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Lama's Pyjamas Team-Based Right Livelihood: a job opportunity!

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Tue, 23 Nov, 2021 - 16:16

Lama's Pyjamas Team-Based Right Livelihood: a job opportunity!

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Tue, 23 Nov, 2021 - 16:16

There is an opportunity to join the successful Buddhist team-based right livelihood business of Lama’s Pyjamas, the charity shop for the London Buddhist Centre, for the period May – August 2022, when one of our team members will be away on her ordination retreat.

If you like the idea of:

Being part of a close-knit team supporting each other to practise the Dharma in the workplace
Helping to run a well-known high street charity shop in East London
Contributing more than £50,000 to the London Buddhist Centre annually

… then...

Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: Ancestral Sense of Being

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 22 Nov, 2021 - 06:00

Dhivan, author of ‘This Being, That Becomes’, talks about some of the historical Buddha’s ideas on how conscious awareness can influence unconscious patterns that keep us imprisoned in a fixed sense of self.

Excerpted from the talk entitled Doors to Freedom - the Buddha’s Psychology of Liberation, Buddhafield, 2012.

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EllaWalker

Women's Community in Bristol

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Sun, 21 Nov, 2021 - 17:01

Women's Community in Bristol

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Sun, 21 Nov, 2021 - 17:01

Hello Sangha!

We are Ella, Dayajoti, and Amber of Kalyanaloka, a Triratna Women’s Community which has been established in Bristol for 5 years. Please see our lovely flyer attached to this post!

We would love to welcome a new order member or mitra into our community, which is built on the foundation of our friendship and shared practice. We have community time and meditate together in our dedicated shrine room.

Some of our rejoicings in life at Kalyanaloka are feeling witnessed in how our life and practice unfold,...

Sadayasihi

FBA Podcast: 'Love Is Proved In the Letting Go'

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 20 Nov, 2021 - 06:00

A personal talk where Punyamala shares her reflections on impermanence, particularly in the context of family life. Weaving in poetry and real life examples, Punyamala looks at the question of how to stay open in the midst of impermanence and death, without falling into despondency. Punyamala describes how she has sought to live a meaningful life, fully open to reality.

This talk was given on an ordination training retreat at Tiratanaloka Retreat Centre, 2019.

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Buddhafield 2022 retreat season now open for booking

From Buddhafield on Fri, 19 Nov, 2021 - 10:10

Buddhafield 2022 retreat season now open for booking

From Buddhafield on Fri, 19 Nov, 2021 - 10:10

We’ve just added our 2022 retreat season to our website. Over the course of ten events, we’ll be welcoming families, people training for ordination, beginners and more experienced practitioners. Our popular Spring Yatra walking retreat is back for the first time since 2019 and we are thrilled to be partnering with Tirartnaloka to offer a women’s training for ordination retreat on our land nr. Broadhembury in East Devon.

Buddhafield events are all held under open skies and in...

Frances

New community house in Hastings

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Thu, 18 Nov, 2021 - 11:21

New community house in Hastings

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Thu, 18 Nov, 2021 - 11:21

Hi, we’re Rowan and Frances and we are looking for 2 to 3 people to join us in a new community house in Hastings. We moved to Hastings from London last March to a lovely house right on the edge of Hastings Country Park nature reserve, 15 minutes walk from Old Town and the sea. This summer we managed to buy the next door house (as a buy to let) with the vision of creating a community between the two...

Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: A Weak Spot in Reality

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 18 Nov, 2021 - 06:00

Maitreyabandhu reminds us that the Buddha was cautious to describe things that were best directly experienced. The Lakshanas are not a metaphysical description of reality. Impermanence, insubstantiality and suffering show us there is something wrong with our perception.

From the talk Self-Surrender and the Laksana of Dukkha, part of the series Towards Insight: Three Myths given at Adhisthana, 2020.

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Priyananda

A question around the far enemy/enemies of Upekkha

From Ask A Scholar! on Wed, 17 Nov, 2021 - 16:55

A question around the far enemy/enemies of Upekkha

From Ask A Scholar! on Wed, 17 Nov, 2021 - 16:55

This is a request for some clarification around what I perceive as an anomaly in our Triratna teaching on upekkha, as the fourth of the brahma viharas; possibly this is an anomaly in the Buddhist tradition as a whole, and not just Triratna.

I am basing my question on the sections elaborating upekkha in the following: Kamalashila’s book Buddhist Meditation, Tejananda’s notes on the brahma viharas, and the course notes on the same in the fourth year of Dharma Training Course (the...