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Dharmabyte: Confession Practice

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 14 Feb, 2022 - 06:00

Dhammadinna shares from her personal history in chapters, small configurations of Order members meeting regularly as a form of Buddhist practice. Here she speaks about confession practice not being a formulaic act, but rather one that spontaneously and naturally arises on the basis of trust and confidence. 

Excerpted from the talk Looking Back Over My Chapter History, 2010.

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Resignation of Bodhipriya

From Order Connection on Sun, 13 Feb, 2022 - 18:10

Resignation of Bodhipriya

From Order Connection on Sun, 13 Feb, 2022 - 18:10

Dear Order members

I am sad to be writing to let you know that Dhammachari Bodhipriya, from Amaravati, has resigned from the Order. Bodhipriya was ordained at Bordharan, on 5th October 2008, with Amoghasiddhi as his private preceptor and Sudarshan as his public preceptor. 

Amoghasiddhi has let me know that around a month ago, Bodhipriya wrote on WhatsApp that he didn’t want to remain in the Order. Since then a number of Order members – including his private preceptor, kalyanamitras, local Chapter members and Regional...
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The Yidam and the Imaginal Dimension of Spiritual Friendship

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Sun, 13 Feb, 2022 - 00:00
The imagination is the faculty by which we can liberate ourselves from self-preoccupation and increasingly identify and empathise with our spiritual friends, but this is easier said than done. In the third talk of the series, Padmasagara explores the obstacles that prevent us seeing people as people and suggests ways in which they can be overcome. Replete with quotes, stories and images from the Pali Canon, the Mahayana Sutras and Sangharakshita's memoirs and lectures, this is a rich, insightful and challenging talk.
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The Dakini and the Horizontal Dimension of Spiritual Friendship

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Sun, 13 Feb, 2022 - 00:00
Padmasagara invokes the Dakini to examine the horizontal dimension of spiritual friendship and encourages us to develop strong positive emotion, honesty and openness, and enter the cremation ground - or 'crucial situation' - with our spiritual friends. The talk is both mythic and practical, and provides a brilliant crescendo to his series 'Of the Mysteries of Spiritual Friendship and the Three Tantric Refuges'.
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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
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