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Triratna Ordination in the New Statesman

From Triratna News on Sun, 18 Jul, 2021 - 11:29

Triratna Ordination in the New Statesman

From Triratna News on Sun, 18 Jul, 2021 - 11:29

Last week, I and 3 other new order members were welcomed back to the LBC as our new selves. As is tradition at the London Buddhist Centre, we invited many of our friends and family and gave short talks - trying to explain to the Buddhist and non-Buddhist audience (as well as to ourselves) what we’d just committed our lives to. I found it a hugely moving event, integrating different strands of my life together - old and new; public...

Karunadevi

Forthcoming Ordination in Montana, USA

From Order Connection on Sun, 18 Jul, 2021 - 10:54

Forthcoming Ordination in Montana, USA

From Order Connection on Sun, 18 Jul, 2021 - 10:54

Dear Order Members,

Leslie McCormick from Tucson, Arizona will be ordained on a small ordination retreat near Missoula, Montana. The private ordination will take place on July 25th and the public ceremony will be held in Missoula on Wednesday, July 28th at 6 pm MDT.
Members of the Missoula sangha and friends have been invited to attend the public ordination.

The private and public preceptor is Karunadevi.

With metta,
Karunadevi

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Maitreyi

Resignation of Ambaravajri

From Order Connection on Sun, 18 Jul, 2021 - 10:47

Resignation of Ambaravajri

From Order Connection on Sun, 18 Jul, 2021 - 10:47

Dear Order Members,

Ambaravajri has written to me as her Public Preceptor to let me know that she wishes to resign from the Order and I have accepted her resignation. I have been in touch with Ambaravajri, and also with Dhammadassin her Private Preceptor, with whom she has been in dialogue for some time about this process, and with whom she has explored her concerns.

She is now clear that she wishes to resign, and while...

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Sadayasihi

FBA Podcast: The Third Precept

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 17 Jul, 2021 - 06:00

Vimalasara gives a thorough talk on the third precept, exploring some of the issues we all need to reflect on if we are to live life more fully with simplicity, contentment and stillness. Relevant to modern day living, this talk also signposts some of the issues that women and queer people have to contend with when reflecting on this precept.

Talk given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2013.

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Centre Team

Beauty and Environmental Action (The Dharma Toolkit Podcast, Episode 41)

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sat, 17 Jul, 2021 - 17:05

Join us for a deep dive into the relationship between art, aesthetics, the environment, and the inner life of people, objects and houses! In this episode we discuss the current ecological and biodiversity crises with an artist and a poet, asking how an appreciation and fuller understanding of beauty itself can help us take action in our own lives.

Be prepared to have your notions of “the beautiful” challenged and, hopefully, also affirmed as we range with our guests Padmacandra and Vilokini...

Sadayasihi

FBA Podcast: The Third Precept

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 17 Jul, 2021 - 06:00

Talk given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2013.

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Kiss the Earth: Buddhafield 2021- the Talks!

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 15 Jul, 2021 - 20:56

Kiss the Earth: Buddhafield 2021- the Talks!

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 15 Jul, 2021 - 20:56

When we connect with the earth, we are also connecting with ourselves and with other beings, recognizing we are part of a greater whole. We can begin to let go of the barriers that separate us from one another

We have learnt this past few years how rapidly things can change, and seen the illusion that humanity is in total control swept away. A more humble, respectful approach is need to rebalance our world, both internally and externally.

To kiss the earth is to...

Liz Evers

Review: I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to Women in Buddhism by Alice Collett

From Buddhist Centre Features on Fri, 9 Jul, 2021 - 17:27

Review: I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to Women in Buddhism by Alice Collett

From Buddhist Centre Features on Fri, 9 Jul, 2021 - 17:27

The last two decades have seen a growth in Western scholarship about women in Buddhism. The Therīgāthā, a selection of 73 poems by enlightened Buddhist nuns over a 300-year period from the sixth century BCE, has had multiple recent translations and commentaries. Scholars including Rita Gross and Anne C. Klein have conducted feminist re-evaluations of Buddhism, while others have explored the experiences of women practising in specific cultures (for example, Martine Batchelor on her experience as a Jogye Zen...

akasajoti

Eight Guidelines | Understanding the Dharma

From College of Public Preceptors on Thu, 15 Jul, 2021 - 12:27

Eight Guidelines | Understanding the Dharma

From College of Public Preceptors on Thu, 15 Jul, 2021 - 12:27

Jnanavaca and Maitreyabandhu, from London, UK, discuss the process of studying and understanding Sangharakshita’s distinctive presentation of the Dharma, in the third in a series of informal, personal, conversations between Public Preceptors about the Eight Guidelines for Ordination Training in Triratna.

The Eight Guidelines offer a framework through which Order Members and Mitras can reflect on and communicate about their going for refuge and process of training for Ordination into the Triratna Buddhist Order. In this series, members of the Preceptors’...

Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: Coming to Stillness

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 15 Jul, 2021 - 06:00

Drawing on sources from Russell Brand to Tenzin Palmo, Suryadarshini navigates the third precept. Covering sex, relationships, confessional writing, and social media, she offers suggestions for how to start a shift from attention and attachment into stillness, simplicity and contentment.

From the talk entitled Sex and Social Media: From Attention and Attachment to Contentment given at Norwich Buddhist Centre, 2019.

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