A Response to the Letter to the Order from a Group of Black and Asian Order Members in London OM

Dear Bodhilila, Jayakara, Maitrinita, Manjusiha, Padmadhara, Sujhayini, Suryagupta and Nandaraja

I’m writing on behalf of the Steering Group of Triratna’s International Council. First of all, I wanted to say thank you for the letter that you posted on the Buddhist Centre Online on June 17. The letter was obviously the result not just of the painful experience of racial discrimination and violence that you all share, but your equally deep practice and reflection on that experience. 

When the Steering Group met recently...

Promoting Better Conversations Online

Over the next year or so we’ll be making lots of changes to this website and our whole platform, which includes The Dharma Toolkit, Free Buddhist Audio and a number of other key Triratna sites and social media spaces. 

+follow this space above, or join our newsletter to get updates when we make changes, and for a chance to join early test versions of the site.

Today we’re making a set of changes to one aspect of the...

Online Retreat: There's a Field...

Please register in advance for this retreat. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event. 

“Out beyond ideas
of wrong doing and right doing
there is a field
I will meet you there.
When the soul lies down
in that grass
the world is too full
to speak of
ideas, language even the notion
one another
makes no sense.”

​Following the success of our...

Life is happening, be there! Meditation and podcast talk.

This Saturday, 11 July online with the North London Buddhist Centre.

10:30 Meditation.
11:30 Live Budcast Talk with Vajramitra on perfect mindfulness, suitable for all levels:  ”Mindfulness seems to be mentioned everywhere, both in the Buddha’s teaching and in the secular world we live in today. Although central to who we are, being aware and fully participating in our life often might seem like a distant ideal. How do we fully engage in each moment of our life? What is Buddhist Mindfulness...