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Looking into the Well: Using Writing to Explore the Mind

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Mon, 8 Feb, 2021 - 23:00

Looking into the Well: Using Writing to Explore the Mind

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Mon, 8 Feb, 2021 - 23:00

A four-week course with Yashobodhi: Sundays: March 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th
Each session will be done twice every week to accommodate time zones (see below for times and springtime changes mid-course!). 

Come to any session you want with your ticket.

Reserve your space (Suggested donation for the whole course: $80  £80  €80)

About the course
In this course we will use writing as a tool to tap into the abundance and wisdom that usually lie dormant under our habitual ways of viewing ourselves and the world. 

The prompts we will be using...

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Introducing Buddhist Action Month 2021 - Network of Buddhist Organisations

From Buddhist Action on Mon, 8 Feb, 2021 - 10:57

Lion’s Roar: Speaking up in a Troubled World - Buddhist Action Month 2021

Kaspa Thompson from the Network of Buddhist Organisations is setting up Buddhist Action Month 2021 and writes:

There are many troubles in the world. Much of the world lives in poverty. There is violence against individuals and groups of people. The climate crisis continues to unfold causing extreme weather events. We are destroying habitats. We are in the midst of a global...

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Dharmabyte: A State of Being Beyond Imagination

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 8 Feb, 2021 - 06:00

Subhadramati explores integration as a process of meeting Mara in her life and in scenes in the life of the Buddha, and the fulfillment of integration during the Buddha’s last days of exquisite love.

Excerpted from the talk entitled Lion’s Roar: Why Integration = Love given at Bristol Buddhist Centre, 2018.

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decision-making process and consensus

From Triratna Resources on Sun, 7 Feb, 2021 - 19:50

Mokshini kindly shared these documents on the decision-making process and consensus:

  • decision-making by consensus - Dhammarati
  • consensus diagram - Dhammarati
  • Decision making - notes from a talk given by Vajragupta at the ECA Jan 2014
  • Ideas on Consensus as Practice in Council Meetings 2013
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FBA Podcast: Moving Through Fear Into Love

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 6 Feb, 2021 - 06:50

In this talk, Satyakirti explores a set of ways through which we can work with fear in our practice, particularly through love and friendship. Using the Angulimala Sutta as an example, he explains how even the greatest fears can be overcome, and how a Buddha is entirely free from fear.

Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre in December 2019 as part of the Sub35s ‘Fearless Love’ retreat.

This talk is part of the series ...

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Bringing Online Learning to the Slums of India (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 36)

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Thu, 4 Feb, 2021 - 20:07

This episode was recorded in October 2020 when the project to bring online learning to kids from Nagpur’s poorest communities was just getting started. Please support this vital work now if you can:

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/aryaloka

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Aryaketu is amazing. For 20 years he has been forging a life of extraordinary service in India with the Buddhist ‘Bodhisattva Path’ as the main context for his work. His vital, pioneering computer training school - the Aryaloka Institute - is all about the...

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Dharmabyte: Great Love as Emptiness

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 4 Feb, 2021 - 06:32

Here we have Padmavajra talking about the importance of bhavana in our metta practice –  the growing of friendly feelings, friendly responses, slowly, gently, like a garden. What you attend to, you become. It is vital that we engage with the practice honestly, starting where we actually are and gradually moving towards non-dual loving kindness, maha maitri, the Great Love that has dissolved the distinction between self and other.

From the talk entitled Introducing the Great Love...

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Where are all the dark paths now?

From Urthona - A Journal of Buddhism and the Arts on Wed, 3 Feb, 2021 - 12:26

Where are all the dark paths now?

From Urthona - A Journal of Buddhism and the Arts on Wed, 3 Feb, 2021 - 12:26

‘Where are all the dark paths now? The Pure Land itself is near’

Hakuin’s Song of Zazen

Painting shown above: Amitabha, the Buddha of the Western Pure Land (Sukhavati). C. 1700  Central Tibet;  Distemper with gold on cloth,. Dimensions: 56 1/4 × 39 1/2 in. (142.9 × 100.3 cm). Public domain – Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchased: Barbara and William Karatz Gift and funds from various donors, 2004

High Resolution image and further details at MMA site: 

I would like to include more traditional...

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Avalokitesvara Mantra - Two Part

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Tue, 2 Feb, 2021 - 00:00
Mantra chanting can be tricky if you're leading an on-line puja. The Taraloka community have recorded a few mantras, all about 5 minutes long, which you are welcome to use for rituals on-line.
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Amitabha Mantra - Simple

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Tue, 2 Feb, 2021 - 00:00
Mantra chanting can be tricky if you're leading an on-line puja. The Taraloka community have recorded a few mantras, all about 5 minutes long, which you are welcome to use for rituals on-line.

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