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Tejananda Live Recordings now available - Meditating in the Mandala Home Retreat

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Wed, 17 Jun, 2020 - 11:28

Tejananda Live Recordings now available - Meditating in the Mandala Home Retreat

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Wed, 17 Jun, 2020 - 11:28

If you haven’t been able to meditate at the live Zoom sessions with Tejananda, then there’s good news. The video recordings of each day are now available on the Home Retreat page! Head over there to check them out.

You can still join the live sessions, today and tomorrow

USA 8am PST | México 10am | USA 11am EST | UK & IE 4pm | Europe 5pm CET

The link to connect to Zoom will be available on The Home Retreat page before the event

We look forward to seeing you there!

Do...

Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: Restoration to Wholeness

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 14:00

When the whole of oneself is present, something new comes into play - we become more than the sum of our parts. Here we have Ratnaguna describing the stages of integration and positive emotion in the Triratna system of practice.

From the talk entitled The Underlying Pattern of the Spiritual Life given at Manchester Buddhist Centre on 14th April 2012.

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kusaladevi

Day 3 - Meditating in the Mandala Home Retreat

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sun, 14 Jun, 2020 - 09:44

Day 3 - Meditating in the Mandala Home Retreat

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sun, 14 Jun, 2020 - 09:44

We hope you are enjoying the Home Retreat - Meditating in the Mandala: An Embodied Approach to Awakening!

Don’t forget to join Tejananda live today.

USA 8am PST | México 10am | USA 11am EST | UK & IE 4pm | Europe 5pm CET

The link to connect to Zoom will be available on The Dharma Toolkit before the event

We look forward to seeing you there!

As always, if you are not able...

Sadayasihi

FBA Podcast: Mindfulness and Insight

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 13 Jun, 2020 - 14:00

Drawing on his book on the Buddha, Vishvapani explores the connection between awareness of our immediate experience and seeing the true nature of existence.

Talk given at Cardiff Buddhist Centre, 2018.

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amritamati

A Day In The Life...

From Akashavana on Sat, 13 Jun, 2020 - 10:43

A Day In The Life...

From Akashavana on Sat, 13 Jun, 2020 - 10:43

Some of you might have wondered what the team here have been doing since the lockdown began, given that our purpose for living here is to maintain the retreat centre and service the retreats, and with no retreats happening yet we have had a lot more free time. There is no normal day, but I thought I’d offer you a glimpse into our life at Akashavana at the moment.

We only keep a rough structure to our week, with a business meeting on...

dhsaraha

Your liberation is bound up with mine

From Buddhist Action on Sat, 13 Jun, 2020 - 01:45

Racism, the legacy of slavery, seems even more relevant now. I gave this talk in Birmingham a few months ago, I offer it here.

Activism, slavery, the Bodhisattva vow and utopia.

Diversity, freedom, the Buddha. Successful responses to capitalism and other forms of suffering and injustice. What power do we have in relation to those ‘in power’?

Welcoming rage and passion along with peace, love, bliss and agency into our Sangha is the path to liberation. Bring suffering close to the heart and respond creatively...

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viriyalila

Getting Ready - New Shrine Backdrop

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Fri, 12 Jun, 2020 - 21:06

Getting Ready - New Shrine Backdrop

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Fri, 12 Jun, 2020 - 21:06

In March, right around the Spring Equinox, we were to be opening up our new Center just as the coronavirus took hold of our community. Like everyone else, we moved our programming online. As spring moves into summer we decided to start step more into our space with some of our programs being streamed from the shrine room.

Next weekend, on the Summer Solstice, we are hosting a community gathering (online) to dedicate the shrine room and celebrate our connection with one another. For this...

Amaradaya

Bodhicitta Practice and Order Resources

From Order Connection on Fri, 12 Jun, 2020 - 16:01

Bodhicitta Practice and Order Resources

From Order Connection on Fri, 12 Jun, 2020 - 16:01

Sunday Order Bodhicitta Practice
…and some inspiration for the week ahead
Sunday 14th June

Just as when a lamp
Is put into a room
Even a thousand years of darkness
Immediately vanishes
And it lights up the place.
In the same way
When the lamp of aspiration for the Bodhicitta
Enters the room of the mind of sentient beings
Dark with ignorance
Then immediately
Untold aeons of darkness
Caused...

Read more about Bodhicitta Practice and Order Resources

Suryat

New People of Colour Events

From London Buddhist Centre on Fri, 12 Jun, 2020 - 14:35

New People of Colour Events

From London Buddhist Centre on Fri, 12 Jun, 2020 - 14:35

Please see information about our weekly people of colour events taking place on Zoom in partnership with the West London Buddhist Centre. These events are more important than ever as we deal with social unrest and a deeper call for change in the US, UK and other cities in the world.

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Here’s an invitation from our Chair, Suryagupta:

“Please join us this Sunday 14th June at 4pm...

Nandavajra

FutureDharma Fund Gratitude Report 2019/20

From FutureDharma on Fri, 12 Jun, 2020 - 12:54

FutureDharma Fund Gratitude Report 2019/20

Thanks to the generosity of its supporters, FutureDharma is now the main way Triratna seeds and supports sanghas around the world. This report is about how those gifts helped thousands of people to transform their lives last year.

Of course this year everything changed. Humanity now needs the Three Jewels more than ever. But with all our centres and retreat centres closed or severely restricted there’s a real danger that we barely sustain our own practice and sanghas, let...

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