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Get Funding for your Dream Dharma Project

From FutureDharma on Wed, 14 Oct, 2020 - 11:30

Get Funding for your Dream Dharma Project

From FutureDharma on Wed, 14 Oct, 2020 - 11:30

Did you know that you can apply for small grants of up to £3,000 from FutureDharma?

The grants are for inspirational Triratna Dharma projects and initiatives which have immediate funding needs or smaller local projects which are prevented from establishing themselves due to a lack of local funds.

Some projects we have supported in the past with our small grants are:

Room rental costs for the Clacton-on-sea Mitra group
Travel costs for visiting Order Members to Estonia
Fitting out a new Dharma library at the Cuernavaca Buddhist Centre, Mexico
Decorating the new York

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Drawing and the Art of Mindfulness with Amitajyoti (Online)

From West London Buddhist Centre on Tue, 13 Oct, 2020 - 13:05

Drawing and the Art of Mindfulness with Amitajyoti (Online)

From West London Buddhist Centre on Tue, 13 Oct, 2020 - 13:05

Saturday October 17, 2-5pm

Register in advance for this workshop using this LINK. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event.

Explore how the disciplines of mindfulness and drawing complement each other and how approaching both in a spirit of play can be enriching and freeing. In this afternoon Retreat you will be introduced to mindful drawing, mindfulness practices and a series of guided drawing exercises.

Mindfulness gives us opportunity to engage with experience directly, free from assumptions, preferences, and...

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The Heart of Practice with Paramananda and Bodhilila

From West London Buddhist Centre on Tue, 13 Oct, 2020 - 12:36

The Heart of Practice with Paramananda and Bodhilila

From West London Buddhist Centre on Tue, 13 Oct, 2020 - 12:36

This retreat runs from 15 – 21 November. Register in advance for this event using this LINK. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event.

In this online meditation retreat we will be taking a fresh look at the main practices taught within Triratna with the aim of connecting to the inner spirit at their heart. We will explore how the Mindfulness of Breathing, Metta Bhavana, Just Sitting and mantra chanting all share the...

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We're offering another free eBook

From Windhorse Publications on Mon, 12 Oct, 2020 - 16:15

We're offering another free eBook

From Windhorse Publications on Mon, 12 Oct, 2020 - 16:15

Those of you who’ve been enjoying the free eBooks we’ve been giving away since March will be pleased to learn that we’re giving away another one. This time it’s the turn of one of Sangharakshita’s classics, The Bodhisattva Ideal.

How can we be happy and at the same time responsive to the suffering of others? It can be done: this is the message of the bodhisattva ideal. The image of the bodhisattva, one who wishes to gain Enlightenment for the sake...

Centre Team

Buddhist Economics, Part 1 - Pre-Pandemic (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 33)

From Buddhist Centre Features on Wed, 7 Oct, 2020 - 20:50

We’re back with the first episode in a two-part conversation about what Buddhism has to say to 21st C. economics in the wake of populist political tides, globalization and, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic.

Listen to part 2 of this conversation

Vaddhaka is the author of The Buddha On Wall Street, a Buddhist critique of Neo-Liberal notions of capitalism. Expect a stirring, provocative discussion around the state of western democracies in relation to...

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Unstoppable life and letting go of 329 Sauchiehall St

From Glasgow Buddhist Centre on Wed, 7 Oct, 2020 - 11:44

Unstoppable life and letting go of 329 Sauchiehall St

From Glasgow Buddhist Centre on Wed, 7 Oct, 2020 - 11:44

‘Life wants to happen, life is unstoppable. Anytime we try and contain life, or interfere with its fundamental need for expression, we get into trouble..’ -M. Wheatley and M Kellner-Rogers

We are choosing to evolve, to change, to do our bit in making the world anew for us all to live in. We have bitten a very hard bullet, and are putting our GBC home for close to the last 40 years on the market. We are letting go of a...

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Another new release and this month’s discounted paperbacks

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Mon, 5 Oct, 2020 - 16:15

Another new release and this month’s discounted paperbacks

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Mon, 5 Oct, 2020 - 16:15

Windhorse Publications is thrilled to announce the release of It’s Not Out There: How to see differently and live an extraordinary, ordinary life by Danapriya. In this video, Helen from the Windhorse Publications team interviews Danapriya about the book.

Most of us constantly look outside ourselves for something: happiness, love, contentment. But this something is not out there. ‘It’ is within us. In It’s Not Out There, Buddhist teacher and mentor, Danapriya, helps you to look inside yourself in such a way that life becomes...

Centre Team

An Online Festival Of Light: International Sangha Day, November 28th 2020

From Buddhist Centre Features on Tue, 29 Sep, 2020 - 21:34

An Online Festival Of Light: International Sangha Day, November 28th 2020

From Buddhist Centre Features on Tue, 29 Sep, 2020 - 21:34

What a year… Through dark days that have brought heartache for so many reasons, we’ve come together as a community time and time again. Resilient, reflective, remarkable. And now, as we head into winter in one hemisphere and summer in another, we invite everyone moved by the sangha in 2020 to gather again as one.

We’ll pass the torch around the world once more – starting at dawn in the south Pacific, ending with nightfall in the north – ringing Triratna with...

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Hot off the Press: 'Introducing Mindfulness'

From Windhorse Publications on Mon, 28 Sep, 2020 - 16:30

Hot off the Press: 'Introducing Mindfulness'

From Windhorse Publications on Mon, 28 Sep, 2020 - 16:30

We’re delighted to introduce you to the newly published Introducing Mindfulness: Buddhist Background and Practical Exercises by Bhikkhu Anālayo.

Anālayo has been writing about mindfulness as a scholar, practitioner and meditation teacher for two decades. In 2004 we published his ground-breaking study of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta based on his comparative studies of early Buddhist texts. He is one of a handful of people who can read and research texts in Pāli, Sanskrit and Chinese. It is a real delight when someone with...