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Lifting the Heart: Connecting Through Puja wk 5 (Facebook Live 13.06.20)

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 21:08

Lifting the Heart: Connecting Through Puja wk 5 (Facebook Live 13.06.20)

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 21:08

Lifting the Heart : Connecting Through Puja. We have been exploring themes from the Sevenfold Puja, journeying round the mandala of the puja. This week Prajnanandi considers “Rejoicing in Merit”. A short talk and led meditation live streamed on Facebook. Saturday 13th June, 10.30am.

Please help keep Croydon Buddhist Centre online, donate at http://www.buddhistcentrecroydon.org/…

Christine

For the Earth: Deeper Resources for Action, by Guhyapati

From Buddhist Action on Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 20:12

For the Earth: Deeper Resources for Action, by Guhyapati

From Buddhist Action on Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 20:12

On June 28, Guhyapati will illuminate how the Dharma can sustain and empower us for effective social engagement, while also resourcing us to be effective during this crucial time. Guhyapati is our final speaker for BAM 2020.

The last year has seen important shifts in public narrative and awareness around the climate crisis. We’re living through enormous mobilisations on key social and ecological issues. For many, this feels like a turning point. In the midst of this historic point of disruption,...

Christine

For the Earth: The Earth is my Witness, by Aryadrishti

From Buddhist Action on Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 19:55

For the Earth: The Earth is my Witness, by Aryadrishti

From Buddhist Action on Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 19:55

On Sunday June 21, Aryadrishti will exaine how we can face the suffering of the world with an open heart, and act with aware kindness. Complementing the Dharma life, her vocation is habitat restoration, often of salmon-bearing streams and rivers of the Pacific Northwest. She is our 3rd (of 4) speakers on BAM 2020. This is a free event, offered on the generosity economy. Donations are welcome.

USA 11am PST | México 1pm | USA 2pm EST...

Christine

How insight can give us access to an inexhaustible form of will, excerpt from Vimalamoksha's talk

From Buddhist Action on Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 19:34

How insight can give us access to an inexhaustible form of will, excerpt from Vimalamoksha's talk

From Buddhist Action on Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 19:34

The following is excerpted from Vimalamoksha’s talk, For the Earth: The Art of Skilful Choices (June 13)

When the Buddha sat under the Bodhi tree and saw all of his past lives, he witnessed an unimaginable expanse of being, he came into relationship to deep time and the oceans of the details of lived experience were not lost. This sublime doorway is something that we can all access by pushing the envelope of our imagination and finding our own relationship to deep...

Centre Team

An Update from our Buddha Day Appeal

From Triratna News on Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 14:13

An Update from our Buddha Day Appeal

From Triratna News on Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 14:13

On May 9th 2020, the international Triratna community celebrated Buddha Day. And in the process raised 57 lakh rupees | £60,000 | $75,000 for Coronavirus relief in India.

As part of an extraordinary day, with thousands of people online from all around the world, we reached out to our sangha friends in India, who were already pouring their energy and love into helping alleviate great hardship on the ground. Here is an update on the amazing work they have been...

dhammamegha

This week's free eBook - The Breath

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

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,...

Maitrisiddhi

Drawing Strength from our Sangha across the Globe

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 11:35

Drawing Strength from our Sangha across the Globe

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 11:35

Women practitioners report back on their situations and how they found Taraloka and Tiratanaloka’s ‘The Great Gathering’ online event. Inspiring!! - read what they’ve written here.

“I said yesterday to a dear friend, it is like there is for certain a new
atmosphere in the house. Because in my room there have been a
wonderful Puja. Like in the shrine room during a normal retreat
there can be a special energy. So it is now, a special space...

Suddhayu

What can a Buddhist do about Racism?

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Sun, 14 Jun, 2020 - 19:12

What can a Buddhist do about Racism?

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Sun, 14 Jun, 2020 - 19:12

*This is a message being sent to our sangha that we also wanted to post here.*

At the beginning of April our chair, Suddhayu, wrote to encourage us to find opportunities for personal transformation in working with the emotions arising in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The violent police killing of George Floyd, within the larger context of many such murders, and the intense national (and international) focus on racism of the past two weeks also give rise to strong emotions. For...

advayamati

'I'm black, I'm white, I'm Jewish, I'm Buddhist" - Advayamati's reflections on 'Black Lives Matter'

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Sun, 14 Jun, 2020 - 09:30

'I'm black, I'm white, I'm Jewish, I'm Buddhist" - Advayamati's reflections on 'Black Lives Matter'

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Sun, 14 Jun, 2020 - 09:30

Reflecting on the Black Lives Matter events, Advayamati gave this talk at the Bristol Buddhist Centre Sangha Night on Tuesday 9 June, two days after the statue of 17th Century slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down in Bristol.

This protest was part of an international response to the death of George Floyd in the USA.

Advayamati ‘tells it straight, with warmth and humour’, as a man of mixed race (‘I’m black, I’m white, I’m Jewish,...

Kuladharini

Glasgow Buddhist Centre Statement on the Black Lives Matter Movement

From Glasgow Buddhist Centre on Sun, 14 Jun, 2020 - 09:00

Glasgow Buddhist Centre Statement on the Black Lives Matter Movement

From Glasgow Buddhist Centre on Sun, 14 Jun, 2020 - 09:00

Statement from the council of Glasgow Buddhist Centre on 5th June 2020

The council of Glasgow Buddhist Centre affirms our commitment to equality, human dignity and social justice. We aspire to understand the impact that racism has on us all.

We are heartbroken that systemic racism and the ongoing hostility towards black communities has resulted in the murder of George Floyd while in US police custody. We invite our whole community to examine our own prejudices, have the courage to speak...

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