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Sangharakshita Fondateur De L'Ordre Bouddhiste Triratna

From Centre bouddhiste Triratna de Paris on Sun, 13 Feb, 2022 - 00:00
Cette conférence sur Sangharakshita est la première d'une série de 4 conférences données à Paris pour vous permettre de découvrir l'Ordre Triratna et la vision de son fondateur Sangharakshita. Celui-ci nous invite à découvrir ce que signifie être bouddhiste dans le monde contemporain : se transformer pour transformer la société ; aller vers une société respectueuse de l’individu, du collectif et de l’environnement ; s’engager dans la pleine conscience, l’éthique, la générosité, l’amitié spirituelle et la bienveillance.
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The Mystery of Spiritual Friendship

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Sun, 13 Feb, 2022 - 00:00
In the opening talk of the series, Padmasagara explores the profundity of the Buddha's statement that spiritual friendship is 'the whole of the spiritual life' or, in other words, the whole of the Going for Refuge. He emphasises the "guhya" (secret or hidden) nature of spiritual friendship and demonstrates how its emergence in the world was inseparable from the Buddha's ineffable Nirvana. The talk concludes by drawing out some important implications and challenges us to reflect on how central spiritual friendship is in our lives.
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The Guru and the Vertical Dimension of Spiritual Friendship

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Sun, 13 Feb, 2022 - 00:00
In the second talk in the series, Padmasagara gets to grips with concepts such as spiritual hierarchy and offers a commentary on the Buddha's encounter with a young hedonist named Yasa to demonstrate the importance of the vertical dimension of spiritual friendship. The talk concludes with a wonderful evocation of the beauty of the path to Enlightenment and its manifestation in those we look up to as our teachers and guides.
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FBA Podcast: The Essential Revolution

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 12 Feb, 2022 - 06:00

The first talk in Padmavajra’s wonderful series on the Dhammapada, the most popular of early Buddhist texts. All of the Buddha’s core teachings are here - held in heart and mind there’s more than enough in the Dhammapada to take us as far in our practice as we can imagine, and then on beyond…

Talk recorded at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2007, as part of the series The Dhammapada - the Buddha’s Way of Truth.

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Ritual for Order Members who have died

From Threads on Thu, 10 Feb, 2022 - 19:44

Ritual for Order Members who have died

From Threads on Thu, 10 Feb, 2022 - 19:44

Ritual for Order Members who have died.

Order members keep departing this life every so often, and it never stops, so I thought I’d post this ceremonial ritual.  I wrote it at the beginning of the ‘Dharma of Death and Dying’ retreat that was held last August - one of the most popular I have led with well over a hundred Order members registered.  

Along with it I compiled a list of all the deceased Order members since we started in 1978 and...

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Death of Dhammacharini Shakyanandi

From Order Connection on Thu, 10 Feb, 2022 - 12:26

Death of Dhammacharini Shakyanandi

From Order Connection on Thu, 10 Feb, 2022 - 12:26

Dear Order Members
 
I am very sad to inform you of the death of Dhammacharini Shakyanandi (Nagpur). She passed away yesterday 9th February 2022 around 1.30pm at the age of 73. She was unwell for the last few days and hospitalized for high sugar.  A funeral ceremony has taken place yesterday at 6.00 PM from her home in Nagpur.

She and her family came into contact in Triratna in the very early days of our
movement in Nagpur...

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Dharmabyte: The Pull of Nirvana

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 10 Feb, 2022 - 06:00

Sangharakshita describes the process of moving from the psychological to the transcendental as represented by the eighth stage of the positive 12 nidanas - knowledge and vision of things as they really are. 

From the talk The Psychology of Spiritual Development, part of the series Aspects of Buddhist Psychology, 1967.

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The Burning Monk - Devamitra tells the story of Thich Quang Duc

From Triratna News on Wed, 9 Feb, 2022 - 16:34

The Burning Monk - Devamitra tells the story of Thich Quang Duc

From Triratna News on Wed, 9 Feb, 2022 - 16:34

In June 2013, Devamitra toured several Triratna centres, including the LBC, giving talks in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the immolation in Saigon of Thich Quang Duc – better known as ‘the burning monk’. On hearing this story, Alex Estrella felt strongly that it needed to be told on film.

As the first step of a much bigger project, Alex recently filmed Devamitra in the LBC shrine room reflecting...

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Death of Chandradarshana

From Order Connection on Wed, 9 Feb, 2022 - 14:53

Death of Chandradarshana

From Order Connection on Wed, 9 Feb, 2022 - 14:53

Dear members of the Order,

Our beloved sangha sister, Dharmacharini Chandradarshana died peacefully this morning, 9th February, at her home in Solihull, near Birmingham UK. Her yidam is White Tara. She was surrounded by her family at the time of her death. 

Her two Kalyana Mitras, Bodhaniya and Bodhinita have been visiting regularly these past few weeks, chanting the White Tara mantra, the Shakyamuni mantra and the precepts. 

Chandradarshana was ordained by Shantavajri (publicly and privately) only two weeks before her death. Her Sanskrit name...

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Proposing Saraha to become International Order Convenor

From Order Connection on Wed, 9 Feb, 2022 - 10:13

Proposing Saraha to become International Order Convenor

From Order Connection on Wed, 9 Feb, 2022 - 10:13

From Aryajaya and Lokeshvara 

We would like to propose Saraha as the International Order Convenor to replace Lokeshvara, and we are asking for your blessing. (This post is also in February Shabda)

Given the size of the Order today it is not possible for all of us to have a personal connection with anyone appointed to a central position. At the same time, in asking for blessings for this appointment, we also give an opportunity for anyone to correspond with us or Saraha, similar...

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