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Day 5: Spiritual Receptivity - Final Day - Bristol Rains Retreat 2020: 'The Dynamic Mandala'

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 18:51

Day 5: Spiritual Receptivity - Final Day - Bristol Rains Retreat 2020: 'The Dynamic Mandala'

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 18:51

The fifth, and concluding, day of our Virtual Rains Retreat with Tejananda saw us exploring the Receptivity or ‘just sitting’ aspect of the System of Practice, seen as a ‘Dynamic Mandala’. Tejananda introduced this aspect of practice as a transition from a ‘fabricated’ to an ‘unfabricated’ approach.

In a period of meditation practice we had an ‘experiential resume’ of the material from the previous four days. Questions and observations followed, including how to work creatively with a ‘frozen heart’ and working with...

Khemabandhu

Daily Circumambulations

From Adhisthana on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 15:55

Daily Circumambulations

From Adhisthana on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 15:55

Bhante’s body lies at Adhisthana and Bhante’s spirit lies at the heart of what we do. During the lockdown the community is circumambulating every evening at 7am in an act of worship, devotion and rememberance.

Here’s a short snippet that was live-streamed last night.

Carol Robertson

Angulimala & Amoghasiddhi - Facebook Live 1.04.20

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 15:15

Angulimala & Amoghasiddhi - Facebook Live 1.04.20

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 15:15

Kalyananara hosted our class on Wednesday 1st April. We hear about the Buddha’s meeting with a murderer and thief named Angulimala and explored fearlessness and compassionate action with the figure Amoghasiddhi. Kalyananara led us in a Metta Bhavana meditation.

Sadayasihi

Dharmabytes Podcast: Live Like a River Flows

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 14:00

Ratnavandana offers a personal sharing of her reflections on a six month solitary retreat where she was focussing on the Heart Sutra.

With Avalokitesvara as her guide, she was hoping to deepen her understanding of the emptiness of the five skandhas as well as exploring how to bring all the ordinary everyday activities of life into the realm of the sacred.

This excerpt includes a reading evocation on the Five Buddha Mandala.

From the talk Glimpses of Emptiness...

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Overview of Financial Help for UK Centres - pdf's OM

From Triratna Resources on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 10:41

Here are some pdf’s of documents for Chairs to share with their Trustees and other relevant people:

Triratna Money groups response to Centres
an example of a Furlough notification for Triratna employees which you could edit to suit
working from home self-assessment form, for health & safety

And here’s a link with information that may well be of interest too:
https://www.charitytaxgroup.org.uk/news-post/2020/coronavirus-information-hub-charity-tax-finance-professionals/

File Name	Size
tmg_response_for_centres.pdf	5.17 MB
example_furlough_notification_for_buddhist_centre_use.pdf	82.89 KB
working_from_home_hs-dse_assessment_updated_may2018.pdf	110.74 KB

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The Bodhicitta Practice

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 00:00

Towards the end of 2018 Satyaraja led the Padmaloka Winter Retreat, 'The Awakening of the Bodhi Heart'. This was a two-week intensive meditation retreat for men training for ordination and Order members. The retreat was centred around the 'Bodhicitta practice', also known as 'tonglen', a weighty meditation practice that, through contemplating emptiness and arousing great compassion, aims at nothing less than giving rise to the Bodhicitta, or 'will to Enlightenment' for the benefit of all. During this talk Satyaraja introduces us to the principles and form of this profound practice.

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Dharma Wondrous Strange: 1. Wonder

From Manchester Buddhist Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 00:00

In this first talk in a series of eight, Ratnaguna looks at the importance of wonder in the spiritual life. The talk was given on 27th March 2020 via Zoom, following the temporary closure of Manchester Buddhist Centre due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

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The Bodhicitta Practice

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 00:00

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Dharma Wondrous Strange: 1. Wonder

From Manchester Buddhist Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 00:00

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Coronavirus Grants for Triratna Order Members

From Abhayaratna Trust on Wed, 1 Apr, 2020 - 18:21

Coronavirus Grants for Triratna Order Members

From Abhayaratna Trust on Wed, 1 Apr, 2020 - 18:21

The Abhayaratna Trust is responding to the financial hardship resulting from the spread of Covid-19 by offering short term relief through cash grants of up to £500 per Order member as support at this time.

Many Order members are self-employed and the sudden loss of income has left some of them without the resources to pay food and utility bills and with rent shortfalls. Access to state benefits can be too slow or not available in many countries.
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