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Community members donate to get food to Indian families in lockdown

From Adhisthana on Wed, 13 May, 2020 - 13:04

Community members donate to get food to Indian families in lockdown

From Adhisthana on Wed, 13 May, 2020 - 13:04

A few weeks ago, just after India had abruptly gone into lockdown, Aryajaya brought to the community the story of her friend Abhyanavita.

Abhayanavita did the Adhisthana International Course in 2018, and then returned to her home in Amravati, a city in Maharashtra. She runs a project there with a team of 4 Order Members and 6 Mitras running a hostel to enable vulnerable women and girls to step free of domestic and sexual violence and giving them the tools they need...

dhammamegha

Free the Dharma eBook this week - Subhuti's 'Mind in Harmony'

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Mon, 11 May, 2020 - 13:16

Free the Dharma eBook this week - Subhuti's 'Mind in Harmony'

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Mon, 11 May, 2020 - 13:16

This is the eighth week that we’ll be sharing a weekly e-book. When we started in March, it seemed likely that it would be something we’d do for a month or two at the most. Yet here we are, two months later, and this new future stretches before us.

This week we’re giving away Subhuti’s Mind in Harmony: the psychology of Buddhist ethics. You can download it free here until 25 May. You can also buy a paper copy here.

Mind in...

akasajoti

A Rose-Apple Tree Experience – #buddhaday

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sun, 10 May, 2020 - 10:04

A Rose-Apple Tree Experience – #buddhaday

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sun, 10 May, 2020 - 10:04

And, a final #buddhaday treat for you all…

Sangharakshita tells us that the Enlightenment of the Buddha isn’t cold and detached, but sees everything as beautiful because it sees with a mind and heart of Metta.

For our International Buddha Day celebration, Subhadramati evokes this aspect of the Enlightenment by telling a story of a pivotal moment in the Buddha’s life, which precedes the dawning of his enlightenment experience, where he recollects a memory of sitting beneath a rose-apple tree in his youth. She...

Ratnaprabha

Sangha Night Buddhism, Mondays, 19:00

From North London Buddhist Centre on Sat, 9 May, 2020 - 20:47

Sangha Night Buddhism, Mondays, 19:00

From North London Buddhist Centre on Sat, 9 May, 2020 - 20:47

11 May: Celebrating the Buddha’s Enlightenment
With Manjumitra, Khemananda, Lalitaraja, Santva and Friends. The evening will include meditation, a talk by Khemananda - ‘Reflections on the Buddha’s Enlightenment’, and ritual.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 878 7847 7026, Password: 019357

18 May: Going for Refuge in Meditation 2 – Meditate like it matters!

A follow-on evening with Lalitaraja looking at Going for Refuge in meditation and meditation as a ground for deepening Going for Refuge.
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Ratnaprabha

Tuesday evening meditation toolkit

From North London Buddhist Centre on Sat, 9 May, 2020 - 20:44

Tuesday evening meditation toolkit

From North London Buddhist Centre on Sat, 9 May, 2020 - 20:44

The next four week block starts next week.
Dates: 12, 19, 26 May, 2 June
Time: 7pm - 9pm

The Magic and Mystery of Kindly Awareness
Zoom link here.
Visuddhimati continues the current Tuesday class theme, offering a meditation toolkit for challenging times.
The classes will be exploring how to further develop kindly awareness in meditation in order to meet life’s challenges with resilience and kindness.
Awareness coupled with kindness can bring...

Ratnaprabha

Buddha Day tomorrow (10 May): changed programme

From North London Buddhist Centre on Sat, 9 May, 2020 - 20:39

Buddha Day tomorrow (10 May): changed programme

From North London Buddhist Centre on Sat, 9 May, 2020 - 20:39

Buddha Day this Sunday, 10 May

Zoom link for all Buddha Day sessions here.

This is the big festival of the year, celebrating the Buddha’s awakening under the Bodhi Tree on the full moon day of May. Ratnaprabha will be in the centre shrine-room to host the festival sessions.

10:30 -12 midday, Slideshow by Ratnaprabha on the Buddha’s visitors under the Bodhi tree, Mythic Beings at the Buddha’s Awakening, also on YouTube Live, followed by questions and meditation.
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akasajoti

Connect to Buddha Day Online

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sat, 9 May, 2020 - 01:07

Connect to Buddha Day Online

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sat, 9 May, 2020 - 01:07

Find the full programme and connect to our Buddha Day celebrations here, where you can follow the links to join the live events, or watch on YouTube.

The Zoom platform can hold up to 1,000 of us in the virtual shrine room. Some events may get even busier!

If you try to join a live event and see a message telling you the room is full, you’re welcome to wait for someone to leave and we’ll let you in as soon as...

Centre Team

Ironic Points of Light (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 25)

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sat, 9 May, 2020 - 00:21

Shimmering images, and no less shimmering experiences. Today’s episode begins a series on beauty, poetry, myth, art and symbol as a response to crisis.

Taking our cue from W.H. Auden’s poem, September 1st, 1939, and his recognition of the need to “love one another or die”, we ask how, in the midst of fear – even of death – we can exercise our agency as human beings.

Poetry leads the way in and out of the questioning. Joining Auden in the...

akasajoti

Connect to Buddha Day Online

From Community Highlights on Sat, 9 May, 2020 - 00:05

Connect to Buddha Day Online

From Community Highlights on Sat, 9 May, 2020 - 00:05

Find the full programme and connect to our Buddha Day celebrations here, where you can follow the links to join the live events, or watch on YouTube.

The Zoom platform can hold up to 1,000 of us in the virtual shrine room. Some events may get even busier!

If you try to join a live event and see a message telling you the room is full, you’re welcome to wait for someone to leave and we’ll let you in as soon as...

aryaketu

Aryaloka Corona Relief Emergency Appeal

From Aryaloka Computer Education India on Fri, 8 May, 2020 - 11:10

Aryaloka Corona Relief Emergency Appeal

From Aryaloka Computer Education India on Fri, 8 May, 2020 - 11:10

Aryaloka Corona Relief Emergency Appeal

The Covid19 pandemic affects all of us and highlights our global interconnectedness. We are all suffering but those suffering most are those with the fewest resources – the poorest and most vulnerable in our societies. Nowhere more so than in India where the rapid nation-wide lockdown on 22 March has resulted in untold misery and hardship for many millions of...

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