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Dharmabyte: The Art of Engagement and the Art of Letting Go

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 22 Jun, 2020 - 14:00

Sanghadevi shares a story on the development of enlightenment through tales of pilgrimage from the Avatamsaka Sutra, known as the Flower Ornament Scripture. This story illustrates the art of engagement and the art of letting go, combining activity with receptivity, which supports the arising of the unbounded energy of the creative mind.

From the talk entitled Spiritual Receptivity and Spiritual Community given with a series of talks organised by the Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2014, called ...
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Tiratanavandana Morning Chanting At Padmaloka

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Mon, 22 Jun, 2020 - 01:00
A recording of the salutation to the Three Jewels, the Tiratanavandana, chanted in the Padmaloka Shrine room June 2020.
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Tiratanavandana Morning Chanting At Padmaloka

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Mon, 22 Jun, 2020 - 00:00
A recording of the salutation to the Three Jewels, the Tiratanavandana, chanted in the Padmaloka Shrine room June 2020.
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This week's free eBook - The Breath

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 12:53
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This week's free eBook - The Breath

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 12:53

This week we’re giving away The Breath by Vessantara. You can download it here until 29 June. This is the first of the three short books we’ll offer over the coming weeks: The Breath, The Body and The Heart. Each one deals with a central area of mindfulness and meditation. 
 
I’ve been very aware of the connection between the breath and the first precept that we commit to practicing: I undertake to abstain from taking life; with deeds of loving kindness,...
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FBA Podcast: Entrance Into the Heart of the Mandala

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 20 Jun, 2020 - 14:00

Visuddhimati explores how we really need to know ourselves deeply and experientially to allow us to let go into the deep mystery at the heart of the mandala. She shares her reflections on initiation, spiritual death and rebirth, inspired by a Rilke poem. Using the structure of the Rilke poem she explores how engaging with images and allowing them to unfold their meaning within us, allows us to let go into wisdom.

The mandala symbolism is...
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Blazing Like the Sun

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Sat, 20 Jun, 2020 - 13:37

Blazing Like the Sun

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Sat, 20 Jun, 2020 - 13:37

Join us this morning at 9 am EST for our Summer Solstice gathering, on Facebook live.

Develop an unlimited
heart of friendliness for
the entire universe…

The Buddha on kindness 

June 20, 2020 @ 9 am EST


 
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Bodhicitta Practice and Order Resources

From Order Connection on Fri, 19 Jun, 2020 - 16:47

Bodhicitta Practice and Order Resources

From Order Connection on Fri, 19 Jun, 2020 - 16:47

Sunday Order Bodhicitta Practice
…and some suggestions for the week ahead
 Sunday 21st June 

Two contradictory trends are discernible in spiritual life: withdrawing from the world and compassion for it. The arising of the Bodhicitta or ‘Will to Enlightenment’ resolves this dichotomy.
‘The Arising of the Bodhicitta - Sangharakshita’ (1965)

Please join for the two meditations this week led by:

Mahamati, UK – first meditation

Ratnashil, (Hindi and English) – second meditation

First meditation:                   Second meditation:
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Dharmabyte: The Archetype of Spaciousness

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 18 Jun, 2020 - 14:00

Dhatvisvari shares her personal journey of relating to the Mandala of the Five Buddhas. We hear about the dream she had on the eve of her ordination in which she met the white Buddha in the centre of the mandala, Vairocana.

From the talk entitled Vairocana given at Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2015.

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Closing the Home Retreat - Meditating in the Mandala

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Thu, 18 Jun, 2020 - 12:05

Closing the Home Retreat - Meditating in the Mandala

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Thu, 18 Jun, 2020 - 12:05

We hope you have enjoyed Meditating in the Mandala with us this week! 

Thank you so much to Tejananda for leading daily sessions, exploring a dynamic, embodied, somatic approach to meditation and Awakening. You can find the recordings of the daily Zoom sessions on the Home Retreat page. You can also find the recordings on this Youtube Playlist.

Please give now, so that we can offer home retreats and other resources to more people like you in the future.

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Final Day - Meditating in the Mandala Home Retreat

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Thu, 18 Jun, 2020 - 10:44

Final Day - Meditating in the Mandala Home Retreat

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Thu, 18 Jun, 2020 - 10:44

It’s the final day of the Home Retreat - Meditating in the Mandala: An Embodied Approach to Awakening! We hope you’ve enjoyed the Home Retreat this week, exploring the Dynamic Mandala and a Somatic approach to meditating.

Join Tejananda live today to draw together all the principles we’ve been exploring so far

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

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