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How do we put our hearts into the world?

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 3 Nov, 2021 - 17:24

How do we put our hearts into the world?

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 3 Nov, 2021 - 17:24

In this blog, Maitrisiddhi explores a variety of approaches to following our heart response to concerns about climate change, and the value of allowing varying attitudes to coexist.

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The All New Hybrid and Residential Yoga Teacher Training from Bodhiyoga International

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Wed, 3 Nov, 2021 - 16:51

The All New Hybrid and Residential Yoga Teacher Training from Bodhiyoga International

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Wed, 3 Nov, 2021 - 16:51

Bodhiyoga mindfulness yoga teacher training re-launch in 2022 offers a more comprehensive and detailed training to bring you from practitioner to teacher level…

When in 2012 Sadhita and Sudaka launched Bodhiyoga International, the decision was taken early on to provide a comprehensive and systematic training for yogis that wanted to both deepen their own practice and learn how to teach effectively as well.

Over the past two years the project has been laying low...

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Amalavajra - Your Money or Your Life

From Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 26 Oct, 2021 - 17:30

Amalavajra - Your Money or Your Life

From Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 26 Oct, 2021 - 17:30

Money makes for wonderful means but terrible ends. If we focus our life a mere symbol of relative value then we risk alienating ourselves from the very things we seek - love, meaning and rich experience. Could money instead be a means to not just a better world, but to Enlightenment itself?

Amalavajra is an ex-City broker turned fundraiser. This talk was given to a public audience as part of the June 2014 ‘BAM’ series: ...

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Live and work at Vajrasana Retreat Centre: two new roles...

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Tue, 2 Nov, 2021 - 14:51

Live and work at Vajrasana Retreat Centre: two new roles...

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Tue, 2 Nov, 2021 - 14:51

Vajrasana Retreat Centre in Suffolk has an exciting opportunity for two men to join the residential community. Successful applicants will be part of the team who look after this beautiful centre and the thousands of people who come on retreat every year.

The ideal candidates would be GFR mitras, although we would happily consider other mitras and Order members too. The growing community at Vajrasana (up to five) is a place of Sangha and kalyana mitrata. The London Buddhist Centre supports...

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Bhante 3rd Commemoration Puja

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Mon, 1 Nov, 2021 - 22:29

Bhante 3rd Commemoration Puja

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Mon, 1 Nov, 2021 - 22:29

On 30th Oct we had seven fold puja around Guru Stupa as commentation ceremony of Bhante 3rd year of passing away. Seven fold puja led by Dh. Ratnasambhava. After puja watch videos of Bhante Funeral Day of Adhisthana as well as talk of Dh Suvajra.

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Dharmabyte: The Three Liberations

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 1 Nov, 2021 - 05:00

Sangharakshita describes the three liberations (vimokshas) arising from transcending the three marks (lakshanas) of conditioned existence.

From the talk entitled The Texture of Reality as part of the series Introducing Buddhism, 1966.***

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Naming and Taming - Padmasambhava and the Feast of Transformation

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Mon, 1 Nov, 2021 - 00:00

In this talk given to the men at Padmaloka during the Autumn Great Gathering 2021, Bodhinaga explores the myth of Padmasambhava arriving in Tibet, at the invitation of the King, to establish the Dharma at Samye. When he meets the King of Tibet, Padmasambhava refuses to bow. Then he transforms the demons of Tibet, getting them to help rather than oppose the construction of Samye Monastery. Bodhinaga asks us: What do we serve in our life? What are our inner demons? And how can we use their energy for the Dharma? This talk is the first part of the series: Padmasambhava - the Master for Troubled Times.

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The Guru, the Demon and the Dakini

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Mon, 1 Nov, 2021 - 00:00

In this talk given to the men at Padmaloka during the Autumn Great Gathering 2021, Padmavajra explores the myth of Tharpa Nagpo from the Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava. In this stirring talk, he explores the demon in society and in ourselves and how to transform it. This talk is the second part of the series: Padmasambhava - the Master for Troubled Times.

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One World, One Sangha - What’s Triratna done for me?

From Future Dharma on Sun, 31 Oct, 2021 - 11:30

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One World, One Sangha - What’s Triratna done for me?

From Future Dharma on Sun, 31 Oct, 2021 - 11:30

I first went to the Glasgow Buddhist Centre in 2008. My life was ok, but I was looking for more meaning - something I could put all my energies into. I was going in circles. Sinhacandra, the Order member teaching meditation, reached out to me with kindness. And that made all the difference.

I still kept changing relationships and homes, struggling to get a foothold. The Buddhists seemed to know how to work with change though. And Mitra study helped me connect...

Sadayasihi

FBA Podcast: Spiritual Death - Spiritual Rebirth

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 30 Oct, 2021 - 06:00

Padmavajra offers a deep set of reflections on these aspects of the Spiritual Path using Sangharakshita’s poem ‘Advent’; the contemplation of impermanence, death and our lack of any ‘self-lordship’; Lahiji’s vision of ‘the black light’; bewilderment; and the concept of becoming reborn in the Bodhisattva.

Talk given at Padmaloka Buddhist Centre, 2013, as part of a series of three talks entitled The Stages of the Path.

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