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Sadayasihi

FBA Podcast: Hey You!

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 8 Aug, 2020 - 14:00

Virya is the energetic counterpart to the patience of Ksanti; it is energy in pursuit of the good. Bodhinaga tells us how we can develop this noble vigour, which brings strength and courage like that of a virtuous knight. He guides us through counteracting the four ‘enemies of virya’ before introducing the Four Powers: ethical sources of energy to power the Dharma life.

Recorded at Sheffield Buddhist Centre, 2019.

This talk is part...

Free Buddhist Audio

Bouddhisme Et Libre Arbitre

From Centre bouddhiste Triratna de Paris on Sat, 8 Aug, 2020 - 00:00

Dans cette conférence, Vassika explore les notions de déterminisme et de libre arbitre. Elle en détaille ensuite la vision bouddhiste, notamment à travers les niyamas, la coproduction conditionnée et le karma. Et enfin, Vassika présente la voie que propose le bouddhisme pour devenir peu à peu libre de ses choix.

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Bouddhisme Et Libre Arbitre

From Centre bouddhiste Triratna de Paris on Sat, 8 Aug, 2020 - 00:00

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Buddhist responses to the pandemic

Fri, 7 Aug, 2020 - 19:09

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Buddhist Responses to the Pandemic: Subscribe to our Podcasts

From Community Highlights on Fri, 7 Aug, 2020 - 13:23

Buddhist Responses to the Pandemic: Subscribe to our Podcasts

From Community Highlights on Fri, 7 Aug, 2020 - 13:23

A reminder that you can listen again to our Dharma Toolkit podcasts, covering a range of themes around Buddhist responses to the Pandemic, from reflections around personal practice, through current day issues such as Climate change and touching on themes of Beauty and the Arts as a response to times of crisis.

Here’s Episode 25, Ironic Points of light, where Nanadavajra and his friends Satyalila and Subhadassi reflect on W.H. Auden’s poem, September 1st, 1939 and the...

karunagita

Monthly Online Parent-Dharma class

From Community Highlights on Thu, 23 Jul, 2020 - 11:42

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Monthly Online Parent-Dharma class

From Community Highlights on Thu, 23 Jul, 2020 - 11:42

The London Buddhist Centre and North London Buddhist Centre are offering monthly classes for parents online, every second Sunday from 8th August, 10.30-12.00 UK time. Open to all parents everywhere. The core team is Maitrinita, Karunagita and Rebecca, plus guest teachers. The class includes led meditation, a short talk or introduction to an aspect of the Dharma or practice within family life, an opportunity to connect and talk with other parents and brief ritual.

Please do join us, or pass this on to parents at your centre....

ratnadharini

Chairs' Letter – July 2020

From College of Public Preceptors on Fri, 31 Jul, 2020 - 23:22

Chairs' Letter – July 2020

From College of Public Preceptors on Fri, 31 Jul, 2020 - 23:22

Dear Order members

At the end of June I moved back to Adhisthana and though I like the simplicity of my cell-like bedroom cum office, people on the other end of Zoom calls have been commenting on the bare walls as, until recently, the only painting was above my desk and behind the computer screen.

Covid-19 and the topic of race and racism, have continued to be major concerns, both within and without our sangha. Both wake...

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This week's free eBook and this month's discounted paperbacks

From Windhorse Publications on Mon, 3 Aug, 2020 - 15:03

This week's free eBook and this month's discounted paperbacks

From Windhorse Publications on Mon, 3 Aug, 2020 - 15:03

This week we’re giving away the eBook edition of The Yogi’s Joy by Sangharakshita.

We’re offering The Yogi’s Joy to support the online summer retreat ‘The Fire of Joy’. If you find this book helpful, you could also read the text that came from the rest of Sangharakshita’s Milarepa seminars, published across two volumes of his Complete Works under the title Milarepa and the Art of Discipleship. You can find the first volume here and the second volume here. We’ve created a discount code fireofjoy that you can...

Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: Virya: Everyday Buddhist Spiritual Practice

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 6 Aug, 2020 - 14:00

Sangharakshita gives us a clear look at Viriya - Energy or Vigour - from the point of view of both subject and object, contrasting with a Hindu story about Indra + a squirrel.

From a talk about the Five Spiritual Faculties entitled The Pattern of Buddhist Life and Work given in 1966 as part of the series Introducing Buddhism.

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Satyakirti

The Next Phase at Padmaloka: Opening a Hybrid Retreat Centre

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 5 Aug, 2020 - 12:54

The Next Phase at Padmaloka: Opening a Hybrid Retreat Centre

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 5 Aug, 2020 - 12:54

We’re on the cusp of another new phase beginning here at Padmaloka, that is the opening of a Hybrid Retreat Centre.

Having looked at the UK Government’s advice for places of worship and the advice for accommodation providers, we will be able to run some events that have a small number of people physically on retreat here. The new programme will be made up of events that are either residential only, a hybrid of residential and online, or online only. In...

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