great beauty they represent.

Excerpted from the talk Sangharakshita’s First Connection with His Teachers and Receiving Practices given at the Triratna International Council meeting, 2019.
...

Free Buddhist Audio

An Overview of the Refuge Tree

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Mon, 11 Apr, 2022 - 00:00

Marking the 55th anniversary of the founding of the Triratna Buddhist Community, Vajragupta gives a simple overview and introduction of the Triratna Refuge Tree. This is a rich image, full of inspiring figures from the Buddhist tradition. This talk, however, looks not so much at the individual figures, but how the tree is "structured" and how this symbolizes and embodies key principles behind Sangharakshita's creation of Triratna and its place in the Buddhist tradition. Examples of this include the centrality of the Buddha, understanding the unity of the Buddhist tradition, seeing its full breadth and depth, and the centrality of Going for Refuge. A talk that can help understand what's distinctive about Triratna's approach to the Dharma and Buddhism.

play

download and donate

Zac

FBA Podcast: Beauty As A Gateway To Wisdom

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 9 Apr, 2022 - 06:00

This is a talk on creativity as a way of life, especially when that life is in flux and the ground of our being is shifting. Through her own poetry and reflections on writing and art, Srivati evokes an aesthetic path into the very heart of Reality.

Talk given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, Great Gathering 2000.

***

Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Google Podcasts...

Amritapurna

The Flow of Life: Exploring the Buddha’s teaching in the Anapanasati sutta

From Metta Vihara on Fri, 8 Apr, 2022 - 13:10

The Flow of Life: Exploring the Buddha’s teaching in the Anapanasati sutta

From Metta Vihara on Fri, 8 Apr, 2022 - 13:10

led by Nagesvara, with Amritapurna and Manjunara

On this intensive silent meditation retreat we will explore the contemplations of the sutta in our own experience of the breathing body-mind, drawing on early as well as later traditions of Buddhism. There will be opportunities to develop both samadhi and vipashyana through short talks, guided meditations, one-to-one meditation reviews, group reviews and question and answer sessions. The retreat is suited for people who are familiar with the main meditation practices taught in Triratna.

Saturday 15 October...

Utpaladhi

Order Annual Digest 2022

From Order Connection on Fri, 8 Apr, 2022 - 09:28

Order Annual Digest 2022

From Order Connection on Fri, 8 Apr, 2022 - 09:28

On the 54th anniversary of the founding of the Order on 7th April 1968, you will see below the annual digest of those who have joined or left the Order in the last year (up to 31st March 2022).

This is particularly delightful to share with you because of the large numbers of people who have joined the Order in the past twelve months. Pandemic restrictions meant that many people waited a substantial amount of time to be...

Read more about Order Annual Digest 2022

Zac

Dharmabyte: Something Essential in Going Forth

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 7 Apr, 2022 - 06:00

Saddhaloka explores the key aspects of any practitioner’s commitment, Going Forth and Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels, evoking how Sangharakshita engaged with these formative acts as foundations of his own practice in India at the end of the Second World War.

Excerpted from the talk Going Forth And Going For Refuge given at the Triratna International Council meeting, 2019.

***

Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On...

Pages