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Dharmabyte: Aspirations Manifesting in Daily Life

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 25 Oct, 2021 - 06:00

Embodying our higher values gives life to our heart and gives heart to our life. Saddhanandi encourages us to get on with our life by gathering our life around our aspirations.

From the talk Enlightenment as Heart, Life as Whole given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2005.

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Building a Better Future (One World, One Sangha)

From Future Dharma on Mon, 25 Oct, 2021 - 05:00

Building a Better Future (One World, One Sangha)

From Future Dharma on Mon, 25 Oct, 2021 - 05:00

Yesterday we featured Kusaladevi’s fundraising support work that helped so many of our local Buddhist Centres not only survive the pandemic but thrive. We didn’t just want Triratna to survive - we wanted to help it continue to grow and reach out to more people.

The Triratna York Buddhist Group UK reached out to us and asked for help to convert an old empty shop and create York’s first Buddhist Centre. As they were planning to do this at a time when...

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Keeping our Buddhist Centres Thriving (One World, One Sangha)

From Future Dharma on Sun, 24 Oct, 2021 - 05:00

Keeping our Buddhist Centres Thriving (One World, One Sangha)

From Future Dharma on Sun, 24 Oct, 2021 - 05:00

Yesterday we featured the work our fabulous Triratna Translations Board are doing to to ensure that everyone can benefit from Dharma talks online. Talking about all the many different languages in which members of our Triratna sangha practice reminded me of the preciousness of our local contexts.

Our International Sangha is of course made up of the net of Triratna’s local sanghas. Without these there is no International Sangha.

As soon as the Covid pandemic took hold FutureDharma committed to helping Triratna get online. Alongside this we...

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FBA Podcast: Love and Loss

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 23 Oct, 2021 - 06:00

Parami urges us to embrace loss, because it is inevitable, but equally so, don’t close yourself off to love. Accepting that everything that arises will pass, and yet everything that arises is precious that will give rise to a love that spreads throughout the cosmos.

Talk given at the Newcastle Buddhist Centre, 2021.

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Are we speaking the same language? (One World, One Sangha)

From Future Dharma on Sat, 23 Oct, 2021 - 05:00

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Are we speaking the same language? (One World, One Sangha)

From Future Dharma on Sat, 23 Oct, 2021 - 05:00

In our last stories we shared how Alex in Brazil, Zoe in Singapore, and Celia in New Zealand practice in our Sangha online from very different contexts. What they all have in common is being able to participate in classes and practice days in English. But what if you don’t speak English?

Our fantastic Triratna Translation Board already translate Dharma books into many languages of course. And in the last 18 months they’ve thrown themselves into our new online environment - Perhaps you heard them translating...

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'See How Letting Go of the World Is Peacefulness'

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Sat, 23 Oct, 2021 - 01:00

Maitrisiddhi explores some of the pithy stripped-back wisdom teachings from the ‘The Way to the Beyond’ chapter of the Sutta Nipata. Compassion, insight and renunciation – it’s all there – giving us both a path of practice and a sense of ‘the Beyond’ – the ineffable goal. NB: Due to vagaries of Zoom, the first few seconds of Maitrisiddhi's remarks were not recorded. First of three talks on ‘The Way to the Beyond’ chapter of the Sutta Nipata, given on the Womens AOWE held at Taraloka in June 2021.

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'I Will Sing You the Praises of the Way to the Beyond…'

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Sat, 23 Oct, 2021 - 01:00

Where is our heart-connection with the Dharma? When do we rely on the Buddha, and when on our own capacity to know and see? Sixteen brahmins go to see the Buddha, and ask heartfelt questions that resonate with passion, intensity and an existential need to know. And the Buddha responds with poetic clarity as he tries to express the inexpressible. NB: Due to vagaries of Zoom, the first few seconds of Maitrisiddhi's remarks were not recorded. First of three talks on ‘The Way to the Beyond’ chapter of the Sutta Nipata, given on the Womens AOWE held at Taraloka in June 2021.

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ECA Safeguarding

Barriers to reporting child sexual abuse in religious communities in England and Wales

From Triratna Safeguarding on Fri, 22 Oct, 2021 - 19:41

Barriers to reporting child sexual abuse in religious communities in England and Wales

From Triratna Safeguarding on Fri, 22 Oct, 2021 - 19:41

Booking is open for this free online talk on the barriers faced by faith groups in England and Wales to the effective reporting of child sexual abuse.

Wednesday 10th November 2021
11am UK time

Information and registration

This talk will build on the finding of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales that in some faith groups there are significant barriers to the reporting of allegations of child sexual abuse to police and other external bodies.

The speaker is Nick Donaldson, who previously worked at...

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From Ireland to New Zealand and back again (One World, One Sangha)

From Future Dharma on Fri, 22 Oct, 2021 - 05:00

From Ireland to New Zealand and back again (One World, One Sangha)

From Future Dharma on Fri, 22 Oct, 2021 - 05:00

Although she’s originally from New Zealand, Celia has lived in Dublin for 14 years. She’s a member of the Dublin Sangha and loves the Dharma classes there.

In spring 2020 Celia travelled to New Zealand on what she thought would be a 2-week trip to see her family. But New Zealand went into lockdown and she found herself stranded on the other side of the world from her life back in Dublin, Ireland.

It was a really tough time for Celia. She needed to find...

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