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Amalavajra - Your Money or Your Life

From Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 26 Oct, 2021 - 17:30

Amalavajra - Your Money or Your Life

From Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 26 Oct, 2021 - 17:30

Money makes for wonderful means but terrible ends. If we focus our life a mere symbol of relative value then we risk alienating ourselves from the very things we seek - love, meaning and rich experience. Could money instead be a means to not just a better world, but to Enlightenment itself?

Amalavajra is an ex-City broker turned fundraiser. This talk was given to a public audience as part of the June 2014 ‘BAM’ series: ...

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Live and work at Vajrasana Retreat Centre: two new roles...

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Tue, 2 Nov, 2021 - 14:51

Live and work at Vajrasana Retreat Centre: two new roles...

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Tue, 2 Nov, 2021 - 14:51

Vajrasana Retreat Centre in Suffolk has an exciting opportunity for two men to join the residential community. Successful applicants will be part of the team who look after this beautiful centre and the thousands of people who come on retreat every year.

The ideal candidates would be GFR mitras, although we would happily consider other mitras and Order members too. The growing community at Vajrasana (up to five) is a place of Sangha and kalyana mitrata. The London Buddhist Centre supports...

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Bhante 3rd Commemoration Puja

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Mon, 1 Nov, 2021 - 22:29

Bhante 3rd Commemoration Puja

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Mon, 1 Nov, 2021 - 22:29

On 30th Oct we had seven fold puja around Guru Stupa as commentation ceremony of Bhante 3rd year of passing away. Seven fold puja led by Dh. Ratnasambhava. After puja watch videos of Bhante Funeral Day of Adhisthana as well as talk of Dh Suvajra.

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Dharmabyte: The Three Liberations

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 1 Nov, 2021 - 05:00

Sangharakshita describes the three liberations (vimokshas) arising from transcending the three marks (lakshanas) of conditioned existence.

From the talk entitled The Texture of Reality as part of the series Introducing Buddhism, 1966.***

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Naming and Taming - Padmasambhava and the Feast of Transformation

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Mon, 1 Nov, 2021 - 00:00

In this talk given to the men at Padmaloka during the Autumn Great Gathering 2021, Bodhinaga explores the myth of Padmasambhava arriving in Tibet, at the invitation of the King, to establish the Dharma at Samye. When he meets the King of Tibet, Padmasambhava refuses to bow. Then he transforms the demons of Tibet, getting them to help rather than oppose the construction of Samye Monastery. Bodhinaga asks us: What do we serve in our life? What are our inner demons? And how can we use their energy for the Dharma? This talk is the first part of the series: Padmasambhava - the Master for Troubled Times.

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The Guru, the Demon and the Dakini

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Mon, 1 Nov, 2021 - 00:00

In this talk given to the men at Padmaloka during the Autumn Great Gathering 2021, Padmavajra explores the myth of Tharpa Nagpo from the Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava. In this stirring talk, he explores the demon in society and in ourselves and how to transform it. This talk is the second part of the series: Padmasambhava - the Master for Troubled Times.

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One World, One Sangha - What’s Triratna done for me?

From FutureDharma on Sun, 31 Oct, 2021 - 11:30

One World, One Sangha - What’s Triratna done for me?

From FutureDharma on Sun, 31 Oct, 2021 - 11:30

I first went to the Glasgow Buddhist Centre in 2008. My life was ok, but I was looking for more meaning - something I could put all my energies into. I was going in circles. Sinhacandra, the Order member teaching meditation, reached out to me with kindness. And that made all the difference.

I still kept changing relationships and homes, struggling to get a foothold. The Buddhists seemed to know how to work with change though. And Mitra study helped me connect...

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FBA Podcast: Spiritual Death - Spiritual Rebirth

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 30 Oct, 2021 - 06:00

Padmavajra offers a deep set of reflections on these aspects of the Spiritual Path using Sangharakshita’s poem ‘Advent’; the contemplation of impermanence, death and our lack of any ‘self-lordship’; Lahiji’s vision of ‘the black light’; bewilderment; and the concept of becoming reborn in the Bodhisattva.

Talk given at Padmaloka Buddhist Centre, 2013, as part of a series of three talks entitled The Stages of the Path.

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When you're not sure what to do, start by giving (One World, One Sangha)

From FutureDharma on Sat, 30 Oct, 2021 - 05:00

When you're not sure what to do, start by giving (One World, One Sangha)

From FutureDharma on Sat, 30 Oct, 2021 - 05:00

Yesterday we shared the Sikkha Project’s work to support our Buddhist Centres to provide the best in Triratna’s Dharma teaching. When I was writing the post I was struck by how many times I used the word give - people giving their time, their expertise, their support.

Our next project really showed us all how to give. When the pandemic took hold, Windhorse Publications found themselves in a tight spot. They rely on selling the majority of their books in our Centre...

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The Central Buddhist Act: an event for all mitras who have asked for ordination + Order members

From Order Connection on Fri, 29 Oct, 2021 - 16:55

The Central Buddhist Act: an event for all mitras who have asked for ordination + Order members

From Order Connection on Fri, 29 Oct, 2021 - 16:55

Link to join the College Open Evening
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89585647751
Meeting ID: 895 8564 7751

An invitation to an international online gathering with the Preceptors’ College for mitras who have asked for ordination + order members

During our next Preceptors’ College meeting in November we want to invite you to an international online event. Our intention is to explore the significance of ordination...

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